20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 10/20 - INVASION OF THE SEA by Jules Verne, translated by Edward Baxter

Jack Kirby and Chic Stone, 1964. #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

Don't get me wrong, I love Penguin Books. But the covers for their horror series are some of the worst ever published, usually ugly or stupid, garishly colored (or just one) and sometimes, like the Blackwood, just a Getty image with nothing to do with what's inside. Do better, bird.💙📚 #horror

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 09/20 - ECHO OF A CURSE - R. R. Ryan

Lee Elias, 1949. #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

A couple more crazy '50s covers from the same Scottish comics publisher. #comicsky

What the Hell?? 1951 Scottish reprint of Dick Ayers' GHOST RIDER stories, original cover, artist unknown. #comicsky

DACHRA (2018). The first 30m could be tighter but then the creeps start & don't stop. As soon as the film brats get to the people in the woods, a real feeling of menace sinks in deep. The dripping meat strung up is only a clue. Genuinely scary mood and scenes. Best I've seen in months. 📽️ #horror

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 08/20 - NIGHT SHIVERS by J. H. Riddell

Dick Ayers, 1967 #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 07/20 - THE EUNUCH OF STAMBOUL by Dennis Wheatley

John Belfi, 1952. #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

2030 by Albert Brooks (2011). Re-reading, and he got SO much right about today. "There were no trusted sources of newsgathering any more [...] It was a combination of professionals, amateurs, citizens, gossip, pictures [...] that people had to slog thru and decide for themselves what was true." 💙📚

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 06/20 - THE DAMNED by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Nick Cardy, 1972. #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

JULIUS CAESAR (1908), the first film version. Pantomime Shakespeare might seem ridiculous, especially in 12 minutes but it's fascinating and not just historically. It features an appearance (and diappearance) of a ghost as well as Florence Lawrence, the first movie star known by name. #silentfilm📽️

MOON OVER MONTE CARLO (1931), a Weimer fantasy musical starring Anna Sten. And playing Chief Engineer Pawlitscheck-- described by his fellow sailors as "a wimpy sea signal"-- is none other than Peter Lorre! (This is the best existing print, at least with English subs.)📽️

Jack Kirby and George Roussos #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 05/20 - ANTIQUE DUST: GHOST STORIES by Robert Westall

THE ADVENTURES OF BILLY (1911) Little Billy the bootblack is so poor and hungry he goes to work for two bad guys who beat him and then kill an old man for his money. Now they'll do the same to Billy. That's Donald Crisp as Bug-Eye (#4) and Griffith himself in #3. Billy was Edna Foster! #silentfilm📽️

MOTHER'S BABY BOY (1914) It's strange to see really young Oliver Hardy's film appearances (he was 22 here) because the character of Ollie is still years in the future. In this short one-reeler (not even 5m long), as momma's cowardly son Percival, he cries more than Stan!📽️

THE GIRL WHO DARED (1944) with #SupportingActorSunday great Roy Barcroft (#4, center). He wore many kinds of hats but this may be the first bed robe. Also, at one point the '40s serials' Superman, Kirk Alyn (#2), is suspected of being the killer by John Hamilton (#3), '50s TV's Perry White.📽️

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 04/20 - THE SECRET PEOPLE by John Wyndham

Gene Autry by Till Goodan, DELL FOUR COLOR #47 (1942). #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

Bottom shelf's all Blackwood. Top shelf has THE BEETLE, THE PURPLE CLOUD, THE VAMPIRE, Verne, Haggard, Richard Middleton, F. Marion Crawford, Edna W. Underwood... wow!

The (stimu)late(d) Rory Hayes, from LAUGH IN THE DARK #1 (1971) #comicsky

DR. OCCULT, a pre-Superman series started by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster for MORE FUN in 1935. Unusually grim horror for the time, with one story including a great electrocution panel by Joe! (These are from scans of the B&W reprint DOUBLE ACTION COMICS #2.) #comicsky #horror

For everyone who hates fireworks and what they do to cats and dogs, and for everyone who thinks they're perfectly safe and your neighbors should mind their own business. #fireworks

The copy writers of these ads knew exactly what they were doing. #comicsky

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 03/20 - BENIGHTED by J. B. Priestly.

Kirby and Ayers. #WesternComicsMonth #comicsky

#BOTD George Sanders. His last message started with “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored." In the '80s, Paul Krassner dropped one of the biggest conspiracy theories of all time: George Sanders didn't kill himself because he was bored. He was murdered because he was bored.📽️

When comic books came with directions. From MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS # 8 (1940), story and art by Bill Everett. #comicsky

Joe Maneely, from RINGO KID #4. (A little something extra for #WesternComicsMonth.)

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 02/20 - LOST GHOSTS by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Tony DeZuniga. #WesternComicsMonth

LAST BRIDE OF SALEM (1974), An "ABC Afternoon Playbreak" episode with an uncredited (and silent) John Candy. Since it was for kids, it didn't lay on the scares. His expression in pic #2 looks more like annoyance than evil.📽️ #horror

Quote post with your current read, the last book you finished, your next TBR book and fave of 2026 so far. 📚💙 Current read: Hunter - Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang Last read: Dear Dead Women - Edna W. Underwood Next TBR: Complete Works Vol 1 - Harold Pinter Best: The Metamorphosis - Kafka

Pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Sy Barry. #WesternComicsMonth

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 01/20 - PHAEDRA by Jean Racine, translated by Richard Wilbur

Jose Delbo. #WesternComicsMonth

Charles Burns, 1984. #comicsky

‪ Quote post with your current read, the last book you finished, your next TBR book and fave of 2026 so far. 📚💙 Current read: Every Short Story 1951-2012 - Alasdair Gray Last read: The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad Next TBR: Andromache - Racine, Richard Wilbur Best: The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

"My name is Victoria Winters. My journey is beginning, a journey that I hope will open the doors of life to me and link my past with my future." Happy 60th b'day to my favorite TV show-- I watched this first episode the day it aired (minus the slate). #DarkShadows #60thAnniversary #DanCurtis #horror

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

SUPPORTING ACTOR SUNDAY📽️ ROY BARCROFT. The greatest villian in movie serials. As soon as they saw him, every kid in the theater knew who the bad guy was, even if it took the hero 12 chapters to figure it out. His own personal favorite role was Captain Mephisto in MANHUNT OF MYSTERY ISLAND (1945).

One of the most important creative figures in the history of film, yet there are very few pictures of the man at all, let alone at work.📽️

Cover art by George Rozen. 📚💙

Fantastic cover art by Hannes Bok (1940).📚💙 #horror

This needs to be made into a movie right away. FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, April 1949. 📚💙 #horror