#80s paperbacks are insane

[mango-meister]

The bridge and science lab tied so I’m making an executive decision and going with science lab.

Part 1, Part 3

[alpydk]

🌿 🌸

Good morning anon. Thanks for the ask, talking about fics I love! I did a huge post the other day so quickly going to add them in here as well. - Recommend only one hahahahahaahahahahahaahaha.

🌿Rec someone else’s BG3 fic and tell us what you like about it!

The 5 from the other day (Find the post here to see why)

Alchemy 410 Broken Horizons Weave me the Sunshine Professor Dekarios Twin Compasses

And now some more that I didn't link Weave and Woods - @weaveandwood - Honestly I just love the pairing. Auroria is such a good character who I genuinly see ending up with Gale. And it's not been all that eay relationship where they fall in love and are happy. They have their challanges. I most of all love seeing her learn new spells because that doesn't really happen in fics and its great to see. (Especially how proud she is with it.) "The second, third, fifth, ninth tries were similar. On the tenth try, she thought she saw a few sparks of electricity surrounding the arrow, sending a surge of pride through her. She was close, she could feel it. " - Come on Ori, you can do it!

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Strange Highways - I have been on about this fic since chapter one. No fic has caught be like this. It's like it calls to my chaotic nature and I will keep screaming it into the Tumblr void like some insane looney fan. Just me alone with my billboard - READ THIS FIC. It's Cazador in a rock group in the 80's. It's funny, has amazing music referances but most of all it's just so fucking good to read.

The words spoke to his soul, into the very depths of it. He felt them with every cell of his body. This was not like the weak melodies bards played back in Faerûn. This music had authority. It had power.

Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings

Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams

Blinded by me, you can't see a thing

Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream

It was perfect. He imagined saying the words, making them his own. This was a supreme incantation, it had to be. This one would make people obey. Just Fuck Yeah!

--- Paperback Writer - (Short 600 words) - Haarlep edits Raphael's novel. It's fucking funny and I love it. Simple as. "Quivering, the hero took my hand I’m pretty sure Tav told you not to touch them, and it made you pout for a week."

And now the non Bg3 ones... because oops...

RE: Umbrella Asylum (Resident Evil) - @judasiskariot - It's got that lab, depressing, in your head build up mood. You know the one, everything is clinical but there is evil shit going on. The descriptions are fucking beautiful and I love it. "Icy blue eyes that were at least as cold as the black lenses of the glasses." - Just that about Wesker. I still think of it even now. ---- La Petite Mort - One of the most beautifully written crackfics I've ever read. Barbie/Dracula. - Just try it and love it. He should have gotten rid of her by now. Made a meal out of her, at least, even if only the once: her blood will surely be sweet, so sweet, heady and deep and dark when he drinks from her.

But he keeps finding excuses.

Not yet. If I'm honest my reading of fics has been limited recently. I have a few too many that just seem to have been abandoned and I'm becoming hesitant to start up reading newer chapter fics. I'm also a little put off when I see things at chapter 54 and then find its over 200k worth of words to catch up on. Yeah, I need to have people recommend fics to me so if people want to send me asks with their recs go ahead.

🌸Rec one of your fics and tell us what you like about it! Only one.... But I'm so good. (They say, going through the 40 fics knowing they really could be better.) I'm my own worst critic. Fuck it, you get more than one. This is my answer!

Cabinet of Oddities - It's Nana's story. What started all this chaos. It is love and adventure and mental illness and healing all rolled into one big Galemancer sized ball. 56k words of just me. I may also be writing the sequel/prequel right now... “A kiss does not necessarily have to mean love though, just as a hug certainly does not. Is that what you were expecting to feel?” He looked into her eyes. He had always been that of the hopeless romantic. As much as he wanted to believe his own words, he knew he was not the type to kiss without love, or at least potential love.

She gazed back at him. “I’m not sure. I wasn’t expecting to feel fear though.”

“And, do you fear me?” He hoped that she would say no. That maybe this feeling could blossom, that all their unspoken feelings could be revealed and yet he was also nervous of her answer. That if she said no, it would be something else holding him to this mortal coil, someone else who would eventually realise he was not good enough.  Just look how fucking good that is. (I'm not allowed to be down on myself so the other end of the spectrum it is)

--- Tattered Souls - RuganxGale (Also writing the sequel right now) - This is my ZhentWeave baby. This is all for me. I love it and that's all that matters. Honestly writing something like has been extremely liberating and I recommend everyone write something like this at some point. “Just get out of here...” Rugan’s voice was weak, his gravely tones quiet, and he tried to lift himself from the ground.

Gale spoke calmly, keeping his eyes on the mercenaries in front of him. “Not without you.” He could unleash the lightning bolt and possibly fire a magic missile before being hit if he moved quick enough.

“This isn’t your fight.” A hacking cough brought up small amounts of blood, which were spat onto the ground. “Just leave.”

An arrow flew from a trigger-happy archer whistling past Gale’s ear and he almost unleashed the lightning bolt in reaction, stopping only as he saw Rugan stand before him in defence of the female Zhentarim.

“Gale, not your fight...” Love me some cliches and tropes. Love them.

--- Okay, last rec. Not that anyone will read all of this, anyway. You're all looking for your own fics after all (I do that then get quietly depressed when my name isn't on the list... But we all do that, right? Right???)

Where is that child now, I wonder? - Gale past short (500 words). I keep thinking of this one a lot recently. Of young Gale and his relationship with his father. This is probably more a head cannon than an actual fic but it's stuck with me. - I recommend a read if you're looking for ideas. "No! I won't let my son read poetry and become like a delicate flowered prick of an elf. Weak, pathetic! No, he will do as I say and do it when I tell him to!" 

