Daniel Robichaud
@danielrobichaud.bsky.social
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Reader, scientist, essay writer, fictioneer, poet, movie watcher, hubby, fadda.
SELF PROMOTION SUNDAY: The second story in my C.C. Blake pseudonym’s Chuck Cave’s Burlesque series is out now! The eBook has a special $0.99 sale for one week only!
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Self-Promotion Sunday: Season of the Witch
The second entry in my pulpy, historical thriller series Chuck Cave’s Burlesque has been released in paperback and eBook editions. There’s even a promotional price for 1 week at many retailers. So,…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/ccburlesque3-book/
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Twin sisters seek revenge and find themselves up to their necks in trouble when the perfect murder is revealed to be anything but perfect.
#TanishaStewart’s
THE DEADBEAT is a solid page-turner.
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Trusting Twintuition: Tanisha Stewart’s The Deadbeat
Belle and Jessie are twin sisters, close as hell despite having distinctly different personalities. Belle is the calmer one, clever and book smart—she tries to think about all the angles before tak…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/deadbeat-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A multigenerational crime family epic that has nothing to do with the Mafia? Do such films exist? Sure they do. Check out KING OF THE GYPSIES for a prime example.
@cine-matographe.bsky.social
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Succession Woes: King of the Gypsies (1978)
When the self-proclaimed King of the Gypsies, Zharko Stepanowicz (Sterling Hayden), came to the camp of Spiro Giorgio (Michael V. Gazzo), he wanted his money’s worth. He’d paid handsomely for the h…
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Channeling
#GregoryMcdonald
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#RobPhillips
spins a talky, humorous mystery about a former journalist turned PI in the enjoyable STAKEOUTS AND STROLLERS.
@netgalley.bsky.social
@minotaurbooks.bsky.social
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Neck Deep in Diapers and Danger: Rob Phillips’ Stakeouts and Strollers
Charlie Shaw is trying to figure out his life, but one thing is for certain: he’s a proud husband and papa. His wife Ryan and six month old daughter Callie are the core components of his world, and…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/stakeouts-and-strollers-book/
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Two estranged brothers must get over their baggage in order to investigate a mystery and beat the hell out of badguys in THE WRECKING CREW. A fun action flick with Hawaiian flair.
@primevideo.bsky.social
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Good Ole’ Slam-Bang-Boom Action: The Wrecking Crew (2026)
Private Investigator Walter Hale (Brian L. Keaulana) managed to elude pursuers long enough to drop a package in the mail before his fate finally caught up with him. Mowed down by a blue van that th…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/wrecking-crew-2026/
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WISH I MIGHT, the second entry in my WISHING STONE CHRONICLES quartet is available and *on sale* for $0.99 for one week only!
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New Release: Wish I Might
A belated Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! The second entry in my suspenseful romantasy Wishing Stone Chronicle quartet is now available. There’s even a promotional price for 1 week at many retaile…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/wishingstonechronicle2-book/
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Jeremy C. Shipp
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Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the day is one new patron. Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun posts.
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Riccardo Freda’s gothic horror film, THE GHOST, gets a new life thanks to
@severinfilms.bsky.social
’ new 4K UHD/Blu-ray set. Entertaining and spooky film, terrific package.
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You See, Dr. Hichcock? The Devil is a Real Man! The Ghost (1963)
Wheelchair bound Dr. John Hichcock (Elio Jott) is an expert in science, specifically the chemistry of poisons, and he uses his knowledge to try and cure his debilitating issue. By inviting attendin…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/theghost-1963/
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A trio of young men with bad attitudes head to a rural property in search of treasure and find more than they bargained for in
#LinetteKIng’s
entertaining novella, MR. DIXON. The antagonist may be old, but he’s still dangerous AF.
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A Heavy Dose of Fool Around and Find Out: Linette King’s Mr. Dixon
When Andrew Pollard gets fired, he can only see the mound of bills on his table. He was barely making it, now his family is in trouble due to company downsizing, and he’s on the hook for some serio…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/mrdixon-book/
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Sally and her husband have moved into her grandparents’ house. Nobody is living there, but the place is far from empty. The original made-for-television movie DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (1973) is a fun, fun watch.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
#Iconoscope
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Some Things Ought Not Be Changed: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
When Sally Farnham (Kim Darby) inherits her grandfather’s stately home, it seems like a dream. She’s thrilled to have an actual house to take care of, and a large one at that. Her husband Alex (Jim…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/dontbeafraiddark-1973/
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A detective is on the case looking for a missing person who maybe not ought to be found in
#WalterMosley’s
THE LONG FALL, the first of the 21st Century set Leonid McGill mysteries.
