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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · Aug 1

Detective Samantha "Legs" Rosenberg takes on murderous incel terrorists with only her courage, her cleavage, and her Colt Python.

Fast chases!
Brutal fights!
Hot sex!

Die Naked, Bitch!

Now available in Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, and included in Kindle Unlimited

amzn.to/4jR2Int

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 49m

Today's $2.99 spooky Kindle deal is Michael McDowell's classic THE ELEMENTALS. “Surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written.” — Poppy Z. Brite. Grab it today only at a bargain price on Kindle worldwide: www.amazon.com/Elementals-M...

Book cover: The Elementals by Michael McDowell

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Bob Deis @bobdeis.bsky.social · 3h

For Halloween, book reviewer Michael Dirda recommends ATOMIC WEREWOLVES AND MAN-EATING PLANTS (amzn.to/3Q8R3U5), our lushly illustrated collection of stories by "weird tales" luminaries like H.P. Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman and Theodore Sturgeon, with an intro by horror expert Stefan Dziemianowicz

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 3h

$3 trillion is enough to buy every media company on the planet, but the supposed Jewish cabal, which is also somehow anti-Isreal, is spending it on a one day parade.

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 4h

My local CBS station is claiming Soros, who is worth about $9 billion, funded the No Kings marches to the tune of $3 trillion, or a tenth of the US' gdp, through an org that makes like $12m a year.

Next they'll be telling us diarrhea Don was actually flying that plane.

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 16h

Saw someone accuse an author of using AI because part of a photo was blurry, and their feed was full of obvious AI memes. I figured by now people could tell by the beige color palette. Folks just calling shit AI because they don't like it, or in this case, can't figure it out.

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 22h

Incredible side story in the death of William Desmond Taylor. A device I've seen in fiction a thousand times falling flat on it's face in reality.

Muir thought she could engineer a scoop by tricking Peavey into a confession. She knew (from the movies) that blacks were deathly afraid of ghosts. With the help of two confederates, Frank Carson and Al Weinshank, she offered Peavey ten dollars if he would identify Taylor's grave in the Hollywood Park Cemetery (which she had already visited). Weinshank had gone on ahead with a white sheet, and Muir and Carson drove Peavey to the site. Weinshank, who came from a tough section of Chicago, spoke with the accents of a hoodlum. When he loomed up in the sheet and cried out, "I am the ghost of William Desmond Taylor. You murdered me. Confess, Peavey!" Henry laughed out loud, then cursed them roundly. Unfortunately for Muir, she was unaware that Taylor had a distinctive British accent. Weinshank, as Muir revealed in her memoirs, not only spoke like a hoodlum, but also was one of the alleged Chicago mobsters who were later gunned down in the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre.[28]

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 23h

Today's $2.99 spooky Kindle deal is a good one! Get Ken Greenhall's unsettling novel ELIZABETH (1976) at a bargain price today only: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the day crack dealers would squeeze a buyer's shoulder to see if it was more muscle than bone.

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · Nov 23

From the archives: Mark of the Werewolf by Jeffrey Sackett 1990 Bantam

A werewolf is captured by a neo-nazi genetics lab who tries to recreate the phenomena to create an unstoppable army.

amzn.to/3Rb390L

horror book review

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a photo of Hamburglar and Ronald hanging out at the grand opening of the Fall River, MA McDonald's in 1976

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Rachel Lichtman @rachellichtman.bsky.social · 2d

The SPIN piece on Programme 4 is up and everyone down at Jimmy Klonk’s Reef n’ Beef are thrilled to get the featured thumbnail glory! www.spin.com/2025/10/prog...

FAKE NEWS!

The city of Golden Sands may not actually exist, but it still has a weird and wonderful TV station. Programme 4 broadcasts commercials for local restaurants lik

www.spin.com

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HBO MaXXXinoparsnip @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social · 1d

Can't be at the rallys today but hope everyone is safe, and i made this because graphic design is my passion

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Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · 3d

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE

WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · Nov 11

Gag from a 1934 Jack Benny radio show

"I said hair."
"What?"
"Hair, hair. What's on your head?"
"A policeman's club. I'm a communist."

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Justin Walsh @juswal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s covered here on the Ellroy Reads channel.

youtu.be/MA6ZEQ5bf0E

The Badge by Jack Webb

YouTube video by Ellroy Reads

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Picturing Supes sounding like Joe Besser on this cover.

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Corey Yuen.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 2d

Q3: If anything in your works was turned into a movie who would you want to direct it?

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Revisited a few of these, even darker and more miserable than I remembered. Would definitely fit in with the bleaker Friday the 13ths or War of the Worlds. Weird how the rest of horror at the time titled torwards postmodern comedies.

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · Apr 11

Picturing Rex Smith doing Ann Nocenti's run on Daredevil. That 100% could have been a syndicated Canadian series in 1989.

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Noir and crime folks, is it fair to say James Ellroy bit pretty hard off of Jack Webb's The Badge? maybe crime books of the era in general, but Webb had a pretty unique, jazz influenced cadence, haven't run into anything else similar.

(about the nicest thing I'll have to say about Webb)

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Was watching Five Element Ninja and was bothering me where I'd heard the soundtrack. Vision of Fear by De Wolfe, used by Monty Python.

youtu.be/E-6Ck4fhD5k?...

Vision of Fear

YouTube video by Edward Michael - Topic

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't know Jeff Stryker was in this.

Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 1d

AFTER DEATH (Fragasso, 1989)

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Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 1d

AFTER DEATH (Fragasso, 1989)

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Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 2d

Love our local indie paper. Opinion piece by the guy who didn't get hired as the director of the animal shelter which is struggling because it's a no-kill center which takes in more animals than it places with no extra funding:

"I would simply find homes for all the animals."

Genius.

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 2d

the director had the camera zoom in on his lips for an extreme closeup.

Adding a cartoon dog halfway through the show was a weird touch, too. Like they were being postmodern, but why do it halfway in?

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · 2d

James Ellroy's City of Demons series was truly bizarre. Haven't seen in a while, but I got the impression Ellroy was having an outbreak and asked to have it covered with makeup, but he pissed off the makeup artist who caked it on like Baby Jane, and then they said they it wouldn't show on tape, then

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