Chag sameach!

Imagine if your child went to a concert & was taken hostage by terrorists after 400 of their fellow concert-goers were massacred & the world ignored your kid or celebrated his plight. There's so much bias against Jewish people & it's heartbreaking! #2yrsTooLong #LetThemGoNow Read Mindy's Substack⬇️

It had a much more difficult road to publication and getting on people’s radars than Our Lady (women serial killers and girl power in the 80s versus satanic snuff films in the 70s), so it’s touching to see Beasts of 42nd Street neck-in-neck with it on GR…!

Spread the word horror hive! I’ll be hosting a found footage double feature in Tulsa on October 18 for @dreadcentral.bsky.social , with prizes and giveaways and maybe a scare or two. www.dreadcentral.com/news/544993/...

And that’s a wrap! L’Shana Tovah yall! Now to work on 5786.

“I was not myself last night Couldn’t set things right With apologies or flowers…” (This HAD to be an influence, right?)

Vickery Meadows is both one of the most diverse and poorest communities in America, hosting families from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Syria, Latin America, and more. That’s why my shul is collecting food to distribute for the HHD, and I’m playing a part…!

Fun new development on the Landis front: Josh Alan Friedman’s Tales of Times Square has been bumped from the most frequently bought package by The Forty Deuce photography book…

What’s this? Late might writers’ meeting? Why, yes it is, and yes, I am vaguebooking. News when I can share it. Gosh it feels good for stuff to be happening again

I didn’t just like HIM, I loved it, and I predict that in a few years, a lot more people will be saying they did too. Thoughts on this year’s boldest yet most alienating cinematic experience today on Professor Horror professorhorror.com/professorhor...

It’s not a NYT bestseller but I was happy to get a sales report this morning showing this has done much better for itself than I would have anticipated. Chris and I wrote this to try and help folks who need it, and if we’ve reached even one of those people, we did our job

The cats out of the bag (well, one of them)! I’ll be in Tulsa next month hosting Circle Cinema’s Found Footage Feature ahead of Halloween! This is a whole found footage event with two movies, director Q&A, reading from a found footage horror book, and more! www.circlecinema.org/movies-event...

Operation Rosh Hashana Kitten Rescue continues unabated

Today is the day! You can read WHY I LOVE HORROR with 18 of today's best Horror authors. In their essays they ALL bring their personal connection to Horror directly to you, their readers. A post to celebrate with the full table of contents is below. raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Happy 5786! And oh God may it be better than ‘84 or 85.

Shana tova to all my Jewish friends and family! Here’s hoping for a very sweet year for you, me, the world, and the entire Jewish people.

It was an unexpected but touching pre-Rosh Hashana surprise to get a pic from the set of Mike Lombardo’s Dead Format this morning containing an Easter egg for a dearly departed friend. 🥹 Thanks for keeping the spirit of the video store alive, and along with it the memories of all those who loved it

Caturday night

Controversial opinion but Him bumps Sinners down to #2 for best horror movie of the year. It will NOT be a crowd pleaser, but, if you wanna know what it would look like if Ken Russel and Spike Lee got together with David Cronenberg to do ketamine and remake Any Given Sunday… this movie is for you.

the event was so monumental, that there must be a proportional injustice behind. Liberals, Berman argued, wanted things to even out. He argued (convincingly, to me) that too many liberals were not taking Al-Qaeda and other extremists seriously for their stated aims and beliefs, looking instead at/

Who’s actually been silenced and/or fired for speaking about Palestine? A handful of people at most. An actress just said free Palestine during her Emmy acceptance speech and one of the very people fired for CK comments has been saying anti Israel stuff for a long time….

There’s a weird phenomenon where people will spout the most antisemitic BS you’ve ever heard but then beg Jews to join them in a charge against some public figure “because they’re antisemitic.” You don’t get to suddenly switch gears because you need help against someone you don’t like.

Huge thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes yesterday! It was a lovely low-key way to segue into 40 ahead of this weekend’s Greco-Roman blowout!

Get on the Fizzgig train. It’s leaving soon and it’s pissed.

This is forty

This was a majorly important piece of writing for me for a variety of reasons and something on my mind for a while. Huge thanks to Amy for inviting me to speak on vampires, antisemitism, modern horror’s Hebrew problem pre-and-post 10/7, and how to address it.

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Horror has a Hebrew problem. It was simmering pre-10/7 and has only exploded since. I may not have all the answers but I do have some thoughts. professorhorror.com/Reclaiming-N...

This was a majorly important piece of writing for me for a variety of reasons and something on my mind for a while. Huge thanks to Amy for inviting me to speak on vampires, antisemitism, modern horror’s Hebrew problem pre-and-post 10/7, and how to address it.

Please don’t let them near The Deep

Evergreen sentiment

Huge thanks to Christina Pfeiffer at Uncomfortably Dark Disciples for this lovely review of Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D94WRGB...

May you never suffer through the perverse indignation of having a former boss creepily obsessed with your physical appearance on social media. The negging mixed with “sweethearts,” “honeys” and, yes, “daddies” says more about you than me…

The most humbling lesson I’ve learned on the eve of forty is that I spent too much time chasing the people I thought I wanted in my life without realizing the people I needed were there all along and didn’t need any chasing…

Short men are like bald men: you either embrace the cards genetics dealt you and make it your strength (like my sainted 5’2 brother); or, you turn bitter living in the shadow of your own inadequacy and become as ugly externally and spiritually as you feel on the inside.

God bless lawyers and investigative reporters

This is why y'all wanted the guns, right?

Happy pub day to Chris!

Many of you are aware of THE book I have on sub, as well as the developments it’s gone through in ‘25. I found a flash drive with what I thought was a lost manuscript. It’s old. I’d written it off as mediocre. You know what though? I’m rereading it, and it’s pretty cool. I gotta think about this.

At what point does legal action become necessary for a writer with a social media presence?

Eden is a 1970s exploitation movie hiding in plain sight: it promises to be a period set adventure movie with the veneer of “true story” legitimacy before quickly devolving into near incomprehensible sensationalism…

Funny how over the course of nearly two years no one who’s seen fit to judge my views - which I’ve shared very sparingly- has paused to wonder “wait, does he know or have any personal connection to some of the hostages?” But, hey, EMPATHY, amirite?

It definitely is! 😂 I loved that book so much that it has made it into my top 10 of the year so far.

We grieve with the victims in Minneapolis. No one should experience the horror of gun violence--least of all children. We also stand with trans individuals and support their right to live authentically and without fear. Trans folks belong everywhere. Always.

Thursday Vibes

Quentin Sergenov out here getting some love! Thanks for reading, and hope your sense of humor is as cracked as mine!