Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...

They're back. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...

“Think dog as hygrometer calibrated for storm-turn, dog as live wire volta.” Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025). @martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social

📽️The Materialists is so tonally weird that I am almost hypnotized. Dakota Johnson makes me think of Keanu Reeves sometimes. Sometimes compelling to watch but almost never speaking in a way that seems spontaneous or human.

Terrible CG in It: Welcome to Derry is puzzling. The 1st ep was ruined for me w/the flying bat baby thing. I liked ep 2 much better, & then 3 has that graveyard scene. I like the kids. I love the intro, and I can ignore the military stuff. But the CG & occasionally the script confuse me w/badness.

An illegal street racer pulled up to me in Malta & threw This House of Grief at me, shouting, "Read it, you English dolt!" Then screeched off. This is a terrible way to get me to read anything but I picked it up from where it had ricocheted off a now dead pigeon and devoured it in 2 days. Brilliant.

Oh, I loved Tom Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children so much!

New Gemma Files!!!!

Pilot just came on to say it’s his last flight ever and he’s retiring. Come on man don’t say that to me. Don’t tell me that right now.

Absolutely delighted to have a couple of poems in this lush, perfect collection of poems from Luna Luna, thank u @lisamariebasile.bsky.social for including them! www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...

Dan Beachy-Quick @tupelopress.bsky.social

Thrilled to be featuring your story today, Karen. Thank you for sending it our way @karenschauber.bsky.social‬ #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

Gish Jen’s Bad Bad Girl, Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl, and Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

"The Night Soil Salvagers no longer need to perform the service they have provided." We're looking back at short fiction published at Reactor–today's let's revisit "The Night Soil Salvagers" by Gregory Norman Bossert, edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

These Katie Berta poems from @sixthfinch.bsky.social !!! sixthfinch.com/berta8.html

📽️Watched The Exorcist with my husband last night & he loved it despite the Southern Baptist devil trauma. He was surprised at how beautiful and intentionally-paced it was. I wonder if I can get him to watch Sorcerer w/me. That was my real spooky season kickoff.

That's a very bad aardvark. #MutantFam #LastDriveIn #TheLastDriveIn #MuteWitness

For not having any lines she’s very charismatic in this performance so far. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

oh lawd they aardvarkin #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

Oh, I am so pumped to watch Mute Witness, have not seen this one before #thelastdrivein #mutantfam

I desperately need people (myself included sometimes!) to actually look at the research cited in so many articles like this.

Absolutely love this poem by Kent Shaw in @ghostproposal.bsky.social ghostproposal.com/kent-shaw

"This is an absolute #mustread"

I have ALMOST watched all of the 70s thrillers. Winter Kills was truly bonkers. Gotta re-watch Night Moves, one of my favorites, & finish Obsession & The Anderson Tapes. #criterionchannel

Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

📽️I don't think The Monkey (2025, Osgood Perkins) was well received, but I liked it. It's funny. Kind of gross. The child actors are great. I remain easy to please & baffled by big responses to pretty modest movies - somebody said it was dogshit, which is a lot of opinion for a light movie.

I don't understand why Jared Leto has cornrows in Panic Room.

📽️Winter Kills is perhaps the most bonkers of the 70s paranoid thrillers series. Young Jeff Bridges yelling DAD YOU STINK after riding away on a horse into a picturesque distance, shirt unbuttoned - what a strange moment in a movie full of strange moments. #thecriterionchannel

Midnight Mass, ugh it's so good

9/19/80: Ordinary People D Robert Redford 🙏 / W Alvin Sargent w/Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, T Hutton, J Hirsch More @gwenemarie.bsky.social: avclub.com/the-role-tha... @chrisvognar.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/see... @rafiews.com / @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

I know a fae trap when I see one

📽️Jane Fonda's outfits in KLUTE omg.

📽️Have watched so many Altman movies on #thecriterionchannel this month 3 Women (re-watch) Brewster McCloud Nashville The Long Goodbye (re-watch) Fool for Love Gosford Park (re-watch) still wanna see McCAbe & Mrs. Miller & Secret Honor & Quintet & re-watch Jimmy Dean

Aaah I'm so excited!

The Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella Competition remains open. Send us your poolside catastrophes. Send us your techno-feudalist end-game nihilism revenge strories. Send us your sad graves. @sgj.bsky.social

Psychedelic body horror SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE from NORWAY director Yannis Veslemes heads to theaters and VOD/Digital next month.

It's beautiful.

📽️Watching Pakula's "paranoia trilogy" on #thecriterionchannel & I'm on Parallax View, which is terrifying. The company montage sequence, whew. The use of the environment to add to the suspense is fantastic.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978

I do not enjoy talking about politics here, this is my nice place, but having such an uproar about a podcast guy is so strange to me. What if Joe Rogan had died - would we be under Martial law now? What is going on.

📽️I was not prepared for how insane, in the best way, Brewster McCloud is. #thecriterionchannel

A very special Tuesday as we celebrate a new edition of a poetic classic and welcome two brillian debuts to the Pitt Poetry Series family: Happy pub day to: the 45th anniversary edition of Satan Says by Sharon Olds upittpress.org/books/978082...

I've been thinking about Daniel Addercouth's story since accepting “So each of these paintings represents one of the stages of grief?” “Exactly,” says my father. “After I complete the stage, I’ll burn the painting. It’ll be—what do they call it? Cataclysmic?” https://www.havehashad.com/kcjxe

Thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for featuring my poem today. #BadHobby @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Does anyone else remember The Cryptkeeper being kind of EVERYWHERE in the early to mid nineties? I swear he was a cultural icon when I was 11 to 13. A rotting corpse. God I miss the 90s.