Dana McSwain

Bear Witch Project | Dana McSwain | Substack A Cleveland woman is exiled to a quaint New England village infested with bears and moose. Gen X essayist, humorist, horror writer. 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee. Click to read Bear Witch Project, by Da...

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

Ep. 34 - Dana McSwain and the Gothic Depths of Roseneath The Suspense is Killing Me · Episode

Had a blast talking Rust Belt Gothic, big books, and Björk with L.C.Marino
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This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help

Who are these people playing chicken with megafauna

A super chatty cashier in rural New Hampshire just told me she's a fan of a guy named RFK JR who is "running for president with that Trump guy" and she really hopes they win in November's election. ONE WEEK AFTER THE LITERAL INAUGURATION. I want to be this oblivious.

I cannot love this more. I keep looking at it and ignoring the literal White Mountains

Holy shit balls you captured MY SOUL, you glorious WITCH (ugly sobbing)

I'm with Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.

Being playfully shamed for my broken Mandarin on Rednote is an unexpected delight of 2025.

Far too often, people in politics use the term “working class” and mean white men.

The single mom working two minimum wage jobs is working class.

The server at a restaurant is working class.

The working class is diverse. It’s damn near everyone.

Proust had his madeleines but give me a smooshed PB&J in a sandwich baggie and I'm in third grade at the zoo and I'm literally going to die bc the teacher is making us walk up the hill to the primate house and I dressed myself today which means I'm dressed as practically as ET hiding in the closet.

Superman trailer made me homesick for Cleveland in the best possible way❤️

You can't dehumanize millions of people and then be surprised at their utter lack of sympathy for you.

Omigod

The Ent wives had the right idea.

Last week I did an interview and they asked why I chose to write horror. Dude, I'm a woman, I'm surprised when women DON'T write horror.

Former Clevelander here. I am a middle-aged woman who has never watched a football game, my hobbies include doll houses, poodles, and sad songs. 100% sure I could be a better team owner than the Haslams. They are one of the worst things to happen to Cleveland and that's really saying something.

I would pay extra moneys if the touchless car wash played the SpongeBob Jellyfish Rave song on a loop while my station wagon was getting sprayed with confetti colored soaps and massaged with giant foam pompoms.

There's a reason why authors have headshots- You are never getting a good candid pic of me- I've got several loose screws and a lazy eye. My headshot is the result of eleven billion pics of me blinking or looking like I just learned Santa isn't real.

I have an interview for a newspaper in my home tomorrow, my friend S. said " Do a quick doll house count, sister, and whatever that number is, cut it in half because you are creepy enough as it is." I feel seen, but I will not be doing this.

Jon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ for 2024 election cycle Jon Stewart, the longtime talk show host for Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” will return as an executive producer.

Jon Stewart is coming back to “The Daily Show” after nearly a decade.

Paramount Global announced Wednesday that Stewart, who hosted the talk show during its most impactful and popular years, will take up hosting duties on Monday nights beginning on Feb. 12 — the Monday after the Super Bowl.

Final draft is due to editor 2/1 and I'm at the point where I'm making decisions of expediency. As a compulsive manuscript petter, not sure that's a bad thing.

Coming in 2024
Relict, the sequel to the four time award winning Gothic horror novel, Roseneath.
It's about time.