Again, thanks for the ask. I do love talking about recommendations and I have a number of Chase whump fics on the bookmarks list, as well as a few quick one shots I've enjoyed. Would love recs from others as said - The more angst the better. :)

[knuckleduster]

talking abt all the books i read this year:

(chronological order of when i finished them)

CMBYN by André Aciman: didnt expect to like this bc everyone was a hater abt the movie and even people who like the movie say the book isnt as good but i actually really enjoyed it. the age gap is there and you can have opinions abt that. it starts out very boring and slow imo but gets a lot better later on. ending is great. think a lot of people get this wrong bc theyre reading it as a romance which it is not

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill: really liked this one. love a failing marriage. really peculiar style that really appealed to me

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters: its detransition baby of course i liked this one. was not what i expected it to be at all but was great

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi: again its persepolis everyone likes persepolis

Infect your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters: not at all like detransition baby, very good anyway. pretends to be a postapocalyptic story, really isnt abt that

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart: very dark and very graphic but also like very moving and ultimately even a bit hopeful, got completely absorbed by this one

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez: its a classic for good reasons. actually pretty funny in places. i picked up a second hand copy of the dutch translation from the 80s or whatever and i feel like you should be reading this on the yellowed pages of a shitty paperback

Great Expectations by Kathy Acker: totally insane totally fun and totally world changing. you need to open yourself up to this way of writing or you will not enjoy it or even like. get it. i love it tho, completely changed my view of what literature could be

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante: this took me a few tries to get into properly but when i did i loved it. once again a failing marriage and cheating and divorce from a female perspective which is my favorite but this also presents a pretty unique take on it with how insane everything gets

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo: this feels really short, even compared to some of the even shorter works on here. absolutely a good read tho, but i feel like the more familiar you are with feminism and south korean culture the less you'll get out of this (i am not very familiar with south korean culture)

the Bells of Bruges by Georges Rodenbach: a classic of course. very boring first part, entertaining second part and fully insane third part. was an essential read for my trip to Bruges

Luster by Raven Leilani: this was so good. i have not stopped thinking abt the scenes in the morgue at any point. also once again marriages of course

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen: not what i expected but still very interesting. have not seen the movie but now i feel like i should

[jackrussle]

around this time last yr I was reading twins, dead ringers source material, and im like hmmm trashy gay book to start off the new yr again please. barely even read the summary of gaywyck - gothic tongue and cheek but seriously written gay 80s jane eyre-esq paperback, before buying the kindle download. There are gay twins in this thing. The narrator protag brought up 'my new employers backstory involves his dead twin brother-' erm cool so rest assured there is going to be insane style melodramatic twincest in this. Idgaf at all but it's crazy that I'm doing this again, I bought Twins at a used bookstore in SLC when the hotel room wasn't ready and we were wandering around the block. It's fate I guess. Look how cool the og cover art is

[golden-x-mage]

top 10 obscure transformers (as in like, toy or comics only weirdos I don't think anyone who's shown up in an actual show should count for this)

10. Revenge Of The Fallen Swerve, a dude I had never ever head of until I came across him in vehicle mode at a flea market and assumed he was some kind of G1 dece movie Sideswipe. He's in last cause hes quite boring besides just the fact he exists

9. Universe Buckethead, a member of the micromaster Constructicons so basically invisible on his own, but I've always though he was fun for not just being Scrapper and also because of his very silly name

8. Transformers 2010 Mindset, almost exactly the same story as Swerve but he scores higher cause I think he's cooler

7. Marvel Comics Hook, Line, and Sinker, three servants of Unicron who were around for some pretty major events and have cool designs but are THE lamest guys ever because of the names. Can you imagine how funny it would have been if we'd had these guys in Rise Of The Beasts instead of Scourge, Battletrap, and Nightbird?

6. Power Of The Primes Battleslash & Roadtrap (speaking of Battletrap), two guys made up to give the two vehicles that form G1 Battletrap their own robot modes. Battleslash could probably take this spot on his own as he's a bit more forgettable, but do not separate them

5. Energon Ultra Magnus, one of many 11th hour Armada repaints that got crammed into Energon to bolster the ranks, and probably the toy responsible for making me think Ultra Magnus is cool

4. Generations Selects Galactic Man Shockwave, an early example of GenSel doing what the hell ever by repainting Siege Shockwave to reference RadioShacks Galactic Man, a cousin of G1 Shockwave (in that RadioShack released the Astro Magnum toy he was based on) that I actually own. I'd own this too if it weren't insanely expensive on the aftermarket

3. Golden Disc Collection Road Ranger, effectively a generations toy of a 2004 ehobby repaint of G1 Huffer to be the Go-Bots character Road Ranger, except he wasn't called that cause Takara were worried about infringing Bandais trademark. That's not important though, whats important is he looks hard in black and orange and comes with a spartan laser

2. Combiner Wars Scrounge, a pack in accessory to Combiner Wars Computron plucked from a few issues of the Marvel Comic that I owned in a paperback as a kid, and who I paid entirely too much for on his own on ebay

Masterpiece Reboost, a repaint of the recent MP Skids based (despite appearences NOT on Optimus) on one of G1 Skids many pre-tf Diaclone colour schemes. A toy I bought entirely because he turns into a Honda City Turbo, a car which the british band Madness did adverts for in the 80s, which were included on a VHS of their music videos that I watched to death as a child

[butterflytvttoo]

# 1 and # 80

Here is the first prompt imagine! I hope its everything you expected and more also i’m sorry its so long!

#80 He’s your neighbor and he holds a package for you

#1 Attending the listening party and getting noticed.

word count; 1403

Prompt list

It’s finally time! I’ve just moved to London got myself a really cool loft just outside the city and whew chile the relief of it all, as if all the stars aligned Harry Styles just announced a secret show in London. I might actually faint of excitement.

I got my tickets and the show is in a few days, I went out and got myself a brand-new outfit. I’m hoping its subtle, but I KNOW it screams “harry”. I literally have no friends here yet but sis stan twitter has got my back and I already have people to que with, so I don’t look like a total loner.

The next few days fly by and my loft is starting to feel like home a little more every day with subtle hints of fangirl in it, I found this really cute poster of a kiwi that’s hanging just above my fake fireplace in the living room only to be described in one word AMAZING.

There’s a new neighbor in the loft above mine this week who’s being pretty mysterious like, I have not seen them once, but I guess we might cross paths eventually. Who knows they might be cute lol a little romance never killed anyone.

Its concert day and I AM FREAKING OUT like I need to pull it together sis but how could I when the LA show looked so amazing and was literally EVERYTHING. I’ve done a cute makeup look and my hair is in a cute messy bun, but I have never looked this goof, let’s be real I’ve waited on this moment since forever an intimate show of ANY of the OT5 is a dream come true!

