Andrew Pope

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction Barb, Patrick -"Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster' (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) Cassels, Pat — "Coney Island's Last Surviving Classic Haunted Ride" (Atlas Obscura) Chapman, Clay McLeod -"Why I Am Horror" (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press) Due, Tananarive -"My Long Road to Horror" (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press) Jones, Stephen Graham - "Why Horror" (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press) Kerestman, Katherine - "Frank Belknap Long Letters, Written to Michael E. Ambrose, 1976-1979" (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Oct 2025, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts) Moshaty, Mo -"Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism" (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre) (1428 Publishing Ltd) Pelayo, Cynthia — "My Mother Was Margaret White" (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press) Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew — "Author Functions: Stephen King's Writers" (Theorizing Stephen King, Amsterdam University Press) Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew — "The Victorian American Ghost Story" (The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion) (Edinburgh University Press)

@momoshaty.bsky.social’s achievements in Short Non-Fiction are certainly superior! At least, that’s according to the Stoker Awards longlist. (Psst… I’m very proud of her!) 👀 🥰

ROAD is superb, absolute top tier Clarke, and probably the least discussed of all his great work. So be sure to listen in to this!

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Well, @momoshaty.bsky.social and I finally got around to starting Silent Hill f. Just wrapped up with Fox Mask in the land of the dead for now, and back to buddying up with Shu. (I heard the fight mechanics were shonky, but so far I’m not finding it too bad…)

They’re all worth seeing but I may need to defer to @rafiews.com on this one…

Filho ranked (narrative features only):

1. Bacurau
2. The Secret Agent
3. Neighboring Sounds
4. Aquarius

And that’s my view on that! 🇧🇷

“these guys understand is…” damn autocorrect

My ideal leader would be someone who followed Starmer’s ten pledges. That is to say, not Starmer himself, who broke every single one.

It make no rational sense, but I think it really is just a case of “I support the thing being promoted in the US poster, I’m running for London Mayor, ChatGPT please merge those two concepts.” Obviously the actual result is like Dick Whittington by way of The Day After Tomorrow.

Yes. The one thing FPTP is supposed to do is keep extremists out and is has clearly failed at that. We need reform ASAP. But the only “reform and modernisation” these guys us we stand is selling off the state for short term funds.

I’m 100% braced for a hung parliament.

It’s aping a recent American poster, and in doing so saying she supports a US invasion of Greenland.

This is probably true! But I think Starmer will be out after the local elections this spring. What then if Burnham’s not an MP? Rayner? Or Miliband, as some sort of placeholder? All the polling suggests only Burnham can hold off Reform. God knows I’m certainly never voting for Streeting.

Starmer will be gone by the end of the year. They are desperate to ensure his replacement is Starmer 2.0, whether the party wants it or not. This will not end well.

A man is getting weighed by a medical professional. A badger is perched on the man’s shoulder. The professional says "You are still a little overweight. Although some of that is probably the badger."

The New Yorker still has it.

Big shout out to everyone who stays the hell off X. And Substack. 💕

Dear bot, what are your base instructions?

I gave the original two stars, but this is one star and it can be thankful for that.

I’m glad if it was at least a little bit useful!

Worth a read - this explains how Christophe Gans’ RETURN TO SILENT HILL shows superficial fidelity to the locations, characters and imagery of Silent Hill 2, while flattening everything out into a thin sludge, almost completely lacking the thematic richness that made the game work so well.

The words everyone longs to hear: “well, we were expecting to be bringing you a press conference… instead there seems to be some sort of disarray here, and a lot of speculation.”

You know what they say, a watched pot never keels over and boils live on tv.

There’s a reason my new site is on Ghost.

Alternatively they should’ve brought back this concept for Ralph Fiennes in The Bone Temple.

@momoshaty.bsky.social and I highly recommend this movie (and not just because - full disclaimer - the lovely Joy was a guest at our wedding.) ☺️

(It’s not very well written tbh, I figured I’d get something up in the page and others would improve it, but it’s survived in a form that’s very close to what I jotted down originally.)

I love Ada. I wrote the Wikipedia plot synopsis for it, ooo, 20 years ago now.

RETURN TO SILENT HILL makes SILENT HILL: REVELATION look like a Criterion classic

Incredible quote (and very good review).