Kevin Larkin Angioli

‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier From Rebecca to The Birds and scores more creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

Discovered the breathtaking virtuosity and consummate skill of Daphne DuMaurier 13 years ago, when my then-girlfriend put the NYRB edition of her short horror fiction, DON'T LOOK NOW, in my hands; I followed that up with REBECCA, a book I think of every week.
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This is spot on. Our capitulation to the ‘inevitability’ of AI couldn’t come at a worse time.

Co-sign.

Read John Langan! You will never regret it.

Did the chase remind you of a certain chase in Point Break? After all the dread and seriousness, it's like things cut completely loose; the fun those kids were having was so palpable it abruptly shifted the tone of the movie.

I first encountered this thought in Stephen King's Danse Macabre in regard to The Twilight Zone. There's not enough long-term investment in supporting artists in general today, and knee-jerk reactions when expectations are not met. I agree with how this plays out with the streamers.

My “FUCK ICE!” playlist available now on Spotify! A rocking little soundtrack to enjoy while you drive those bastards out of your neighborhood!

#DefendLA
#Defend (YourCityHere)

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The technical legalities of federal interference with state law enforcement are less important than its fundamental challenge to our constitutional system of government. The whole point of the system of state control of local law enforcement and of state militias is as a check against federal abuse of power. This has been true since the founding of the United States, and the only alteration to this system of divided power was after the Civil War, when the federal government was given the authority by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to intervene directly in state governance to purge the taint of the system of slavery from our nation. Since then, the only time that the federal government has used military force to overturn the autonomy of state governments over local law enforcement was yet again in order to further purge the taint of slavery by enforcing desegregation at the end of the Jim Crow period. Now Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are turning this basic constitutional presupposition of our federal system of government on its head. Federal control over military power is being abused to support a system of due process-free snatch-and-grab immigration “enforcement” against state opposition that’s bears a shocking resemblance to the conflicts over the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, to suppress lawful protest that is protected by the First Amendment, and to take over criminal jurisdiction from localities on the pretext of racist stereotypes about urban criminality. This is yet another way in which the current president has betrayed the basic constitutional structure of the United States and yet another ground for impeachment by any Congress that would be faithful to that structure.

our press team asked if I wanted to be included in a media advisory about trump's national guard dictator behavior. No clue if they'll actually dare to use what I sent them, but I'm just going to say how it is

I've read this story "Leg," by Brian Evenson, three times in the past couple days. It is seven short pages, and it is a work of radiant perfection, a sci-fi horror ambiguous fairytale with not a single word wasted, utterly original and self-contained. It's in this anthology, TINY NIGHTMARES.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Trump gave states 10 days to sign anti-DEI policy. NY Education Department is refusing. In a Friday letter to the U.S. Education Department, New York officials said they will not certify that the state is eliminating DEI in schools, despite threats to pull federal funding.

Read Daniel Morton-Bentley's excellent letter of refusal, fully cited, from NYSED, to these fascists. Proud to be a New Yorker and submitting my TPA to NYSED and SUNY to become a New York-certified teacher this weekend.
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'Destroys privacy': Experts panic as Trump eyes letting Feds raid homes without warrants An arcane wartime law President Donald Trump recently invoked to carry out the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members could open the door for federal agents to enter residences without a warra...

Remember when Trump lost his sh#t when he was raided?

That was with a warrant.

They're now going to use the Alien Enemies Act to raid us.

Stazi -East Germany
Gestapo - Nazi Germany
FSB - Russia
ICE - America

They all operate using the same rules with a madman at the helm.

Wildly excited that unbelievable truth, a sublime UK acoustic indie rock trio whose debut almost here (1998) was a definitive album of my late adolescence, is back after 25 years with a terrific EP, sounding just like themselves, and also timely and relevant.

Sad to hear of the passing of L. J. Smith (best known for The Vampire Diaries). I was too cool for YA as a kid/teen/young adult, but fortunately I've made up for it later in life. I have been reading Smith's The Forbidden Game trilogy aloud to my girlfriend, who loves her, and it has been a blast.

Timber industry exec US forest service

A timber industry lobbyist & exec now head of US Forest Service.

The privatization/sell public lands thugs found their guy.

First time in Forest Service history chief wasn’t a career employee.

This thug is about to sell off our public lands to create Trump's sovereign wealth fund.

I advise NOAA on Tribal and Indigenous issues on the ocean as a member of the Marine and Coastal Area Management Federal Advisory Committee

Well, I used to anyway

Trump just dissolved it

In the Mouth of Madness is so underrated! Wish it was represented in this great t-shirt I got from my horror-loving girlfriend for my birthday the other day.

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Well, it's official. I'm on YouTube now. If you're a fan of cult or unpopular horror films, a champion of the cinematic underdog, or find elder millennials amusing when they lose their train of thought, you might like my channel. 🤘

Join me on this deep dive into how Kendrick Lamar's brain is a living manifesto for the neural rewiring needed to win the future.

His #superbowl show revealed his
quantum mind—one capable of fractal thinking & navigating multiple realities at once.

My latest Substack:

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"As a feminist and skilled imaginer of everyday life, she had a sensitive eye for the mundane power struggles of 'the personal is the political.' " Jonathan Bolton examines Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" against a half-century of criticism. lareviewofbooks.org/article/to-t...

Today is the 8th anniversary of the day I committed to never drinking another drop of alcohol. My life improved so much from that choice, a choice I remake daily. I recommend it to anyone and everyone. It is also the birthday of thee D'Angelo. BLACK MESSIAH is my favorite album of the 21st century.

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

--- Harriet Tubman

#BlackHistoryMonth

The wait is over. Darkness is calling. 🔪📖

FIRST WORD ON HORROR is NOW STREAMING on Substack.

Five of horror's most chilling voices share their confessions and stories that will haunt you long after the last word is spoken.

@sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @elizabethhand.bsky.social

every professional writer i know is an absolute pervert for em dashes but go on

Got this trilogy for my girlfriend for Christmas in their original incredible 1994 paperback editions. She loved them as an early teen. Finished reading Volume 1: The Hunter aloud to each other yesterday and it was so much better than I expected. Labyrinth meets cosmic horror meets repressed memory.

Hello there, Bluesky. I'm new. I generally make content celebrating lost or largely unpopular horror films, but lately, I've been focused on condemning our lost and largely unpopular government, so if you enjoy cult cinema and hate fascism, we should probably be friends. #horrorfam

Really good. Woozy, sensuous, gossamer yumminess. Check it out.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

For #BlackHistoryMonth in US, sharing the story of Black physicist Sam Parker who 1840-1846 was indispensable in running experiments on electromagnetic induction in Joseph Henry's (1st Secretary of Smithsonian) lab at College of NJ (Princeton). 🧪 ⚛️
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Happy midsummer and Happy Hill House Day! Eleanor, Theodora, and Luke met up with Dr. John Montague at the house on the appointed date of his summons, June 21st; later, in the library, Luke discovered a horrid tome by Hugh Crain, signed in blood and dated "Twenty-first June, 1881." #shirleyjackson

Slowdive - we're ranking the 5 studio albums (Just for a Day, Souvlaki, Pygmalion, Slowdive, Everything is Alive) and their 5 best non-album tracks.Joining ... Slowdive - Ranking the Albums

Had a blast talking about my favorite shoegaze band, slowdive, with these friends and fellow music-obsessives. 5 albums, 5 EPs, 3 great dudes.
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