Not sure why, but I just can't ever love Black Christmas (1974) as much as so many others do.
The killer seems more ridiculous than scary, although a talented vocal mimic, the kills aren't very good, and the characters are a mixed bag of people I can't bring myself to enjoy onscreen (with the notable exception of the brilliantly sardonic Kidder). This was my third or foutth attempt, but it remains a 7/10 for me.
Welcome to Cry Baby Bridge. If you venture here at the right time of year, on the right kind of night, you might hear a baby crying in the wind. You might see some things you didn’t believe were real...
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them.”
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – was born #OTD, 18 Dec, in Akyab (now Sittwe), in Myanmar. Although born in the Raj & raised in England, his parents were Scots & he considered himself to be Scottish, too. Fatema Ahmed looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Saki’s “Tobermory”, “The Boar-Pig”, “The Lumber Room”, & many others are hilarious (as is “Esmé”, if you don’t mind all the blood…). But his horrifying winter tale “The Interlopers” is a work of #Gothic art, worthy of the tradition of James Hogg & #RobertLouisStevenson
Today I worked on some art for a bit, read a fantastic book of eldritch horror, & now we're going to visit a haunted house via ROSE RED which I haven't watched since it originally aired. All in all, a wonderful day filled w my favorite things.
Hope you all read, watched, or made something spooky! 👻
Guess I should bust out my Diary of Ellen Rimbauer tonight.
Okay, let's finish a story! Those survivors from the Glen Carrig have been having a fraught old time between the weather and the 'weed men', so let's get them home.
It's The Boats of the Glen Carrig over on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
@bookstodon My #review of Rouge by Mona Awad is now live! Darkly beautiful and intensely bittersweet, this actually managed to make me cry towards the end. That is VERY much a compliment.
Five stars: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2023) is a novella retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The story was inspired in the process of writing a different retelling, namely, Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible (2016), written under the actual name, Ursula Vernon
💙📚 The Popular Library PBs with artwork by the amazing William Teason
(There are other editions, and I have some, but this is the complete set of the ones with this font) A labor of love that was finally completed w the help of a very generous, lovely author 🖤
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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, VARIOUS EDITIONS
(Centipede Press, Folio, a BAM w a glow-in-the-dark cover, 2 rare vintage paperbacks, Penguin Horror w into by GDT, a tie-in to that awful 90s movie)
If you've got some, share them! I love seeing different ones!
Fuck that Elf: it's so stupid and a forced, modern tradition of materialism & consumerism atop a forced, older tradition of materialism & consumerism.
Also, it's exceedingly creepy, but not in the good way.