This isn't mine and I don't remember where I got it from, but you had best believe it's getting shared every year around this time.

It really does seem like a shame that they've never (to the best of my knowledge) made a lucha libre-themed arcade-style side-scrolling beat-'em-up.

"Sometimes, we see what we feel, rather than what is actually there." UM Feature Excerpt: @orringrey.com explains how Frankenstein and other monsters become the product of collective memory:

Getting featured in a list of the Best Horror Books of 2025 was a nice way to close out a year where I didn't publish very many stories. orringrey.com/2025/12/23/b...

The Blog Without a Face has named Notes from Underground one of the Best Horror Books of 2025, calling it, "Smart, uncanny, and fun as hell." theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...

In the latest issue of @unwinnable.com, I wrote about GDT's Frankenstein and how adaptations accrue to become something new and strange.

Okay, I was not expecting the title of this Charles Dickens story to go quite this hard...

Wouldn't it be wild if a visonary director who got a huge budget to make a literary epic had ever read a book besides the same five or so that we all get assigned in high school?

Coming down the chimney tonight...

There are many things to be annoyed about re: the Conjuring movies, but one thing I appreciate about them, even when they are bad (as the latest one mostly is), is that they are among the few films that seem to actually focus on people of modest means.

Hands of the Ripper (1971) | Hammer films I haven't seen before are becoming a vanishing commodity, but it's always nice to check another one off. This is middling Hammer, despite seances, Victorian sleaze, and a dramatic ending, but even middling Hammer is more to my liking than most other movies.

Koji Shiraishi's ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION is staggering horror cinema–putting traditional narrative and found footage through the digital meat grinder to unearth disturbing existential and emotional truths. Naturally, I went long on this wild-as-hell movie on @cinapse.bsky.social:

If you haven't seen The Cat (1992), let me just tell you that seeing it on the big screen with a bunch of other people who *also* haven't seen it is an ideal way to do so, and this is an opportunity you won't want to miss.

The reason for the season. (From Space Sheriff Shaider.) youtu.be/NBZHBYL58tU?...

If you're in need of a ghost story for Christmas, I recommend the truly excellent (if exceedingly grim) "The Shadow" by E. Nesbit (also published as "The Portent of the Shadow"), which was recommended to me by @stuhorvath.com. You can read the whole thing here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Por...

There's nothing more festive than Frankenstein. In this month's Unwinnable Monthly, read @orringrey.com's feature on the creature as well as our regular columnists' latest thoughts. Happy holidays! Buy: unwinnable.bigcartel.com/product/unwi... Subscribe: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

Thanks to the beneficence of friends, I was finally able to see Koji Shiraishi's two 2003 installments of Really! Cursed Video: The Movie.

Olive Theatre Donalsonville, GA

This year cannot get kicked in the ass hard enough. Or soon enough.

survival horror but game boy #gamedev #madeingodot

Do what Stu says! Get some good stuff! Throw some money into @unwinnable.com's hat so they can keep paying me to write features about Godzilla and Frankenstein and other bullshit, like I did in several of these issues.

I did a little bit of writing for this! (Just, like, flavor text, naming some stuff...)

"CURSED VIDEO: The Movie"

"Do you believe in ghosts?" (From Ju-rei: The Uncanny, 2004.)

There's a charmingly modest 1976 episode of Yorkshire Television's MUSIC SCENE (of all things) that briefly adapts the M. R. James story "Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance," complete with a pretty unforgettable effects shot near the end.

This is accurate and true but also I feel like I need to point out that we used to get stories like this ALL THE TIME. This was the backbone of detective fiction, tons of TV, most superheroes and pulp heroes, etc. This is what they took from us.

Old stuff I still like 🤿🪼🐉🐙🏖️

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

1978 JVC Video Capsule 3100R

Kid Dracula

Tis the season...

The internet would really be in trouble if I knew how to make GIFs.

I went to a monk who told me I should keep living things around me so I got fish and a hamster and cats and when they die I just get new ones and the people looking for Sayama came to interview me and they said it sounds like I'm just feeding living things to Masaru-sama and then I started crying.

Not fair, Bindle.

On why I've never played very much Blackstone Fortress and probably never will.

The actual cover... I think the one with the people on the girder is AI-generated.

Working on the Arrow NOROI commentary was such a fulfilling professional experience. And I aim for that to be the first of many! If your horror Blu-ray needs an extra print/video essay or commentary*, let's see what trouble we can get into together. *with free subtitles! linktr.ee/juliansingle...

Since it came up recently, I have (obviously) written a lot about movies, and am actively looking for work doing extras for Blu-ray releases and the like, if anyone ever needs anything like that.

It's true, y'know.

New post! This week I, certified Koji Shiraishi freak, gave into my obsession and wrote 2k words about his latest heater to hit the theater, Kinki. Plus thoughts on how the movie fits into his career, the state of modern J-horror, and the physicality of art! Read it here!

Recent weeks have revealed the existence of two very distinct spheres: One group of specific weirdos (of which I am definitely one) for whom KINKI is basically the cinematic event of the decade. And everyone else, including other horror nerds, who have never even heard of Koji Shiraishi or NOROI.

Hollywood, 1931. Lon Chaney has been dead for less than a year - but what happened to his body? And what does it have to do with the new wax museum that's opening up in town? Find out in "Phantom of the Wax Museum," a new story by me in FINAL CURTAIN from @lethepress.bsky.social.

Long, rambling, disjointed, irresponsible, and spoiler-free thoughts and ruminations about seeing the new Koji Shiraishi thing.

A winter's night warning

Long, rambling, disjointed, irresponsible, and spoiler-free thoughts and ruminations about seeing the new Koji Shiraishi thing.

Also, Publishers Weekly called this story a "standout." www.publishersweekly.com/9781590216866

Today was mostly a crappy day, but it ended with me getting to see KINKI (2025), which you will definitely all be hearing more about when it's not so late and I'm not so tired.

Some very kind words about my story "Pandora" and my collection NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND. Get your copy here: wordhorde.com/books/notes-...