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Walking the Mean Streets of the Twenty-First Century: Walter Mosley’s The Long Fall
Leonid McGill is a former boxer turned private eye working in the mean streets of New York City. A family man with plenty of drama in his home life, including a wife he cannot trust and a brilliant…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/longfall-book/
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A young woman seeks a miracle cure. An old woman offers mystical answers where science has failed. A father struggles to keep an open mind while looking for the con game. MOTHER OF FLIES is a moody folk horror picture.
@shudder.com
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Tricking Death: Mother of Flies (2025)
College student Mickey (Zelda Adams) thought she was in the clear, but the cancer has come back. She’s leaving school early, taking a road trip with her dad, Jake (John Adams) to a remote locale to…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/motherofflies-2025/
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Made in 1971, Mario Bava’s A BAY OF BLOOD struggled to find an audience. It has since established itself as one of the maestro’s most influential films. This gory giallo helped spawn the slasher genre.
@severinfilms.bsky.social
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Ecology of the Twitch of the Chain Reaction of the Carnage: A Bay of Blood (1971)
When the wheelchair bound Countess Federica Donati (Isa Miranda) is murdered in her country estate, the killer plants a note to make it look like suicide. Her husband Filippo (Giovanni Nuvoletti) i…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/bay-of-blood-1971/
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Popular girl dies and her bestie is left trying to fill her shoes. Meanwhile some outsiders investigate the crime … and discover plenty of dangerous secrets.
#JoelleWellington
pens a twisty YA mystery with GIRLS WHO PLAY DEAD.
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Secret Lives of Popular Girls: Joelle Wellington’s Girls Who Play Dead
Erin Vaughn was a popular girl in Prophets Lake High School and a mean one to boot. Catty, cutting, beautiful, and coming from a wealthy family with ties to the town’s cottage industry, Cook Cosmet…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/girlswhoplaydead-book/
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Italian maestro
#DarioArgento’s
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is a strange, whimsical, yet gory flick, which is far more interesting than the credit it gets.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
's new 4K UHD edition is a beauty.
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You Will Curse the Day You Did Not Do All That the Phantom Asked of You! The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
Christine Daaé (Asia Argento) is understudy to the fabulously famous Carlotta Altieri (Nadia Rinaldi), but she wants a shot at stardom. While she practices on stage by what she assumes to be her lo…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/phantomoftheopera-1998/
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The forthcoming novel THE FOX AND THE DEVIL chronicles a Victorian era investigator’s pursuit of a murderous woman … who may be more than human. Twists, romance, and suspense abound in
#KierstenWhite’s
dark fantasy.
#DelReyBooks
@netgalley.bsky.social
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One Must Take Care When Hunting Monsters: Kiersten White’s The Fox and the Devil
Twenty-five year old Anneka Van Helsing hunts killers. In fact, she is stalking one killer in particular, a woman that no one else believes exists. Five years before, Anneke walked into her father’…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/foxandthedevil-book/
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Sam Raimi’s triumphant return to shock cinema arrives in SEND HELP, a clever, comic, and nightmarish yarn about a woman shipwrecked on a desert island with her awful boss … What could possibly go wrong?
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Don’t Mistake My Kindness for Weakness: Send Help (2026)
Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) doesn’t quite fit in with Preston Strategic Solutions. She’s great at her job and has been promised a promotion by the former owner, CEO, and all around good guy Mr. P…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/send-help-2026/
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A grifter builds a scheme to get his neck out of a noose and con millions from big evil in
#JamesFoley’s
slick neo-noir, CONFIDENCE.
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Style Can Get You Killed: Confidence (2002)
Jake Vig (Edward Burns) is a swindler with a regular crew. He works with slick Miles (Brian VanHolt), nebbish Gordo (Paul Giamatti), and slouching but believable shill Big Al (Louis Lombardi). When…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/confidence-2002/
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A boxer with a condition is pulled into a gripping hardboiled yarn of yearning, kidnapping, and betrayal in
#JimThompson’s
powerful novel, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET.
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That Darned Crazy Jack: Jim Thompson’s After Dark, My Sweet
Kevin “Kid” Collins makes his way from the asylum to the small city in a matter of days. Stealing cars, bumming lifts, getting around however he can. He’s a former boxer, can take care of himself, …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/afterdarkmysweet-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Two corporate spies use a honey pot tactic to extract a brilliant scientist in a near future thriller. What could go wrong? Everything. Abel Ferrara’s NEW ROSE HOTEL is a potent character study.
