As it turns out, Barker is squeamish in real life—his eyes rolled up in his head and he fainted right there in front of the autograph line.

That's priceless. I don't approve of what the person did but I find it hilarious that a horror author is blood-squicked.

Oh, that person was just not right. Couldn't he have brought it in a vial like a civilized person?

Horror writers are often more squeamish than you'd think. I remember a Dean Koontz signing, where he hid in the back and the staff had to bring books bakc to him, because he was being stalked. (Which, admittedly, must suck, but on the other hand, kind of weird.)

And then there's the famous Dave Barry story about how, after a Rock Bottom Remainders practice, the whole group of them went out to see some horror movie (can't recall which) and Dave Barry looked over midway to see Stephen King sitting next to him, clinging to his wife's arm in fear.

Damn. Pity the movie's marketers didn't have someone with a camera phone at that screening.

It's been so long I don't recall for sure, but I have a vague sense of it being after she turned down Joss' offer to return for Season 7. Maybe someone who felt betrayed by her not reprising the Tara role and making all right with the world again?

It wasn't the fans who were upset that the real person actress had a boyfriend and was not, like her character, an actual lesbian?

Would Pruittgate count as fan crazy or not?

It wasn't the fans who were upset that the real person actress had a boyfriend and was not, like her character, an actual lesbian?

not only that, but the person she chose to be her boyfriend.

Would Pruittgate count as fan crazy or not?

Pruittgate was more a case of VIPs being the craxy ones and dragging the fans along with them for the ride.

It wasn't the fans who were upset that the real person actress had a boyfriend and was not, like her character, an actual lesbian?

Wow I hadn't heard that one.

She was dating Adam Busch, right? Is she still?