1 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:42,399 Welcome to fast food Horror, where we serve up the most deliciously rancid, 2 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:59,280 tasty horror short stories to satiate your creepy appetites. In today's tale, an 3 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:07,920 author has to deal with some criticism in a tail called The Devil Is in 4 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:26,400 the Details by E. J. Miller. Where is it? Where? 5 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:32,120 Where the where is it? There? It is ha ha there. It 6 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:40,560 is nothing like starting off your day with a with a little bit of an 7 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,519 eye opener. Oh, don't judge. If you or me, you'd be 8 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,359 doing the same damn thing. But you're not. You're not me. You're 9 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:55,159 not living in a six bedroom Malibu beach front home with an indoor heated pool, 10 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,799 sauna, tennis court, and of course jakuzi with your own private beach. 11 00:02:00,079 --> 00:02:05,920 Are you. No, you're not because you're not a nineteen time New 12 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,960 York Times bestseller. You don't have eight movies in your credits with three others 13 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:21,759 in development, do you? And you certainly don't have the number of Pulitzers, 14 00:02:22,159 --> 00:02:27,080 Edgars and new Bury Awards that I have, do you. You don't 15 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,280 have the Porsche and the Lamborghini. You don't have the house and the Hamptons 16 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:38,479 and the second in Aspen when you feel like playing skier, and when people 17 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:43,319 speak of you, they don't call you the king of thrillers and an American 18 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,280 treasure. They don't call you the revolutionary mind bringing the art of storytelling to 19 00:02:50,560 --> 00:03:01,840 levels not seen since Poe and Lovecraft. I am a literary god. And 20 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:07,319 you know what my favorite part is. It's no, it's not the writing. 21 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:14,000 It's not the ought of telling a story. Please, and it's definitely 22 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:20,800 not the adoring fans. Gag me. It's not seeing my movies on screens 23 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:27,599 on five different continents. It's today. Today, my mail gets delivered from 24 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:32,360 my manager's office. It's a park. I love making him jump through hoops. 25 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,000 Today is royalty Day. I know, why not have the checks automatically 26 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:46,560 deposited into my account, But there's something so satisfying, a gratification of a 27 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:51,560 different level that you will never know of opening an envelope and seeing a check 28 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:59,879 with that many zeros made out to you, well, not you to me. 29 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:11,080 Korea Diamond royalty check, royalty check, royalty check, request for an 30 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:19,399 interview denied, requests to be on a writer's panel as if denied, request 31 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:27,360 for an interview denied, and a note from my editor. I wonder what 32 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:33,600 he wants. Let's see your new manuscript. Blah blah blah, riveting as 33 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:42,399 always, blah blah blah, chilling blah blah. Request for edits of the 34 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:49,879 following pages. Edits pages. I found the description to be unrealistic and substandard 35 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:59,319 in detail. Please research, revise, and resubmit. Unrealistic, substandard. 36 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:05,759 That little no talent wanna be said my work was unrealistic, substandard, substandard, 37 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:12,680 needing research and revision. Does he know who he is speaking to? 38 00:05:13,319 --> 00:05:16,680 I am not some Johnny come Lately. I'm not some newby. I am 39 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:25,920 an American treasure. I am Korea diamond. Let's see those pages, pages, 40 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:30,839 pages, the torture scene, the torture scene. That's what I'm known 41 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:34,839 for. That is my calling card, The intricate detail I put into each 42 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:41,120 murder, painting the pain, the carnage, and bringing the reader into an 43 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:47,800 experience of murder, bringing the reader into a mccabbre the only way I can 44 00:05:47,959 --> 00:05:54,120 with such realism. That they not only have nightmares, they have f and 45 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:03,000 PSD. And he questions me that no talent wanna be. That's why he's 46 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:11,800 an editor and not a creative not awe writer. That's why he does what 47 00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:16,160 he does, correct and grammar and punctuation like some schoolmarm. And that's why 48 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,399 no one knows his name. That's why no one will remember him. I 49 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:30,279 have more talent in my pinky. I'll show him. Not realistic? Do 50 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:35,519 you believe him? He says, says, my scene isn't realistic. That 51 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:43,759 little no account, no nothing, half wit pencil pusher said, my description 52 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:48,639 of blood spattering on the walls when the victim is being whipped lacked imagination and 53 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:56,879 depth, depth and imagination. Fine, he wants research. You know what 54 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:06,160 that means. Stop your whining. Just gonna turn you around. And oh, 55 00:07:06,199 --> 00:07:25,879 here's my cat of nine tails and ah ah ah ah ah, I 56 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:31,600 have to take notes. Oh look at that blood spatter as it dribbles in 57 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:38,600 tiny rivulets down the wall, each one marking the streams of pain that was 58 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:44,759 extracted. Oh oh that's gold. Oh that is so good. Let's see 59 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:47,000 what else orts someone else? Let's see what else? Are you kidding? 60 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:54,720 The extraction sequence where the victim has his teeth removed with pliers. I love 61 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,319 that part. That was so much fun. Didn't we have fun? We 62 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:03,079 spent a lot of time researching that one. Didn't we Why aren't you whimpering 63 00:08:03,079 --> 00:08:11,360 and terror? Oh that's right, we're moved all your teeth. I guess 64 00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:16,399 we'll have to let that one go to edit. Maybe find a few adjectives 65 00:08:16,399 --> 00:08:20,600 to drop in here and there and pretty it up. Let's see what else, 66 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:26,439 Let's see what else? What? Look what he wrote here? Look 67 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:31,519 what he wrote here? The scene doesn't draw him in. He doesn't feel 68 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,799 like he's there experiencing the ordeal with all his senses. He said, My 69 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:43,600 attempt was vague and soft. Moric. Stop whimpering. That's so distracting and 70 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:50,279 inconsiderate. It's my work and research being criticized. Where is the cattle proud? 71 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:56,720 Where is that found it? So let's pay attention this time to the 72 00:08:56,879 --> 00:09:05,879 smells and sounds the cattle prod produces. Shall we you passed out again? 73 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:16,720 Again? Now pay attention. You are no help. You got two prods 74 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:22,960 in before you passed out. But don't worry. I kept going. I 75 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,600 believe we can bring the reader in, especially when I described the smell of 76 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:35,159 ozone with burnt flesh, which incidentally smells like bacon. Okay, last at 77 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:41,519 it. Seriously, it wouldn't sound like glass. The sound of a hand 78 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:48,240 shattering after being submerged in liquid nitrogen wouldn't sound like glass, he said, 79 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:54,279 It wasn't realistic. You were there, didn't it sound like glass? Of 80 00:09:54,360 --> 00:10:01,799 you? Stop your whining. You have another hand. I didn't kill you. 81 00:10:01,799 --> 00:10:07,039 You're still here, aren't you. That's a good team player. So 82 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:15,480 just give me your hand and we'll submerge it in the bucket. Now the 83 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:24,639 sledgehammer, And well, damn, damn, that sounded more like a plate 84 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:30,600 than glass, didn't It was I playing the music too loud the last time 85 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,720 I have a tendency to play my music loud when I'm creating and researching. 86 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:41,000 That must have been it. Okay, thank you so much for helping. 87 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:46,919 And hey, hey, hey, don't diemy kid. In my new draft 88 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:52,919 I'm working on, there's a cannibal scene kind of like Hannibal Elector meets Indiana 89 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,600 Jones Temple of Doom thing where he removes the heart from the guy's chest and 90 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:05,440 he's still alive. So much better. The devil is in the details.