I take the subway to the koko and I’m met by a reasonable line. I can tell I’m definitely going to have a good spot!

It’s time to good inside and I have a perfect view of the stage, I am loving life right now. It’s almost showtime and I just know I’m not mentally prepared for the outfits, the live songs but most all just harry in general.

The moment he’s about to hit the stage the whole mood in the room changes, I can smell his dominant aura coming and there he is in all his glory, the crowd goes wild and in the mids of the hysteria I can’t help but stay calm. I can imagine how weird I looked to others, but I’ve never felt so calm, how does he do that?

I think I’ve been going crazy cause I swear I saw Harry glance in my direction a few times, but I hear the opening note of Falling and I lose it like I’m singing along holding my heart with tears streaming down my face. Harry looks over at me and I can’t help but smile even though I look a mess, but he looks at me and winks. He mouths something but I couldn’t tell you if I tried.

The girls around me freak out and honestly so am I on the INSIDE, I can’t seem like a crazy fangirl, now can I? The concert is nearing the end and I never want to lose this feeling!

It’s been a week since the concert, and I’ve been through severe PCD. After the concert the girls I met there, and I went out for a late coffee. Turns out I wasn’t the only person noticing Harry’s continuous glance in our/my direction, so I am not going crazy.

I’ve been expecting a package for over a month right and apparently my mysterious neighbor has had it for the past 3 days and every time I go up to get it, they’re not home. Honestly why take a package if you knew you weren’t going to be home? What sense does that make?

It’s been a week without my package and I’ve honestly had enough, I am over it.

Honestly, I’m on my way up and if I don’t get my package, they can keep it. The books were expensive and I’m looking forward to reading but, sheesh.

The elevator opens and It’s a hall with one door, so I ring the doorbell. Color me surprised cause I see Jeff Azoff in front of me and I’m star struck! When I catch myself, I muster up my most confident voice and say “um hi I’m looking for my package it was delivered here. I’m y/n from the loft a floor down” And an all too familiar voice goes “Jeff who is it” and then there he is once again in front of me. Someone catch me I’m going to faint.

Just kidding he looks at me and goes “Hi I’m Harry weren’t you at the concert last week?” HE KNOWS WHO I AM “ um hi yeah great show by the way” and I look over at jeff with a raised eyebrow cause um  MY PACKAGE and he goes “oh yeah H she’s looking for a package that was delivered here” like being in his presence is so demanding and he hasn’t done anything lol.

“Oh, you’re y/n then?” HE KNOWS MY NAME “yeah that’s me I’ve come by a few times to collect it, but no one was here” I said scratching my neck. Like a dear caught in headlights I hear Harry go “Yeah sorry about that things got kind of crazy for a little bit after the show” “It’s fine honestly It’s just a few paperback books I’ve been waiting to read” he gives the cutest little chuckle and tells Jeff where to locate the package before turning to me and going “ You caught my eye during the show you looked so wrecked during falling I was genuinely worried” I couldn’t held but laugh “Let’s just say the song hit home haha but I had the time of my life, don’t worry” he looks at me with the most amazing smile I’ve ever seen and I feel a slight blush making it’s way to my face as he replies “Well seeing as you live a floor under me does this mean I’ll be seeing you more?” I chuckle “If you want to, I can always leave a piece of me in the way you dress” and we both started laughing “I might actually like that especially if it’s the shirt you wore to the concert” what can I say ladies gentlemen and everything in between and far outside those norms a good outfit always does the trick. “It was cute wasn’t it? haha I was worried it would’ve been a bit too much if I’m honest” “You looked amazing.”

Before I got the chance to freak myself out over the fact that I am actually flirting with Harry Styles, there comes Jeff with the box of books. “Those are heavy what did you order bricks y/n?” I laugh “They’re books haha” Jeff puts down the box and Harry picks it up the box and offers to help me bring it down to my loft. We head towards the elevator and got in when Harry says, “So how about we have coffee this week?” I look up at him and see him smiling down on me “I’d really like that; we can have coffee at my place if you’d like?”

I open the front door and tell him to place the box on the couch while leading him to the living room. I can see him scoping out the loft before his eyes land on the framed kiwi photo “Don’t tell me you’ve got a lyric letter sticker somewhere with the lyrics to Kiwi as well” he says laughing “haha Harold I just might put up the ‘Holland tunnel for a nose it’s always backed up’ lyric” I said while winking.

After 20 more minutes of casual flirting he announces he must leave so I walk him to the door and give a peck on the cheek thanking him for helping me with the package.

As I close the door and turn to the mirror to freak out, I see what I look like and freak out for a whole other reason I LOOK LIKE A MESS.

Harry styles is my insanely hot and talented neighbor and I met him looking like a whole MESS.

[duamuteffe]

Reading Habits

I was tagged by @cosmicbug379!

1. Do you have a certain place at home for reading?

I mean, I can read upside-down in an elevator (no joke, I slept in there too for a couple of hours, lol) so anywhere will do. We read in bed before going to sleep most nights, to wind down, so there’s a huge stack of to-reads and have-reads on both our sides of the bed. My all time favorite place to read, though, was when I was a kid and my grandparents on my Mom’s side had a swinging chair on their inside porch. I spent probably thousands of hours there over summers, swinging and reading book after book.

2. Do you use bookmarks? If so, what kind?

If I don’t have space to leave a book propped upside down at my page, I’ll use whatever’s handy as a bookmark. I did used to have a ton of actual bookmarks, mostly received as presents when I was a kid (possibly because of the aforementioned habit of leaving my books propped up :) but I’m not sure where they are any more.

3. Can you stop reading or do you have to make it to the end of the chapter?

I generally will keep reading something new until I hit a good stopping point. This may or may not be a chapter end, depending on the book. If the book is good enough or I’ve been anticipating it enough (I’m looking at you, upcoming new Dresden File!) I’ll just earmark a three hour block of time somewhere and read it all in one sitting.

4. Do you eat or drink while reading?

I did when I was a kid- there are lemonade stains on my copies of Redwall and Tombs of Atuan, lol- but less so now, as I tend to read very intensely for shorter periods at a time. I’m usually always drinking tea throughout the day, though, so I might be drinking it while reading because I happened to have it anyway.

