Last Feast of Harlequin
@feastlastharlequin.bsky.social
He/Him. Horror propagandist & football shitposter.
I *think* ppl focusing on the endings in horror romance are trying to articulate the genre mix they want—(1) because it’s hard to balance the two, (2) most horror ends happily enough anyway.
If I’m right, the best move is throw away the trope list, the genre signifiers, focus harder on— (1/2)
If I’m right, the best move is throw away the trope list, the genre signifiers, focus harder on— (1/2)
it's always interesting when conversions about horror romance arise, with even transgressive folks agreeing there is no way for the two to coexist. like it might be a fucked up romance, much like what we see in dark and gothic romance, but idk...
people can get disemboweled and still have a HEA
people can get disemboweled and still have a HEA
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I *think* ppl focusing on the endings in horror romance are trying to articulate the genre mix they want—(1) because it’s hard to balance the two, (2) most horror ends happily enough anyway.
If I’m right, the best move is throw away the trope list, the genre signifiers, focus harder on— (1/2)
If I’m right, the best move is throw away the trope list, the genre signifiers, focus harder on— (1/2)
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Dendera Temple is a unique architectural masterpiece in the city of Dendera in Egypt
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Dendera Temple is a unique architectural masterpiece in the city of Dendera in Egypt
I don’t always wear a tuxedo to watch a film, but when I do, it’s for 1980’s MOTEL HELL. Cinema, baby!
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I don’t always wear a tuxedo to watch a film, but when I do, it’s for 1980’s MOTEL HELL. Cinema, baby!
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On this day in Horror History, ONIBABA was released in 1964.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On this day in Horror History, ONIBABA was released in 1964.
Finished this set the other day. A damned good follow-up to the first volume—CASTLE bled atmosphere & the gothic, GHOST is the bleakest film out of both sets (less a ghost tale and more existential horror), and MOUNT OE… was odd. Good? But odd. Great practical monsters.
Highly, highly recommend it.
Highly, highly recommend it.
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Finished this set the other day. A damned good follow-up to the first volume—CASTLE bled atmosphere & the gothic, GHOST is the bleakest film out of both sets (less a ghost tale and more existential horror), and MOUNT OE… was odd. Good? But odd. Great practical monsters.
Highly, highly recommend it.
Highly, highly recommend it.
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Rare honorable Virginia vanity plate
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Rare honorable Virginia vanity plate
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With the shutdown, I had forgotten that it's Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Great month to sell a story about Puerto Rico in @typebarmagazine.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
With the shutdown, I had forgotten that it's Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Great month to sell a story about Puerto Rico in @typebarmagazine.bsky.social
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it's not even quite "contempt" I feel when I hear stuff like that. It mostly just makes me dead certain that there is absolutely nothing interesting about the speaker's interior life, that they are not going to have a single thought I will ever need to listen to ever again
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
it's not even quite "contempt" I feel when I hear stuff like that. It mostly just makes me dead certain that there is absolutely nothing interesting about the speaker's interior life, that they are not going to have a single thought I will ever need to listen to ever again
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if you think "AI" is going to "outperform" writers at "literary fiction" we have nothing else to talk about. there is a fundamental rift in the way we see art and humanity and it's never gonna get solved, even when this AI horseshit goes away
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
if you think "AI" is going to "outperform" writers at "literary fiction" we have nothing else to talk about. there is a fundamental rift in the way we see art and humanity and it's never gonna get solved, even when this AI horseshit goes away
Revisiting DETENTION for the first time in eons. Modern Taiwanese horror couldn’t have asked for a better debut on the world stage.
DETENTION and DEVOTION are the finest one-two punch since SH2 & 3.
DETENTION and DEVOTION are the finest one-two punch since SH2 & 3.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Revisiting DETENTION for the first time in eons. Modern Taiwanese horror couldn’t have asked for a better debut on the world stage.
DETENTION and DEVOTION are the finest one-two punch since SH2 & 3.
DETENTION and DEVOTION are the finest one-two punch since SH2 & 3.
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This is what integrity looks like. "Do it for all of us, or don't do it at all." Let's hope the folks who bought our legacy magazines are shamed into better behavior and we won't have to consider them scoundrels any longer.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is what integrity looks like. "Do it for all of us, or don't do it at all." Let's hope the folks who bought our legacy magazines are shamed into better behavior and we won't have to consider them scoundrels any longer.
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So we're planning to publish this one as one of our new Paperbacks from Hell. Only the book is so scarce that we can't find a copy to scan for our text. If anyone has one to lend us, send us a message. We'll swap you some free Valancourt books for your trouble!
