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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 5h

Seabury Quinn was the most prolific author at WEIRD TALES. His Jules de Grandin occult detect series ran to 93 stories over ~99 issues, not counting reprints. I've read them all twice. For my sins.

1 like = 1 bad summary of a Jules de Grandin story

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carcosatrio.bsky.social @carcosatrio.bsky.social · 14h

The Ring!

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Es3462 @es3462.bsky.social · 19h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

- The Thing
- Halloween
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Alien

carcosatrio.bsky.social @carcosatrio.bsky.social · 19h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

- Jaws (because it was on
the previous post)
- Exorcist
- Omen
- Poltergeist

Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 20h

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Cat People
Dead Ringers

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carcosatrio.bsky.social @carcosatrio.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, the Thing and Alien! Halloween and Chainsaw are great picks too!

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carcosatrio.bsky.social @carcosatrio.bsky.social · 19h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

- Jaws (because it was on
the previous post)
- Exorcist
- Omen
- Poltergeist

Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 20h

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Cat People
Dead Ringers

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 20h

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Cat People
Dead Ringers

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false theconversation.com/winning-with...

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength

Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

theconversation.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength

Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

theconversation.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

A study of online content finds that the quantity of AI-generated articles now exceeds the number posted by human authors. But ... they suspect that the AI-generated article are largely unread by humans. boingboing.net/2025/10/15/s...

Study finds most new articles generated by AI

But it's been a close-run thing for about 12 months, according to their sample of 65,000 English-language online items

boingboing.net

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 1d

The bad brain day has begun. Let's play a game to distract me from my own self-recrimination.

1 like = 1 factoid about WEIRD TALES (1923-1954)

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

A reviewer once claimed that this book was an effort to re-frame WEIRD TALES centered on Robert E. Howard instead of Lovecraft. Which wasn't really the intent.

www.amazon.com/Weird-Talers...

Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others

Amazon.com: Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others eBook : Derie, Bobby: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

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Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 3d

Adaptations of the movies too.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Photostory/Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Photostory.
Pocket Books, ©1980/1982

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Spy Fi 🇺🇦 @spy-fi.bsky.social · 4d

Collect them all.
#StarTrek

Star Trek Fotonovels 1-12.
Bantam Books ©1977-1978.

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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 2d

The Atlantic claims American kids are getting "dumber" because "progressives" have stopped caring about educational standards, so we must reimpose Republican mandatory testing policies--as though half the country's schools aren't run by Republicans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

www.theatlantic.com

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

There was a sequel to this story.

"The Witch of the Willows" (1931) by Lord Dunsany was first published in THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR. JOSEPH JORKENS

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 6d

I want to share one of my favorite of Lord Dunsany's Jorkens stories. These were the archetypical "club tales" - stories told over a glass of whiskey, which might just be tall tales, but which you wanted to believe.

"Mrs. Jorkens" (1930), first published as "The Mermaid's Husband"

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 6d

I want to share one of my favorite of Lord Dunsany's Jorkens stories. These were the archetypical "club tales" - stories told over a glass of whiskey, which might just be tall tales, but which you wanted to believe.

"Mrs. Jorkens" (1930), first published as "The Mermaid's Husband"

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

Robert E. Howard deserves a book in the Library of America.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The One True Poster @onetrueposter.bsky.social · 2d

Glimpses of the Unknown has one of the meanest ghost stories I've ever read:

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The One True Poster @onetrueposter.bsky.social · 2d

"A Futile Ghost", in which the sight of a spectral nun hangs in the background of a marriage drama until the punchline: the nun is an omen of the spinster fate of our heroine, who is crippled when she falls back in fright at seeing that the nun is *her*, after which of course she'll never be married

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 3d

My Deeper Cut on Lovecraft & the Shaver Mystery was cited in a PhD dissertation: "Atmospheric War and the Fantastic: André Breton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Richard S. Shaver" by Henry Ward

escholarship.org/content/qt2c...

escholarship.org

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 6d

"Things, of course, would continue to worsen before they got better—if they ever got better again."
—Roger Zelazny, A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, 9 Oct

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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 6d

My review of Ancient Aliens S21E14 “Aliens in Our Midst”--a total embarrassment in which Travis Taylor humiliates himself by claiming some balloons are actually a Grey alien flying with a jetpack. www.jasoncolavito.com/ancient-alie...

A graphic reading "Ancient Aliens: Unauthorized Reviews" in a parody of the Ancient Aliens TV series title card.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 6d

I have the best friends, as demonstrated, in this case, by the fact that one of them sent me this great postcard and one of those pressed pennies from the Flatwoods Monster Museum.

A postcard and one of those pressed pennies from the Flatwoods Monster Museum. The postcard depicts a tableau of people (out of focus in the foreground) witnessing the Flatwoods Monster, all of them depicted by models in a diorama.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 6d

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
ANGELA DAVIS

A portrait of activist & author Angela Davis

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 7d

CANDLE COVE
(a favorite from the great creepypasta series that was CHANEL ZERO)

a skeleton face wearing a tricorn hat and a cape, with a bloody hook in the front and a couple of teeth

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