Daytime is getting shorter and nighttime longer. I'm listening to Classic Ghost Stories Podcast on Youtube to get into the Gothic spirit. There's something I need to finish, and I'm bouncing around ideas for this year's slythindor100 25 Days of Draco and Harry. Maybe a Christmas ghost story or something like that? I'm not a fast writer; I probably won't manage ( Read more... )

Got two macarons from someone the other day. The filling was a bit too sweet for my taste. The chocolate one tasted better.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab recently released their Halloween 2024 perfume collection. They made a collection inspired by Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla.

I stumbled across Classic Ghost Stories Podcast on Youtube. It's an ( Read more... )

Making a note of a few Lore Podcast episodes to get ready for pumpkin season. All the links are from the Lore Podcast Youtube channel.

Ghostwriter: The dead returns from beyond the grave to write stories and poems.
Where the Heart is: Haunted house stories.
Wall to Wall: Boston Harbor ( Read more... )

Just making a note of stuff I've watched (anime and films) or stuff I've come across (mostly horror and/or folklore, as well as anime) lately. The post will be quite long.

Safe Room is a podcast about horror video games. Aside from well established franchise, the podcast also highlights shorter indie games.

The Gaming Muse did an episode on Ringu ( Read more... )

Been sleepwalking through this world called reality lately while a part of me is in hibernation.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has released their Hallowe'en 2023 collection. While I don't buy fragrances, BPAL's descriptions of their products appeal to my inner goth. This year they are releasing Nightmare Novellas, a collection of perfumes inspired by ( Read more... )

Hi, how is everyone doing? Hope everyone is doing okay.

Just making note of some interesting stuff I came across lately.

Read Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died); I might write about this later. Also took the plunge and watched Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai the Movie (Twittering Birds Never Fly). So many sex scenes... Might write about ( Read more... )

A line from Glass Animals' "The Other Side of Paradise".

It's several months late, but I'm listening to Grim & Mild's 12 Ghosts, an audio horror anthology set on Christmas Eve. The stories are more chilling and unsettling than terrifying. Then again, I have a pretty high tolerance when it comes to horror stories (and I write horror stories ( Read more... )

Been taking a break from everything except writing lately. I'm working on a fic inspired by the films of Wong Kar Wai, which were in turn inspired by the literal works of the late Liu Yi Chang. It's an interesting experiment so far. I'm writing this as a kind of self-indulgence and for my own amusement.

Interesting things I came across lately: The ( Read more... )

The annual horror interactive fiction competition Ectocomp is running this year. The game that caught my eye was Sophia de Augustine's origin of love. The creator described it as "heretical poetry for your undead lover." It's also NC-17.

Still waiting for Wednesday to be released on Netflix on November 23. The opening sequence was released a while ( Read more... )

spook_me has posted some links to help get everyone inspired for this Hallowe'en season. There are live action short films, animated short films, music, podcasts and more.

( About horror games. )