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All-Star Squadron #7

Warning, Spoilers Ahead…

“Carnage For Christmas” by Roy Thomas, Adrian Gonzales, and Jerry Ordway.

The December 22, 1941 edition of the Washington World’s headline states “JSA Disbands”, “Decision Rumored Since Dec. 9 Confirmed”, and “Statement Reveals Eight Current Members Have Enlisted In Armed Services Under Real Names!”

Private Al Pratt (Atom) strolls the streets of Washington DC and bumps into a giant of a man.  Al goes his own way as we follow the giant.  The giant’s revealed to be Baron Blitzkrieg. The Baron and his henchmen plan to assassinate Winston Churchill, scheduled to visit the United States, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Blitzkrieg first debuted in World’s Finest Comics #246, published in 1977.

Al is suspicious of the rude foreigner but puts them aside as he doesn’t want to be like “the paranoids who’re finding Axis spies under every bed, since Pearl Harbor”.

Al, now dressed in his Atom costume, visits FDR at the White House.  FDR asks about the other members of the Justice Society. 

“I’m in training to be a tank-corpsman myself, stationed in Virginia but then, you already know that, don’t you, or else Pvt. Al Pratt wouldn’t have gotten a special leave to report here tonight.  Hawkman’s a Tyro – a ‘Dodo” I think they call ‘em in the Army Air Force on the west coast while Sandman’s looking forward to handling the 37-mm. anti-aircraft cannon. And Dr. Fate, who’s spanned the gaps between the worlds, will soon be practicing to be a parachute trooper. Though he’s technically blind…in a way…Dr. Mid-Nite’s alter ego has been commissioned a captain in the medical corps. He and his assistant Myra are in the Pacific war zone right not, working on a crash cure for tropical fever.  Starman’s other self is in flight training, too…at Fort Randolph, near San Antonio, while Johnny Thunder’s joined the Navy, heaven help it!  The Spectre’s keeping busy here at home but the last I heard, even Green Lantern had enlisted!  I’m not sure about our other honorary JSA’ers…”

Props to Myra for following Dr. Mid-Nite into the war.  That is love and loyalty.  If you’ve read Geoff John’s JSA, you know that poor Myra suffers a violent end. Yes, it’s due to her association with Dr. Mid-Nite.  People theorize that Charles was gay and if so, I feel sorry for Myra.  Charles would have loved her but not in the romantic sense. I feel Myra would have been willing to be his “beard” in the less enlightened times of the mid-20th century.  It’s surprising the duo never married – as romantic partners or platonic partners.  Neither Charles or Myra married anyone else.  Of course, Wesley Dodds and Dian Belmont never married.  The Justice Society was filled with individuals rebelling against society’s expectations!

The Flash and Hourman are the members of the JSA not mentioned by the Atom. Unbeknown to the JSA or the Squadron, Hourman is a prisoner of war in Japan but the Flash’s whereabouts are a mystery.

The honorary members are Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, possibly Robin?  Ma Hunkel, the original Red Tornado, was later revealed to be an honorary member.

Ma Hunkel wouldn’t have been active.  I haven’t read much Golden Age Wonder Woman but I assume Diana was involved with the U.S. army in some capacity given her connection to Steve Trevor and Etta Candy.

Superman wouldn’t join the military as he needs to stay far away from the Spear of Destiny’s influence.

Robin is underage so he wouldn’t be eligible for the military.  Batman is a surprise.  The rest of the non-superhuman members joined the various military branches but Bruce decided staying home and punching robbers in the face was more important. Maybe he felt he was needed at home to run Wayne Enterprises?  Of course, Green Lantern runs his own company, and it didn’t stop him from enlisting.

FDR ushers the Atom into the next room where Hawkgirl, Liberty Belle, Johnny Quick, Robotman, Firebrand II and the Shining Knight are waiting.

Atom questions FDR: “But what about Plastic Man?  If it’s old home week, shouldn’t our FBI liaison be here?”

FDR informs the Atom that Plastic Man is “on special assignment, alas…but he sends his regards.”

FDR tells the heroes about a suspected plot to assassinate Winston Churchill.  FRD orders the heroes to escort Churchill to the White House.

Hawkgirl, Liberty Belle, and Sir Justin patrol the sky.  Liberty hitches a ride on Winged Victory.  Hawkgirl complains about the cold.  Well, you are the one wearing a bikini top in December.

Firebrand and Johnny Quick patrol the roads.  Johnny reveals he’s bought a Christmas gift for Liberty Belle.

Robotman and the Atom are at the piers waiting for Churchill’s ship.  Robotman and Atom continue their mutual admiration-inferiority contest. Atom wishes he was built like a tank and Robotman would love to be human.

The ship arrives at the pier but is bombarded by German torpedos.  The All-Stars work together to save the ship and crew.  They also capture the German U-boat.  Baron Blitzkrieg switches out the real Churchill with a robot duplicate during the chaos.

Liberty Belle realizes Churchill isn’t the real one when he doesn’t recognize her despite meeting her months ago.  Churchill approaches FDR and explodes!  Everything’s okay as FDR was Plastic Man in disguise: “The FBI – and the Secret Service, natch – were afraid something like this might happen so I took his place.”

The All-Stars rescue Churchill but Baron Blitzkrieg escapes.

The issue ends with Churchill and FDR addressing the crowds on Christmas Eve.

An average issue. Most Nazi comic book villains are boring and one-dimensional to me – Red Skull, Baron Blitzkrieg, etc. In real life, Nazis are terrifying and repulsive. In comics, they’re boring. Highlights of the issue were the Libby-Johnny romance and the Atom-Robotman mutual inferiority-admiration society.

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Put the second coat of white down for the jersey front this morning. Also forgot to mention that I got some over-the-knee socks and a wig for my Benjamin Franklin / Ichabod Crane outfit. Which still needs a bit of work, but it's close-ish to being wearable. Also scaled the art for my jack-o-lantern.

Finally started painting the big logo on my uniform for my Halloween costume. And got my foam pumpkin mounted to a jig for painting and carving.

[flashfuture]

Tbh, the only marvel/dc fic I would tolerate is Franklin Richards accidentally obtaining a eriely familiar art teacher (aka Kyle Rayner) but it’s actually a poetic fic about how even with godly powers simply creating is the greatest gift they were ever given, or something equally cheese. Idk just a god and a mini god talking about art as a metaphor for dealing with god like powers at their finger tips.

I’m sorry if this makes no sense.

no no this is amazing. I want this so bad now. Kyle is everything to me and Franklin is so precious. Okay right so when Kyle had the Life Equation in him he kept bringing things to life- the power was overflowing. When Franklin uses too much of his power it burns out. And then like Kyle could teach Franklin some control and Lanterns have to learn to replenish their energy. 

Plus Franklin as a little boy made a Universe in his closet or something. The kid is like nothing else Marvel has. He is an Artist. Just you know on a god like level. 

Kyle would love this kid- they’d get along so well. And everyone in Franklin’s family is a science guy, even his Uncle Johnny who’s really into cars. So meeting another artist who has god like powers is so perfect

Thank you for this ask- I love it so very much <3

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I just realised that Franklin looks probably a lot like Kyle Rayner as a White lantern. Pitty I know nothing about Kyle LOL otherwise i wuold write him

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Yuletide 2020 roundup

This year's Yuletide fic exchange was extraordinarily busy for me, even despite the fact that my main fandom of choice these days is no longer YT-eligible. I got an excellent assignment, and then when the prompts went public, I found three that spoke to me, and so I set myself a goal: assignment, plus three treats. Somehow I did it ... and then ended up throwing myself an additional curveball at the eleventh hour.

First though, my three lovely lovely gifts:

that world as well as this by raven (singlecrow) for hangingfire (G, 1.4k) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke12 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorenson, Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Friendship, Chromatic Yuletide Summary: It's a Sunday afternoon in December when Sarah gets a text from Piranesi. My note: Really lovely post-canon interlude for Sarah and Matthew in an art gallery, a delicate portrait of a friendship between two unusual people who are not quite at ease with the worlds they inhabit.

The Stars above the Forty-Eighth Vestibule in the Northern Halls by laughingpineapple for hangingfire (G, 2.1k) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke24 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Worldbuilding, Exploration, Far Future, Classical Statuary, Birds Summary: Sarah Raphael in a distant future, holding a lantern up against the night. My note: Gosh this is gorgeous. It riffs gloriously on the House as we see it in canon, and ends on an extraordinary, beautiful image that hit me just as hard as the ending of the original novel did.

Angel Investor by karanguni for hangingfire (T, 3k) Fandom: The Culture - Iain M. Banks,Discworld - Terry Pratchett Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Cheradenine Zakalwe, GCU Grey Area, Original Culture Mind(s) (The Culture), The Culture Citizen Known As Elon Musk, Crossover, Alternate Universe - Real World, Special Circumstances (The Culture Series), Yuletide Treat Summary: 'You look like shit,' Zakalwe informed him. 'Not so easy, is it, dragging humanity kicking and screaming towards enlightenment?' My note: Last year karanguni pretty much made my year with a Culture/Discworld crossover, and this year, A SEQUEL. I haven’t laughed this hard at a fic in ages; the image of a certain Famous Dudebro as a Culture citizen gone wildly off-piste is brilliant and kind of horrifying. I loved it.

Maybe this year I’ll actually get together a proper recs list? We’ll see.

Update: bookmarking my Yuletide 2020 recs here. 

So this year, like I said: I was really busy. Entirely self-inflicted, but I’m pretty happy with the results.

Left To My Own Devices by hangingfire for ianthebroome (G, 2.5k) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke10 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorenson, Character Study, Introspection, liminal spaces, parallel worlds, Portal Fantasy, Misses Clause Challenge, Missing Scene Summary: "She distrusts high places and open plains. She loves caves, hollows, and shadows; she is fascinated by deep clear pools and flowing water." As the Smiths song goes: "There is another world / There is a better world / Well, there must be". Sarah Raphael has known this since childhood. Director’s commentary: I originally started on a crossover between Piranesi and Borges’s “The Library of Babel”. I went kind of sideways from there, started over, and this was the result. I latched onto a few details and added some of my own personal obsessions (it may be that I find Sarah Raphael intensely relatable in some ways), and here we are.

A map of the House by hangingfire for chillydown, deliarium, GloriaMundi, Gracierocket, hellseries, ianthebroome, Jenett, raven (singlecrow), Relia, Sinope, soupytwist (G, 132 + picture) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorenson, Map - Freeform, Reference material, Graphics, Yuletide Treat Summary: In my Father's House there are many rooms, vestibules, halls, and statues. The Beauty of the House is immeasureable, its Kindness infinite. Director’s commentary: While I was working on “Left To My Own Devices”, I started hand-drawing a map of the House to keep it straight in my head, and being me, I decided to redraw it as a schematic that I could actually read. Then I figured, I might as well share it.

The Thing That Eats by hangingfire for chillydown (M, 2.8k) Fandom: Confessions of Dorian Gray,The Terror (TV 2018) Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Dorian Gray, Original Female Character(s) of Color, Crossover, Highly specific crossover, Horror, Body Horror, Extremely niche crossover in fact, Yuletide Treat, White dudes ruin everything, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions Summary: A hundred and seventy years after the disastrous Franklin Expedition, an intelligent woman is burdened with the shenanigans of immortal dilettante and bad-decision-dinosaur Dorian Gray. He's in over his head again and doesn't know it. But what else is new? Director’s commentary: I happen to know chillydown and that she’s also a fan of The Terror, and, well ... once the idea presented itself (along with the requirement that something super gory had to happen to Dorian Gray), the pieces fell into place very quickly. 

Professionals by hangingfire for karanguni (T, 1.9k) Fandom: The Culture - Iain M. Banks,John Wick (Movies) Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, John Wick, Cheradenine Zakalwe, Diziet Sma, Skaffen-Amtiskaw, Crossover, Yuletide Treat, Alternate Ending, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions Summary: "John had an uncanny sensation of looking in a mirror." Director’s commentary: Returning the Culture crossover favor to karanguni—when I saw the prompt “Crossover ideas: John Wick (and Zakalwe get into a gun fight?)”, the story practically wrote itself, structure and all.

Four Unrequited Loves of the Holy See, and One Fulfilled by hangingfire for Elfgrandfather (T, 500) Fandom: The Young Pope (TV) Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Mario Assente/Bernardo Gutiérrez, Lenny Belardo/Andrew Dussolier, Lenny Belardo/Esther Aubry, Sister Mary/Angelo Voiello, Sofia Dubois/John Brannox, Lenny Belardo, Andrew Dussolier, Mario Assente, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Esther Aubry, Sister Mary (The Young Pope), Angelo Voiello, Sofia Dubois, John Brannox, Drabble, Four and One, Unrequited Love, Requited Unrequited Love, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational Summary: Love and the Vatican: it's complicated. Five drabbles about just how complicated it is. Director’s commentary: I put in a request for TYP/TNP this year, and no nibbles, but I saw that someone else had done the same and decided that someone was going to be getting fic for that this year, even if it wasn’t me. The N+1 drabble format ended up working best, but there’s a longer, more ambitious WIP about the canonization of Lenny Belardo that can be glimpsed in the background, possibly to be finished someday.

This week on the Repair Shop: a Time Turner, a Victorian Portrait, and an antique wardrobe by hangingfire for Orockthro (G, 3.5k) Fandom: The Repair Shop (UK TV),Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling,The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde,Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis20 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Steve Fletcher (The Repair Shop), Will Kirk (The Repair Shop), Lucia Scalisi, Jay Blades, Hermione Granger, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Crossover, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Never thought I'd be interested in writing RPF and yet here we are, Yuletide Treat, Screenplay/Script Format, If you can't write ridiculous crossovers for Yuletide then when can you? Summary: Lucia turns her talents to a lost Victorian masterpiece. Will’s abilities will be tested by a special wardrobe, and Steve has an extremely unusual timepiece. Director’s commentary: So I absolutely thought I was done after I posted the previous four, and then I figured I’d chill with a little Repair Shop, since Season 3 was just added to Netflix. About halfway through one episode, I wondered idly if anyone had nominated and requested The Repair Shop. Of course they had. Writing the story in script format meant that I was able to move very quickly and stick to the essentials, and picking out the crossover objects was basically the second thing I thought of after wondering if there were any prompts in the tagset. The space for this kind of lunacy is why I love Yuletide.

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Best Horror Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now

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Updated for October 2020

Amazon Prime’s selection of horror movies is as extensive as it is terrifying. What’s more, they have a significant selection of both new and old/classic films for your scary pleasures. So we’ve compiled our picks of the best scary movies to watch on Halloween (or any other time) on Amazon Prime Video right now.

Now, pour yourself a glass of something good and dig your fangs in to our list of the best horror movies you can watch on Amazon Prime Video.

Afflicted

One of the better recent found-footage efforts takes a ghastly turn when one of the filmmakers wakes up foaming at the mouth with his eyeballs rolling back in their sockets. He can also suddenly run faster than a car speeding in a school zone. Diagnosis: vampirism.

There is no cure for the undead except feeding on human blood (especially child molesters). That epic travel blog they were planning is going to be supernaturally epic.

Watch Afflicted on Amazon (US Only)

Bone Tomahawk

Writer and musician Craig Zahler made his feature directorial debut with this grim, ultra-violent and unique hybrid of the Western and horror genres — two great tastes, etc.

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Kurt Russell is outstanding as Sheriff Franklin Hunt, who must lead a posse into the wilderness to rescue three people from a brutal tribe of Indians who may not even be human as we know it. The grisly confrontation that ensues is not for the squeamish. Zahler gets the period details and the horror right, while the rest of his excellent cast includes Richard Jenkins, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox and others.

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Buried

Before he found failure as Green Lantern and then career rebirth as Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds made this tight, claustrophobic thriller in which he wakes up to find himself sealed in a coffin.

Turns out that Reynolds’ character is a contractor working in Iraq, abducted and buried by an insurgent kidnapper who has left him a cellphone. While the abductor calls to demand a ransom, Reynolds attempts to contact the outside world — with director Rodrigo Cortes never leaving the confined space of the coffin. What’s amazing is how well he and Reynolds pull this exercise in storytelling economy off.

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The Cabin in the Woods

A remote cabin in the woods is one of the most frequently occurring settings in all of horror. What better location for teenagers to be tormented by monsters, demons, or murderous hillbillies? Writer/Director Joss Whedon takes that tried and true setting and uses it as a jumping off points for one of the most successful metatextual horror movies in recent memory.

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Like you would expect, The Cabin in the Woods features five college friends (all representing certain youthful archetypes, of course) renting a….well, a cabin in the woods. Soon things begin to go awry in a very traditional horror movie way. But then The Cabin in the Woods begins doling out some of the many tricks it has up its sleeve. This is a fascinating, very funny, and yet still creepy breakdown of horror tropes that any horror fan can enjoy.

