William Blake's The Great Red Dragon

Lucy looks like Monty's sleep paralysis demon.

I got bit by fire ants today. Just a few on my foot. It was dark, so I couldn't see that they'd brought their hill to the surface after yesterday's rain. It's been ages since I got a bug bite from anything other than mosquitoes.

Look at this beautiful review!! And me realizing that I didn't really know whether I did ok until just now.
Sometimes, the long hard work makes us forget how much we loved an idea. Helen just made me fall back in love with it and I'm unendingly grateful for that.

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My favorite SLEEPY HOLLOW fact is that it feels like a historical parody of CSI, but it came out the year before the TV show started.

I mean I do have them in my own Halloween playlist. Just not including them here.

I say I don't include theme songs, but I do have them in my list. You can probably find albums with horror theme songs pretty much anywhere.

Movie/TV (cont.):
19. "Haunted (from Fear Itself)" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
20. "Final Destination" - Within Temptation
21. "Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula" - LVCRFT (feat. Spencer Ludwig)
22. "Remain (from Old)" - Saleka
23. "Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas (Supernatural)

TBC...

Movie/TV (cont.):
14. "Swan Lake Opening" - Tchaikovsky (Black Swan)
15. "Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Scream)
16. "Aperitif" - Hannibal Season 1, Vol. 1 (includes Bach's Goldberg Variations)
17. "Purple People Eater" - NOPE
18. "Pet Sematary" - Ramones

Movie/TV (cont.):
11. "Vampire Hunters"/"The Brides" - Bram Stoker's Dracula
12. "Dangerous Type" - Letters to Cleo/"Dark Secret" - Matthew Sweet (The Craft)
13. "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" - Tiny Tim (Insidious)
14. "Swan Lake Opening" - Tchaikovsky (Black Swan)

Movie/TV (cont.):
6. "Your True Face" - God Module (samples from Nightbreed)
7. "Twisted Nerve" - Kill Bill
8. "Hello Zepp" - Saw
9. "Monochrome Kiss" - AmaLee (Black Butler)
10. "The Host of Seraphim" - The Mist

Movie/TV/Theme Songs (about or from):
1. "Dream of a Witch's Sabbath" - Hector Berlioz (The Shining)
2. "Tubular Bells" - Mike Oldfield (The Exorcist)
3. "Ave Satani" - The Omen
4. "A Nightmare on My Street" - DJ Jazzy Jeff
5. "The Well"/"Television" - The Ring/The Ring 2

Today's category is a large one, so I'm splitting it into two days. These are songs from or referencing horror movies/TV. I don't include basic themes unless they're covered by someone else or they're a proper song.

N&F(M8): 70,033/110,000 words

goddamn it that ai video hits my problem and now i have to live with it rent-free in my head for the rest of my life and i'll be tasting and smelling it for at least a few days, fuck him, i can't believe this is the world we're living in right now, this is fucking insane

Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

I'll probably fix it after rewriting WE FOLLOW YOU IN THE DARK, just to clear out the year with better novels.

I think I figured out a fix for a fundamental problem in my Dracula reimagining. It makes me sad, bc I was happy w/my casting, but I think this is a classic case of killing your darlings.

I also have to move it back a few years. Doesn't feel right when it is. Have to break out the calendars. Yuck.

[Exit King.]

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October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?

Introduced my parents to the movie SLEEPY HOLLOW, which I'd always watched alone, but I thought the R-rated elements were mild enough that they might still find it charming. They did.

almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them

Mmmhh ... I dip a toe in historical unease in this one. Take a peek.

Today we're sharing songs of the dead and those risen from the dead.

Dead/Zombie:
1. "Dead March" - Suicide Commando
2. "Dead of Night" - Depeche Mode
3. "Life, Life" - Young Frankenstein
4. "Skeleton Sam" - LVCRFT
5. "In the Woods Somewhere" - Hozier

Cover of upcoming book - Dark Paths Cover art is of a winding dark road along which a yellow taxi cab is driving. The road disappears into the background and is lined with trees. In the foreground, there is a yellow sign that reads "Strangers - don't let the sun set on you here." In the top left, hovering over the title is a wasp. The text reads - Dark Paths A Queer Horror Romance Collection quote at the bottom of the cover reads - "Queer stories that are sincere, poignant, and more important not than they have ever been." - Cat Voleur, author of Revenge Arc.

We're super excited to share with you the cover of Dark Paths, releasing later this month.

The artwork is by Elliott Cassel, an illustrator, writer, and graphic designer with a passion for the macabre. His work explores the intersection of queerness, sex and violence. He lives in California.

i no longer want to hear mike johnson say "i don't know, i'm not familiar" etc, but i would like to hear the reporters being like "really? speaker of the house and you don't know [subject we all can see and hear and experience]" every single time

You NEED to start calling payment processors again, and at all.

This literally destroys an entire ecosystem. If you literally cannot mention a commission *AT ALL*, that's every individual artist at all ever.

Every maker.

Everyone who runs their business this way.

DO SOMETHING.

Dead/Zombie (cont.):
18. "Garden of Graves" - Rua
19. "I am Stretched on Your Grave" - Kate Rusby
20. "Skeletons" - Maddie Poppe
21. "Raise the Dead" - RAIGN
22. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult
23. "Battlefield" - Panzer AG

End Dead

Dead/Zombie (cont.):
12. "Skeleton Tree" - Auri
13. "Dead Heart Beat" - LVCRFT (feat. John Kassir)
14. "Corpses (A Zombie Love Song)" - God Module
15. "Carrion" - Fiona Apple
16. "Death Couldn't Tear Us Apart" - LVCRFT
17. "Jesus was a Zombie" - Zombie Girl