@cine-matographe.bsky.social
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I Steal People: New Rose Hotel (1998)
Fox (Christopher Walken) and X (Willem Dafoe) are a couple of freewheeling, freelancers interested in stealing people, that is encouraging corporate defectors through whatever means are necessary. …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/newrosehotel-1998/
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Eve Ronin’s attention is split between investigating a series of home invasions & the mystery of a dead infant as well as coping with a lawsuit and dealing with Hollywood challenges in
#LeeGoldberg’s
GATED PREY.
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A False Sense of Security: Lee Goldberg’s Gated Prey
Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are undercover as a wealthy, somewhat clueless couple—an aging, overweight man of means and his younger, hawter, gold digging galpal—as the third entry in the Eve Ronin …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/everonin3-book/
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Australian soldiers prepare for battle in 1942, only to have their deployment interrupted by Japanese fighter pilots. The survivors on becalmed waters have more than starvation & thirst to fear. There’s a blood crazed shark … BEAST OF WAR
@shudder.com
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This is Deep Water Now, and There’s Very Old Things Out Here: Beast of War (2025)
Leo (Mark Coles Smith) is part of the Australian army, trying to do his best to survive boot camp and see his way into war. And since it’s circa 1942, there’s plenty of war to see as the Allies are…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/beast-of-war-2025/
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My suspense story “Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf” (written under my C.C. Blake byline) is now available in a collection with two additional stories. All feature the Chuck Cave character in historical pulp suspense yarns. On sale for $0.99 this week only!
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Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf: Chuck Cave’s Burlesque Part 1
The latest short story appearing under my C.C. Blake pseudonym, “Gretel’s Big Bad Wolf,” is available for purchase. On this Self-Promotion Sunday, I invite you to take a look at the first entry in …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/ccburlesque1/
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A man sentenced to death row must rely on a youthful but inexperienced lawyer to win his freedom. High stakes abound in
#JamesFoley’s
adaptation of
#JohnGrisham’s
legal thriller, THE CHAMBER.
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Celebrating the Destruction of the Unwanted: The Chamber (1996)
When an explosion rips through the Indianola, Mississippi law offices of Marshall Kramer (Seth Isler) in 1967, it takes the lives of the lawyer’s two children, Josh (Sid Johnson) and John (Blake Jo…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/chamber-1996/
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Middle grade detectives battle peculiar intrigues and doses of exaggerated humor in
#JamesPatterson
and
#KeirGraff’s
second MK Detective Club novel, THE DOUBLE TROUBLE PUZZLE.
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Miranda Keen Can’t Lose: James Patterson and Keir Graff’s The Double Trouble Puzzle
Miranda Keen’s life is coming apart at the seams. Her beloved Detective Club at Jane Byrne Middle School, has been invaded by new faces. One of these is a teacher advisor, which is okay since it’s …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/double-trouble-puzzle-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A detective on the trail of a serial murderer and sex offender is stalked in turn in
#DarioArgento’s
brutal giallo film, THE STENDAHL SYNDROME.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Feminine/Masculine: The Stendahl Syndrome (1996)
Anna Manni (Asia Argento) has come to Florence in search of a serial rapist and murderer. While there, she finds herself in a museum, where she is overwhelmed by the exhibited masterpieces. Soon en…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/stendahl-syndrome-1996/
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A woman moves to the burbs and gets pulled into PTA duties only to discover a slasher has targeted the mean girls she works with in
#LindyRyan’s
DOLLFACE.
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Everyone Is a Suspect: Lindy Ryan’s Dollface
When the military moves Jill Marshall’s husband Rob from Texas to New Jersey, she and their son Tanner’s lives get uprooted as well. It’s the challenge of being married to a serviceman. This summer…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/dollface-book/
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An intriguing, odd follow-up to last year’s flick from Danny Boyle, Nia DaCosta’s 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is an examination of different ideologies bashing heads in a postapocalyptic UK.
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Father, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
When we last saw him in the final scenes of 28 Years Later (2025), Spike (Alfie Williams) was getting saved from a mess of infected by a crazily grinning Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/28yearslater-bonetemple-2026/
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Real estate has never been so cutthroat as in
#JamesFoley’s
adaptation of
#DavidMamet’s
Pulitzer Prize winning play, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.
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You Can’t Close, Then Hit the Bricks Pal Because You Are Going Out: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Four shady real estate salesmen struggling to get by with lousy leads are about to be given a new incentive to nail signatures on a rainy night. Only office manager John Williamson (Kevin Spacey) h…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/glengarryglenross-1992/
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Something sinister is happening in the psych recovering building. Patients are haunted, staff are driven … maybe mad, and evil abounds in
#LinetteKing’s
horror novella, WARD NO. 13.
