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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 4d

www.strangelibrary.com/post/7970611... New review up on the site!

You Know You Do It To Yourself: A Review of The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria

The Twenty Days of Turin is a warning. Giorgio De Maria's novel— which has influenced everything from death metal to Junji Ito (Uzumaki takes heavy influence from Turin, especially the image of the...

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Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social · 2h

My 3 novels from Solaris. Deadfall Hotel & Ubo are available in ebook & paperback from the usual online retailers (Deadfall Hotel is also in audio). Blood Kin, winner of the Stoker Award, can be purchased as an ebook, although used pbs are available. www.amazon.com/stores/Steve...

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

Oh, yeah, it's a thing people with NPD and/or neurological issues do, they capitalize the words they find important.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

TO BE CLEAR this is not a patch on Hailey or her work. This is merely me being brain-poisoned by watching White Worm, Gothic, and The Boy-Friend too many times when I was younger.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

Missionary on a COUCH?! You animal.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

I suppose what I want out of my fantasy and sci-fi novels these days is Peter Greenaway, but that's hard to find.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

Reading No Gods For Drowning again for work and I'm struck by how Ken Russell it is, which makes it interesting, but also that amount of straight-faced, lavish luridity isn't without humor, so I feel bad about laughing

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

No, but I can and you are surprisingly vanilla.

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Gemakai @gemakai.bsky.social · 20h

Drew a Super Dog

#MillaBasset #FreedomPlanet #GalaxyTrail #FanArt #Art

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 6h

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

You'd be amazed what's available in gonzo porn even twenty years ago, let alone now

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shosho88.bsky.social @shosho88.bsky.social · 3d

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 19h

It's the same place the "literal interpretation/textual misinterpretation" grift came from, though a different group made that one big.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 19h

They're trapped by their own short-term grift from the 2010s and just running the few still acceptable variations on it to diminishing returns and the annoyance of everyone outside the morons who still buy their soap with a prize inside.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 20h

Taking into account concept versus execution, "Times Is Tough in Musky Holler" was a real disappointment. I expect better from Creepshow. Not *much* better, but better.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 20h

So does everyone with two eyes and a heart.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 21h

My unhinged Hellraiser opinion is that out of the five most of us try not to forget, Hellraiser 3 is the most gay

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 21h

I can't help it! I'm never gonna write like Ligotti or @grimscribepress.bsky.social, so I gotta post like their characters!

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 21h

Sorry

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 21h

Having opinions on here is dangerous because people like them and it puts you in the Discover tab.

You never want to be in the Discover tab.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 21h

Rando RTed my post, time to take it down

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 22h

Genre as a lens is weirdly important as a critical tool and "it's a marketing construct" is a dork-ass opinion.

But at the same time, genre is a social construct and a spectrum.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 22h

"SFFH" is an abomination Frankensteined together by sociopathic marketing ghouls desperate for their beneficiaries to capture markets they are ill suited for and should have no part of in the interests of "expanding brand," which is just legalized gambling anyway

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 22h

The bubble didn't quite burst, but the bottom did kinda fall out of things until publishers and librarians accidentally invented the YA blockbuster.

There's a similar bubble in young adult/adult lit right now, but no one's making any money off it the same way.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 22h

Industry, not agency*

But there was a kind of bubble in, like, 100-page paperbacks that eventually flooded the market, because collection meant that people would keep buying up volumes in the series and, much like modern publishing, people could drop a project a month and get an income.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 22h

That's not unhinged. "Goosebumps helped facilitate the crash of the youth publishing agency until 1999" is unhinged.

Correct, but also unhinged

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