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Chris Kelso
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Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social · Nov 20
Bluesky already feels more worthwhile than X. Here's 'On Melting: essays against the body', out through @filthyloot.bsky.social. It features blurbs from @horrorsong.blog and Ewan Morrison.
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On Melting: essays against the body is on Dennis Cooper's 'Best of 2025' 😮 Thanks, Dennis 💚
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Shadowplays, a collection of essays and fiction in opposition of accelerationism (December 19th through @merigoldindie.bsky.social)

"At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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this is one of the coolest things to happen here at X-R-A-Y...

Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!

they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more

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AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR A COGNITIVE EMPATHY BROADCAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RIEDL FROM BLOOD INCANTATION by Chris Kelso
Music is the shorthand of emotion. There is something intrinsic to the structure of it – with its overtures, rising crescendos, and authentic cadences – which seem to mirror our temporal patterns so e...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Here's my interview with Paul Reidl from Blood Incantation for @X-Ray magazine -

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AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR A COGNITIVE EMPATHY BROADCAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RIEDL FROM BLOOD INCANTATION by Chris Kelso
Music is the shorthand of emotion. There is something intrinsic to the structure of it – with its overtures, rising crescendos, and authentic cadences – which seem to mirror our temporal patterns so e...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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It's not often I make these lists, so I'm going to savour it. Thank you to Ash Anjum for including me on her list of 12 fantasy authors pushing the genre 💜

'Kelso’s transgressive weirdness is a reminder that fantasy began as rebellion.'

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December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A few of my stories that are online, should anyone fancy a read:

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The Vigil by Matt Neil Hill
Suzanna wears her central nervous system like an exoskeleton now, shrieking the glass shards of bloody murder whenever I even think about touching her. I bring us back suspect materials wrapped in …
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November 21, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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A beautifully produced book, featuring magnificent Artwork The Mad Butterfly's Ball edited by Preston Grassman & Chris Kelso is a horror anthology based around creepy-crawlies from PS Publishing #BFSREview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-m...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'

such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween

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CONTROL AND THE FUCKTOPUS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KELSO ABOUT ŻUŁAWSKI’S 'POSSESSION' by Alice
Chris Kelso is a Scottish writer of dark, weird fiction. I came to his work through Voidheads (Schism), and he’s since published Metampsychosis with Feral Dove, and most recently, a monograph on the f...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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An in-depth, insightful review of Possesion: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity over at Zonal Hotel

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REVIEW: Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity by Chris Kelso
Kelso’s solid and incisive interpretations allow for the reader’s addendums and refutations, encouraging a more unified, nuanced and comprehensive understanding of this cursed (blessed?) film.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Some lovely praise from some great writers 💜
September 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Excellent in-depth review of @chris88.bsky.social's new Midnight Movie Monograph on the cult horror film Possession. It's a great read, and Chris's very personal dissection of the film is an insightful labour of love.

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September 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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What a review at DLS Reviews. Wow.

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DLS Reviews - Possession: Dreams Of Suffering And Sanity (2025)
DLS Reviews provides an in-depth review of Chris Kelso's book 'Possession: Dreams Of Suffering And Sanity' (2025)
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September 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I can’t thank Chris Kelso enough for this very cool and rare book, Possession. Flipping through this gorgeous book, you can tell the detail and care Kelso spends discussing this “video nasty.” I highly recommend!!
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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My latest review from the Scottish literary maverick Chris Kelso is his unorthodox take on the cult film POSSESSION. 5/5* all the way baby! Who's this other Tony Jones guy?
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Thank you @tonyjonescomm.bsky.social for the truly great write up of Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity in Horror DNA! 🙌

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Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity
Fantastic, obsessive and highly personal deep dive into the cult art house horror film Possession.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Thank you to Chris Kelso for the beautiful gifted copy of a book that surely was written just for me 😭❤️ This remains my favorite film of all time… (next to Martyrs and The Baby of Macon)
Holding a copy of Chris Kelso’s analysis of POSSESSION (1981)
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Morning, Womble. I recently finished the excellent Possession (in the Midnight Movie Monograph series from PS Publishing) by @chris88.bsky.social and am now about halfway through The Employees by Olga Ravn, which is kind of breaking my heart a little bit 🥺
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity - on tour.
August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Thank you @ericlarocca.bsky.social 🖤
ericlarocca.bsky.social Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · Aug 18
Thank you to Chris Kelso for the beautiful gifted copy of a book that surely was written just for me 😭❤️ This remains my favorite film of all time… (next to Martyrs and The Baby of Macon)
Holding a copy of Chris Kelso’s analysis of POSSESSION (1981)
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If you're a fan of the film POSSESSION, I can heartily recommend checking out @chris88.bsky.social's new book from PS Publishing 🐙
Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity by Chris Kelso I've just finished this at one in the morning (WAY past my bedtime) and should probably process a little at least before saying very much. And watch POSSESSION again, then read the book again. But... I'm not sure many people write with such naked honesty as Chris Kelso does. The film is clearly an extremely important touchstone for him, and to write about it through the lens of a traumatic adolescent breakup is a pretty brave (and frequently self-critical) act. The last brief section of the book (and especially the last couple of paragraphs, even down to the last footnote) points to the wounds of the past having been healed, which comes as something of a relief. POSSESSION is a psychosexual nightmare of a film (complimentary!) and Kelso dissects it with great care and skill here, and the fact that he's performing an exorcism of past unhappiness within the pages is a perfect mirror to the film itself. I'm not a huge reader of non-fiction but I tore through this book in a few broken hours, and will definitely go back to it. But now... damn, I'm going to dream of blood-slaked octopuses and echoing subway screams, aren't I? Ah well...
August 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity is here...
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM