Mike Johnson

But no one reads either.

How can the Gothic survive the present age of cynical, passionless banality?

How "to make the perfect man." #Frankenstein www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...

Kim Davis exercising her religious freedom to be a bigoted POS.

For now, Kim Davis cannot jeopardize same-sex marriage. Here's hoping the sanctimonious hypocrite gets distracted from further court appeals by a fourth divorce and a fifth marriage. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

Desire is so needy and grasping.

"Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance" is not just the tale of the Count and Jonathan Harker. Part II will also feature the love story of Ilse, Countess Dolingen of Gratz, and Lucy Westenra. Read Part I to prepare for the drama to come draculaharker.com #GayRomance #SapphicRomance #ParanormalRomance

Land doesn't vote. People do.

Satire? What satire? I don't see any satire here.

The sad truth is I can't write anything scarier than how this looks. But then, "I really don't care, do you?" #SouthPark #Melania #Trump #MelaniaTrump

Gay Republicans do to themselves what they desperately wish others would do. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/gay-...

"Melancholic Gothic" says it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmIr... #vampires #Dracula

Happy Halloween

A Halloween treat: "How did Dracula become Dracula?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBq...

"Why Killing Vampires Makes People Happy"? How about people don't kill anyone--undead or alive? Or is that too much to ask in this day and age? press.princeton.edu/ideas/why-ki... #vampires #Dracula #undead #Halloween

A Halloween horror! www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... I despise Quincey Morris (as well as the rest of Mina Harker's band of insufferable "heroes")! Nevertheless, I'll read this if only to all the better avenge myself on a fictional favorite son of Texas, which I likewise despise.

Although it's ironic to cite "Game of Thrones" when introducing a video about "The Lord of the Rings," I cannot resist stating that readers "know things" that fascists don't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgW... #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #MiddleEarth

It's Halloween: the most romantic day of the year! Find a cozy crypt and snuggle with your favorite Undead--or, at least, read something brimming with melancholic yearning. draculaharker.com #GayRomance #LGBTQRomance #QueerRomance #MMRomance #GothicRomance #ParanormalRomance #Vampires #Dracula

Anne Rice's novel "Interview with the Vampire" had gay subtext, but Lestat's emotional abuse and manipulation, Louis's self-loathing, and Claudia's very nature in the context of the two men's relationship makes the gay subtext problematic at best. www.cinemablend.com/television/e... #IWTV

The press secretary vignette has just been added to my reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death." markzidzik.com/2025/10/18/d... But for those new to the work, it is best to start at the beginning. markzidzik.com/2025/10/18/d... #GothicFiction #GrimReaper #Horror #Halloween

What is love but tears and blood drawn by Fate? draculaharker.com #GayRomance #GayFiction #LGBTQRomance #LGBTQFiction #QueerRomance #QueerFiction #GothicRomance #GothicFiction #ParanormalRomance #MMRomance #Vampires #Dracula #Halloween

Let them unfold 🦋

Stories about outcasts are said to resonate with people; but then they are more than willing to cast off outcasts in real life.

"Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death." www.facebook.com/irenhorrorsa...

Two words: keep going. #WhiteHouse #Trump

Desire, danger, and the Undead. What more is there to live for? draculaharker.com #GayRomance #GayFiction #LGBTQRomance #LGBTQFiction #QueerRomance #QueerFiction #GothicRomance #GothicFiction #ParanormalRomance #MMRomance #Vampires #Dracula #Halloween

Though "[he is] an appetite, nothing more," I hunger for him.

Inspired by Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and Trump's administration, my short story titled "Death Masks: Vignettes of Anti-Reactionary Retribution" is an advent calendar of sorts for Halloween. Every two or three days, it will offer a new vengeful surprise! markzidzik.com/2025/10/18/d...

"The Mocking of Christ" by Gerrit van Honthorst So, this is what Trump and MAGA have been doing all this time. www.facebook.com/darkgloomyar... #Jesus #Christ #MAGA #MAGAts #Trump #Republicans

This year, I'm rooting for the Martians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7t... #WarOfTheWorlds #OrsonWelles #HGWells #Halloween

With all the deplorables' daily horrors and all scary things being orange year-round, Halloween has unfortunately lost it luster.

No Führers either. #NoKings

The Fourth Reich has invaded Bluesky. Either get bombed with lies and propaganda or block, block, block. #Trump #Republicans #MAGA

No kings......

#MAGA, meet #Jesus. www.facebook.com/share/p/17QV...

Gothic fiction is many things. It can take place at any time and in any place. Its plots span everything from ghostly love to evil incarnate. But there are certain elements that make fiction Gothic. Here is one take on those. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAU... #GothicRomance #GothicHorror #BookSky

The title alone captured my interest.

"Eight Books That Queer the Vampire." Really? And here, all this time, I thought vampires were always queer. electricliterature.com/8-books-that... #Booksky #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #trans #queer #LGBTQ #vampires #undead #Dracula #Nosferatu #Halloween

Those who would scare us will one day find out what fear is--if only when the Grim Reaper calls. Until then, enjoy scaring yourself with "Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance--Part I." draculaharker.com #GayRomance #LGBTQRomance #QueerRomance #GothicRomance #ParanormalRomance #Vampires #Dracula

The face of 'Merica: a thug pointing a gun at your face. Even wearing a mask, it's ugly AF.

Lucy van Pelt gets her day in court--the Supreme Court of Hell's making. This will only end well for hypocritical "Christians." www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Allies of my enemy become my enemy. PEN America has joined the ranks of the ACLU advocating for the Westboro Baptist Church. Bye, bye, PEN America! I regret I ever knew you.

Books to be banned by people who read only one book at best. But think of the children!!! lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/anno...

"The latest report found that 3,752 unique titles were affected by bans in the school year that ended in June. More than 80% of all bans originated in just three states: Florida, Texas and Tennessee." Shocking--not! www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5B... #Poe #EdgarAllanPoe #Halloween (1/2)

An exceptional reimagining of Mary Shelley's acclaimed novel about a irresponsible creator and his rejected, vengeful creation: "Frankenstein: The True Story." What better way to begin celebrating Gothictober? #Frankenstein #GothicHorror #Halloween www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzUI...

Writers can't wait to get published. Authors come to regret it.

Love never dies, and, apparently, neither does the Phantom of the Opera. #PhantomOfTheOpera #AndrewLloydWebber #GastonLeroux #GothicFiction #GothicHorror #GothicRomance www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mas...