Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944. * for me, anyways

I'm biased for obvious reasons, but CREEPING WAVES remains my favorite Bartlett collection.

The vicar of Illwind Cemetery #fantasyart #grimdark #dungeonsynth #osr #ttrpgart

Endlessly creative, gore as a literary art form, nonlinear and fevered. It invites reference to horror novels, films, and games, but always does something unexpected, something nightmarish and nonsensical. I haven't read anything like it before.

Decided to paint the Spice Maureens in Labyrinth of the Necrons as a Deathwatch kill team. Who needs a $250 Tomb World set anyway

They worship not God, but Death and Wealth, and lust to make a Hell of our world. They yearn for a damnation and annihilation that they believe can only be heaped upon Others. "Christians" are their works—and their idolatry surpasses any recorded in scripture.

The best one

more 30-60 minute rpgs please. i'm not planning to keep my guy alive long enough to level up. I'm not going to schedule a second session. you get one hour.

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🚨F--ked up puppet alert🚨

#11: THE BEAST AND THE MAGIC SWORD mixes up the standard Naschy werewolf fare by transporting the action to Japan. Shigeru Amachi as an occultist samurai, a coven of witches, lady shinobi, and fun gore keep things lively.

Robin Redbreast (1970) Deeply creepy made for tv folk horror classic in which a hip Londoner retreats to a small house in the country after a breakup and gradually discovers the locals have insidious plans for her Written by John Bowen Directed by James MacTaggart Starring Anna Cropper

objectively correct

happy Castle Rat Day to all who celebrate

#10: HELL HOUSE LLC III features some real actors and a couple good setpiece spooks but is more concerned with LORE and a pseudo happy ending that just strip the fun out of the whole thing. I'm not sure why they felt the need to abandon the simple premise of part 1 for misguided moralism

Yo! Hit me up if you need OSR/NSR ART! I do FANTASY! I do HORROR! I do SCI-FI! I do SUPERHEROES!

Refurbished my Witch Hunters warband with Hexbane and the party pals. They join some errant Stormcast Eternals for fun in #Mordheim.

regretting finding those reddit threads with comments like "Age of Sigmar Spearhead is great for busy dads" and "I have ten jobs and a dozen wives and twelve and a half kids, and I play Spearhead with my mates all the time, it's so easy" and subsequently scouting for discount Skaventide boxes

There are two steps out of this mess: 1) Partition (already underway) and 2) Sortition (we'll get there eventually)

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

#9 HELL HOUSE LLC II: THE ABADDON HOTEL spends most of its time on fake, badly executed subplots about various TV shows and extraneous side stories before finally getting back to the house and promptly explaining the horror away. A few good spook setups can't make up for that.

They're saying this more and more

Go Bills

Are you a person who is drawn to nihilism, violent media, terminally online communities with memes impenetrable to normal people, and want to form parasocial relationships with problematic male authority figures? Instead of succumbing to hopelessness, may I redirect you to Warhammer 40,000?

Scenes from a City of the Damned #mordheim

DARK WATERS is peak cosmic Eurohorror

Made some wargame terrain this week (spraypainted some garbage). I admire the craftsmanship people put into the hobby but I...just want to spraypaint some garbage and start rolling dice as fast as possible

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.

Modern fantasy sucks because all the titles are shit like "Stormkin: the Thrice Banished". It should take a page out of spaghetti westerns and have cool names like "Three arrows for the dark elf" or "If you see the barbarian... Start praying!"

#8 HAUNTED INDIANA No-budget locally produced Halloween special from the midwest. Goofy and earnest, with some spooky, sitting-around-the-campfire local tales amplified by endearing SFX. When I was writing THE CRYPT OF BLOOD and THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE, I was channeling something like this.

Haunted Indiana (1981) is a hilarious little curio, a Midwestern public broadcasted Kwaidan made with all the grace of a drunk driving advert that still managed to create one of the most EVIL uses of videotape I’ve ever seen. Kōji Shiraishi’s VHS grandpa, noxious visuals. LOVED this cheesy thing.

#7: HELL HOUSE LLC It has everything that I find frustrating about low-budget found footage movies, but its simple spookhouse gags and set pieces keep me coming back. It's got a sublime rainy autumn upstate New York atmosphere, too. A warmed-over greasy cheeseburger of a horror movie. I love it.

Boons and good omens in the warp today

This will come as no surprise to euro-vampire sickos, but... This book rocks. Irish letters stay undefeated when it comes to bloodsuckers

#6: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) is a solid remake with good performances from Todd and Tallman, the latter playing a much more proactive Barbara in comparison to the original. The changes help give this its own identity without betraying the spirit of '68.

Rollin’s Requiem for a Vampire (1972) is exactly the same language as Jesús Franco, that ever dangerous yet ever compelling harmony between exploitative sleaze and visual poetry. Artful nudie trash, pornographic violence for the sake of a surreal showcase of lesbian lust and vampiric queerness.

#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.

#4: SESSION 9. I love "desperate and often unpleasant people working in a haunted location" horror setups. Great character work right up to the finale.

#3: RESIDENT EVIL asks: What if we forcibly removed all the charm, atmosphere, and Romero influence from a popular zombie video game and made a nu metal music video shot in a series of generic grey hallways instead?

#2 for the extended Halloween season: VIY. It's hard to overstate just how much fun the special effects finale is, but the whole movie is funny and atmospheric, a folktale dream of the old world. I should spend some time exploring Soviet-era cinema!

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 💀

Sara's SCREAM zine is a must-read for slasher sickos

I loved MOUNTAIN FAST so this is going in the TBR pile

Bandcamp Friday grabs

Looking forward to reading these

Kicked off the season with MOTHER OF TEARS, a film I have some fondness for as I picked it up when I first started exploring Italian horror 10+ yrs ago. Watching it now (sober) it's a misguided mess, but some fun kill scenes and Udo Kier going ham means it's not a complete waste.

This will be the first let's play / stream of Vampyrvania as far as I know. I hope the players brought enough garlic to go around...

When the homies finally all get together to play Mordheim and talk about horror movies