5. Music or tv while reading?

Once upon a time, my family watched a movie every night during dinner, and I would read a book at the same time, to the eternal gentle bemusement of my folks (especially since I could follow the plot of both *and* eat at the same time :) Nowadays I don’t mind music while I’m reading (usually we’re playing something soothing while reading before sleep) but it’s not necessary. And I mostly write with the TV on, not read. I can still split my attention, but it takes more effort these days.

6. One book at a time or multiple.

All of them. All of the books. All of the time.

7. Reading at home or while out?

Yes. :) Another childhood thing; I could read in the car (until a concussion at 19 and one at 20 destroyed most of my motion sickness resistance) so on our Saturday trips to the mall (everyone went to the mall on the weekends in the 80′s and 90′s, even us backwoods types :) and so I always brought a book and my cheap walkman clone and bag of tapes along in the car and read the whole way there. My grandmother would buy me a new book every trip, and if it was young adult-sized I would have it read by the time we got home, to her perpetual mild exasperation.

8. Reading out loud or silently?

When I read for myself, I read silently, but I absolutely *love* reading out loud to people. I read the Hobbit out loud to my ex, along with The Dragonbone Chair, and I’ve read lots of Fafhrd and the Mouser to the Doc, along with The Face In The Frost. I actually toy with the idea of doing a stream of some sort where I read out loud to whoever was interested. I don’t know if anyone would be interested, though.

9. Do you read ahead or skip pages?

Depends. Anxiety means that frequently surprises stress me out. I will often read the plot of a new film before watching it, or the plot of a book before reading it, if I’m concerned that an unpleasant surprise might send me into an anxiety attack. It would be nice if I could just roll with it as it comes, but at the moment that’s just not an option.

10. Breaking the spine?

Eh, not on purpose, but those huge paperbacks can just split themselves through repeated reading. Mostly my older stuff has a lot of corner-wear from being carried in my school backpacks.

11. Do you write in your books?

I will use highlighters in cookbooks. That’s it. When a book pisses me off enough that I feel I need to say something about it, I spork it publicly. Luckily that doesn’t happen too often because the time needed to spork something properly is insane.

[i-am-aristiana]

Few artifacts can evoke the golden, kaleidoscopic wonderland of childhood like a beloved plaything. The mere sight of a threadbare doll or a well-worn, well-loved action figure can transport us back to a time when life was new and boundless and filled with beauty and magic and discovery beckoning at every turn. A child’s toy isn’t merely a lifeless assemblage of metal and plastic and molded polycarbonate. A child’s toy is a vessel for creativity and joy and imagination. A child’s toy is something that’s deeply loved, and that which we deeply love becomes a part of us.

That’s what the Transformers meant to me. I was nine years old when the Autobots and Decepticons thundered into my world. An ancient race of enormous sentient space robots brought their age-old conflict raging down to Earth and into my imagination. They were unlike anything I’d ever seen before. And they were awesome. I spent countless hours playing with my Optimus Prime action figure, trying and failing to conjure Peter Cullen’s fixture-rattling voice as I’d lead a noble charge of Autobots across my cluttered bedroom floor. I’d collapse and reshape Megatron’s forbidding form into a deadly Walther P38 handgun, laying waste to the traitorous Autobots and looking over my shoulder for that scheming Starscream (and occasionally pretending I was James Bond). But no Transformer captivated my interest as much as Bumblebee.

Bumblebee was a humble yellow Autobot scout who took the alt form of a VW Beetle, of all things. He wasn’t flashy. He wasn’t striking. By Transformers standards he was small and callow and not particularly powerful. But he was the Transformer with the greatest affinity for humanity. He was the one who was most like us. He was the one who was most like me.

At home, nestled in my room, surrounded by teetering stacks of tattered paperbacks, splashy comic books, and warped VHS tapes, I would lose myself creating Bumblebee’s stories. Together we wandered through faraway lands, grappling with the evil Decepticons, running high-wire reconnaissance missions, and racing through canyons of disused cardboard boxes. For a lonely child of the ’80s, Bumblebee wasn’t just an overworked, scuffed up plastic toy. He was fully alive. And he was a part of me.

Thirty years later, I have the amazing opportunity to breathe life into Bumblebee once more. Only this time, I get to share our story with the world. But our story is going to be a little different.

Five films into the TRANSFORMERS series, audiences have come to expect a certain kind of cinematic experience from the franchise: expansive, muscular storytelling with jaw-dropping spectacle, high-octane action, cutting-edge visual effects, and giant rock ’em sock ’em robot battles. And explosions. Lots and lots of explosions. BUMBLEBEE represents a dramatic shift from that template. This film is an intimate, deeply personal, character-driven love story that plays out like a classic Amblin movie from the ’80s. With explosions Lots and lots of explosions.

Well, maybe not that many. Because while BUMBLEBEE has plenty of white-knuckle thrills, sci-fi insanity, and pulse-quickening feats of derring-do, this film evokes and pays tribute to those indelible qualities of the Transformers of my childhood. And for me, that meant magic. Wonder. Imagination. And love.

And it all began with a child’s plaything.

I hope the enclosed toys shine a light into the darkened, cobwebbed corners of your youth, evoking beloved memories of your own. And I can’t wait to share some of mine with you when BUMBLEBEE races into theaters this Christmas. It’s a story thirty years in the making.

Cheers,

Travis Knight

Director, BUMBLEBEE

[sinisterscarecrow]

do you have any comic suggestions, I looked through tags and couldn't find if you had any?

Is this in reference to Scarecrow? If so, I have an original post with just these, but I cannot find it. Gah. All that I could find was this with additional info added and I wanted to keep it simple. Here are some comics that focus around a similar style of Scarecrow! I’m sure I’m missing some and will check further. Also included are ones that I don’t follow necessarily, but have found they are fan favorites. If not, I will make a list of other comics I enjoy if that is what you mean outside of The Scarecrow!These are just comic appearances with the paperback from mid 2000′s mentioned. I would be more than happy to list other media as well in a different post!Batman Annual #19 (1995): “Year One: Scarecrow - Masters of Fear”

World’s Finest #3 “The Riddle of the Human Scarecrow” (1941)

Detective Comics #389 (July 1969): “Batman’s Evil Eye” - Frank Robbins

Detective Comics #486/5 (October-November 1979): “Fear Times Four”

Detective Comics #503 (June 1981): “The 6 Days of the Scarecrow”(an interesting read where Scarecrow takes in an insane amount of fear pheromones. This is still in place during Detective Comics #526,the comic even stating he had been that way for “months”).