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City of the Living Dead

Italian horror director Lucio Fulci kicked off his famous “Gates of Hell” trilogy with this gruesome, crude but surreal 1980 gorefest, in which a reporter (Christopher George) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl) struggle to stop those gates from opening and letting a horde of hungry undead into the world.

Fulci loosely based the movie on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, vying for the latter’s brooding atmosphere while indulging in his own trademark splatter. The results are somewhat slapdash but a must-see for Italian horror fans. Followed by the much better The Beyond (1980) and House by the Cemetery (1981).

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Climax

An uncategorizable but still horrific entry from the endlessly provocative French director Gaspar Noe (Irreversible), Climax starts off with — of all things — a lively, lengthy dance number in which an isolated dance troupe nails the erotic, exotic, physically demanding routine they’ve practiced for months.

But then someone slips an extremely potent drug into the punch during the party afterwards, and the tight-knit troupe turns into a raging mob of psychotics who tear, beat, and fuck each other to death. Another not-for-the-faint-of-heart film, Climax is perverse, macabre, and visceral — yet somehow alive even in the midst of all its morbidity.

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Crawl

Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) has to battle both hungry alligators and relentlessly rising floodwaters in this punchy better-than-you-expected thriller from director Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D). Scodelario plays Haley, a college student who goes to check on her reclusive dad during the onset of a Category 5 hurricane and finds him injured in his basement just as nature runs all kinds of amok.

Our own Patrick Sproull said in his review that the movie delivers an “exhilarating shock to the system” and simply wants to “entertain the bejesus out of you,” which is all we want in these waning days of the Republic. Killer alligators and a deadly cyclone? It’s like two scary movies for the price of one.

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The Crazies

The Crazies is a zombie movie without the undead. And that kind of makes sense given that it was written and directed by the zombie maestro, himself: George A. Romero.

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By Don Kaye

1973’s The Crazies (there’s also a 2010 remake) tells the story of an experimental bioweapon called “Trixie.” There are only two possible results from exposure to Trixie: death or irreversible raving insanity. That’s rough. But what’s even worse is that Trixie is accidentally unleashed in Evans City, Pennsylvania, turning the small town into war zone where any neighbor could become violently insane at any moment.

Like his zombie works, Romero uses this creative horror/sci-fi concept to great satirical and symbolic effect.

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The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone strangely remains both one of Stephen King���s more underrated movie adaptations as well as one of director David Cronenberg’s more unsung efforts. Yet it ends up being among the best from both author and auteur, while also providing star Christopher Walken with one of his most moving, complex performances to date.

Walken’s Johnny Smith awakens from a coma to find out he’s lost five years of his life but gained a frightening talent to touch people and see both their deepest secrets and their future. Whether to use that power to impact the world around him is the choice he must face in this bittersweet, eerie and heartfelt film, which found Cronenberg moving away from his trademark body horror for the first time.

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The Devil Bat

Ah, The Devil Bat. One of those infamous vampire movies that isn’t actually about vampires. But who the hell cares when it has Bela Lugosi in it, right?

But this poverty row production from 1940 features plenty of atmospherics, as well as a giant honkin’ bat, and that’s enough to set the mood on a chilly night. Especially if you’re indulging in adult beverages or contraband. If nothing else, just bow down to Bela.

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Die, Monster, Die!

This was just the second feature film ever adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft, with movie producers eager to find other horror writers’ work to plunder after Roger Corman hit it big with his Edgar Allan Poe movies in the early 1960s.

This one is based on Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space,” which you may recognize as the title of a recent nutty Nicolas Cage movie also based on the same tale. Boris Karloff stars in this one, about a scientist who discovers that a crashed meteor begins to mutate all the plant and animal life around his home, including him and his wife. It’s kind of a slow burner but it does have its weird-ass imagery.

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The Exorcist III

Out of the many attempts to sequelize William Friedkin’s classic 1972 movie The Exorcist, this is the only one worthy of the original. William Peter Blatty, author of the original book, wrote a sequel novel called Legion and adapted and directed it himself for this chilling movie starring George C. Scott.

Scott plays Detective Kinderman (the role filled by Lee J. Cobb in The Exorcist), who investigates a series of murders that have connections to both the first movie’s exorcism and a spate of killings done years earlier by the now-dead Gemini Killer. Even with extensive studio-forced reshoots, Blatty has fashioned an eerie theological thriller, with one sequence that is a stone-cold classic of tension and shock.

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A Field in England

2013’s A Field in England presents compelling evidence that more horror movies should be shot in black and white.

Directed by British director Ben Wheatley, A Field in England is a kaleidoscope of trippy, cerebral horror. The film takes place in 1648, during the English Civil War. A group of soldiers is taken in by a kindly man, who is soon revealed to be an alchemist. The alchemist takes the soldiers to a vast field of mushrooms where they are subjected to a series of mind-altering, nightmarish visions.

A Field in England is aggressively weird, creative, and best of all clocks in at exactly 90 minutes.

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Frankenstein: The True Story

Well, not exactly. Originally presented as a two-part mini-series on NBC back in 1974, Frankenstein: The True Story takes plenty of liberties with Mary Shelley’s milestone novel. But it keeps the essence and atmosphere of the story intact, while taking it down some interesting new narrative paths.

The cast is sensational, led by Leonard Whiting as Dr. Frankenstein, Michael Sarrazin as the creature — who starts out beautiful and ends up degenerating into a monster — and especially James Mason as the Dr. Pretorius-like Polidori, named after one of Mary Shelley’s colleagues who was there when she began writing the novel. Frankenstein: The True Story is both macabre and lush, and deserves rediscovery.

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Fright Night

Screenwriter-turned-director Tom Holland lets a jaded, smarmy vampire named Jerry Dandridge loose in suburbia and watches the blood spurt in this beloved ‘80s horror staple.

Chris Sarandon brings a nice combination of amusement and menace to the role of the bloodsucker, while Planet of the Apes veteran Roddy McDowall is endearing as a washed-up horror host recruited into a real-life horror show. Much of Fright Night is teen-oriented and somewhat dated, but it still works as a sort of precursor to later post-modern horror gems like Scream.

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Hereditary

Between Hereditary and The Haunting of Hill House 2018 was a great year for turning familial trauma into horror.

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Hereditary: The Real Story of King Paimon

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Hereditary Ending Explained

By David Crow

Written and directed by Ari Aster, Hereditary follows the Graham family as they deal with the death of their secretive grandmother. As Annie Graham (Toni Collette) comes to terms with the loss, she begins to realize that she may have inherited a mental illness from her late mother…or something worse.

Hereditary is terrifying because it asks a deceptively simple but truly creepy question: what do we really inherit from our family?

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The Hole in the Ground

Recent horror trends have stumbled across a universal truth: kids are very creepy. A24’s Irish horror film The Hole in the Ground makes great use of that truth.

The Hole in the Ground follows a woman named Sarah O’Neill who opts to leave her (likely abusive) husband and move out to the lonely Irish countryside with her son, Chris. Things are going well until Chris starts to exhibit some strange behaviors. Not only that, but an old woman in the village tells Sarah that her son “is not your son.” When that woman is found dead with her head in the dirt, Sarah is forced to confront that maybe little Chris isn’t her Chris after all.

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The House of the Devil

Indie horror auteur Ti West’s low-budget creepfest is a homage to 1980s horror yet plays it straight; he sets out to make a movie with the feel of genre films from that era without making self-aware in-jokes and references — and he mostly succeeds.

But The House of the Devil is also the definition of a “slow burn”: very little happens for much of the first hour (save a jolt here and there) and then the third act explodes into a paroxysm of murder, gore and Satanic horror. That makes the film feel a little off-balance, although in the end it all becomes quite unnerving.

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House on Haunted Hill

What would you do for $10,000? How about surviving a night in a mansion haunted by murder victims and owned by a psychotic millionaire? Seems like a party trick until people actually start dying.

Vincent Price is the master and mastermind of a house that suddenly makes everyone homicidal—but the real pièce de résistance is what dances out of a vat of flesh-eating acid.

Some vintage horror never dies, and this 1959 classic is immortal.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

One of a holy trifecta of remakes that actually improved on their predecessors (the other two are John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s The Fly), 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers hits that horror/sci-fi sweet spot with a cosmic premise, terrifying imagery and a nerve-rattling naturalism.

