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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)!
Detail from film poster for 1967 Russian horror film "Viy"
If you've finally gulped down Wobbuffet's fantastic Weird Tales from the 18th Century and are hungerrrring for morrrre, feast your eyes and immortal soul on (Translated) Weird Tales from the 19th Century and Weird Tales from the 20th Century, all with lots and lots of lovely, juicy online links for reading late into the witching hour.
Still from Sesame Street animated short 'Cracks'
Check out the mystery of Sesame Street's creepy lost short, and read along as Mefites tell tales of other kids' programming that scared the stuffing out of us.
Fantastic by Matt From London (cc by)
Recent member comments flagged as fantastic:
flabdablet on the question of whether you really need to properly eject that USB drive
darkstar on glue slime and fiery chemistry demos (you know, for kids)
DoctorFedora on ninja fashion trivia
mr. remy on a true-life spooky story
MonkeyToes on the transformative experience of a proper bra fitting (and nun management)
Bags of Family Fun by Steve Rhode (cc by-nc-nd)
When I was a kid my Gran still had an outdoors loo. It was made of corrugated iron and next to the coal bunker, and when you were using it her - ancient, terrifying, inscrutable - neighbour Mrs Northsworthy would occasionally come out and bang a steel pan on the side. We never worked out whether she strongly objected to the very concept of bodily functions, or just liked to sow terror for its own sake. – sobarel
Do you want to read Mefites' terrific tales of terrifying toilets? Of course you do.
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
halloween cat by silversolo (cc by)
Hallo, weenies! Mefi posters are celebrating spooky season with a hoard of horrorfying and macabre media. Hope you survive enjoy!
Best Books To Read For Halloween (we love the member recommendations in comments, too)
The 25 best horror movies since 2000 (Mefites might have a few Opinions)
13 Old Time Radio dramas to scare the pants off you
1970s BBC Radio's The Price of Fear with Vincent Price
Grainy, Spooky, Streaming VHS rips of classic 80s horror movies
Triggerfinger's big collection of Horror and Chill
The Clown by astio (cc by-nc-sa)
there's something elementally unnerving about the sort of unrestrained jouissance that clowns represent. I'm not quite willing to say it's universal, but we go way out of our way to set limits to enjoyment, pleasure, happiness, joy—and you don't have to agree with me, but this doesn't strike me as absurd. Every primal force is terrible. At some point silliness and happiness and fun and joy start to transgress itself and display its horror...
mr-o waxes philosophic on the primal paradox of the creepy clown problem.
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