Detective Comics #526 (May 1983): “All My Enemies Against Me” (minor appearance)

Detective Comics #571 (February 1987): “Fear for $ale”

The Joker #8 (1975)Batman/Daredevil: King of New York

Batman Black & White: Fear is the Key – Mike Carey

Batman Black & White: the Bat no More…? - Alan Grant

Batman #456 (November 1990): “Identity Crisis, Part 2: Without Fear of Consequence…”

Batman #457 (December 1990): [Identity Crisis, Part 3] “Master of Fear”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992): “The Last Arkham, Part One”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #3 (August 1992): “The Last Arkham, Part Three”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #4 (September 1992): “The Last Arkham, Part Four”

Batman #491 (April 1993): “The Freedom of Madness!”

Batman #494 (early June 1993): [Knightfall 5]: “Night Terrors”

Detective Comics #661 (early June 1993): [Knightfall 6]: “City on Fire”

Batman #495 (late June 1993): [Knightfall 7]: “Strange Deadfellows”

Batman #496 (early July 1993): [Knightfall 9]: “Die Laughing”

Detective Comics #664 (late July 1993): [Knightfall 12]: “Who Rules the Night”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16 (early September 1993): “The God of Fear, Part 1”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #17 (late September 1993): “The God of Fear, Part 2” Batman:

Shadow of the Bat #18 (early October 1993): “The God of Fear, Part 3”

Showcase ‘94 #3 (March 1994): “Madmen Across the Water"

Showcase ‘94 #4 (April 1994): “Madmen Across the Water”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #80 (December 1998)

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #81 (January 1999)

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #82 (February 1999)

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #116 (April 1999): “Fear of Faith, Part 1: Fanning the Flames”

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #84 (April 1999): “Fear of Faith, Part 2: To Serve and Protect”

Batman #564 (April 1999): “Fear of Faith, Part 3: Life in Hell”

Detective Comics #731 (April 1999): “Fear of Faith, Part 4: Be Not Afraid”

Justice: (2005)

Batman: Fear Itself Mass Market Paperback – February 27, 2007

Batman #564 (April 1999):

Detective Comics #731 (April 1999)Catwoman: Issue #58, #59, #60, #93

The following is an unofficial guide, but a good starter. I hope this helps and enjoy! The following are ones that might not relate to the version I know best, but are still fan favorites story and overall series wise regarding the character.

Year One: Batman/Scarecrow

Batman: The Long Halloween

Batman: Dark Victory

Batman #626 to #630

Blackest Night (2009)

New Year’s Evil: Scarecrow #1.”Mistress of Fear”HARLEY QUINN VOL. 3 #28, #29, #36, #41

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hello! i know you get a lot of these messages, but I just wanted to offer my appreciation. like a previous anon, my country has removed iasip from most streaming services, and it’s hard to find other places to watch. you’re a saving grace, thank you! can’t wait for s12. 💓💕

Aw thanks though I don't think I deserve such appreciation considering I went away and delayed s12/s13, sorry!

But about streaming services... It's so weird, because at first they were pretty comforting to me. I was earning my own money, I was able to pay for the content I wanted, supporting people behind and I felt pretty happy about it (thanks, VPNs). But then suddenly we had a million streaming services, and they split the content and suddenly you'd have to subscribe to a whole lot of different platforms and it's kinda unsustainable. You wanna watch football? There's this service. You wanna watch frasier before going to bed? There's this one service. Do you wanna watch comfy gilmore girls while you're sick? There's this other one. Do you wanna watch you're the worst? There's another one. Do you want to watch doctor who? Welp, here's another service. And it just goes on and on.

Besides that, I don't trust these services to keep a lot of TV content alive...

I think it's ironic because I have always been the person who encouraged digital everything, but I can't say I'm 100% behind content being released only on streaming platforms.

I say this because in my country it's pretty rare to get a DVD or Blu-Ray release for a TV show, so we only have digital services left in most cases (importing the physical version is insanely expensive). Most shows already get filtered at that point. Then they get filtered by copyright and whatever, so yeah, ok. So when everyone loses the right to stream a show there's basically only physical copies left (besides piracy)? Right now I'm thinking about That '70s Show, but I could be talking about a lot of shows that weren't that popular back in the '90s or '80s or whatever, but that could be someone's favorite or just really good content that someone could discover and really find something in it for themselves. Literally nobody here knows about Frasier, but I love it and it got me through a really tough time back in 2012. Of course the situation is different on other places, but it was basically already lost over here and I would never have found it if not for the internet. (Also, I know Frasier isn't that popular but that unpopular in the US, I'm just saying as it is in my country lol)

So uhh basically, the same way they pick what they want to stream, any company can just pick not to store/maintain "old" shows, and they could just be lost forever if they're deemed disposable. I don't mean to sound like a crazy person, and I'm not like downloading everything in the world to storage/archive "just in case", but I do think it's important that content remains accessible for everyone. I can't even explain how much tv shows helped me reflect about things out of the scope of my reality (and also learn a new language) and understand my feelings better. Also, I seriously doubt that people would prefer to pirate stuff if they had access to properly priced content. It's been 14 years and I'm still buying imported paperback copies of Ultimate Spider-Man to complete my collection lol so yeah, I'll shut up now

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We’re gonna try this again because every one voted for each division equally last time.

You have a space bag.

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Ranking Books I Read in 2021: 25-21

25. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, M.D.

What I liked: Funny, informative, and actually touched upon some quack science I’ve never heard of before (which is saying something, because from 11-18, I was the weird kid who looked up disturbing facts to freak out all my friends). What I didn’t like: Tried a little too hard to be funny in some areas.

24. Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix

What I liked: A very interesting look into a niche history that fascinates me endlessly. Lots of spotlights on really cool artwork. Pumped some life into my “to-read” list in the horror department. What I didn’t like: Some of the sections got incredibly broad overview when I would have preferred some more depth. Also fell into the common Grady Hendrix trap of thinking casually mentioning a theme you could expand upon and discuss instead of, ya know, actually doing that are the same thing.

23. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad

What I liked: An excellent anti-racism guide and primer. In-depth journaling questions that pretty much force you to think deeply about your relations to race and people of color. What I didn’t like: Not so much I didn’t like it, it’s just that this is probably a book I should have read, like, a year or two ago, when I was really starting my anti-racism journey. A lot of it is very basic, just starting out work that I feel I’ve already worked on before. Not saying I didn’t need the information that was in this book (we all have stuff we can work on), but it was mostly just repeating stuff I’d already learned.

22. The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity

What I liked: Insanely funny. Expressive, fun art style. I’m a sucker for Gothic romances myself, so I understand Haley on a spiritual level. What I didn’t like: Over far too quickly. What was the ghost’s deal? Why didn’t we learn more about her?

21. Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire

What I liked: An interesting, gripping story with lots of mystery and intrigue. Absolutely stunning artwork. What I didn’t like: The tired arbitrary skeptic role, filled by the sheriff and incredibly irritating. Also, and this can’t be blamed on the story, but a lot of the splash pages end up with the part of the picture you’re supposed to be focused on right at the part where the pages meet, and cut it off. That’s more of a book-binding gripe, but there’s a lot of splash pages in these books and it’s annoying every time.

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

what your fave did during quarantine: mayans mc pt 1

johnny “coco” cruz: started a twitch channel where he bullies racists and mysognists while kickign their asses in game

gilly lopez: worked on art so he could give better tattoos practiced a lot on creeper when he was passed out drunk.

emily thomas: had a breakdown the resulted in her cutting most of her hair off and making 40 loaves of banana bread. her hair has since grown back but they still have banana bread in the freezer

felipe reyes: started taking up donation to make get produce and other supplies so he always has hot meals for the homeless in the area. whatever club member is not busy usually delivers them around dinner time. 

nestor oceteva: got a pet snake for some reason but now they’re best friends. her name is pluto.

michael “riz” ariza: finally dropped that haircare routine on youtube now has millions of followers and stylists all over begging to do his hair.

lincoln potter: creating the worse strain of covid in his trashy hotel room probably making some babies cry or something

angel reyes: started a garden in his dad’s backyard of all his mom’s favorite flowers actually has an insanely great green thumb.

chucky marstein: learning to speak and write Japanese 

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#4

what your fave did during quarantine: mayans mc pt 2

letty cruz: fought trump supporters on facebook, instagram, & twitter while making cloud bread

bishop losa: accidentally got tiktok famous when trying to give car tips there. everyone is really just there because he’s a dilf.

miguel galindo: kept working because he’s boring and predictable. 

hank “tranq” loza: wrote a four novel epic fantasy series that would make grrm jealous

kevin jimenez: created a brand new game with his kids that they play pretty much every day but it’s so convulded and has such strange rules only they get it

ez reyes: wrote out a big list of everything he was going to do like reno work at his dads, write a book, etc then did nothing but work and sleep

luisa “adelita” espina: built everything for the babies nursery by hand because she’s a bad bitch

che “taza” romero: idk what he’s doing but i hope it’s far away from the people on life support at the hopsital

neron “creeper” vargas: started an onlyfans

88 notes • Posted 2021-03-21 22:14:30 GMT

#3

Stupid Clone Wars characters headcanons I have

- Fives is the type of person who folds paperback books in half to read them. Don’t let him borrow them they’ll come back with cracked spines.

- Remember how all school nurses and assistants always seemed to have those mystery strawberry candies you can’t find anywhere? So does 99.

- Clones are the best at cupstacking. They win any cupstacking competitions they join with others. When it’s just clone vs clone cupstacking it’s all out war.

- Hunter has used a Twisted Tea as a weapon at least 3 times.

- Rex is one of those people who just duets tiktok videos laying in bed and really not adding anything except maybe laughing at their jokes or adding this guy is making some points to the caption

- If given the chance to pick a dog Cody would own an yippy little yorkie and name it something frightening sounding like Tank

- Waxer and Boil joined an MLM for like two weeks before realizing how shady it was. Now they have a hall closet full of essential oils they don’t know what hte hell to do with.

- Echo got the infamous tiktok frog cake for his birthday he was pleased

91 notes • Posted 2021-04-09 12:44:20 GMT

#2

My Dating Captain Howzer Headcanons

- Kissing his scar is actually something that always makes him smile. Getting his attention by placing a kiss right there on his cheek is the easiest way to pull him from whatever he’s doing.

- Speaking of that he has a tendency to work too hard on many an occasion. If you’re not there in the evening he may fall asleep on the couch holopad in hand with his work still there.

- He’s a sucker for starry nights and an ideal date is laying with you on a blanket talking about constellations. He’ll tell you battle stories and play with your hair.

- The love language he prefers to give and receive is touch. He is just a hands on person and with your permission always a hand on your arm, shoulder, waist, etc. Keldabe kisses are just his favorite thing in the world it’s more intimate than a kiss.

- He takes date nights very seriously and even if you can’t do anything crazy extravagant he makes sure that time is set aside as yours. There’s no interruptions allowed he wants to give all himself over and let you have all his attention. If he does have to leave he makes it up the next time you can see each other.

- He has the loveliest laugh just one you could listen to all day. I know that’s not dating related but I just had to add it.

- Loves taking date nights or alone time and turning it into self care for you becuase if you’re his s.o. he wants you hydrated, happy, and relaxed. That and it reminds him to take care of himself as well.

169 notes • Posted 2021-07-10 04:50:35 GMT

#1

Stupid Clone Wars characters headcanons I have Pt. 2

- Kit Fisto is the one who pays for the Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, etc every other jedi just leeches off it but he doesn’t care as long as they leave his profile alone.