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So we're planning to publish this one as one of our new Paperbacks from Hell. Only the book is so scarce that we can't find a copy to scan for our text. If anyone has one to lend us, send us a message. We'll swap you some free Valancourt books for your trouble!
Why "Be Grateful" Is Actually Control | Silent Hill f Analysis
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November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Finally! Stevenson with an original feature!
Damn… it’s almost been a decade since I started banging the drum for that.
Damn… it’s almost been a decade since I started banging the drum for that.
The director of The First Omen, Arkasha Stevenson will next be directing an untitled horror movie for A24.
"The film reportedly centers on a bachelor party that spirals into terror."
Josh Hutcherson, Frank Dillane, Caleb Landry Jones & Whitmer Thomas star.
"The film reportedly centers on a bachelor party that spirals into terror."
Josh Hutcherson, Frank Dillane, Caleb Landry Jones & Whitmer Thomas star.
Josh Hutcherson, Frank Dillane, More Circling A24 Horror Film from ‘The First Omen’ Filmmakers
As fans of The First Omen — a prequel far better than it had any right to be — here at Bloody Disgusting, we’ve been anticipating whatever comes next from director Arkasha Stevenson. Deadline reports ...
bloody-disgusting.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finally! Stevenson with an original feature!
Damn… it’s almost been a decade since I started banging the drum for that.
Damn… it’s almost been a decade since I started banging the drum for that.
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90s rapper voice: the bullet theoretical
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
90s rapper voice: the bullet theoretical
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the ravens did not put shedeur sanders in a position to succeed. they failed him today
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
the ravens did not put shedeur sanders in a position to succeed. they failed him today
Thoroughly loved @hazelzorn.bsky.social ‘s REEF MIND! I’ll be eating for days on its environmental and philosophical depths, and, as if it needed to do anything else, it’s also a damned good aquatic horror. Highly, highly recommended!
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thoroughly loved @hazelzorn.bsky.social ‘s REEF MIND! I’ll be eating for days on its environmental and philosophical depths, and, as if it needed to do anything else, it’s also a damned good aquatic horror. Highly, highly recommended!
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Saying this is better than most of the movies is probably damning it with faint praise, so just to be clear: this rips
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Saying this is better than most of the movies is probably damning it with faint praise, so just to be clear: this rips
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Leslie was such an astute cultural critic and reviewer as well as a deeply funny guy. Was so happy we got to talk about David Cronenberg back in the day for a special double episide of Struggle Session and HV. A real loss - please chip in to the GFM if you are able.
i'm sorry to have to relay this, but Leslie Lee III has passed away. if you can help with his family's expenses, please read on. they need the help right now.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Leslie was such an astute cultural critic and reviewer as well as a deeply funny guy. Was so happy we got to talk about David Cronenberg back in the day for a special double episide of Struggle Session and HV. A real loss - please chip in to the GFM if you are able.
3 tomes down. 13 to go.
1,542 pages read, 5,836 remaining.
At the halfway point of the first series.
On to tome 4. I’ve understood 95% of the work so far… but here’s where I expect to start getting my ass kicked.
1,542 pages read, 5,836 remaining.
At the halfway point of the first series.
On to tome 4. I’ve understood 95% of the work so far… but here’s where I expect to start getting my ass kicked.
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
3 tomes down. 13 to go.
1,542 pages read, 5,836 remaining.
At the halfway point of the first series.
On to tome 4. I’ve understood 95% of the work so far… but here’s where I expect to start getting my ass kicked.
1,542 pages read, 5,836 remaining.
At the halfway point of the first series.
On to tome 4. I’ve understood 95% of the work so far… but here’s where I expect to start getting my ass kicked.
Legally distinct Bloodborne has arrived!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Legally distinct Bloodborne has arrived!!!!
Ahhhhhh another day of NYT writers silencing their screaming consciences.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ahhhhhh another day of NYT writers silencing their screaming consciences.
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Art is a form of worship. That's why we call it "vocation."
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Art is a form of worship. That's why we call it "vocation."
For the theo nerds. I believe this is the same Rowan Williams that later served as Archbishop of Canterbury.*
*Look I’m not saying it can’t be the white boy who converted to the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church, but the odds are pretty slim.
*Look I’m not saying it can’t be the white boy who converted to the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church, but the odds are pretty slim.
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For the theo nerds. I believe this is the same Rowan Williams that later served as Archbishop of Canterbury.*
*Look I’m not saying it can’t be the white boy who converted to the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church, but the odds are pretty slim.
*Look I’m not saying it can’t be the white boy who converted to the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church, but the odds are pretty slim.