Eye bleach.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Wishing you all a wonderful Friday the 13th 💀 #FridayThe13th

friends, she’s finally here. strange is the light is a story about friendship, secrets, games we play and who is and isn’t welcome at the table. it’s about monsters. and above all, it’s about love. it comes out in september & i hope you guys like it 🖤👁️✨

Congratulations to this year's authors! Thank you for bringing more horror into our lives! Here's a link to all things Summer Scares: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca...

168 – Middle Grade Horror Panel The panelists discuss the expectations of different age brackets, pushing boundaries, soft censorship, the Know-Betters, and the politics of house spiders. (with Kathleen Palm & Ally Russell) @kathleenpalm.bsky.social @allyoutthere.bsky.social

Mrs. Danvers, the Menace of Manderley

I can be the only one who reads everything that @angelaslatter.bsky.social writes!!! Congrats on the new release…obviously it’s fantastic! I’m obsessed! Thank you @titanbooks.bsky.social for the advanced reader copy! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💙📚 #fantasybooks #newrelease #aforestdarkly

Join Tori Bovalino to celebrate the release of I, IN THE SHADOWS, a bewitching, passionate tale of the unlikely alliance between a ghost and the girl who moves into a haunted house...👻 London—20th January: https://tinyurl.com/m9ddrx3s 🎟️ Glasgow—17th February: https://tinyurl.com/4ktys263 🎟️

The history of "rednecks" in the Appalachian coalfields is deeply tied to the red bandanas worn by miners during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain as a symbol of solidarity and, later, a "red thread" of labor resistance.

Happy Middle Grade Monday!!! Today…IT CAME FROM THE TREES by @allyoutthere.bsky.social A great book of friendship and believing in yourself! And be sure to catch Ally and I talk MG horror on the @webobpodcast.bsky.social today! #middlegrademonday 📚🩸

“Sesame Street” Episode 847, aired on February 10, 1976, featuring Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from THE WIZARD OF OZ.

Ooh! This is the juiciest thing I've seen in a while!

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine. We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.

Vintage goblins

#OnThisDay in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once upon a midnight dreary,” was published on this day in the New York Evening Mirror. Here is a reading by Vincent Price…

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when we honour all victims of the Nazis, including Roma and Sinti. The Romani saying “dikh he na bister”, look and do not forget, is especially apt right now as DHS rampages through US cities on a mission of terror and ethnic cleansing. Look and do not forget.

The Shining (1980) Toy Story (1995)

Photo by Shelley Lewis

Victor Hugo finished writing “Notre Dame de Paris,” also known as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” on January 15, 1831. #OnThisDay

ICE + Trump will continue until there are so many of us that force them to stop. It will require a diversity of tactics-- not just protests (but go if you're able!) but strikes, slowdowns, many more creative kinds of actions. From a cross section of the population. Because that's how we will win.

"The Repentant Cannibal" by @mikemignola.bsky.social. This one leaves me awestruck.

Well, this will help

John Bellairs is most known for his book The House with a Clock in Its Walls, but did you know he wrote a small series of stories set in Minnesota featuring occult mysteries? He did! The Anthony Monday books, illustrated by Gorey. These novels had an influence on me as a native Midwesterner artist.

Fanbase Press' @barbrajdillon.bsky.social Interviews @raeallenart.bsky.social on the Release of ‘Carmen Red Claw: Belly of the Beast’ with @mikemignola.bsky.social and @darkhorse.com

How fantastic is this Ally Russel @scholastic.bsky.social cover for DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS? 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️https://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2026/01/down-came-spiders.html

"I can't leave Twitter! My userbase is there!" "Your userbase is on the child porn and deep fake site? The site that makes the most deep fakes and child porn?"

Today is the birthday of artist and writer Dick Briefer (Jan. 9, 1915-Dec. 1980). Most remembered for his unique work on his wonderful Frankenstein series.

New Yorkers: Please call and yell at him for the rest of us. DC: (202) 224-6542 NYC: (212) 486-4430 Albany: (518) 431-4070 Binghampton: (607) 772-6792 Buffalo: (716) 846-4111 Melville: (631) 753-0978 Peekskill: (914) 734-1532 Rochester: (585) 263-5866 Syracuse: (315) 423-5471

Trump sent troops to bomb the capital of Venezuela while congress was not in session. He had no authority. He and everyone else responsible in this administration should be impeached and removed from office immediately.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

So, this happened today... It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them) Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now

“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.” - Ray Bradbury for National Science Fiction Day

Holy cats. That's a little too close.

Trans folks. We see you. We love you. Wherever fascists try to make you disappear, we will push back. We will fight for you.

Won't be renewing my SFWA membership if there isn't a stronger stance against AI at ANY & EVERY point in creating. I'm part of the Anthropic class-action for stealing my work. Stances like this let violations creep further into our industry. No real writer needs AI to help their creative process.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning brooch enclosing two sisters' hair, bordered with black enamel and set with four pearl quatrefoils framed in black enamel. Inscribed: ‘My beloved sisters, Mary Jane Thackray & Lucy Frances Edge, died Novr. 10th & 28th 1861’. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/coll...

NOCTURNALS: The Sinister Path miniseries from @darkhorse.com hits shops today! Don’t forget to pick up yours up and kickoff Halloweentide a little early! Check out the wicked variant cover edition, featuring the work of Sean Gordon Murphy !

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

“It’s okay to decay. Modern western death practices in the US have become unsustainable, expensive & toxic. We have been conditioned to fear decomposing. Returning your borrowed body to the earth is the last greatest act of love you can do.” - @joan_de_art www.etsy.com/shop/JoanDeA...

I’m excited to show you my finished Krampus marionette/puppet in action. look at him go! 🌲

A really great thread celebrating indie presses.

Writing anything down that you find interesting for your screenwriting isn't just about remembering it. It helps train your mind to see the world through that lens. Is this a story? A moment? A character? You'll start asking this out of habit. #screenwriting

They are known as Witte Wieven in the northwest, white women, wise women, spoken, spirits, or Feeën, fairies, who can say? We meet one in Gelderland in our 4th #yulefolklore tale. She keeps an eternal vigil there. With a friend. A tale dark enough for today’s #WyrdWednesday prompt 🎨 j. klassen

Halloween Haunted House

In 2023 I had zero books. Today, my FOURTH book published with Scholastic. Time flies. So do spiders. (Actually, they do something called ballooning.) Please check out my book about creepy-crawlies. 🕷️ DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS

Maria Ouspenskaya (July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949)