@mallorysmart.bsky.social
Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things. https://mallorysmart.com/
2015 called. It wants its iced coffee and emotional damage back...
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Josh Dale: The Meat Man
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Last Halloween movie at The Midnight Realmโฆ
01.11.2025 04:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 010 Indie Horror Books from 2025 You Wonโt Be Able To Stop Reaching For
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Today I learned the real haunted house is my front porch when a neighbor tries to make small talkโฆ
01.11.2025 03:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Nonstop horror at The Midnight Realmโฆ
31.10.2025 21:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Some scenes donโt fade.
I wrote about the 5 most chilling horror movie intros forever ago, and I still stand by itโฆ
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Keeping it going at The Midnight Realmโฆ
31.10.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
For this Halloween I decided to go as someone who insists itโs not a phaseโฆ
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Starting off Halloween right at The Midnight Realmโฆ
31.10.2025 16:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโm 35 and just said โoh my goodnessโ instead of โwhat the fuck.โ The decay has begun...
31.10.2025 01:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trying to live in the moment but the momentโs weird.
30.10.2025 06:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Tonite at The Midnight Realmโฆ
29.10.2025 22:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Beach readings at night feel illegal in the best way. I read a satirical true crime Midwest rot piece called Making a Murderer.
Canโt wait to share itโฆ
Before I went and read poems in 40ยฐ wind like thatโs a normal thing writers doโฆ ๐ค
28.10.2025 05:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Chicago being Chicagoโฆ
28.10.2025 01:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Therapy quote for the weekโฆ
27.10.2025 18:01 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
If youโve never listened to Chicago poets scream into the void of Lake Michigan at night, do you even live here?
27.10.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Had a chill day keeping it weird at Villa Perkโฆโ๏ธ
27.10.2025 04:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If a book gives you the feeling someone is watching you from the cornfield, itโs probably one of ours.
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A Boyโs Best Friend Is His Mother
27.10.2025 04:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I donโt go out to have fun. I go out so thereโs loreโฆ
27.10.2025 03:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Last episode at The Midnight Realmโฆ
27.10.2025 00:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I went to a Chicago reading where someone invoked the devil, someone else played synth โtherapy music,โ and I left believing in community again.
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Only A Mother Could Love YouโMonster: The Ed Gein Story (2025)
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We all go a little mad sometimes. I just make it look intentional...
24.10.2025 03:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Not a โsocial literaryโ person.
Just a โmake something weird and go homeโ personโฆ
This weekโs That Horrorcast covers Monster: The Ed Gein Story. An episode so tonally unhinged and scattered that even Ian Brennan wouldโve said โpick a lane.โ
22.10.2025 05:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Spent an hour talking about what got us into the lit world, and how Maudlin isnโt branding.
Itโs what happens when youโre tired of waiting for permissionโฆ
When no one comes to your event, you realize bookselling is just a long con to study human discomfort in real timeโฆ
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