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The Legacy of Invasion of The Body Snatchers

By Jim Knipfel

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers: How Philip Kaufman’s Remake Improved on the Original

By Ryan Lambie

Director Philip Kaufman shifts the story from small-town California to San Francisco, while updating the metaphor from a warning against Communism to a cautionary tale of urban alienation. But in the end, watching those duplicates of Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum ooze out of their alien pods is as terrifying as ever, making this a genuine classic of its time.

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The Last House on the Left

Released in 1972, the directorial debut of the mighty (and sadly late) Wes Craven remains one of the most important horror films ever made. It helped kick off an era of horror cinema that tapped directly into the unrest of the late 1960s and 1970s, the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, the alienation between parents and children and the escalation of violence throughout the nation.

It also showed, in nauseatingly graphic fashion, what happens when you strip away the veneer of civilization from both the characters you are expected to despise and those you are supposed to like. The result is still a crude, disturbing and grueling experience that is genuinely not for everyone.

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The Lighthouse

The second feature from The Witch writer/director Robert Eggers is just as accomplished as his debut, if almost entirely different in tone and imagery.

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The Lighthouse: the myths and archetypes behind the movie explained

By Rosie Fletcher

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The Lighthouse Ending Explained

By David Crow

Whereas The Witch was an exercise in Puritan supernatural terror, The Lighthouse is more of a descent into watery psychological madness, seasoned with a heavy dollop of Lovecraftian horror. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are brilliant as the mentally crumbling guardians of the title structure, with the latter in particular giving a crazed performance for the ages.

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The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

This 1974 film is almost as famous for its many alternate titles (including Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) as it is for being one of the first worthy zombie films to come out in the wake of Night of the Living Dead six years earlier.

With its counter-culture protagonists and environmental message (the dead are brought back to life by a form of radiation used as a pesticide), Manchester Morgue tries to be as socially conscious as the Romero classic it emulates. But it’s all about the zombie mayhem as well — and in full color, no less. This cult classic deserves a place of honor in the pantheon of the walking dead.

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Midsommar

It’s hard to categorize Midsommar, Ari Aster’s followup to his absolutely terrifying horror debut, Hereditary. Part straight up horror, part The Wicker Man, and part anthropological study, Midsommar seems to occupy many genres all at once. Aster himself called it a “break up” movie. But whatever genre Midsommar is, it is a brilliant, and at times deeply disturbing film.

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Midsommar: Florence Pugh Considers Ending Theories, May Queen Fandom

By David Crow

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Midsommar: Getting Immersed in the Movie’s Terrifying World

By Don Kaye

Florence Pugh stars Dani, a young woman trying to heal in the wake of an enormous tragedy. Dani follows her boyfriend, Christian, and his annoying friends to an important midsummer festival deep in the heart of Sweden. Christian and company are there partly to get high and have fun and also partly to study the unique, isolated culture for their respective theses. To say that they get more than they bargained for is an understatement. But Dani may just end up getting exactly what she needs.

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Neverlake

Horrors always lurk at the bottom of murky lakes, but the dead-eyed doll heads and evil statues staring from beneath the greenish surface of this one will have you begging Swamp Thing for mercy. That’s before some brutally disfigured orphans shamble out of the woods.

When Jenny visits her archaeologist father in Italy, long-drowned secrets start bubbling to the surface. To think, all this was supposed to be a vacation. Riccardo Paoletti’s directorial debut is worth checking out.

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Night of the Living Dead

George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie classic The Night of the Living Dead messed up the minds of late ’60s moviegoers as much as it messed with every horror movie that followed. Shot on gritty black and white stock, the film captures the desperate urgency of a documentary shot at the end of the world. It is a tale of survival, an allegory for the Vietnam War and racism and suspenseful as hell freezing over.

Night of the Living Dead set a new standard for gore, even though you could tell some of the bones the zombies were munching came from a local butcher shop. But what grabs at you are the unexpected shocks. Long before The Walking Dead, Romero caught the terror that could erupt from any character, at any time.

They’re coming to get you. There’s one of them now!

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Nosferatu

Nothing beats a classic, and that’s exactly what Nosferatu is. As the unofficial 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this German Expressionist masterpiece was almost lost to the ages when the filmmakers lost a copyright lawsuit with Stoker’s widow (who had a point). As a result, most copies were destroyed…but a precious few survived.

This definitive horror movie from F.W. Murnau might be a silent picture, but it is a haunting one where vampirism is used as a metaphor for plague and the Black Death sweeping across Europe. When Count Orlock comes to Berlin, he brings rivers of rats with him and the most repellent visage ever presented by a cinematic bloodsucker. The sexy vampires would come later, starting with 1931’s more polished vision of Count Dracula as legendarily played by Bela Lugosi, but Max Schreck is buried under globs of makeup in Nosferatu making him resemble an emaciated cadaver. Murnau plays with shadow and light to create an intoxicating environment of fever dream repressions. But he also creates the most haunting cinematic image of a vampire yet put on screen.

Check it out.

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Open Grave

Post-apocalyptic zombie fans won’t want to miss the love child of The Walking Dead meets 28 Days Later, now with amnesia. When a man who’s forgotten every fragment of his identity (Sharlto Copley) wakes up in a body pit crawling with pathogens, he scrambles out to fight a swarm of brain-craving undead along with five other amnesiacs.

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It gets even more terrifying when the pieces of memory hiding in his flashbacks are unearthed.

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Overlord

War is terrifying enough as is. It doesn’t need the addition of Nazi super soldier zombies. Thankfully the J.J. Abrams-produced Overlord decided to include them anyway.

Overlord picks up on the eve of D-Day when a paratrooper quad is sent in behind enemy lines to destroy a German radio tower located in an old church. Their plane is shot down and only a handful survivors land. Those who do will soon discover that the horror has just begun.

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Paperhouse

Hard to see in the U.S. since its 1989 release (it’s still not out here on DVD or Blu-ray for reasons unclear), Paperhouse was directed by Bernard Rose, who went on to make the equally acclaimed Candyman three years later.

But Paperhouse may be his masterwork. A young girl named Anna (Charlotte Burke) finds the line between reality and her dreams blurring, with her alcoholic father transforming into a frightening monster in the dream world. A slightly confusing ending doesn’t lessen the impact of this highly effective dark fantasy fable.

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Pet Sematary (2019)

After the classic Stephen King novel of the same name and Mary Lambert’s 1989 movie, what could there possibly be left to say about Pet Sematary? Quite a lot actually! Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer breathe new life into this old tale…not unlike a certain “sematary” itself.

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Jason Clarke stars as Louis Creed, an ER doctor from Boston who moves his family to rural Ludlow, Maine to live a quieter life. Shortly into their stay, Louis and his wife Rachel (Amy Semeitz) experience an unthinkable tragedy. That’s ok though as neighbor Jud Crandall (John Lithgow) knows a very peculiar place that can help.

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Phantasm

Director and writer Don Coscarelli has said that this 1979 cult classic was inspired by a recurring dream — and we believe him, since Phantasm has the surreal, not-quite-there feel of an inescapable nightmare from start to finish.

With its bizarre plot about a funeral parlor acting as a front to send undead slave labor to another dimension, the iconic image of the Tall Man, killer dwarves and those deadly silver spheres, Phantasm was and is like no other movie of its era.

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Following the success of his first Edgar Allan Poe movie starring Vincent Price, 1960’s The Fall of the House of Usher, director Roger Corman returned to Poe for a second serving, once again starring Price and also featuring horror queen Barbara Steele, with a script by Richard Matheson.

The movie gets off to a slow start and very little of the plot is derived from Poe’s moody short story, but the picture drips with Gothic atmosphere and saturated colors. Vincent Price gives another mesmerizingly over the top performance, and the final 20 minutes — where we finally see the title torture device swing into action — is worth the price of admission alone.

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Pumpkinhead

Another cult favorite from the late ‘80s, Pumpkinhead stars Lance Henriksen as a country store owner whose young son is killed by a bunch of teens on motorbikes. The grief-stricken dad consults with a local witch to get his revenge — and she assists him by summoning the monstrous title demon.

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The directorial debut of makeup FX wizard Stan Winston, Pumpkinhead boasts one of the most memorable screen monsters of its time and a haunted performance by the great Henriksen (also notable is Florence Schauffler as the terrifying witch). But Winston’s direction itself is routine, causing Pumpkinhead to just miss being a true classic. It’s still a terrific Halloween watch.

