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Meredith Borders
@mereborders.bsky.social
🌀Senior Editor, FANGORIA
🌀Strong Sender
🌀Texan living in Germany & writing about it
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I'm filled with butterflies and beaming with pride to announce FIRST IN FRIGHT: THE FANGORIA COMPENDIUM, a hard-cover, full-color book that details the history of Fango, the publication I've loved all my life. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium
The Complete History of Horror from the Pages of the #1 Horror Magazine
www.kickstarter.com
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Longing.
#TwinPeaks
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I believe the Certified Forgotten fellas were the FIRST EVER to invite me on a podcast back in 2020!
Can you believe it's been five years since we had @mereborders.bsky.social on the podcast? We sit down with Meredith for an in-depth conversation about Kickstarters, bookazines, and THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION (one of the strangest pieces of gateway horror you'll ever hope to find).
Podcast: Meredith Borders on 'The Peanut Butter Solution'
Fangoria senior editor Meredith Borders returns to the podcast to talk about gateway horror cult classic 'The Peanut Butter Solution.'
certifiedforgotten.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I love how many people have a story similar to mine with The Peanut Butter Solution - renting it as a kid, pre-internet, then being unable to prove it existed for years. Now’s our vindication!
My mom randomly rented this for me when I was home sick from school and I had no one to talk about it with for decades, because no one else had seen it. I eventually made my friend Betsy watch it with me for my podcast.
It’s been 5 years since I last popped by @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, but @donatobomb.bsky.social @monagle.bsky.social made it feel like 5 mins. Grateful these guys let me gab about my gateway horror/fever dream The Peanut Butter Solution. Real movie btw!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Our latest episode of @certifiedforgot.bsky.social went up yesterday, and it is, as always, a treat to have @mereborders.bsky.social as our guest.

Canada out here airing THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION on television for kids like it's not an indescribably bizarre nightmare.
It’s been 5 years since I last popped by @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, but @donatobomb.bsky.social @monagle.bsky.social made it feel like 5 mins. Grateful these guys let me gab about my gateway horror/fever dream The Peanut Butter Solution. Real movie btw!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Stoppard is responsible for some of my favorite sequences of words in all the English language. Grateful for every syllable.
Tom Stoppard is my all time favorite playwright. The world will be poorer without him. RIP.
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It’s been 5 years since I last popped by @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, but @donatobomb.bsky.social @monagle.bsky.social made it feel like 5 mins. Grateful these guys let me gab about my gateway horror/fever dream The Peanut Butter Solution. Real movie btw!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Found myself thinking back on the incredible performance of @michaelmckeanj.bsky.social on Better Call Saul, which never asked for sympathy and was doubly heartbreaking as a result. More dramas should be in his future. What a wildcard King Lear he would make!
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I pretty much only make stuff (with @jasonkauz.bsky.social who does most of the actual making) so @gayofthedead.bsky.social will reveal it in one of his videos 😍
@fangoria.bsky.social ‘s Frankenstein Special Issue! @mereborders.bsky.social and @jasonkauz.bsky.social have created a gorgeous monster!
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Exciting way to go into the holidays: I received a copy of my first ever “official“ Tolkien-adjacent work … I worked with MUTANT to edit the enormous booklet accompanying their incredible phyiscal release of THE RINGS OF POWER Season 2 soundtrack.

Gorgeous work, as always, and a real honor.
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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An industrious gal comes to a remote place, only to find herself drawn to the quirky folks she meets and eventually becomes one of them? Darlin', that's a Hallmark movie.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
sooo excited for this movie! OF COURSE a new Raimi horror had to make it to the cover
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Sam Raimi back on the cover of Fango where he belongs
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Happy Yam Sham Eve 🍠🍗
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
!!!24 hours!!! to go on our 30-day Kickstarter campaign for FIRST IN FRIGHT: THE FANGORIA COMPENDIUM! Here's a lil sneak peek:

www.fangoria.com/state-of-the...
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Want to see what that all-new FANGORIA Compendium a few thousand of you backed (and can still back for a few more hours) is gonna look like? @mereborders.bsky.social is spilling some pages over at the website 👀

www.fangoria.com/state-of-the...
First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium Update
With mere hours to go to pre-order, here's the scoop on our brand-new history of Fango book!
www.fangoria.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I would probably buy the sex cardigan, tho
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Just a lil @philnobilejr.bsky.social appreciation post: He's a really good friend – I mean the literal, actual best – but he's also such a good boss. Considerate, protective, transparent, supportive. He's constantly working yet still always answers "yes" when I ask him if he's free for a vent sesh ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Spotted the @fangoria.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN in the checkout aisle at my local Wegman's today. 🔥
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I'll echo @brianwcollins.bsky.social
I'm honored beyond measure to be included in this project. Check out the @fangoria.bsky.social Compendium project on Kickstarter.
CC: @bjcolangelo.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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So @donatobomb.bsky.social put out his final Best Horror of 2025 list and I... don't actually have any jokes to make? I'm charmed that two overlooked films we talked about on the @certifiedforgot.bsky.social podcast, HIM and THE DAMNED, both made the final cut. Good list!
The 20 Best Horror Movies & TV Of The Year, Ranked
It's been a good year for horror movies. Here are the best horror movies and TV shows of the year, ranked.
www.inverse.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Now that folks have had the weekend to see WICKED: FOR GOOD, I'm over at @thewrap.com going long about how the ending doesn't just fail to meet to moment, it fails to live up to what Jon M. Chu and co. set up in Part 1.

"The girl in the bubble," indeed.

www.thewrap.com/wicked-for-g...
The 'Wicked: For Good' Ending Fails to Meet the Moment | Commentary
The ending of "Wicked: For Good" avoids the darker conclusion from the book, but does a disservice to the sociopolitical commentary in the process.
www.thewrap.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The number one most-funded non-fiction book in Kickstarter history?
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium is now the sixth most-funded non-fiction book in Kickstarter history?!?! www.kickstarter.com/discover/adv...

Last week of the campaign, if you want in on this historic action:
First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium
The Complete History of Horror from the Pages of the #1 Horror Magazine
www.kickstarter.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I think about the countless trans people whose names won't be plastered on infographics because the world was so hostile and violent to them that they felt the need to opt out on their own terms.

Mourn the dead.
Fight like hell for the living.
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM