"Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 Washington Street." now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by @natalye.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/days-of...

Writers: How do you cultivate a literary voice so distinctly your own when no one, not even you, have heard it? How do you trust your instincts enough to know what's your tenor? When it's not? How can you be distinctively you?

Me: alright alright alright, VP and biblical plague revenge story that kinda sounds like a SAW precursor, let's see what's up... *Opens with a black-robed figure hammering on an organ in a kaleidoscopic ballroom w swirling marble floors and an animatronic band that joins in* Me: FUCKIN JACKPOT

If you find yourself with some room in your budget for a new streaming platform, consider a PBS Passport membership. Public television could really use your support right now, and their library is absolute rocket fuel for creativity. (1/2)

Vampires keep their existence secret not because we fear being destroyed but we worry about being deluged by horny mortals. #vampires #humor #vamily #VampireTheMasquerade

Adopting Josh Brolin's "slapped quiet" description for whenever a movie kicks my ass. Which happens a lot these days.

Ford's gravy train. $6.5 million taxpayer dollars went to Ford's friend to train staff at his nightclub. Meanwhile, $1500 per student per year is cut from the education budget. The Auditor General is investigating. #ONpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

When the damn rabbit hole has no bottom, it's a head-first plunge into hell.

With Superman hitting HBO Max this weekend, I thought I'd post the short review I wrote after seeing it in theaters, free to all. www.patreon.com/posts/134269...

Canada Runs on Serf Labour - macleans.ca/society/cana...

#nowshowing in the Nickxcom theater: The Shark Hunter (1979, Enzo G. Castellari) On Blu-ray from @severinfilms.bsky.social as part of their "Feeding Frenzy" Italian Sharksploitation Collection. This is another one that was functionally lost! Let's fucking GO 💪🏻🍿🦈 #filmsky #horrorsky #physicalmedia

Overall, pretty clever + fun...I'm not into 'unlocking' a story that intentionally omits/runs overlong but Weapons has a great tone, goofy action, and enough spikes that makes it an easy watch, even w some filler. Alex's crushes, Gladys easily ascends - just not sure about the structure.

damn, I really wanted to watch Dan O’Bannon’s early short films Blood Bath and Good Morning, Dan but all my searching is turning up fruitless. If anyone has a youtube link or something like that that I’ve missed, lmk please!

I'm aiming to hit 1k followers by the year's end. If I succeed, I'll run a sick Horror/ Spooky #giveaway for you! 🎃 Please #reshare & #reskeet #HorrorSky 🦴 New follows are very much appreciated, and you will gain a very loyal Familiar in return! 🖤 #FilmSky #HalloweenGiveaway #HorrorFamily #Horror

Nobody fights for their right to party anymore and that’s sad

Police procedural + aliens means a lot of X-Files DNA in @patrickbarb.bsky.social ABDUCTED, all of which had me cheering with how he re-mixed the known elements w tons of carnage, family strife, conspiracies, and those lil grey men (who aren't so little in Barb's story). Great scifi/horror action!

4/5. This is my 2nd time watching Wild Beasts this year & I promise it does NOT get any less insane the more you see it. Amazing practical effects & gore, really good music, bonkers story. If you can stomach it & if you are in the mood for Italian Exploitation, it doesn't get much better than this!

Devil's Daughter aka The Sect: A lesser Soavi, still very full of 'cool Satanic shit' gore - anytime a corpse comes back to life it's a good time - but I think the evil rabbit and possessed towel kinda deflated it? Beautiful weirdness and horrid dialogue either way.

A British settler colony whose head of state is the king of England just banned Irish artists from performing on stolen Indigenous Land because they oppose the genocide perpetrated by another settler colonial state. How on brand 🙃. Also this meeting from 3 days ago

Well, @pauljessup.com pulled it off - Suicidemusic got me a little shaken, like stumbling into an abandoned abbatoire and finding the most grotesque bit of performance art, made up of fire, blood, pain. Good effin times!

Writing smuttier monster smut.

Best thing about horror is that good horror is good and bad horror is also good.

All the big streamers are run by baddies. Buy a weird indie book instead? @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @mcnallyrobinson.com www.mcnallyrobinson.com/979898746546...

Come work with us! The Walrus is currently accepting applications for two Editorial Fellows. These are remote, paid 12-month positions, with a November 2025 start date. thewalrus.ca/about/careers/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.

Disfear – Soul Scars Label: Distortion Records Country: Sweden Released: 1995 Rest In Power, Tompa. #haedcore #crust #punk #dbeat #disfear #sweden #tompa #distortionrecords

I’m in the mood to read something huge, like 1,000 pages, that earns its runtime. Any suggestions?

Pt. 2 of TO pilgrimage: hit the dedicated source for horror books, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social. Good thing I didn't bring my list bc that would've been an obscene pile, but found some fun stuff: a pic book for the kids, two On. alumni, and a coveted Weirdpunk antho. Great coffee, too.

Just because there isn't enough Elvira on my feed.

The Bangers Embrace, a song about being old and the magic bullet of youth when you see your favorite band - even when they're old. Thanks to @propagandhi.com for a perfect set at a great TO venue, a wish for Gaza we share, and @pseudandry.bsky.social for being my spiritual rock.

Had the privilege of seeing At the Gates once at MDF in 2014 and it was beyond excitement for me...but the next night we were watching Dark Angel rip their set and Tompa just saunters over next to us and starts talking about how DA was his favorite ever. A fan, an icon - GO! RIP Tomas Lindburg.

Prompting me from '91 Popcorn's in-film, this POSSESSOR does SF the way I like - a nasty effin concept that takes no prisoners - esp for Sean Bean. Riseborough + Abbot are totally in sync/ totally alien, with so much head-screwing as it slams close I still don't know who was where when. Very cool.

Are you applauding for creeping fascism, @pattyhajdu.bsky.social ?

Crystal Lake's Torrid Waters imprint has signed author Amanda M. Blake. Her next Torrid Waters novel, In the Dollhouse We All Wait, is coming out 2026. If Question Not My Salt is a fast-paced gross gateway into extreme horror, In the Dollhouse takes things all the way.

send us your walking blood bags, about to burst

Remember the dicourse going on about movie-pilled horror books that were just bulked-up scripts? Girl With All the Gifts is 100% that, but the best version - bc it's a thriller, duh. Big zombie action, just enough feels/story from each character. It's fun, turns the pages. (Movie is up soon.)

Currently ranked #2 on Amazon and it’s free for today only. Get it before the promotion is over. A perfect gift for your young reader or even for yourself. 😀 www.amazon.com/James-Journe...

Sometimes you never realize the pop cultural PTSD of events from youth, but watching that Stephen King video of him talking to the camera while walking down a Maine country road to promote THE LONG WALK, every cell in my body was screaming "STEPHEN! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE ROAD!"

Professor: “You’re actually omitting important context, the Giant Cyclops said that he would eat every child in the world *if he could,* that phrasing is crucial, that means he has no concrete intent to do so.” Cyclops: (breaking a child’s bones so it will fit in his mouth better)

Phantasm, oh boy. First 1/3, every edit has me going 'whut' but I'm patient, riding the 'dream logic', the score, Jody + Mike being solid bros, Reggie's deal...then the sphere flies out and I am IN, bc this is the def of ambitious, wild, weird horror, too many ideas and they all rule. Pt. 2 soon!

As I again forgot to mention, these are currently free to all, but my fiction is not going to remain free. I'm in the process of deciding when that will change, and what I think a fair price for it is, considering that it takes a good amount of work and thought.

To celebrate the one year anniversary of my release of “The Candy Witch,” I’m offering three of my ebooks absolutely free. If you’ve ever thought of checking them out, there’s never been a better time. Please share so others can take advantage of this offer. 😀 www.amazon.com/stores/Ronal...

Open Call: Radon Journal February 2026 Issue ( @radonjournal.bsky.social‬ ) horrortree.com/taking-submi... Due: Dec 31 Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia

Very excited to announce that I have a short experimental piece in the inaugural charity zine from Antilogos Press, compiled and edited by the wonderful @sasharavitch.bsky.social. Every piece is inspired by the work of David Cronenberg, and you sickos are going to love them. More details soon!

Sternly worded emails! A grift that's too good to be true! Another thing that workers are kinda worried about there @pattyhajdu.bsky.social

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We are rapidly approaching an article that proclaims that being anti-AI art is antisemitic because it could’ve prevented failed artist Adolf Hitler from becoming a dictator

Rowling: Benlii! Dilliaaa! Rowling: wiest tich! Famy Vlontire! Barker: oh my god Barker: she's been pontypooled