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A Quiet Place

Thanks to a killer premise and excellent execution, A Quiet Place was one of 2018’s best horror movies and now it’s ready for a second life on streaming.

The film, directed by erstwhile Office star John Krasinski (who also stars in the project) follows the Abbott family as they try to survive a dangerous post-apocalyptic world. To make things even more difficult, however, the world is populated by blind creatures that also possess a devastatingly strong sense of hearing.

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A Quiet Place: Who Are the Monsters?

By David Crow

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By Ryan Lambie

Father Lee and mother Evelyn (Emily Blunt) try to protect their children from these monsters – all the while not making a sound. The formula of A Quiet Place is destined to be oft-repeated for a reason. Horror really works when you’re unable to scream.

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Season of the Witch

Bored Stepford-esque housewife Joan (Jan White) is stuck in a suburban bubble with an abusive husband when she meets a mysterious new neighbor (Virginia Greenwald) who practices witchcraft. Pretty soon, Joan is casting spells to have affairs with college boys half her age, suffering from Satanic nightmares that wake her up to grim reality, and initiated into her neighbor’s backyard coven.

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Proof that you never know what really goes on behind white picket fences. Another fine bit of weirdness from George A. Romero.

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Suspiria

Suspiria is not necessarily a remake of the 1977 Italian film of the same name so much as its inspired by it. And that makes sense, as the simultaneously vibrant and creepy tone of the original film is nigh impossible to replicate it. So this Suspiria goes in a bit of a different direction tonally.

Dakota Johnson stars as Susanna “Susie” Bannion, a woman who enrolls in a prestigious Berlin dance academy that also happens to be run by a coven of witches. As Susie climbs up the ladder of the Markos Tanz Akademie she comes to learn more about its secrets.

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The Tenant

Roman Polanski, in addition to being a creep and outright sex criminal, has a grand fascination with apartments, directing an unofficial “Apartment Trilogy” with Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Tenant. And it’s not hard to see why. There is something a little strange about dozens if not hundreds of relative strangers all calling the same place “home.”

1976’s The Tenant is the culmination of Polanski’s obsession with communal living and in some ways is the creepiest. Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a paranoid young file clerk who is on the verge of succumbing to the constant dread he feels. Things are exacerbated when Trelkovsky moves into a Parisian apartment and discovers the previous occupant killed herself. What follows is a tense and trippy exploration of fear itself.

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The Wailing

Get ready for this epic-length (156 minutes!) story of possession and exorcism in a small village from director Na Hong-jin. Kwak Dowon stars as a cop who investigates a series of mysterious and violent deaths, only to discover that they have a supernatural cause that soon infects his family.

Despite odd moments of humor here and there, The Wailing is almost unremittingly bleak and its imagery is thoroughly unsettling. Deliberately paced and building an atmosphere of unspeakable dread, The Wailing is a standout of Asian horror.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau garnered a ton of attention back in 2010 for this moody, low-key, character-driven study of a family of cannibals impacted by the death of its patriarch.

There’s no back story about how the clan became eaters of human flesh; they simply are, and the movie accepts that and focuses on the dilemma in front of them. That is more effective than spelling everything out. An English-language remake from director Jim Mickle (Stake Land) popped up in 2013.

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[flashfuture]

Franklin getting a white lantern ring and realizing once he gets home he gets a cool as costumizable lantern suit, can F L Y, and can breathe in space so as long as he holds the ring. Look who would need an emo phase with that much power. Though please imagine him running off a building to Val’s UTTER HORROR before he flies up to show her he wasn’t lying about his new alien tech. And then again not flinching as he is sucked into space because well, ya know not a huge deal in itself. He can go bother galaticus now whenever he wants now

Lol Franklin in space jerking around the Celestials is what I want to see.

You’ll never convince me Franklin and Galactus aren’t just pals

Franklin would take every opportunity to freak out his family and give them heart attacks. He learned from the best, his Uncle Johnny.

Val once learning about the ring would push it so far. Such as trying to push a sleeping Franklin out of a window just to see if he’ll fly on instinct. It was Bentley’s idea

Ben is very miffed by the force field in fights. He can’t throw empty cans at Suzie cause he doesn’t have a death wish, Johnny burns them up, and now he can’t even bother his nephew.

Lol it would piss Reed off so much if Franklin dipped to go to Space but like the ring isn’t something he can track, yet.

Everything about it would be amazing

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Fictober - Day 29

Party + 'I'm doing this for you' - 

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It was late evening once again now. 

They both walked out there, as both of them held hands. 

Both dark-skinned guys kiss each other, warmly, before getting in that white car. 

After they sat down, Franklin started driving. 

Franklin had decided to take Lamar to a party, to drink and have fun. To get him to cheer up and forget about what happened yesterday, with the ghost (he told Trevor about it already earlier). 

"You sure that you want to?" Lamar asked him, as he stares at Franklin. 

Franklin gazed over at Lamar as well. "I'm doing this for you." 

Lamar nodded at that, with a smile. He also stared at him, being in a happy mood. 

Franklin noticed this, that made him feel good about it. He was smiling, staring at Lamar too, before he kept driving. Still keeping a slight grin. 

--------------------------------------------------

They get there and got out. Both guys walk into the party. They looked around, noticing that it was Halloween themed. Which was nice. There is lit lanterns hanging from the ceiling, decorations of ghosts and black cats, purple lights on a table with food, beers in a cooler filled with ice, also spooky music played loudly. 

Both of them grabbed a beer and they started drinking. 

They're getting drunk together. They danced with each other, not really caring much about everyone around them, with a few others joining in on it. 

Lamar drank his beer halfway down, it was almost empty. He was enjoying himself, being there with him. He smiled a bit. 

Franklin felt the same way. He had a smile. 

That made everything better, the rest of this night was like that. Hours later, they leave. 

They ended up heading home late, fully drunk off their minds, but happily. Both guys get in bed, cuddling slightly, then eventually fall asleep with each other. Although peacefully again. 

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J. Allen Hynek's Telescope

J. Edgar Hoover's Tie

J. McCullough's Golf Ball

J. Templer's Wind-Up Tin Rooster *

J. C. Agajanian’s Stetson

J.T. Saylors's Overalls

J.M. Barrie’s Swiss Trychels

J.M.W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway *

J.R.R. Tolken's Ring

Jack-in-the-Box

Jack's Magic Beanstalk

Jack Daniel's Original Whisky Bottle

Jack Dawson's Art Kit

Jack Duncan's Spur *

Jack Frost's Staff

Jack Kerouac's Typewriter

Jack Ketch's Axe

Jack LaLanne's Stationary Bike *

Jack London's Dog Collar

Jack Parson's Rocket Engine

Jack Sheppard's Hammer

Jack Sparrow's Compass

Jack Torrance's Croquet Mallet

Jack the Ripper's Lantern *

Jackie Robinson's Baseball

Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948"

Jackson Pollock's Pack of Cigarettes

Jackson Pollock's Paint Cans

Jack's Regisword

Jack Vettriano's "The Singing Butler"

Jack's Wrench

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmarchen

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian's Otoscope

Jacob Kurtzberg's Belt *

Jacqueline Cochran's Brooch

Jacques Aymar-Vernay’s Dowsing Rod

Jacques Cousteau's Goggles

Jacques Cousteau's Diving Suit

Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps *

Jade Butterfly

Jadeite Cabbage

Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar's Smoke Pipe

Jamaica Ginger Bottle

Jaleel White's Hosting Chair

James Abbot McNeill Whistler's Whistler's Mother *

James Allen's Memoir

James Bartley's Britches

James Ben Ali Haggin's Leaky Fountain Pen

James Bert Garner’s Gas Mask

James Bett's Cupboard Handle

James Braid's Chair *

James Brown's Shoes

James Bulger's Sweater

James Buzzanell's Painting "Grief and Pain"

James Buzzanell’s Survey Books

James C. McReynolds’ Judicial Robe

James Chadwick's Nobel Prize

James Clerk Maxwell's Camera Lens

James Colnett's Otter Pelt

James Condliff's Skeleton Clock

James Cook's Mahiole and Feather Cloak

James Craik's Spring Lancet

James Dean's 1955 Prosche 550 Spyder, aka "Little Bastard"