- Wrecker’s diet consists mostly of yellow Gatorade and sausage pizza rolls

- Crosshair is a monster and calls Gatorades by the flavor instead of the color

- Plo Koon doesn’t know it but the Plo’s Bros got drunk one day and made him a tinder profile. He’s very popular with the ladies and the gentleman

- Quinlan Vos was one of those Aeropostale shirtless models that stands at the front of the store and greets customers

- Ventress uses exclusively Hot Topic makeup except for her foundation that costs 75 dollars an ounce

- Savage has recycled the Captain America costume for Halloween 7 times

- Hardcase was an extra in Law and Order SVU. He played dead body number 3 and made everyone come watch the episode with him just to see the bottom of his foot at the morgue for 3 seconds. They all cheered.

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Gaze Deeply into THE EVIL EYE (‘63) –  If You Dare! by Nathaniel Thompson

Well, it's the day after Halloween. This year's great monster mash is over, and hopefully you've gotten to see at least a few scary movies to enhance the mood. But now what? How can you keep that chilly spirit going? Here's a suggestion: watch an Italian thriller.

Chances are if you’ve ever chatted with someone who’s into European horror films (or better yet, if you’re a fan yourself!), the word giallo has popped up at some point. A subgenre of Italian horror and mystery films, it literally means “yellow,” so named for the covers of paperback thrillers that were all the rage for decades. The term has since become a cult term indicating a film containing things like black-gloved killers, possible supernatural elements, striking and often insidiously catchy soundtracks, dollops of eroticism and of course, insane plot twists. Many directors offered significant contributions to the giallo over the years, most notably Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino and Umberto Lenzi, while American films like KLUTE (‘71), CRUISING (‘80), BASIC INSTINCT (‘92) and RAISING CAIN (‘92) all borrow heavily from the giallo playbook.

However, if you want to see how it all started, look no further than Mario Bava, a director who’s been getting some much-needed love around FilmStruck lately. For decades American critics snootily proclaimed that he was a one-shot wonder who never topped his auspicious debut, BLACK SUNDAY (‘60), but that’s been discredited many times over since around 1999 or so as we’ve gotten to see pristine, uncut versions of his films pouring onto these shores and solidifying his reputation as a world-class filmmaker regardless of genre. So here we have THE EVIL EYE (‘63), which is ground zero for the feature-length giallo and a testing ground for visual ideas Bava would further explore in his later gialli, all of them highly recommended: BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (‘64), FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (‘70), HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (‘70) and A BAY OF BLOOD (‘71), plus one segment of his classic anthology, BLACK SABBATH (‘63). Seriously, check ‘em all out. You won’t regret it.

Nobody – and I mean nobody – could light a scene quite like Bava (a cinematographer in his own right) or move a camera in quite the same way. For proof in this film, look no further than the scene early on in which starry-eyed American tourist and whodunit aficionado Nora Davis (Leticia Roman) finds her first night in Rome turned upside down when her ailing aunt expires. Troubled by this discovery, Nora runs into the street in a panic only to be mugged and knocked unconscious. When she wake up dazed and confused, she witnesses a murder. It’s all shot in disorienting, beautifully exaggerated angles and moody lighting that put you squarely in Nora’s shoes as her delirium escalates to a fever pitch, leaving us unsure quite what we’ve seen and what it all means. From there the film manages to balance red herrings, genuine thrills and romantic banter as Nora teams up with a friendly doctor (John Saxon) to uncover a mystery tied to the strange Alphabet Murders plaguing the Roman street (with no direct relationship to Agatha Christie’s book of the same name).

It’s worth pointing out that the exact meaning of what Nora does see on her first night varies depending on which version of this film you see. Personally, I’m really partial to the one you can see here, a longer edition prepared for American distribution via legendary drive-in company American International Pictures (who also released several other Bava films). AIP was fond of lining Bava’s films with American-friendly scores by easy listening legend Les Baxter, and this one was no exception; however, this cut also adds quite a bit of footage you won’t see in the Italian-language version (called La ragazza che sapevva troppo, or The Girl Who Knew Too Much), including a goofy little cameo by Bava himself (as a leering portrait on a wall!), a nifty opening sequence with Nora reading a mystery novel on a plane and a hilariously perverse closing sequence, not to mention some nice little travelogue bits showing off ‘60s Rome in all its glory. The Italian version is much more serious and streamlined, plus it introduces a plot element involving a packet of marijuana cigarettes that explains part of Nora’s wild first night out on the town.

At this point it’s probably worth explaining that the vast majority of Italian films from the ‘60s onward were at least partially shot in English, often without live sound recorded on set and the soundtracks created later by either the original voice actors or dubbing voice artists. This film is a good example of how that process worked, with Saxon and Roman obviously delivering their lines in English (with their natural voices intact) while other supporting characters had to be dubbed to cover up their thick, often impenetrable accents. This wasn’t something limited to Italian genre films, either; many films by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Bernardo Bertolucci were shot with their stars speaking in English, even if the Italian-dubbed version with English subtitles was what audiences in America, Great Britain and so on ended up seeing on the big screen. Don’t believe me? Take a look at films like SATYRICON (‘69), FELLINI’S CASANOVA (‘76) or THE LEOPARD (‘63), whose stars clearly spoke English on camera. Now, whether the Italian and English track is more professionally mixed and effective overall is very much up for debate, but it’s fun to compare how a familiar actor like Burt Lancaster fares when he’s using his real voice instead of tracked with an Italian dubber. What that boils down to here is that I love the English track for THE EVIL EYE, and while it’s fun to watch the Italian version (which also features a killer theme song called “Furore”), it’s the one you’ll find here that I keep going back to the most. It’s not only a creative and visually inventive love letter to the popular pulp thrillers but a highly influential, innovative chapter in the evolution of Italian filmmaking whose full impact took decades to be fully realized. If you’re new to this whole giallo thing, or new to the colorful, phantasmagoric world of Mario Bava, here’s a perfect place to start; just be sure to keep going. You have no idea what kind of wonders await you.

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One of my favorite reads of 2017 was Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell. Hendrix, the author of gimmicky Horrorstor and My Best Friend’s Exorcism, rounds up the best of cheesy, pulp horror from the 70’s and 80’s and presents them in all their insane glory. With a focus on mass-market paperbacks and their gorgeous, gory covers, Hendrix pays tribute to the underrated artists and authors whose work combines to offend, disgust, and delight the reader.

