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Emily C. Hughes

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Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Vulture, Slate, Reactor, & more. She/her. 🍉 readjumpscares.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · Dec 10

GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

2025’s New Horror Books

All the new horror books coming in 2025, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 7h

good 👻 thread

Spock's Brian @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 15h

Too many amazing stories from Gallup, and almost none I will repeat here. However I will talk about what I myself experienced. There was Something in the basement at the Old Rehoboth Church

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12h

"crom, you piece of shit, listen up"

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12h

maybe :) it will :) happen :) soon :))))))

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12h

my husband is reading Dilla Time right now and can't stop talking about it. this is your fault somehow.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 14h

stop! cici time

a man’s jacket is lying inn a pile on a blue sofa. a fat gray and white tabby is lying in a pile on top of the jacket.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 15h

had a blast talking about Paranormal Activity (and one of the worst fictional boyfriends ever put on screen) with @emilystjams.bsky.social & @pmiscove.bsky.social for @podcastlikeits.bsky.social - the ep drops on Halloween!

Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 16h

Next week @emilystjams.bsky.social and I are taking a break from Mike Nichols for a brief sojourn into spooky season with @louispeitzman.bsky.social and @emilyhughes.bsky.social! 🎃👻💀

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 15h

Rochester has a very classic White Lady who scares away horny teens! www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-w...

The White Lady's Castle

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

Dear Grim Reaper, I have some notes

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18h

Channing Tatum watching Melancholia is one of the funniest mental images I’ve had in a minute

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

Can I just say that I love how wholesomely stupid Channing Tatum is? I love the freaking guy. He’s calling in to talk about the Steelers but it’s about Kirsten Dunst.

"I never get nervous about working with people, but that's Kirsten Dunst bro," Tatum tells Vogue. "I knew I was gonna have to up my game because she's a beast. She doesn't have a single miss on her resume, it's all bangers."

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 20h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major

After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

did you go to the Public Market, aka one of the best things Rochester has to offer? (signed, a former Rochesterian)

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

It’s essentially an emergency that you see One Battle After Another in the cinema immediately. Sean Penn will win an Oscar & it has the best car chase in many years. And those aren’t in the top 3 best things about the film. Jesus shitting Christ.