Have very much enjoyed this ongoing series on haunted house cinema, and reading it back I think this is a really good piece on a wildly under-rated film thehaunt.substack.com/p/the-haunte...

Five: thehaunt.blog/2026/02/08/t...

As always, if you have suggestions for this on-going series over on thehaunt.blog I'd love to hear 'em

As always, if you have suggestions for this on-going series over on thehaunt.blog I'd love to hear 'em

Four: thehaunt.blog/2025/12/15/t...

Two: thehaunt.blog/2025/12/08/t...

One: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...

the haunted house film: an ongoing series.

Look, for 2026 I think you should invite me on your podcast, especially if you have any interest in the intersections of horror movies, politics and utopian philosophy.

🐳 EPISODE 1 🐳 A brand new podcast about a book about a fish is out now. @leighsus.bsky.social (who's never read a book) and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social (who's read loads) discuss Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, chapter-by-chapter. Listen free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

Current reading, a literary montage that occults the recent past into a complete nightmare - history becomes both a horror story and a crime scene. Incredible, what an astonishing book.

I can't believe I let the new Silent Hill 2 movie pass me by without aggressively promoting my Silent Hill 2 essays for the renewed SEO value 😌🙏 In this piece, I return to the game as an adult and examine my relationship to James Sunderland being both chronically ill and a caretaker for others

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

@emilyhughes.bsky.social, @doriandawes.bsky.social, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social, @raforall.bsky.social

hey who's your favorite writer working in horror commentary & cultural criticism?

A (typically) superb episode of one of my favorite podcasts 👻👻👻

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Best album of the year so far from one of the best bands in the whole fucking world. Go listen to @mandyindiana.bsky.social share.google/Q7jl38IHsvbc...

NEW WRITING: A while back I played Everyone's Gone To The Rapture and really enjoyed it - happy to say that Still Wakes the Deep is also really good www.patreon.com/posts/144522...

book promises "horror theory" look inside it's reheated eighteenth century aesthetic philosophy again

folks!!!!!!!!! you heard it here first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

2026 reading a thread 🧵

Two books we used to talk through Frankenstein are Capitalism: A Horror Story by @thelitcritguy.bsky.social (from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social) and Skin Shows by Jack Halberstam, both excellent reference books for your horror theory library!

Two books we used to talk through Frankenstein are Capitalism: A Horror Story by @thelitcritguy.bsky.social (from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social) and Skin Shows by Jack Halberstam, both excellent reference books for your horror theory library!

New post on two excellent novels that take on the representational problem of cinema: thehaunt.blog/2026/01/25/t...

"Capitalism a horror story" spotted in Mexico! (Thanks to @andrekanasiro.bsky.social for sending me this!)

hot tip: every Brecht poem hits insane right now

I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

A book that keeps becoming more and more relevant each day!

"These men are evil in a biblical sense, as in actual demons from hell." prospect.org/2026/01/23/m...

Yesterday a reporter asked me for comment about Minneapolis’ opposition to ICE. I got kind of worked up and sent way more than I should have. The piece is great—it’s in my prior post. But I wanted post my comments in full here:

wrote about the much-deserved death knell of the world's worst architecture project for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

NEW WRITING: On two excellent novels concerned with lost films, cinema as desiring production and the politics of film: www.patreon.com/posts/148611...

I stopped writing about cybernetics, surveillance, recognition, and control society after the last two books and 4 articles because at this point Labour teaming up with Palantir via Oswald Mosley's grandson to build a panopticon says enough. The only rational thing to do with such toys is break them

Have I sent you this before? youtu.be/LEBGoxDUhKE?...

Out in the world, scheming and planning

3. Daniel Kehlmann, "The Director" - an incredible novel, fictionalising the life of legendary film director GW Pabst. A book scathing about the compromises and evil little lies we tell ourselves to stay safe under fascist politics, showcasing a world in which art doesn't (and can't) save anyone.

1. Gretchen Felker-Martin, "Black Flame" - a novel of seething libidinal desire, curdled inward into repression so dense as to become self annihilation. Violent, gross and horny & also utterly fearless about connecting individual horrors to current politics. Typical GFM banger to start the year.

NEW LEFT PAGE!! Episode 99 - First Law Standalones Pt. 1: Back With a Revengeance We return to the First Law in a 2 part special, going over revenge, violence, war, power, and material conditions! shows.acast.com/the-left-pag...

We're back with phenomenal fantasy yet again! Going over the next three books, and we had so much to talk about that we even split it into 2 comprehensive parts! Enjoy the first one as we get back into Abercrombie's fantasy and discuss "Best Served Cold"!

NEW WRITING: On two excellent novels concerned with lost films, cinema as desiring production and the politics of film: www.patreon.com/posts/148611...

Today's surgery recovery plan: writing a new book proposal.

My selection for best games 2025 are now for public consumption, as are the games themselves, which include titles from @interactivedreams.bsky.social, @nicedreamgames.com, and @foddy.net & company. Also Sinners, which is a video game according to rulings found in AGAB common law

60 - AGAB Game Of The Year Awards 2025: The Movie Sinners is GOTY The annual event you've all been waiting for, you can finally find out which games last year were and were not haram. soundcloud.com/agabpod/60-a...

now with some stuff on it

If someone is willing to toss away her Nobel Peace Prize to get closer to her real goal of doing a mafia bust-out against her own country on behalf of international finance capital, I think that's revealing of how much they actually value 'peace' and the values these prizes actually exist to reward.

you heard it here first: THE RED SACRAMENT accelerates surgery healing time by as much as 40%

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