Houston can be terrifying, but you’d never know it from horror movies. The city lacks a defining monster like Chicago’s Candyman or the endless screen vampires of New Orleans. The best Houston has managed is the jinn from the 1987 cult classic The Outing (sometimes called The Lamp), but author...
Houston can be terrifying, but you’d never know it from horror movies. The city lacks a defining monster like Chicago’s Candyman or the endless screen vampires of New Orleans. The best Houston has managed is the jinn from the 1987 cult classicJames, 45, has spent the majority of his adult life in various Houston bars or the DJ setups of its most infamous strip clubs. When he talks, it’s with a soft, world-weary drawl vaguely reminiscent of Townes Van Zandt.
Throughout the story, most of James’s stories in fact, there is a love of the dirty side of Houston. Readers can feel the ghosts of long-closed clubs and the atmosphere of Westheimer and Montrose after sundown before the neighborhood became sanitized and gentrified. One local fan of James’s is Joanie King. She and several friends became regular customers of James’s as he pours drinks at Warren’s Inn on Saturdays. King admits that she’s not much of a horror fan, but was instantly taken with James’s stories after reading them.
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