Last week it was reported how Stephen King saved bokbevakningen in the newspaper the Portland Press Herald by calling on readers to donate money to the magazine. This week it is another skräcksmästare step forward as kulturräddare.
in California, which mostly sells skräckberättelser, has been around since 1994, but is now threatened with closure because of rocketing rents. The owner has now started a collection to get together 300.000 so that the shop will continue to operate.
On Twitter, shrugged then skräckregissören Del Toro out and called on their fans and ”skräckälskare the world over” to contribute to the collection. Everything seems to go the way – at the time of writing missing after five days only sek 20,000 of the 300,000.