When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

I did my best to try and celebrate ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE since it is the holiday season & I will take any opportunity I can get to talk about this film. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/harmonies-he... Shares & subs would be greatly appreciated. Cheers y’all! 🖤

My zine about Hitchcock movies will be about 18k words and highlights his films that I like, or Spellbound which I dislike but I do enjoy complaining about. It ships out next week, plus there's now bundles so you can pick up all three of my horror movie zines cheaper. sara-century.square.site

The original horror anthology, from the legendary Ealing Studios. The comedy kings nail the nightmare with haunting charm. Exquisitely eerie. 1945. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #horror #film

THE NUTCRACKER ain’t got nothin’ on this howlin’ performance! 🩰🐺

“SPAWN…gave us a number of landmarks…It felt like a deal with the devil had been struck, which is exactly how Simmons rose from the grave.” SPAWN Deals with the Devil By T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social Now available 🩸📜 medium.com/@manorvellum...

“Almost always, these deals are based on greed, gluttony, or lust. A desire to have something out of reach.” New 🩸 on the membrane from T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social Tomorrow! 12/12/25 6:00AMET manorvellum.com

HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SCREAM (2018) is by far my favorite anthology of Christmas horror stories so far! Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social really brought it as editor with these selections. 1/4

🎶 He works at Mr. Cacciatore’s down on Sullivan Street across from the medical center. He’s trading in his Chevy for a CadillACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK

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“𝙍𝙞𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣, 𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙬 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. 𝙉𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙝 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢, 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙨…” New and original horror fiction is coming to Estate of Fright.

I really enjoyed this one. A creature feature that comes from within by exploiting our fears, our insecurities, our weaknesses…and how they can affect…even kill…those around us. Not to mention a winter horror perfect for the season. Highly recommended. 1/2

Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!

Happy Sunday 🌞

That time Eric Freeman of notorious SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 fame starred in an episode of DIVORCE COURT in the 1980s. Unfortunately, only one of his dancing eyebrows got main billing while the other made a brief cameo at the end. youtu.be/ihBBFeQJHQY?...

New 🩸 on the membrane next week. By T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social Drops at 6:00AMET on Friday, December 12, 2025. 📜 manorvellum.com

Estate of Fright 80: Paranoia and the Fears We Let Control Us (December 2025) Delivered today 🏚️😱 Featuring Jerry Smith @jerryisjustok.bsky.social in Estate of Fright and this month’s calendar of MANOR releases.

Which Steely Dan album is perfect from start to finish and why is it THE ROYAL SCAM (1976)?

“Horror has always been a genre that can challenge us…and the genre is perfect at tapping into the collective dread of confusion.” Jerry Smith @jerryisjustok.bsky.social is in Estate of Fright. 😱 Tomorrow! 12/5/25 @ 6:00AMET 🏚️ Free subscription www.manorhq.com/eof

This one’s staying with me. Courtesy of Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social from his novel WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME (2025). “Maybe the true horror of the werewolf is that the change is never permanent. Maybe the true beauty of the butterfly is that it is."

“I’m not sure how I was led to this podcast, but it’s beautiful and haunting in so many ways.” - Jenn Fairweather, new MANOR HOUSE fan (November 2025). 🎧🗝️🚪💀 open.spotify.com/episode/6P3H... MANOR HOUSE is available on all podcast platforms.

Before we slay our way into the yuletide terror-itory known as December, let’s recap the leftovers from November. 1/4

Tis the season to be slaughtered. Much copied and remade, Bob Clarks original shocker nails the festive fear. Masterful yuletide slayride. 1974. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #christmas

ain't nuthin' wrong with that!

“Sometimes you eat the turkey, and sometimes, well, the turkey eats you” says some mustachioed feller wearing a cowboy hat watching me eat turkey five days in a row.

My Media Choices for December 2025 (Thread): TV Series: STRANGER THINGS Season 5 (2025) 9 years later, 4 seasons past, 8 episodes to go for an ending to an epic journey. 1/

It's that time of year again

November 30th / December 1st

My latest article on the @spectrevision.bsky.social filmography SpectreWatch: BITCH and Our Primal Natures manorvellum.medium.com/spectrewatch...

People have given my book A Small Light & Other Stories a lot of really sweet and thoughtful reviews on Goodreads. Appreciate anyone who's saying nice things about it, it came out like 3 years ago and people still bring that book up to me all the time. The People want creepy sapphic horror ok 😂

“A mirror is a powerful tool, and BITCH is, undeniably, a mirror.” SpectreWatch: BITCH and Our Primal Natures By Justin Drabek @justindrabek.bsky.social Now available 🩸📜 medium.com/@manorvellum...

MESSIN’ AROUND IYKYK 💀😈🚗🦃 @stevemartinreally.bsky.social #JohnCandy @vancityreynolds.bsky.social

It’s Black Friday again so be careful. It can get a little choppy out there. Thank you. Have a nice day.

Traditional watch tonight. The car scene with Candy as the Devil always gets me rolling no matter how many times I see it. Happy gobble-gobble everybody 🦃🍗

Me waiting for the saying of grace to wrap up on Thanksgiving.

“We're social creatures, bound by expectations we never consciously agreed to.” New 🩸 on the membrane from Justin Drabek @justindrabek.bsky.social Friday! 11/28/25 6:00AMET manorvellum.com

Peter Straub discussing the BLACK HOUSE (2001) novel collaboration with Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social and the need for a Talisman/Black House trilogy circa 2000 or 2001 on DARK DREAMERS. THE TALISMAN (Purgatory) – (BLACK HOUSE) Inferno – (TBA) Paradisal. King was reportedly... 1/2

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"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

Finally had a chance to read this and I'm VERY interested in what happens here. Although I think a different prologue or opening may serve the work better, this is definitely where we enter Adam’s current ordinary world/set up. The acerbic back and forth dialogue here is catching and... 1/2

Dennis Etchison having fun writing the novelization of HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH under his pseudonym Jack Martin. *From my own prized copy that I’ve had for eons.*

New 🩸 on the membrane next week. By Justin Drabek @justindrabek.bsky.social Drops at 6:00AMET on Friday, November 28, 2025. 📜 manorvellum.com

I saw this and I propose an idea — Hear me out StokerCon … Coffee with Krampus AT StokerCon? @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Discuss amongst yourselves.

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𝙄 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙮𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙤𝙖𝙢 𝙘𝙪𝙥, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙥. 𝙄 𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙗. 𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚. 4:59, 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣.

I keep forgetting this is the same person. Gaylen Ross! She only acted in handful of films before becoming a successful documentarian filmmaker.

These are some high quality “currently consuming” I have going on right now. Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social (book)…just when you think you know, he gives you gifts that surprise your eyes. One of my favorite horror authors of this era. 1/3

It's complete tonal and stylistic whiplash from pretty much every sequence in the franchise before and after it, but when you're 12 years old at a sleepover, watching Freddy go ham on a pool party whips ass.

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