Emily Proctor

Writer + Interpreter of True & Imagined Stories

I’ve spent most of my life chasing stories—across cities, countries, and sometimes just the corners of my own imagination. Reporting in San Francisco, Budapest and St. Petersburg taught me how to listen; building content for Turner, CNN, Cox, Accenture, and my own clients taught me how to shape what I learned. These pieces are a record of some of that work—proof that curiosity fuels life’s best adventures, big and small.

Nightmares in Pink •

Ghost Story: A Haunting Failure

I haven't had time to check the library yet, but somewhere out there is an essay titled "How the '80s Almost Killed the Period Film". Someday I hope to explore this premise further -- how decades' worth of best filmmaking practices were suddenly forgotten. How lighting became a lost art and anything old or eerie had to be so blown out and diffused as to be nearly invisible. Well, in the case of Ghost Story (1981), it looked like the horror genre was also set to take a hit during that decade. Th...
Nightmares in Pink •

I Am the Last Omega Man Legend on Earth

He penned some of the best stories of our age and many of my all-time favorites. For print, film and television, the list includes The Legend of Hell House, Somewhere in Time, Nightstalker and the most memorable Twilight Zone episodes, just to name a few. With the rare ability to be compassionate and terrifying at the same time, his work has been instrumental in shaping modern taste for the supernatural. For years I meant to read I Am Legend, Richard Matheson's 1954 novel that spawned the films...