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ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

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Two writers. One ferris wheel turning over the Atlantic.

📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.

YouTube video by Etch Stephen Graham Jones | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 1

@etchfilm.bsky.social just made the episode #1 of FIRST WORD IN HORROR available for free on Youtube and it's @sgj.bsky.social talking about the evolutionary origins of our love of horror! Watch this first ep, then subscribe to Etch to see the whole series because it's excellent!

Book Club: Read ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,’ by Stephen Graham Jones, with the Book Review

Whoah, cool. Such an honor:

ETCH CAST - Episode 2 - From Hell’s Heart, I Film at Thee Welcome back to the shadows.

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Stay curious. Stay weird. ETCH CAST is live.

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“He’s kept all of the rejection letters he’s received from publishers and he has them in a folder on his shelf.” 📚

ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

Their novels stalk your shelves. Their stories live on your screens.

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A shelf of nightmares, bound in paper and ink. 📚

Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.

The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.

Every fantasy head should watch SPINE OF NIGHT. It's really an incredible accomplishment.

ETCH CAST is LIVE! The shadows have a new voice.

Hear the full story in the premiere episode of ETCH CAST. Now streaming on Spotify with a video version exclusive to our Substack: etchstudio.substack.com/p/etch-cast-...

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Imagine buying a house in New Jersey and finding out it’s Bobby Bacala’s from THE SOPRANOS.

Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.

Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.

Call Me Etch

ETCH CAST is LIVE! @swordcandlebell.bsky.social recalls how Gremlins delivered his first cinematic terror. We dig into the films and books that scarred us young — and why genre isn’t a cage but a toolkit.

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So here’s your mission: when the episode drops, listen, leave us a review that confuses the algorithms in our favor, and follow us wherever you find your podcasts. And if you’re really one of us, spread the word — the dark always has room for more.

Stay curious. Stay weird. See you Wednesday.

🎥 Video version: exclusive for Substack subscribers.

🎧 Audio version: free everywhere you haunt your podcasts (Spotify, Apple, and beyond).

The shadows have a new frequency. Our podcast, ETCH CAST, premieres this week. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos of independent filmmaking: childhood nightmares (Gremlins, Large Marge), decades of Stephen King (yes, even Maximum Overdrive), and why we think genre isn’t a cage — it’s a toolkit.

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

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ICYMI! This is the final chapter.

Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.

Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

His episodes of FIRST WORD ON HORROR are streaming now on our Substack.

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Think of this as your reading break.

@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

👉 Read his interview in the new issue of Heavy Metal and subscribe to ETCH on Substack to follow our projects + support independent filmmaking: etchstudio.substack.com

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@heavymetalofficial.bsky.social just called our own Philip Gelatt “one of the leading names in working adult animation and speculative entertainment.”

We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.

Thank you John!! 🙌

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ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

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ICYMI! What does The Spine of Night sound like?

Not just swords and screams, but springs ripped from garage doors, echoes of Conan, and music forged in the fires of fantasy.

In Part V, hear from composer Peter Scartabello on how he shaped the score, experimental and unforgettable.

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

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The biggest voices in horror fiction. The stories that keep you up at night. And the insights that make it all the more chilling. 😱

Critics are calling FIRST WORD ON HORROR “an essential look at horror’s most compelling voices.”

Meet Belle: Filmmaker, Horror Fan, Pink Hair Roller Legend Some people find film.

She believes horror can heal. That Surf’s Up is cinema. And that filmmaking should feel like Star Trek on no sleep and bad coffee.

🎬 Read the full interview on our Substack: etchstudio.substack.com/p/meet-belle...

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Meet Belle. NYU-trained. Horror-inclined. Pink-hair-roller-wearing chaos wrangler.

She grew up on Don Bluth and DVD closets with sliding ladders. Now she crafts the strange, the sharp, and the genre-bent with Etch.

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

It was sweaty, chaotic, and the most fun on set — because when you gather people who dream in the same worlds, the story doesn’t end when the cameras stop.

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