James Dean's UCLA Varsity Jacket

James Dinsmoor's Dinner Bell

James Eads How’s Bindle

James Earl Ray's Rifle

James Fenimore Cooper's Arrow Heads

James Gandolfini's Jukebox

James Hadfield’s Glass Bottle of Water

James Hall III’s Shopping Bags

James Henry Atkinson's Mouse Trap

James Henry Pullen’s Mannequin

James Hoban's Drawing Utensils

James Holman’s Cane

James Hutton's Overcoat

James Joyce’s Eyepatch

James M. Barrie's Grandfather Clock

James M. Barrie's Suitcase

James Murrell's Witch Bottle

James Philip’s Riata

James Prescott Joule's Thermodynamic Generator

James Smithson's Money

James Tilly Matthews’ Air Loom

James Warren and Willoughby Monzani's Piece of Wood

James Watt's Steam Condenser

James Watt's Weather Vane

James W. Marshall’s Jar

Jan Baalsrud’s Stretcher

Jan Baptist van Helmont's Willow Tree

Jane Austen's Carriage

Jane Austen's Gloves

Jane Austen's Quill

Jane Bartholomew's "Lady Columbia" Torch

Jane Pierce's Veil

Janet Leigh's Shower Curtain

Janine Charrat's Ballet Slippers

Jan Janzoon's Boomerang *

Janis Joplin's Backstage Pass from Woodstock *

Jan Karski's Passport

Janus Coin *

Jan van Eyck’s Chaperon

Jan van Speyk's Flag of the Netherlands

Jan Wnęk's Angel Figurine

Jan Žižka's Wagenburg Wagons

The Japanese Nightingale

Jar of Dust from the Mount Asama Eruption

Jar of Greek Funeral Beans

Jar of Marbles

Jar of Molasses from The Boston Molasses Disaster

Jar of Sand

Jar of Semper Augustus Bulbs

Jar of Shiva

Jar of Sugar Plums

Jascha Heifetz's Violin Bow

Jason Voorhese's Machete

Javed Iqbal's Barrel of Acid

Jay Maynard's Tron Suit

Jean II Le Maingre's Gauntlets

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau’s Cradleboard

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's Bubble Pipe

Jean Chastel's Silver Gun

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin's Pocket Watch

Jean Fleury's Aztec Gold Coins

Jean-François Champollion’s Ideographic Dictionary

Jean Froissart's Mirror *

Jean-Frédéric Peugeot's Pepper Mill

Jean Hilliard’s Earmuffs

Jean Parisot de Valette’s Sword Sheath

Jean-Paul Marat's Bathtub

Jean Paul-Satre’s Paper Cutter

Jean-Pierre Christin's Thermometer

Jean Senebier's Bundle of Swiss Alpine Flowers

Jean Valnet's Aromatherapy Statue

Jean Vrolicq’s Scrimshaw

Jeanne Baret's Hat

Jeanne de Clisson's Black Fleet

Jeanne Villepreux-Power's Aquarium

Jeannette Piccard's Sandbag

Jeff Dunham's First Ventriloquist Box

Jefferson Davis' Boots

Jefferson Randolph Smith's Soap Bar

Jeffrey Dahmer's Handkerchief

Jeffrey Dahmer's Pick-Up Sticks

Jemmy Hirst's Carriage Wheel

Jenny Lind's Stage Makeup

Jeopardy! Contestant Podiums

Jerome Monroe Smucker's Canning Jars

Jerry Andrus’ Organ

Jerry Garcia's Blackbulb *

Jerry Siegel's Sketchbook

Jesse James' Saddle

Jesse James' Pistol

Jesse Owens' Hitler Oak

Jesse Owens' Running Shoes

Jesse Pomeroy's Ribbon and Spool

Jester's Mask

Jesus of Nazareth's Whip

Jesús García's Brake Wheel

Jet Engine from the Gimli Glider

Jet Glass Cicada Button

Jethro Tull's Hoe

Jeweled Scabbard of Sforza

Jiang Shunfu’s Mandarin Square

Jim Davis' Pet Carrier

Jim Fixx's Shorts

Jim Henson's Talking Food Muppets

Jim Jones' Sunglasses

Jim Londos' Overalls

Jim Robinson's Army Bag

Jim Thorpe's Shoulder Pads

Jim Ward's Piercing Samples

Jimi Hendrix's Bandana

Jimi Hendrix's Bong

Jimi Hendrix's Guitars *

Jimmie Rodgers Rail Brake

Jimmy Durante's Cigar

Jimmy Gibb Jr's Stock Car

Jimmy Hoffa's Comb

Jin Dynasty Chainwhip

Jingle Harness

Joan II, Duchess of Berry's Dress

Joan of Arc's Chain Mail

Joan of Arc's Helmet (canon)

Joan Feynman's Ski Pole

Joanna of Castile's Vase

Joan Rivers' Carpet Steamer

Joan Rivers' Red Carpet

Joe Ades's Potato Peeler

Joe Girard’s Keys

Joe Rosenthal's Camera Lens

Joel Brand's Playing Cards

Joséphine de Beauharnais' Engagement Ring

Johan Alfred Ander’s Piece of Porcelain

Johann Baptist Isenring’s Acacia Tree

Johann Bartholomaeus Adam Beringer's Lying Stones

Johann Blumhardt's Rosary

Johann Dzierzon’s Beehive Frame

Johann Georg Elser's Postcard

Johann Maelzel's Metronome *

Johann Rall's Poker Cards

Johann Tetzel's Indulgence

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Prism

Johannes Brahms' Coffee Creamer

Johannes Diderik van der Waals' Gloves

Johannes Fabricius' Camera Obscura

Johannes Gutenburg's Memory Paper *

Johannes Gutenburg's Printing Press *

Johannes Gutenberg's Printing Press Keys

Johannes Kepler's Planetary Model

Johannes Kepler's Telescope Lense

Johannes Kjarval’s Landscape Painting

John A. Macready's Ray-Bans *

John A. Roebling's Steel Cable

John A.F. Maitland's Musical Brainnumber *

John André’s Stocking

John Anthony Walker's Minox

John Axon's Footplate

John Babbacombe Lee’s Trapdoor

John Bardeen's Radio

John Bodkin Adams’ Stethoscope

John Brown's Body *

John Brown's Machete

John C. Koss SP3 Stereophones

John C. Lilly's Isolation Tank Valve

John Cabot's Map

John Carl Wilcke's Rug *

John Crawley's Painting

John Croghan's Limestone Brick

John Dalton's Weather Vane

John Dee's Golden Talisman

John Dee's Obsidian Crystal Ball

John Dee’s Seal of God

John DeLorean's Drawing Table

John Dickson Carr's Driving Gloves

John Dillinger's Pistol *

John D. Grady’s Satchel

John D. Rockefeller's Bible

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and Jr.'s Top Hats

John Dwight's Hammer

John F. Kennedy's Coconut

John F. Kennedy's Presidental Limousine

John F. Kennedy's Tie Clip *

John Flaxman's Casting Molds

Sir John Franklin's Scarf

John Gay's Shilling

John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s Pen

John H. Kellogg's Bowl

John H. Kellogg's Corn Flakes

John H. Lawrence's Pacifier

John Hancock's Quill

John Harrison’s Longcase Clock

John Hawkwood’s Lance

John Hendrix's Bible

John Henry Moore's White Banner

John Henry's Sledge Hammer

John Hetherington's Top Hat

John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter's Torture Rack

John Holmes Pump *

John Hopoate's Cleats

John Howard Griffin's Bus Fare

John Hunter's Stitching Wire

John Hunter's Surgical Sutures

John J. Pershing's Boots

John Jacob Astor's Beaver Pelt

John Jervis’ Ship

John Joshua Webb’s Rock Chippings

John Kay's Needle

John Keat's Grecian Urn *

John, King of England's Throne

John L. Sullivan's Boots

John Langdon Down's Stencils

John Lawson's Mannequin Legs

John Lennon's Glasses

John "Liver-Eating" Johnson's Axe

John Logie Baird's Scanning Disk *

John M. Allegro's Fly Amanita

John Macpherson's Ladle

John Malcolm's Chunk of Skin

John Malcolm's Skin Wallet

John McEnroe's Tennis Racket *

John Milner's Yellow '32 Ford Deuce Coupe

John Moore-Brabazon’s Waste Basket

John Morales' McGruff Suit

John Mytton’s Carriage

John Pasche's Rolling Stones Poster Design

John Paul Jones's Sword

John Pemberton's Tasting Spoon

John Philip Sousa's Sousaphone

John Rambo's Composite Bow

John Rykener's Ring

John Shore's Tuning Fork

John Simon's Mouthwash

John Simon Ritchie's Padlock Necklace

John Smith of Jamestown's Sword

John Snow's Dot Map

John Snow’s Pump Handle

John Stapp’s Rocket Sled

John Steinbeck's Luger

John Sutcliffe's Camera

John Sutter's Pickaxe

John Tunstall's Horse Saddle

John Trumbull's "Painting of George Washington"

John von Neumann's Abacus

John Walker's Walking Stick

John Wayne Gacy's Clown Painting *

John Wayne Gacy's Facepaint

John Wesley Hardin's Rosewood Grip Pistol

John Wesley Powell's Canoe

John Wesley Powell’s Canteen

John Wilkes Booth's Boot *

John Wilkes Booth Wanted Poster

John William Polidori's Bookcase

Johnny Ace's Gun

Johnny Appleseed's Tin Pot *

Johnny Campbell's University of Minnesota Sweater

Johnny Depp's Scissor Gloves

Johnny Smith's Steering Wheel

Johnny Weismuller's Loincloth *

Joker's BANG! Revolver

Jon Stewart's Tie

Jonathan Coulton's Guitar

Jonathan R. Davis' Bowie Knife

Jonathan Shay's Copy of Iliad/Odyssey

Jonestown Water Cooler

Jorge Luis Borges' Scrapbook

José Abad Santos' Pebble

José Delgado’s Transmitter

Jose Enrique de la Pena's Chest Piece

Jōsei Toda’s Gohonzon Butsudan

Josef Frings’ Ferraiolo

Josef Mengele's Scalpel

Josef Stefan's Light Bulbs

Joseph of Arimathea's Tomb Rock

Joseph of Cupertino's Medallion *

Joseph Day's Sickle

Joseph Ducreux's Cane

Joseph Dunninger's Pocket Watch

Joseph Dunningers’ Props

Joseph E. Johnston Confederate Flag

Joseph Force Crater's Briefcases

Joseph Fourier's Pocket Knife

Joseph Glidden’s Barbed Wire

Joseph Goebbels' Radio *

Joseph Jacquard's Analytical Loom

Joseph Bolitho Johns’ Axe

Joseph Kittinger's Parachute

Joseph Lister's Padding

Joseph McCarthy's List of Communists

Joseph Merrick's Hood

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier's Wicker Basket

Joseph Moir’s Token

Joseph Pilate's Resistance Bands *

Joseph Polchinski’s Billiard Ball

Joseph Stalin's Gold Star Medal *

Joseph Stalin's Sleep Mask *

Joseph Swan's Electric Light

Joseph Vacher's Accordion

Joseph Vacher's Dog Skull

Joseph Valachi's '58 Chevrolet Impala

Josephus' Papyrus

Joseph Wolpe's Glasses

Josephine Cochrane's Dishwasher

Joshua's Trumpet *

Josiah S. Carberry's Cracked Pot

Joshua Vicks' Original Batch of Vicks Vapor Rub

Josiah Wedgewood's Medallion

Jost Burgi's Armillary Sphere *

Jovan Vladimir's Cross

Juana the Mad of Castiles' Crown

Juan Luis Vives' Quill Set

Juan Moreira’s Facón

Juan Pounce de Leon's Chalice

Juan Ponce de León's Helmet

Juan Seguin's Bandolier

Jubilee Grand Poker Chip *

Judah Loew ben Belazel's Amulet *

Judas Iscariot’s Thirty Silver Coins

Judson Laipply's Shoes

Jules Baillarger's Decanter

Jules Leotard's Trapeze Net

Jules Verne's Original Manuscripts

Julia Agrippa's Chalice

Julia Child's Apron *

Julia Child's Whisk

Julian Assange’s Flash Drive

Julie d’Aubigny's Sabre

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's Wedding Rings

Julius Asclepiodotus’ Shield Boss

Julius Caesar's Wreath

Julius Wilbrand's Lab Coat Buttons *

Jumanji

Jumper Cables

Junji Koyama’s Vegetables

Jure Sterk's Ballpoint Pen

Jürgen Wattenberg's Leather Provision Bag

Justa Grata Honoria’s Engagement Ring

Justin Bieber's Guitar

Justinian I's Chariot Wheel

Justin O. Schmidt's Wasp Mask

Justus von Liebig's Fertilizer Sack

Justus von Liebig's Mirror

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21 things and 21 tags

I was tagged by @hachibe , thank you! <3

nickname: I’m Camilla. Some has tried to call me Milla but it never lasted. My partner sometimes call me “kjære”. 

zodiac: Okay, I know nothing about this, so I made a chart. Fun times. 😁

Leo sun. Apparently that means that I like authority (hmmm) and aspire towards an ideal. That I like to give advice. That I am honest, frank, loyal, open and sincere. Weaknesses: pride, vanity, arrogance, presumption and disdain of others. 

Moon in Gemini. Pleasant. Sharp intellect. Likes literature, adapts to all situations and social groups. Works in contact with the public, literary occupations, travel. Weaknesses: lack of follow-up of ideas, indecision, goes back on decisions.

Scorpio rising. Scorpio rising people have presence and look for answers by reading between the lines. Weaknesses: Secretive, Self-destructive, Moody, Fears letting go of control , Obsessive Behaviour and in Sexual Matters etc. Woops.

height: 1,57 cm

last movie I saw: How to train your dragon III (yes, I have kids)

last thing I googled: “my zodiac sign” lol

favorite musician: I have no idea, I like too many! Wait, let me see. Aretha Franklin is like the beginning of everything to me, at least if I forget about composers like. idk...  Beethoven. Patti Smith was pretty important, too. No, I think Aretha Franklin is a bigger fave. I also love Miles Davis. PJ Harvey. Björk. Right now I’m really enthusiastic because of the band Gåte. Nah I need to stop now.

song stuck in my head: Oh shit I just had “Vennebyen” stuck in my head, because one of my kids was watching the show on repeat. I need to listen to more grown up music. And watch more things for myself.

other blogs: @alterlovleg. Also, I’m on pillowfort. 

do I get asks: Not much! I mostly get very happy when I get them. 

blogs following: 666 😈

amount of sleep: about 5- 6 hours per day but I need about 8

lucky number: I like 7 although I doubt that it’s lucky in any way. Darn, I should have said 2121.

what I’m wearing: Glasses. Black trousers, a black tunic-thingie with flowers. 

dream job: My job right now is pretty good, actually. But. If I could write and paint in like a place with other people AND get paid for it, I would have loved that. I like to paint and write, but it’s lonely, and I need to be social from time to time. If someone could do the paperwork for me, and keep me organized, I would love to have like creative courses or maybe use painting in treatment.

dream trip: I have wanted to go to Iceland for a long time. Now I have a new dream about Guadeloupe, and several other destinations, too.

favorite food: Everything, as long as it’s prepared well. No, but I really like sushi with lots of wasabi. I can say that. I think that moon in Gemini thing is right, decisions is tricky, lol.

play any instruments: I sing and I have learned to play the piano and cornet. I tried to learn how to play guitar but I never really had the patience to learn it.

favorite song(s): I don’t know. I don’t listen much to music right now. I really like that song "Feel fine” by Emile Nicolas, though. It killed me in that scene in Lovleg. I like that “Lantern” by The White Birch. Heard it first on Skam OG. And I like “Samurai Swords” by Highasakite. Or the acoustic version of “Golden ticket” by highasakite. “Mountaineers” by Susanne Sundfør. Yeah, I heard them first on Skam Austin. Do you see a pattern here? Anyway, apart from these melancholy songs I mostly like darker, rawer stuff. No, that’s not entirely true because I like everything from jazz to metal to pop or folk music, just as long as it‘s... well done. 

random fact about me: I collect elephants.

describe yourself as aesthetic things: something (anything) blue, like the sea or the mountains, a warm, heavy bowl, maybe with a crack but still beautiful, elephants, huldra in the fog, worn out paint brushes, the ankh, a flying dragon, a pile of books and a half filled mug of tea. Idk. Something like that? Aesthetic is not something I think about a lot, hah.

I don’t know who’s tagged from before but I wanna tag: @evakuality, @arindwell, @mynameisnotthepoint, @likereallove, @aimitis, @bewa2bewa@canonicallyanxious, @kapplebougher, @softesteven, @thegirlnooneknows5, @lisaruvo, @artemis2121, @heihallohadet, @emmanette, @evenheartisak, @show-me-heaven, @hakkepippern, @miranhas-art, @kenny15, @amfelia, @notskam

It’s just if you want to! ♡ and anyone else that sees this and wants to, do it! 

