I've curated the Mexico Noir film series for @viffest.bsky.social featuring 15 movies, most of them screening in new restorations from March 26 to April 8. Join me in Vancouver this spring for a showcase of classic noir. Tickets are available via viff.org/series/mexic...

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Age verification? Every office used WordPerfect (And I still miss it)

Most translation funding still goes to bestsellers or colonial languages. This campaign shifts that balance by supporting translations from under-represented languages, like Shona, Nishinaabemowin, Ukrainian, Malay, Hausa, isiZulu, Tamil, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, and more.

Feb 9 Weibo: Zhu Yilong at the launch of Scare Out at the Chinese Film Spring Festival Release #ZhuYilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #ScareOut #惊蛰无声

Well said, Bad Bunny. Well said.

A little bit more about the fascinating life of Irish writer Beatrice Grimshaw, author of our forthcoming volume STRANGE SOUTH SEAS. swanriverpress.ie/2019/02/beat...

Good Q @SarahKSilvermam

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

A global community of editors, publishers, and writers have come together to offer a 1-month only bundle of books in digital format to raise awareness and money for the translation of storytelling. The bundle will be sold through @storybundle.bsky.social lingua.globalvoices.org/202...

To bring this to my own timeline... As well as the anthologies in my comments on his post, there's also "Under Her Black Wings" (2020 women in horror). Those are the ones I have. Sticking to anthologies because there are too many great female horror writers for silly character limits.

To paraphrase Churchill, to be Republican as an old rich white person is understandable, but to be Republican as a college-age person is evidence one's missing one's soul.

Well, it’s the 264th anniversary today of a séance held to locate the elusive ghost Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane. There were many séances, in fact, because the noisy ghost was a media sensation, but only this one was attended by Samuel Johnson... 🧵

Some good news: I'm thrilled that I'll appear with Stephen Graham Jones at the Bay Area Book Festival and Locus Awards in May! Horror fans, come celebrate with us! locusmag.com/2026/01/tana...

I had a very calm and normal reaction to the shot of him taking off his jacket with the gun holster and all that, I promise

Strange stories to get you through the winter. “Among the most memorable books I’ve read this year are several slender, elegantly designed collections of short stories of the uncanny published by Swan River Press.” – Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement swanriverpress.ie/titles/?wpv-...

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

If you need some good news this weekend, "Experimental Files", an anthology of short stories inspired by @gemmafiles.bsky.social's "Experimental Film" is now available. Edited by Sarah Walker and Elizabeth Mitchell, all profit generated by this book will be donated to autism research efforts.

WATCH — @piperformissouri.bsky.social : “I’m a middle aged white woman, and I can tell you one thing… if someone doesn’t tell you EXACTLY how they feel about what’s going on, you know how they feel.”

Trans people: "Fix your hearts or die!" Scott Adams: ok *dies*

Such beautiful illustrations! The art makes me want to consume all these stories!

Algernon Newton, The House By The Canal, 1945. artuk.org/discover/art...

Lol: “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote."

And I love @clpolk.com's take on this. 2/ bsky.app/profile/did:...

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

It's cool to be reading down an article of recent horror books going "Yes, ha ha ha YES" sickos style because they're all bangers and then stumble onto your own among them 🤩 A GAME IN YELLOW is in fantastic company here with BLACK FLAME, BAT EATER, and more 💛 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

FBI Designates Brown University Shooting A Cold Case

Color of the year suggestions, anyone?

Our $2.99 Kindle deal for December is Anders Fager's SWEDISH CULTS, a collection of Lovecraftian tales from Sweden that we released a couple of years back. Grab it cheap here all month long: www.amazon.com/Swedish-Cult...

IMAGINE JUST ASKING ZHU FUCKING YILONG TO TAKE YOUR HOLIDAY GROUP PHOTO 🤣

#DecRecs: This rec for 镇魂 Guardian, which is the best and most accurate way I've ever seen the show sold to those not already sold. Go read the rec and then watch the show!

It's Cyber Monday, which means Threadless' biggest sale of the year ends today. Don't be the kind of dumbass that misses out on $12 tees and up to 40% off everything else! effinbirds.threadless.com

Best way to read Michael McDowell's BLACKWATER saga is the old pocket paperbacks, issued one per month, January to June 1983. Six months of blood curdling horror!

N is for Night Tide (1961) from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet an early Dennis Hopper film directed by Curtis Harrington about a woman called Mora who might be a mermaid. The film has an eerie carnival/boardwalk setting and atmosphere to match. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...

Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Repost with an iconic fictional band

It is the 150th year anniversary of Qiu Jin's birth. It is an honor to translate the work of this amazing feminist poet. Just want to take some time today to honor her memory 💐

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Fabulous!

Magic, heartbreak and hope.

Drop something pink

Nov 1 Zhu Yilong Studio: “Under the warm sunlight, amidst the blend of retro and modern, we encounter poetic romance. Hello, a brand-new November!” #ZhuYilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍

RISE AND SHINE, BLUESKY! This is the final stretch, there are 29 hours remaining in the Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Inspired by the Richard Brautigan poem of the same name, David Lowery's film 'A Ghost Story', Brian Eno's 'An Ending (Ascent)', existential unrest in turbulent times; a sense of watching and drifting and it all passing you by, the crushing weight of loneliness and the abject horror of a sheet ghost.

If you've ever read Casting the Runes by M.R. James, and wondered about the reference there to a Thomas Bewick illustration ("a woodcut of Bewick’s roughly torn out of the page"), I did some investigation into the matter three years ago: www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

Michael Sowa (German Artist, born 1945) "Spider in the Morning", 2003. Acrylic on Paper, 50 × 75 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt