I'm going to use Jack as my icon as much as possible this month.

Saw this illustration on Twitter. It's an illustration of some of the most iconic horror film female characters, drawn by graphic designer and illustrator Takumi. I only recognise Wednesday, I'm afraid. The new Netflix series Wednesday directed by Tim Burton is coming out in November ( Read more... )

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has released its Halloween 2022 line of perfume oil. I've never bought anything from them, but I like reading the descriptions of their products. Some of their products are inspired by poems, so I'd read those as well.

The Interactive Fiction Competition 2022 is happening right now, and the games are now available for ( Read more... )

Been listening to Ali Project and Wakeshima Kanon's early works. I haven't rewatched or reread Vampire Knight in years, though I still have several volumes of the manga on my shelf.

hd_fan_fair is posting right now. There are quite a few horror and horror-adjacent works in the collection so far.

Beautiful art and lighthouse horror: Scrimshaw by Anonymous

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Mostly about music.

Been listening to Aina The End. The first solo song I heard of her was Niji. It was a revelation to say the least. If you don't like snakes, you might want to skip the MV.

Also been listening to Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight Rondo Rondo Rondo song compilation. There is one new song plus movie version of the insert songs from the ( Read more... )

It's pumpkin season, and I had pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie the other day.

The Haunting of Bly Manor is out on Netflix. It's based on the work of Henry James, particularly The Turn of the Screw, one of my favourite novellas. I'd watched the first two episodes, and it's quite good so far. It's very much in keeping with the vagueness of The Turn of ( Read more... )

What better way to start off the new year than celebrate it with the most famous literary vampire of all? Created by Sherlock's Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, BBC and Netflix's 3-part mini series Dracula will air on BBC One for three consecutive nights starting on Jan 1st, 2020. No news yet on when it'll show up on Netflix ( Read more... )

A Happy Hallowe'en to everyone. Years ago, Neil Gaiman wrote a Hallowe'en article, which contained a few ghost stories. He unearthed the article from the necropolis of the web for today, so I thought I'll share the link here.

(An aside: I'll write about this year's HP_Halloween fest in another post later.)

Crossposted from https://lee-bella. ( Read more... )

The season of pumpkins is here, which means it's time to bring out the skeleton in the closet, the ghost in the well, and the ghoul in the attic.

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is a classic haunted house story, and it's getting a TV adaptation next month. The TV series itself will be a modern reimagining of the novel. Here is the ( Read more... )

Food, love and death are three of the most fundamental themes in our human experience, but never before have the three been intertwined so thoroughly and to such unsettling yet poetic degree on television as the three seasons of Hannibal.

Hannibal is one stormy, bloody romance -- I love it. The mind games and the courtship are fun to watch. This ( Read more... )

Played こちら、XXXXサービス (Kochira, XXXX Service), a short and somewhat unsettling visual novel. This VN is basically one long monologue spoken by a certain customer at a certain bar/cafe. The writer does something interesting with the narrative here.

( Probably spoilers. )