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MANOR @manorhq.com · 3d

Becoming the Crone 🩸📜 manorvellum.medium.com/becoming-the...

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Becoming the Crone

MANOR @manorhq.com · 3d

We wish a very happy birthday to MANOR Resident Sydney Bollinger! 🎂🥳🎉🎈

To celebrate, take a look at @sydboll.bsky.social's work from the past year...

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A photo card with a picture of Sydney Bollinger and “Happy Birthday” written at top with some skeletons and other horror-inspired graphics.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 4d

A great essay on my use of failure and self-improvement as themes in both my books and movies.

Thanks for the amazing, thoughtful write up, T.J.

MANOR @manorhq.com · 4d

“The path to full enlightenment in a Cargill story always goes through failure.”

Fright Tomes: How to Fail Better with C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social
By T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social

Now available 🩸📜 medium.com/@manorvellum...

From a landscape covered in wreckage and debris, a robot’s arm reaches up into the sky towards the red sun.

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 4d

“The path to full enlightenment in a Cargill story always goes through failure.”

Fright Tomes: How to Fail Better with C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social
By T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social

Now available 🩸📜 medium.com/@manorvellum...

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 5d

“Discovering purpose in the face of purposelessness or even simple human failure is a central theme…”

New 🩸 on the membrane from T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social

Tomorrow! 10/10/25
6:00AMET
manorvellum.com

A group of robots battle in a futuristic landscape.

Black Sunday [Collector's Edition] + Exclusive Poster

MANOR @manorhq.com · 7d

We wish a very happy birthday to MANOR Resident Tina Kakadelis! 🎂🥳🎉🎈

@tinakakadelis.com was the featured writer for Estate of Fright 71: Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life 🏚️📨😱 www.manorhq.com/eof

A photo card with a picture of Tina Kakadelis and “Happy Birthday” written at top with some skeletons and other horror-inspired graphics.

An illustration of a woman in a window frame, blood on her shirt, running mascara, broken glass around her with the reflection of multiple babyface-masked killers.

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 8d

Mario Bava’s official directorial debut has been called “the crowning achievement of Italian gothic horror” and often appears on lists of the greatest horror films ever made.

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In 17th-century Moldavia, the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her crypt...

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 8d

Scream Factory’s new BLACK SUNDAY (1960) 4K UHD Collector’s Edition Blu-ray features commentary from MANOR @manorhq.com Resident Brian Keiper @brianwaves42.bsky.social and is now widely available for purchase at participating retailers.

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The front cover for the new 4K UHD Blu-ray release of BLACK SUNDAY (1960) from Scream Factory.

The back cover for the new 4K UHD Blu-ray release of BLACK SUNDAY (1960) from Scream Factory.

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 12d

Estate of Fright 78: Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be (October 2025)

Delivered today 🏚️😱

Featuring Matt Konopka @werematt.bsky.social in Estate of Fright and this month’s calendar of MANOR releases.

An illustration of Sam Neill from IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS film (1994) surrounded by faces and crucifixes in flames.

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 13d

“These days, I feel like I have to keep reminding myself: I am not insane.”

Matt Konopka @werematt.bsky.social is in Estate of Fright.

😱 Tomorrow! 10/3/25 @ 6:00AMET
🏚️ Free subscription www.manorhq.com/eof

🎨John Jude Palencar

A man asleep while levitating, a ghostly face appears in a portrait above him, screaming, next to small dark figures coming out of the same portrait frame.

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 13d

New 🩸 on the membrane next week.

By T.J. Tranchell @tjtranchell.bsky.social

Drops at 6:00AMET on Friday, October 10, 2025.
📜 manorvellum.com

A man in a mask with a wide grin and devil horns looks in a phone booth where a boy is on the pay phone.

Running from Death: FINAL DESTINATION and Mortality

MANOR @manorhq.com · 14d

Let the danse macabre begin.

Two red skulls face each other. A poem is superimposed over them. It reads:

"All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors..."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Haunted Houses" (1858)

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 14d

“Running from Death: FINAL DESTINATION and Mortality” by Sydney Bollinger @sydboll.bsky.social 🩸📜 manorvellum.medium.com/running-from...

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Misunderstood Monsters: ABIGAIL and a Tiny Dancer’s Wish to Be Held

MANOR @manorhq.com · 14d

“Misunderstood Monsters: ABIGAIL and a Tiny Dancer’s Wish to Be Held” by Matt Konopka @werematt.bsky.social 🩸📜 manorvellum.medium.com/misunderstoo...

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By Matt Konopka

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 14d

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! October is here but let us look back briefly at the🩸 that dropped on the membrane in September.

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Top: A ballerina with blood on her dress hovers in the air. Bottom: An illustration of a truck with logs in the back of it forming the face of a skull, driving on a road with a roller coaster on the right and a large bridge on the left, both in the background.

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Ghostbookproductions @justindrabek.bsky.social · 15d

Would anyone want to do a @spectrevision.bsky.social double feature watch Wednesday Oct 1 night at 8 PM EST starting with Daniel Isn't Real and then Rabbit Trap.

Use the hash tag #SpectreWatch (also the name of my column on @manorhq.com)

Hope people join!

Misunderstood Monsters: ABIGAIL and a Tiny Dancer’s Wish to Be Held

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Ghostbookproductions @justindrabek.bsky.social · 15d

Such a good piece from a great column my dear friend @werematt.bsky.social

Misunderstood Monsters: ABIGAIL and a Tiny Dancer’s Wish to Be Held manorvellum.medium.com/misunderstoo...

By Matt Konopka

For Paranormal ‘Experiencer’ and Producer Daniel Noah, Bringing the Supernatural to the Screen Is Bigger Than Just Scares

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Ghostbookproductions @justindrabek.bsky.social · 17d

Daniel is my hero. He is also the person who gave me so much information when I decided to start #SpectreWatch my personal journey through the films of @spectrevision.bsky.social films.

It laid dormant for a year but I sent the next two entries to my editor.

www.indiewire.com/features/com...

SpectreVision co-founder Daniel Noah's attachment to paranormal films and folklore stories, like 'Rabbit Trap,' extends far beyond the norm.

www.indiewire.com

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Rock Capuano @rockcapuano.bsky.social · 18d

Been working on something.

Should I say what it--BLURT--it’s MANOR’s first-ever book and audiobook. 😶👀

Text reads
Chapter count: 30
Word count: 32,688+ words

medium.com/@manorvellum...

MANOR @manorhq.com · 18d

Running from Death: FINAL DESTINATION and Mortality

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MANOR @manorhq.com · 18d

“…running from death is not purpose. It's fear. It's paranoia. It's a rejection of what it means to be human.”

Running from Death: FINAL DESTINATION and Mortality
By Sydney Bollinger @sydboll.bsky.social

Now available 🩸📜 medium.com/@manorvellum...

An illustration of a truck with logs in the back of it forming the face of a skull, driving on a road with a roller coaster on the right and a large bridge on the left, both in the background.

MANOR @manorhq.com · 19d

“The human understanding of fate is complicated by the existence of free will.”

New 🩸 on the membrane from Sydney Bollinger @sydboll.bsky.social

Tomorrow! 9/26/25
6:00AMET
manorvellum.com

A teenager panics on an airplane as other passengers look at him.