A goodly portion of my reading time this year has been devoted to wallowing in this madness, leading me to find a new favorite author, and, as per usual, Nazis. I traveled over a century in horror this year. How has horror fiction changed?

1872: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The particular edition I read had the fun quirk of not having any page numbers

Published 25 years ahead of Dracula , Carmilla might be the OG of vampires. Just like it’s more famous successor, there’s a dark castle in the middle of nowhere, mysterious deaths, ladies fainting all over the place, and a mysterious, charming woman who sleeps later than a teenager.

The horror literature of this era tended to be melodramatic and vague, professions and exclamations and declarations littered plots, which veered toward the nonsensical when summed up cliff-notes style. Gore was limited to “Yeah, we cut off her head” without going into visceral descriptions.

Looking at the billions of iterations of vampires that followed, the vampire as a solitary, blood-stealing creature with a few simple rules about sunlight and wooden stakes is refreshing. The title character, Carmilla, just wants to live for eternity and drink some blood? Can’t we leave her be?

1959-62: The Haunting of Hill House/The Sundial by Shirley Jackson, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

I read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House every year because it’s my absolute favorite novel, and if you don’t think it’s the greatest, you’re obviously illiterate.

Published in 1959, the novel inspired authors from Richard Matheson to Sarah Langan to Stephen King. In addition to re-reading Haunting, I read Jackson’s earlier, apocalyptic novel The Sundial, a less polished story about a group of characters huddling together in an isolated mansion, slowly driving each other mad as they await a prophesied apocalypse.

Sounds kind of like election night, 2016.

In Paperbacks from Hell, Hendrix describes this particular period as lagging behind the times. “Horror seemed to have no future,” he writes, “because it was trapped in the past.” Classics like those above would not be labeled “horror,” but ostensibly the more reader-friendly “thriller.”

A novel about two boys who encounter a haunted carnival with a time machine carousel, a witch in a hot air balloon, disfigured victims disguised as circus acts, and a demonic ringmaster with living tattoos certainly sounds like a horror novel though. Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes is plotted like horror but reads like a stream of consciousness, coming-of-age tale. It’s almost sweet, in a grotesque, demented way.

The horror novels of this era could be viewed either of two ways. One: they’re musty relics tied to the gothic moorings of Bronte, Du Maurier, Shelley, and Stoker, trapped in polite conventions where the darkest of acts are implied. Or they’re the last vestige of honorable horror before the flood of depraved and disgusting tripe that flooded the market in the 70’s and 80’s and of course perverted our children’s minds.

It’s really kind of both. Horror finally caught up to the culture at a time when cinema was going for broke with brutal films like Last House on the Left, Straw Dogs, and Cannibal Holocaust. It became less about ghost rapping under tables and more about maniacs playing jump rope with intestines. Clive Barker’s Books of Blood could certainly complete with the nastier of movies that seared our brains and haunted our dreams.

1979-1982: Michael McDowell, You Guys

My very first audiobook this year was a little gem called The Elementals. I bought it because it was super cheap and actually looked pretty good. It was great. Who knew the writer for Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas could churn out cheesy horror pulps full of memorable characters and atmospheric chills?

I’ve already written at length about The Elementals, Katie, and The Amulet. I just wanted to give another shout-out to my new favorite horror author. Sadly, he died in 1999 at the age of 49 and the world is a lesser place because of that.

1977-1984: The Amityville Horror/Incarnate/Wolf’s Hour

As I was adding up the fiction and non-fiction I read this year, I paused as I tried to categorize Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror. Is it fiction? Is it non-fiction? Will we ever know for sure?

Just kidding. That shit is made up.

I just started listening to an entertaining podcast called My Favorite Murder, on which the hosts relate their favorite murders each episode. There’s something like a hundred episodes now, so that’s a lot of murder. They commented on how there seemed to be an explosion of crazy murders happening in the 70’s, and one of those crazy murders was committed by Ronald DeFeo, who shot his entire family while they slept, then went to the bar.

Even crazier is the curious immortality of The Amityville Horror. Posited as a true story, it tell the story of the Lutz family, those unfortunate souls who moved into the house where the murders were committed. They only stayed 28 days, claiming all sorts of paranormal nonsense. Approximately eight million movies have been made, as recent as this year.

I was surprised by how readable Amityville turned out to be; the writing is solidly mediocre, and I can only assume the author was paid extra for exclamation marks. But the story is pretty good. Truthful? Believable? Not so much.

The Wolf’s Hour is by the same author who brought you the apocalyptic epic, Swan Song. It may be the only decent werewolf novel in existence. My review of it is here. Suffice it to say one of the classic, if not so pulpy, 80’s authors.

Incarnate is by another master of horror, Ramsey Campbell. It’s a slow burn, and for much of the novel, it seems like nothing is happening at all, or that it’s fitting together in any coherent manner. But wait until the end. A group of people participate in a study about prophetic dreaming, and eleven years later, the echoes of that mutually shared dream finally bear down.

* * *

I have to thank Paperbacks from Hell and Michael McDowell for igniting a love for schlocky horror. I’ve always been a big B movie fan; one of my favorite films is the bloodiest movie ever made, Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (or Braindead.) The nerd in me delights at the intersection of cheese and gore where the 80’s collided to produce some of the most ridiculous and amazing horror films/books of all time.

*Lawnmower Massacres

I read MacBeth this year and was thrilled to connect with well known references such as “By the pricking of my thumbs” (Agatha Christie novel) “something wicked this way comes” (Bradbury novel). Also there are multiple references in Hamilton (“tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,” “screw your courage to the sticking place.”)

I remember watching Something Wicked This Way Comes as a kid and being pretty freaked out by some tarantulas. That’s all I remember.

Seriously, if you’re the morbid sort, My Favorite Murder is a super-fun and funny podcast. Their tagline is “Stay Sexy. Don’t Get Murdered.” Rules to live by.

So there’s a big gap between Carmilla and the horror fiction of the 50’s and 60’s in this post. Inhabiting that gap I can only assume is the cosmic void wherein dwells the eldritch gods.

2017 in Review – Horror Through the Eons One of my favorite reads of 2017 was Grady Hendrix's Paperbacks from Hell. Hendrix, the author of gimmicky 

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