A DESPERATE DUNGEON CRAWL THROUGH THE DEPTHS OF OUTER SPACE! DARKVOID DEATHSHIP - EARLY 2026 A sword & sorcery novel about survivors and the wondrous terrors of the cosmos More to come...

You can't beat microcassette recorders for capturing gloriously lofi analog audio gunk. My last one died a few years back, finally got around to picking up another. #lofiordie 💀

Greyhound slept through City of the Living Dead tonight. How's a rescue hound ever gonna get schooled in Fulci?

Seen a ghost caught in a tree tonight. Perfect October vibes 🎃

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Kicking off the October spooky season reads with the mighty @mattmbartlett.bsky.social 🎃

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Out with the hound for the Great Global Greyhound Walk today

Been rather obsessed with The Enfield Poltergeist case since I was school age. Finally getting around to watching this series from 2023 and the first episode was very good indeed 💀

I've got a few copies left of THE CRYPT OF BLOOD and THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE ready to bring you the Halloween spirit. Available through a bookstore or library of your choice, or through direct sale from me (US only for print, digital epubs for all): www.muzzlelandpress.com/shop

Indulging in my annual tradition of ushering in the start of Autumn with a large glass of brandy and a reading of Thomas Ligotti's THE SHADOW AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD 🎃

Nice drive this afternoon

Just finished this collection by @raynewman.bsky.social and having grown up in a (haunted) house in a 1960s built council estate myself, some of these stories really hit. Check it out! 💀

Kind of feeling the urge to do a complete Dark Shadows rewatch. Only took a year and a half to do all 1225 episodes the last time. There's still a big Collinwood shaped hole in my heart 💀

Opened my front door this evening only to discover that nature has started putting up our Halloween decorations 💀🎃👻🦇🕸🕷

I usually avoid films that seem to be overhyped, but this one was definitely worth it. Sort of like a horror Short Cuts or Magnolia 💀

The City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel (1960 dir. John Llewellyn Moxey). Rewatch with a restored print, so much more impressive than the previous old public domain version. The fog, shadows and witches are positively Black Sunday era Bava vibes. And it's got Christopher Lee too. Highly recommended 💀

Commissioning the cover art for DARKVOID DEATHSHIP as I move rapidly toward the completion of the first draft. My weird space sword & sorcery novel is coming your way in Q1 2026. I hope you like dungeon crawling, kung fu movies, psychic zombies, and women in power armor wielding giant swords.

The Witches Mountain (1972) dir. Raúl Artigot drew me in with folk horresque vibes, haunted landscapes, dreamy atmosphere. Witches caught on camera, candlelight processions in the fog, Patty Shepard from Naschy's La Noche de Walpurgis. Not perfect, but solid Eurovibes to be enjoyed with a nice red.

#5: CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE. This movie is 100% pure distilled Eurohorror: beautiful women in nightgowns meandering about spooky environments, dreamlike atmosphere and plot, a Gothic threat, gloomy dungeons, a real castle. Best watched while tired or stoned for maximum effect.

As exciting as it sounds, The Castle of Creeping Flesh (1968) is a Euro snore. Not even the great Howard Vernon or a spicy Janine Reynaud (in various states of undress) can enliven the dreary proceedings

That bit in Planet of the Vampires (1965) where the reanimated spacecrew rise from their graves in slow motion and shred off their plastic shrouds whilst Bava's smoke machine and lighting gels go into overdrive against an eerie electronic soundtrack. Space age gothic horror perfection 💀

The Bloodstained Shadow (1978) dir. by Antonio Bido is a solid Giallo. The whole film could consist of nothing more than 100 minutes of Stefania Casini wandering the back alleyways of Venice to Stelvio Cipriani's Goblinesque score and would still be very enjoyable

Beyond the Door (1974) aka The Devil Within Her aka Chi Sei?. Only the Italians can take a commercial horror success, in this case The Exorcist, knock out a cash-in and in the process turn out something so genuinely off the wall. One hell of an oddball movie. It definitely gets two thumbs up.

Bava's Hatchet For the Honeymoon (1970) was one I'd never previously cared too much for, but rewatched tonight in a restored print I've really revised my opinion. Dreamy cinematography, gothic trappings, plenty of macabre touches (mannequins and creepy clockwork toys!). Bumping it up the list.

$2 or less for Halloween fun! The sale wraps up SUNDAY, and includes my Halloween TV Specials THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE and THE CRYPT OF BLOOD, & the solo pencil 'n paper dungeon crawler SPLATTER ZONE. www.muzzlelandpress.com/shop

Found a couple of little Poe etchings I made some years back whilst clearing out my stuff today at an art collective I used to be part of. Underinked and overwiped but not too shabby

It's been exactly one year since this big sweet and goofy Greyhound came to live with us

Lucio Fulci's mighty Zombi 2 aka Zombie aka Zombie Flesh Eaters was released on this day, August 25th 1979. Here's a little pen and ink drawing I made a few years back 💀

Top notch SFX makeup design from Scarecrows (dir. William Wesley 1988)

I'm done with conventions this year (and maybe longer?) and it's been a while since I did a proper sale, so I'm selling everything I have left in inventory at steep discounts--and I put the ebooks on sale, too. Follow this guy to the deals. www.muzzlelandpress.com/shop

Was in a Giallo kind of mood tonight and it's getting harder to find something I've not previously watched, but "The Dead Are Alive" aka "The Etruscian Kills Again" (Armando "Autopsy" Crispino, 1972) really hit the spot

Here's a nice piece on Joel Lane's writing. If you've no yet read him, you probably should. reactormag.com/celebrating-...

Exploring the Ballynoe Stones megalithic site yesterday

It's Dan Curtis time tonight

Bob Werewolf!

Brings back fond memories of making a trip to Avebury to see the stones in the middle of a cold and damp January back in 2020

Yes, it's a major staple of all things folk horror and hauntological and it's been on my to watch list for many years. Finally started in to it last night...

Hottest couple on the dance floor 💀

Ah, home sweet home (I wish) 💀

The Greyhound's toes aka "Nosferatu talons" 💀

It's beginning to look very Halloweeny at the local pumpkin patch 🎃