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Who’s In Control? Linette King’s Ward No. 13
Dr. Damien Voss is a generous soul, operating a psychiatric program that is intended to bring criminal offenders to their senses with a bleeding-edge approach to medical methodologies. He hopes to …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/wardno13-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: An immortal comes to earth hunting a demon in the wild and wonderfully weird martial arts fantasy epic, DECENDANT OF THE SUN.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Not a Good Day to be a Bad Guy … or a Castle Guard: Descendant of the Sun (1983)
When the black snake demon threatens to escape the prison he has been resigned to for the last 500 years, the master of the celestial kingdoms must do whatever it takes to stop him. Unfortunately, …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/descendantsun-1983/
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Easy Rawlins pursues a missing woman, matters of the heart, and a family crisis in his latest mystery, GRAY DAWN. Business as usual, maybe, but the heart still beats strong 17 books into
#WalterMosley’s
series.
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Finder of the Lost: Walter Mosley’s Gray Dawn
Easy Rawlins is living in a nice house, rented to him for cheap by a former, grateful, and wealthy client. His daughter Feather is in France with his ex-girlfriend (and a woman who’s more a mother …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/gray-dawn-book/
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One part animal attack flick, one part slasher film where the most sympathetic character is the killer. PRIMATE is an entertaining fright flick with some terrific suspense.
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Head Trauma: Primate (2025)
Lucy (Johnny Sequoya) is flying home to Hawaii on an unannounced trip. Her sister Erin (Gia Hunter) is not thrilled, her unknowing dad Adam (Troy Kotsur) is leaving on an author tour, and her besti…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/primate-2025/
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SELF PROMO SUNDAY: My novella WISH I MAY has been released. To celebrate the forthcoming second entry in THE WISHING STONE QUARTET, it’s on sale for a limited time. Check it out!
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Wish I May: The Wishing Stone Chronicle 1
Version 1.0.0 My novella, “Wish I May,” is available for purchase. In fact, it’s been around since the tail end of last year, but I have not given it a proper release notice here. As part two of th…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/wishimay-drr-book/
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A boxer gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme in
#JamesFoley’s
exquisite adaptation of
#JimThompson’s
hardboiled novel, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET.
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Funny How Sometimes Things That Aren’t True Are More True Than the Truth: After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Former boxer Collie (Jason Patric) walked out of an institution some time back, and he’s been walking ever since. With a paper parcel of his few belongings under one arm, he makes his way across th…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/after-dark-my-sweet-1990/
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Young women batting personal traumas are stalked by a strange presence in
#ChristinaFerko’s
YA supernatural thriller, THE DARKNESS GREETED HER.
@sourcebooksfire.bsky.social
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The Difference Between Dead and Dead Enough: Christina Ferko’s The Darkness Greeted Her
Penny has come to Camp Whitewood because she needs help. A little voice in her head tells her to hurt the people around her, and she lives with the daily terror that she will give in to it, that sh…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/darkness-greeted-her-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAYS: A young man seeks answers and vengeance for his murdered father in the crime-actioner, BLUE CITY.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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A Bad Boy for Good: Blue City (1986)
When bad boy Billy Turner (Judd Nelson) returns home to sunlit Blue City, Florida, he gets into trouble straightaway and winds up in the local Podunk slammer. He knows he’s not going to be there fo…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/blue-city-1986/
about 2 months ago
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A house on the moors holds supernatural secrets that will be revealed by two different women across multiple decades in
#CatherineCavendish’s
forthcoming short novel, MATILDA’S RETREAT.
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Inquiries into the Otherworldly: Catherine Cavendish’s Matilda’s Retreat
The spooky house on the moors has a long history rife with blood, sacrifice, wickedness, and supernatural horror. Into its halls come two women. Separated by several decades, they will nevertheless…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/matildas-retreat-book/
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A women breaks the safe zone to travel across an apocalyptic Tasmania in search of answers in the moving and emotionally honest survival horror flick, WE BURY THE DEAD.
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Unresolved Issues: We Bury the Dead (2024)
When a blunder results in one of America’s experimental WMDs discharging off the coast of Tasmania, the mainland is ruined and every living thing on the island is killed. Hundreds of concerned, car…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/weburydead-2024/
about 2 months ago
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Rural noir comes alive when
#ChristopherWalken
and
#SeanPenn
butt heads as father and son in a Pennsylvania crime saga.
#JamesFoley’s
AT CLOSE RANGE offers gritty thrills aplenty.
@cine-matographe.bsky.social
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I Have A Tale to Tell: At Close Range (1986)
Bradford “Little Brad” Whitewood, Jr. (Sean Penn) came to town when his brother and friends needed help getting their money back from a guy who offered to buy them booze and then didn’t. Tommy Whit…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/atcloserange-1986/
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A woman yearning for pregnancy learns to fear a few things about her husband’s behavior on a remote Washington State island. Or does she? Folk horror and feminism rub shoulders in
#MaiaChance’s
forthcoming thriller THE RAVINE.
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Sinister Secrets and Full Moon Frights: Maia Chance’s The Ravine
Harlow Sullivan is eager to get pregnant. Excited about it, in fact. However, she’s just learned from her expensive and exclusive doctor that she’s suffering a case of “unexplained infertility,” a …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/ravine-chance-book/
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Missing memory, a crime with supernatural ripples, a detective on the trail of a girl who dies and returns, and a young woman whose life is coming apart around her. TOMIE is a slow burn oddity from the 1990s and enjoyably bizarre.
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The Girl Who Dies and Comes Back: Tomie (1998)
Izumisawa Tsukiko (Nakamura Mami) is having troubles recalling events from three months dating about three years back. Something involving a bloody accident. Perhaps it was trauma that caused the a…
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Last book of 2025: Robert Bloch’s 1971 novel, IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND, is a screwball comedy story with touches of fantasy. A feckless college student gets the therapy he needs and grapples with unexpected & increasingly uncanny consequences.
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Screwball With a Side of Science Fiction: Robert Bloch’s It’s All in Your Mind
Take a good look at that cover. With Bloch’s name in tiny print over the bold title, with a graveyard and a gasping gal, and a concerned face that’s maybe one step this side or that of the line bet…
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Benoit Blanc returns to weigh matters of faith and rationality, life and death in the clever, suspenseful, lightly comic, and well considered whodunit, WAKE UP DEAD MAN.
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The Good Friday Murder: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives out Mystery (2025)
After he clocks an irritating deacon, Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) expects punishment for his actions. However, Bishop Langstrom (Jeffrey Wright) finds a better use for the man’s passion. …
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Two women find romance, hijinks, and plenty of trouble on the way to Europe in Howard Hawks’ fabulously entertaining musical-comedy, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES.
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Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls with a popular show. Their dance numbers are all the rage, and in fact has attracted the attention of Lorelei’s …
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When baddies target Brett Macklin’s friends and family, he must spread himself thin to save them. Can he save those he loves most, or has his actions doomed them all? Violence begets violence in GUILTY,
#LeeGoldberg’s
final entry in The Jury series.
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No One Comes to the Game Weightless: Lee Goldberg’s The Jury: Guilty
When Brett Macklin took on the mantle of Mr. Jury to avenge his father, a cop that was burned to death by a gang of hoodlums, he never imagined the strange journey his decision to take the law into…
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Three vloggers expect naughty fun when they break into a rundown Christmas theme park. Encountering Krampus and a very real (and depressed) Santa, they soon find themselves up to their necks in silly b-movie fun. SLAY BELLES
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Adventure Girls Save Christmas: Slay Belles (2018)
When the Adventure Girls decide to leave the city to do a little exploring of an abandoned, run down, doomed to be bulldozed Christmas themed amusement park, they go all out. Dahlia (Susan Slaughte…
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A desperate woman moves into a wealthy home as the maid, only to discover nothing in the Winchester House is as ideal or idyllic as it seems in
#PaulFeig’s
twisty thriller, THE HOUSEMAID.
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Actions Have Consequences: The Housemaid (2025)
Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is in need of a job, any job. She’s got a great resume (a lie), she’s got a record, she’s sleeping in her car, and she’s bathing in public restroom sinks. When she …
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The road to opening night of a stage show has never been crazier than in Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF. The film adaptation is a treat, and it’s our Friday comedy this week.
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Now I Know How God Felt Sitting Out There in the Dark … Very Pleased He Had Taken His Valium: Noises Off (1992)
When a stage production does its dress rehearsal less than 24 hours before its premier, and the cast still don’t know their lines, still have questions about motivation, still can’t seem to get it …
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Brett Macklin returns for a third dose of pain and suffering, this time tackling a copycat killer working a racist agenda.
#LeeGoldberg’s
thriller PAYBACK is a wild ride into 1980s era action/adventure.
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You Vicious, Sadistic Bastard: Lee Goldberg’s The Jury: Payback
Brett Macklin is enjoying a brief respite from his tours of duty as Mr. Jury. According to official reports following the destruction of a kiddie porn ring, his vigilante identity is dead. So, when…
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