today in Garden Scenery, for all readers, a story involving crosswalks

FUCK diseases

for today's 15th and final Minor Horror, i wrote about The Return of Dracula, a distinctly Hitchockian take on the classic monster movie formula, in which a vampire that may or may not actually be Dracula takes up residence in Every Town, USA under an assumed identity. check it out

halloween at burial mag, courtesy @davidcporter.net burialmagazine.neocities.org/forcedperspe...

mail day

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Burial Ground, a lurid Italian zombie movie which achieves a kind of grotesque sublimity through its ultra-minimal plotting and blunt, almost artless images of maggot-infested undead mayhem. check it out

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Almost Invisible, a straight-to-dvd haunted house movie inexplicably pitched somewhere between a mid-aughts teen sex comedy and Inland Empire, both wildly inventive and stiflingly generic, a truly confounding cultural artifact. check it out

#024 – "Conversations Overheard" by Eric Angal

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher, which i believe one of the best American films of the 1970s, a brutal, harrowing expurgation of diseased masculinity, and also a completely vile, debased piece of trash. check it out

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about The Animal, a striking, enigmatic, unjustly-overlooked work of quiet dread by an associate of the New American Cinema, concerning strange happenings in the snow-covered woodlands of Vermont. check it out gardenscenery.net/p/minor-horr...

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about My Sweet Satan, Jim Van Bebber's 20-minute blast of drugs, murder, and extreme metal. check it out

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about a movie called Erotic Witchcraft. if you would like to read about a movie called Erotic Witchcraft, you can do so

when you're in your early 20s it's imperative that you wear a stupid hat sometimes

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Rorschach, a viral YouTube found footage movie from a decade ago which, despite billing itself as the "Scariest Film Online?", is actually quite good

this place looks badass

I think of the word nephron often, because it sounds like ephron. Nora Ephron. 'N. Ephron'. And I'm also often thinking of Nora Ephron. And basically thats what its like for me in these days of war and of waste

i definitely see way less about palestine on here than i do on X which is weird because if anything i see more about "politics" in general here and the other site is run by a zionist billionaire

#023 – "Glen Echo" by Addison Zeller (@addisonzeller.bsky.social)

everyone on here is either 23, 34, or 45

today in Garden Scenery, three monologues for October

if you need some horror recommendations for october: @davidcporter.net is covering "minor" horror over at his substack gardenscenery.net lots of good stuff so far

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about The Haunting of Rosalind, a wonderfully eerie, evocative adaptation of a Henry James ghost story/sexual repression narrative produced for ABC in the early '70s. check it out below

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Doctor X, a sublime two-strip Technicolor spookshow of bubbling beakers, phony psychology, and sinister shadows. check it out

men used to be named stuff like Orange Washington. that doesn't happen anymore and basically, it's why everything is so out of wack

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Highway Hypnosis, a shot-on-video trance-nightmare where a serial killer drives from los angeles to las vegas, and then drives back again. blood, death, bright sun, bad dreams, the banality of the open road. check it out below

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about The Black Door, a deeply weird, off-kilter Satanic found footage type thing from the writers of the Johnnie To thriller Running Out of Time. check it out below

#022 – "New Art at the DIA Beacon" by Noam Hessler (@poetryaccount.bsky.social)

today, for my ongoing Minor Horror series, i wrote about Conrad Brooks vs the Werewolf, one of the great self-distributed videotapes of the 1990s. check it out at the link below

for today's Minor Horror, wrote about a fine, moving little ghost story that aired on northern english in the early 80s and has since been almost entirely forgotten. check it out below

first of fifteen pieces on works of “minor horror” that I’ll be posting throughout October went up today, on a largely-forgotten “killer ape” programmer from the early 40s that is actually, against all odds, both aesthetically refined and dramatically compelling. check it out below

now in Garden Scenery, a story about a memory, burning away

wrote about watching 10,000 movies

Sorority Girl Massacre: Ritual Examination (Jamie Grefe, 2024)

they should invent some new combinations of ideas. That's what the world needs

was watching some old rodney dangerfield clips last night. pretty harrowing stuff. clearly the work of a remarkable mind

first piece from a returning author now up on KEEP PLANNING! the always-reliable Perry Ruhland is back with another macabre little fiction of dark shadows and creeping dread – check it out below

first piece from a returning author now up on KEEP PLANNING! the always-reliable Perry Ruhland is back with another macabre little fiction of dark shadows and creeping dread – check it out below

#021 – "Movements on a Moonless Night" by Perry Ruhland

new fiction from Philip Traylen up in KEEP PLANNING today, concerning the jouissance of texting your girl circa late nineties. give it a read below

#020 – "Slouching" by Philip Traylen

now in Garden Scenery, for subscribers only, a story about ammunition

wrote about the thing everyone's been writing about

anyone have any opinions about that guy. you know who im talking about. that one guy

i would be perturbed to meet "Bugzilla"

five beautiful words: Columbo Guest Starring Leslie Nielsen

new post up on Garden Scenery, about Contactos, a masterpiece of anti-fascist cinema shot clandestinely in Francoist Spain, praised by Noël Burch as “one of the most important European films” of its era, and today, it seems, nearly forgotten. check it out below

there's gonna be all sorts of epic problems in the future we don't even know about yet

now in Garden Scenery, for all readers, a story about pranking your mom on Labor Day

#019 – "The Third Draft of a Short Story titled “Forty-Four” Including Notes from the Author’s Girlfriend in Brackets and His Responses in Endnotes" by Jon Doughboy

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