Recently finished "Not A Good Fit At this Time" by Adam Hulse and had a blast with it. Check out my Goodreads review for details but fans of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy should absolutely give it a read!
In my study of #film#history to understand the Mexploitation #horror#genre I found a lot of interesting and disturbing information in the #book "Mexploitation Cinema"
These films have a contradictory world view where your identity is under attack by foreigners but you must also delete your identity because its obsolete to be more like foreigners. A theme very similar to Italian futurists and #fascism who wanted the past forgotten and rewritten (1/2)
The trees of the forest shiver and shake.
Their long limbs tremble from the next quake.
White is the color of my nightgown
As I stand and shiver with a frown.
A shadow emerges from the trees.
I hope it is not him, pretty please.
My body moves forward against my will.
I grab a thick tree and try to hold still.
I dig my feet into the packed snow,
But I must go where the wind might blow.
Posed this question over at the Sky place but I'll do it here, too, because I'm curious & want replies!
So, hopefully, since you're [#horror people] we're all familiar w Leland Gaunt, the Needful Things villain that can find something to tempt most people... I'm pondering, cuz I'm hard pressed to think of something I'd be vulnerable/susceptible to. Probably a 1st edition of a rare book. Or perfect health.
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We reviewed Perry Blackshear's They Look Like People: a lovely little mumblecore #horror about 2 emotionally troubled dudes finding solace in one another's friendship while one is prepping for a pod-person doomsday.
I hate this song with the fiery passion of a million suns and this is the first and only thing that has made me consider it in a new and exciting way. I still despise it, but I will now supplant this reality atop it whenever I hear that cursed song.
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I've loved the Monster in My Pocket toys since I was a kid in the 80s, and in today's weird (but cool) news, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are going to be making it into a live action TV series?!? 🤯
#DecRecs No.8 is 'Just Like Home', by Sarah Gailey. A woman goes home to look after her mother in her last days. Dark secrets in the woman's past surround something horrible that her father did (no, nothing sexual, relax). Her house, built by her father, is really super creepy. True-crime loving weirdos swarm all over it. But sometimes we must love monsters, no matter how monsterous they are. What is a monster, anyway?
Coming up tonight we have some short ghostly mysteries to be read for you by Lucy! She's got Ben Blower's Story by C.F. Hoffman, and The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood! Make yourself warm and cosy, then come site by our virtual fireside and listen to some tales
cfp: DEVILS & JUSTIFIED SINNERS
24–25 Aug 2024
An online conference from Romancing the Gothic to mark the 200th anniversary of James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER – seeking papers on