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DirtyOldTown has the most appropriate question for this time of year: What’s your favorite scary movie. No, this is not about real life or the US Presidential election, just plain ol’ Halloween!
What are you reading for this spooky season? Whatever it is, hop on over to Wobbuffet's post about spooky reading! It covers horror novels, haunted house novels by women, new horror books, novellas, and even more scary reading that you can shake a ouija board at (don't do this)!
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Sure, you've already started pregaming for Halloween and things are going frightfully well. But let's expand your dimly lit horizons and check out DirtyOldTown's massive guide to horror movies that are streaming, broken down to the various services!
Not to alarm you, but it is less than 100 days until Halloween. Have you finalized your overambitious horror film watchlist yet? Wobbuffet is here to help.
Homage to Shaun Tan by AlyZen Moonshadow (cc by)
Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful, but Inside It’s Even Worse ... Hallelujah! GenjiandProust has posted another stellar compilation of weird audio dramas, with descriptions, helpful sorting info and links for all.
detail from book cover: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
doctornemo on cozy horror, including the subgenre's basic elements, a historical perspective, praise, criticism, controversy, and more!
Movie Tickets (cc by-sa)
Week 2 of Metafilter Events is here! "Following Week 1, we’re back with more as we kick off a week about books, fiction and the humanities." This looks so great.
Got to thinking about how Bowie was in The Hunger and Tom Waits was in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Are there other vampire movies with iconic musicians? mermaidcafe in Ask Metafilter
Leftovers by JD Hancock (cc by)
GenjiandProust's Increasingly Strange Stories for an Increasingly Strange Year is another faboo roundup of weird audio dramas, again with tons of info and links to each one ... And for yet more weird and wonderful, PussKillian has posted NPR's excellent list of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy books of the last decade. Cheers! 👾
Statue of Liberty by Stina Stockholm (cc by-nc-nd)
Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.
Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl's Gorgo 2049 video post (SCP alert!) and GenjiandProust's “I Wear No Mask” and Other Horrors newest weird audio dramas post.
Anthropomorphic Roots by delgaudm (cc by)
oooooh! GenjiandProust offers a collection of weird fiction anthology podcasts, complete with description (including content warning info, where known), average running times, tone, existence (or not) of significant LGBTQ characters and elements, plus the number of stories or episodes, with direct links for each anthology (where possible). Nice!
That Ohio protest photo that looked like a zombie movie, by Joshua A. Bickel, via The Washington Post -- and darkstar
Mefites have their own ideas about what sorts of horror films would fit the current zeitgeist, from the Second Monster, to bacon-enraged intestine-slurping aliens to posh Freddy Krueger (requires billionairity), to how difficult it is to clean a bathroom when evil forces keep messing things up again, plus stories! ... And opinions! Many Opinions!
Sady recommends horror: coolname points us toward some excellent film commentary by Sady Doyle that will maybe make you rethink some things you thunk before.
bottom_cthulhu by missmonstermel
I have a thing for eldritch abominations, alien geometry, fridge horror, and general nightmare fuel. I want more, pretty please!
In Ask Metafilter: Feed me the nightmare fuel
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