🎃 Michael Cerliano 🎃

Supposedly his aunt danced with Napoleon, too!

Library card, bookmark, and keychain card with the old courthouse on the square bathed in purple and green and surrounded by bats.

Got my official Denton Halloween library card today 👻

Bertrand Russell lived long enough to have John Stuart Mill as his godfather and to head a people's tribunal with Sartre to investigate war crimes in Vietnam

Current side quests:

Article for American folk horror zine

Grant application

Conference proposal

Best to all of you in your journeys 🧙‍♂️

Coming soon: Lost occult books of the 1920s: relaunching Vine Press Publishing never-before-seen books by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg and officially relaunching his 1920s Vine Press.

SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg!

tinyurl.com/vinepress

If only there was a term for this sort of thing 🤔

Swear her in.

Bosch was, among other things, one of the greatest depicters of Little Dudes in the history of Western art

The internet should never have advanced beyond this point

World Horror Stories book cover

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Microsoft AI developer Smooth Jimmy Apollo sees nothing wrong with this

Tales of Occult Britain - edited by Maria J Pérez Cuervo- cover art by Isabella Mazzanti, design by Sam Freeman. Cover shows a skull with a crown, a witch, a faerie, a toad and the moon.

Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain.

👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com

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Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

lets go ghouls

Pregaming at Harvest House before tonight's staged reading. The beer is a bitter called This
Charming Ale

A giant inflatable skeleton wearing a top hat, perched on the roof of East Side.

A plastic dog skeleton who looks rather cheerful considering his current ontological state.

Keeps getting spookier (complimentary) around here

Singing this to the tune of "Two-Headed Boy"

My favorite place in Houston. Always an overwhelming experience. I really want to go back someday.

Two Crabs - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14696

When I realize I'm safe and sound now, back in good old 2025

A banner promoting Denton's 31 Days of Halloween

A sign in which a purple monster leaning over a brick wall is biting a banner promoting Denton as "The Halloween Capital of Texas"

Denton Halloween swag, including a tee shirt, a canned beverage koozie, and a tote bag

Big day for local Halloween enjoyers

One of the many reasons I miss Anthony Bourdain is because he used his fame and influence to do things like edit and publish a volume of Hagerty's writings, complete with an introduction.

Watched this in Steve Fredman's poetics class nearly 20 years ago, the same class where I got into Cage's writings. Good memories

I've had a lot of fun with this one over the years. A good deal if you like dice-based gaming and cosmic horror.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.