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Bangtan Unsolved: the Spoopy Spirits of Franklin Castle || 4:23 AM

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With yet another investigation in the books, you should feel satisfied. But something in the back of your mind keeps nagging you.

characters: reader + hoseok, ft. the rest of ot7

genre: ghost hunter!au, mostly fluff, some (attempts at) horror

warnings: (mentions of) ghosts & demons

word count: 1.2k

a/n: how was everyone’s Halloween? Here’s a small epilogue to conclude this past month’s Halloween series before everyone moves on to Christmas ;)

They say time flies – but waiting here, near the front door in this cold hallway, the seconds seem to tick by much too slowly.

It’s not necessarily that you’re impatient, per se – you just want to get the hell out of here as fast as possible. Alright, okay, you might be a little impatient, but at least you feel like you’re managing to stay calm enough, just staring ahead of you with your arms crossed over one another as you wait for the last few crew members to join.

Hoseok, however, seems a little less subtle. He’s jittery with unfaltering nerves, shifting his weight from one leg to the other, continuously looking at doorway to the ballroom, where Jimin and Jungkook are packing up the static camera set up there. He’s been rambling for a while now about everything that comes to mind, though you’re pretty sure he’s realised that himself, too.

“This is really your own doing, you know,” you tell him with a small smile, watching him glance at the cameramen for the third time in a few seconds to check how far along they are. “You wanted to put a camera there.”

“Doesn’t mean I don’t want to get the fuck out of here,” he returns with a shaky sigh, checking once more and brightening up when he sees that Jungkook is zipping up their bags. “Yes, there we go,” he mutters, getting ready to move outside. While he keeps watching the crew as they approach you, you subtly walk towards the front door, a plan for a last, positively devious little joke forming in your mind.

Once everyone has caught up, Hoseok rushes over to you, standing right behind you as he waits for you to let everyone out. You turn the doorknob – or, at least, you pretend to – and attempt to push it open, though the door doesn’t budge.

You rattle it a little, pressing your shoulder against the wood, chipped paint latching onto your coat as you pretend to really, really try to open the door. “Uh, Hoseok?” you start gingerly, though you don’t turn around as you try to suppress your smile. Once you’ve managed to do so, you look over your shoulder at him with the most serious look you can manage. “I can’t open it.”

“What?” Hoseok breathes. He looks rattled, eyes as wide as saucers as he looks at the doorknob, then back at you. “What?” he simply repeats, taking a hesitant step forward.

Even though you’d love to keep up the charade, you can’t help but laugh a little, which makes him look up at you with narrowed eyes. Shaking your head at him, you actually turn the doorknob this time and the door swings open with ease. A wall of cold air hits you right in the face, though that doesn’t put a damper on your mood. “You’re really easy to fool, you know that?” you remark as he rushes out the door first.

“And you’re a terrible friend,” he replies, already at the fence that separates the front lawn from the streets, quick to step out onto the pavement and stop at the van to wait for you to catch up. The harsh, yellow street lanterns shine down on him, casting long shadows on his face and making his hair look even darker than it actually is.

“And I’m also the friend that’ll buy you food tomorrow,” you tell him as you reach the fence too, holding it open for the crew to walk through. Seokjin is the last to exit, having locked up the castle’s front door.

Hoseok chuckles and shakes his head. “Then I guess I’ll just have to forgive you, hm?”

You return a small smile, closing the fence and walking up to Hoseok. You take off the equipment you’ve been carrying around all night and put it in the back of the van, helping everyone do the same with theirs while Seokjin quickly jogs down to the house next door to drop the keys in the owners’ mailbox.

Everyone piles into the van at once, Jungkook sliding into the driver’s seat with Seokjin sitting at the passenger’s side, turning on all the heating the van has to offer. The warmth is an incredibly welcome break to you all, though you can still hear some teeth clattering as Jungkook starts the engine.

Hoseok sinks into the seat beside you with a long sigh, eyes fluttering closed as he revels in the heat from the seat warmer. You feel your hands tingling as you pull off your gloves, feeling returning in the tip of your nose and your toes.

“Tired?” you ask Hoseok as Jungkook manoeuvres the van out of its parking spot, a hum of chatter in the background.

He hums a little, slumping in his seat, eyes still closed and head on the brink of falling onto your shoulder. “Yeah,” he mumbles in reply. “But I know I won’t be able to sleep tonight because of all of this, so that’s just great.”

“I’m sure you’ll be fine,” you tell him softly as he finally does rest his head on your shoulder. He hums once more, breathing already slowing down as he settles into the crook of your neck, hair tickling your skin.

Feeling your own eyes starting to droop, too, you lean your head on his, allowing your eyelids to fall closed.

There’s a sudden flash of white and your eyes pop open, head shooting up. You blink, and the vague figure burnt into your irises seems to disappear from sight.

Jimin, sitting across from you, seems to notice your little moment, tilting his head at you. “You okay, there?” he asks, an amused smile tugging at his lips.

You nod slowly. “Yeah,” you softly reply. “Just a little tired from explaining science all night.”

Jimin chuckles, nodding. “Can’t blame you,” he replies, leaning back into his seat. “Get some rest, then. We’ll wake you when we’re at the hotel.”

You nod and lean your head on Hoseok’s again. “Just promise me you won’t draw anything on my face again,” you mutter, getting only laughter in reply as your eyes flutter closed.

Your heart skips a beat when, once more, you see the same white figure on your eyelids as before – the one that’s been in the back of your mind ever since you saw it hover in its doorway. Or, as you should say, ever since you thought you saw it hover in its doorway.

Hands going a little clammy, heart starting to beat a little faster, you force yourself to keep your eyes closed, to ignore the images your mind has conjured up, to think of anything but the flash of white you thought you saw. But it’s harder than you’d like to admit.

You can deal with coincidences. You’re not spooked by things you can explain logically – a pebble falling on a piano key, gravity pulling a book down to the ground, a rat messing with some tools on a workbench. But your mind just doesn’t seem satisfied with the ‘light reflection’ explanation you came up with.

You sigh and shuffle a little closer to Hoseok’s warm, snoozing figure. When you squeeze your eyes closed, the figure seems to fade, at least a little bit, and you try to push any doubts out of your mind, too. You don’t believe in ghosts – you can’t believe in ghosts, if you’re being real with yourself. It was just a reflection of light, you tell yourself. Nothing more.

You hope you can come up with a better explanation.

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a/n: thanks for reading, I hope you liked it! What did you think of this series, and of this epilogue specifically? Let me know :) I hope you have a great day/night wherever you are!

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OzAsia Festival in Adelaide with Schnithouse

The October 21 to November 7 festival will present 11 world premieres, one of which will be the debut theatre work by author Michael Mohammed Ahmad, whose novel The Lebs was a finalist in the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2019. There is more about OzAsia & Schnithouse Rundle Street.

The festival’s popular Moon Lantern Parade will expand from a one-night event to a four-day experience, the Lucky Dumpling Market will return to Elder Park, and there will be a new writing and ideas program – In Other Words – on the Adelaide Riverbank Lawns.

Shun Wah, executive producer of the arts company Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, took over the reins as OzAsia artistic director last year but the pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 festival, which was replaced instead by an online series of talks.

Several artists will travel from overseas for the 2021 OzAsia: UK-based pianist Belle Chen is presenting the Australian premiere of her work Destinations, a show using electric keys, synthesizers and visual installations; Japanese choreographer and dancer Yui Kawaguchi is coming from Europe for a work created with local performer Alison Currie; and Singapore-based theatre director Jeffrey Tan will present a show called Open Homes, created in collaboration with six Asian-Australian storytellers.

The vast majority of the artists, however, are based in Australia – and Shun Wah is not unhappy about that.

Among the established artists in the line-up are seasoned OzAsia Festival performer Mindy Meng Wang, a Chinese-Australian musician and composer who will present the world premiere of her new work When at The Lab in Light Square. When is described as a poignant and immersive audio-visual meditation on life during global lockdown, incorporating the ancient Chinese harp (guzheng), electronic cello, synthesizer and film footage.

Shun Wah says the festival will also feature a number of exciting new Asian-Australian voices, such as theatre-maker Anchuli Felicia King (writer of the satirical play White Pearl, announced previously), writer Michael Mohammed Ahmad and dancer-choreographer Raghav Handa.

Well you can enjoy all of this in Adelaide along our delicious foods at Schnithouse Rundle Street. You can enjoy german dishes like Adelaide Schnitzel, Chicken Burgers, Beers, Wine & More.