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14d

Get the print! Right here: https://gricklemart.com/mystery-sucker-print/ #grickledoodle #vampire #reading #horror #crime #mystery #cartoon #drawing #art #funny #humor

A cartoon illustration of a vampire reading a book surrounded by ghosts, bats, and other books. Caption reads "He was a sucker for mysteries and true crime."

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10d

Upcoming trouble. #grickledoodle #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a worried man sitting at a bar looking at his evil monster hands. Caption reads "Dr. Zchavagi knew his hands of Evil would not rest dormant for much longer."

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11d

Bram STOKED!!!! Happy Halloween to all the ecstatic vampires out there! #grickledoodle #vampire #happy #halloween #horror #cartoon #art #funny #laughter

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13d

Chops. #grickledoodle #vampire #music #halloween #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a vampire at an organ talking to another vampire. Caption reads "I really only know 'chopsticks' I'm embarrassed to say. But it's a very spooky 'chopsticks' in my opinion."

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13d

New #BookReview on my #blog: "Why I love horror."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-why-i-love-horror.html

#books #reading #ItinerantLibrarian #review #horror
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Book published by #SagaPress

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12d

The Uncanny Scot

To get you in the mood for Halloween, this back issue of The Bottle Imp pursues the spectre of the Scottish Gothic – including HP Lovecraft’s favourite Scots word …

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggity beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

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(the absence of a neep emoji is cultural imperialism at its worst)

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2009/11/editorial-the-uncanny-scot-scottish-gothic/

#Scottish #literature #horror #gothic #halloween #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft

The Uncanny Scot
By The Unreliable Narrator

Readers of a nervous disposition, turn away! This issue of The Bottle Imp pursues the spectre of the Gothic. Naught but ruined towers, blasted heaths, and cold wastes lie within.

Horror seeps in to this our waking world from the margins, and the marginalised. Scotland lies on Britain’s edge, a ragged, ancient fringe. The very rocks beneath our feet are primeval: they count their years in billions, and were old past knowing when first things sneaked and scuttled from out the slime. The skin is thinner here, stretched more tightly over the bones of the Earth.

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12d

Look out! #grickledoodle #horror #cold #autumn #halloween #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a man walking a dog talking to a woman walking beside him while a strange creature in a nearby tree watches them. Caption reads "Gosh, just feel that bite in the air this morning!"

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12d

A Review of I Found the Boogeyman Under My Brother’s Crib: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-i-found-the-boogeyman-under-my-brothers-crib/

#Halloween #BookReview #Horror #Books

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Book cover for I Found the Boogeyman under My Brother’s Crib by Ben Farthing. Image on cover shows two glowing red eyes underneath a crib at night. It has a sinister vibe to it.

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12d

Look who has come knocking for Halloween...

Fascinating and most informative, this detailed and deeply researched biography draws on previously unavailable correspondence to present a fuller picture of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/10/31/book-review-edgar-allan-poe-a-life/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #EdgarAllanPoe #EAPoe #Biography #Literature #Goth #Gothic #Horror #Halloween @bookstodon

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1y

The music of the forest. #grickledoodle #hiddenpeople #puzzleagent #horror #music #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a girl playing a tuba in the forest, surrounded by red gnomes secretly watching her.

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11d

Happy Halloween, everyone! #grickledoodle #horror #vampire #party #halloween #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a disillusioned looking vampire sitting on a couch surrounded by dead people in a party setting. Caption reads "Once again, he had completely sucked the life out of the party."

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9d

Just hit pg 179 of the “remastered, full-color edition” of Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” and I need to gush about it somewhere. Obviously some (mild) spoilers on my end, but I’d appreciate no spoilers in the discussion below. I went into this mostly blind. I knew it was a horror novel, experimental; that it had inspired several cool “non-Euclidean” video games, and I knew it was about a house that’s “bigger on the inside”. I was also prepped for weirdness, as it’s often included in weird/horror fiction lists alongside the likes of Lovecraft & “The King in Yellow”. Honestly, I was ready to ditch this, but now I’m fully invested. <details><summary>SPOILERS </summary>I did not know about the footnotes. Or the formatting. Or the fonts. Or the meandering. Folks, last night I was ready to put this book down. Expedition #3 was underway, and I found myself having to hunt for each footnote. Back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes they’d go on for pages, and often they’d wander far away from the ongoing story. I’m pretty sure some didn’t exist. Then came Footnote #142. Completely blank. “What the hell? Just a dead en–” and that’s when it hit me - it’s a labyrinth. The book mimics the house. The book is a labyrinth. I’m bouncing between footnotes & story, between fonts/voices & tone. Sometimes it’s a dead end and I have to backtrack. Sometimes I feel a little progress. It’s a maze, and I’m suddenly excited & apprehensive to explore more of it. I mean… damn, Danielewski. I’m hooked. You got me. </details> None of my friends have read it, so I had to release some excitement somewhere. Thanks for reading. Without spoiling anything, have you read / enjoyed House of Leaves? What’s your favorite “experimental” book?

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8d

I've finished: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

Well, that's it I've finished T. Kingfisher's audiobook catalogue up to 11.2025.

I kept The Hollow Places in reserve because it was the most horror coded of her novels, and while it is full of horror and creepiness, it also has Kingfishers human touch. Softening the hard edges with humor and self reflection.

Trust Kingfisher to write horror that I can thoroughly enjoy.

P.S.
As someone living outside the US, one of the most alien aspects of the novel is the constant angst about the cost of medical treatment. That is truly horrifying.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/828dc8ee-3669-46c8-84b2-7f0077ad2d05

@bookstodon @audiobooks #ScienceFiction #horror #humor #TKingfisher #bookstodon #amReading #AudioBooks

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1y

Pass. #grickledoodle #vikings #clown #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #horror

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11d

It's way off schedule, but finally, here is my new short film, The Night Dancer, a little something to spice up your #halloween celebrations. A revenge fantasy based on Luo mythology.

https://tv.dilstories.com/w/pvjR9o3oNJMBLHHUm9kpqW

I'm a little too exhausted to write something enticing for you to watch it, but well, hope you enjoy it!

#film #horror #DilmanShortFilms

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11d

Happy Halloween! The Audio Drama Directory devotes all of October to horror. Here are all the horror audio drama shows added this month. Explore the directory's horror category to find stories to keep you up at night.
https://audiodrama.directory/?s=&post_tag=horror&sort=newest
#audiodrama #horror #halloween

A 13x13 grid of various horror audio drama podcast logos

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1y

Their only hope. #grickledoodle #starwars #thering #horror #scifi #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of Luke Skywalker watching R2D2 play a holographic recording of the girl from The Ring as C3PO is panicking and saying "Oh my GOD! Turn it off R2! Turn it OFF!"

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4d

Four stars:

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr (1938) is the short story that inspired The Thing. It also feels like an influence for T. Kingfisher's third Sworn Soldier novella, What Stalks the Deep (2025), although it isn't mentioned in her afterword (while At the Mountains of Madness is).

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comments_11/who_goes_there.html

#bookstodon
@bookstodon #ShortStory #scifi #horror

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5d

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN (😭), my latest review went up at Grimdark Magazine. Joe R. Lansdale totally is your favorite horror writer’s favorite horror writer, and this is a solid retrospective.

(As always, boosts are appreciated!)

https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-the-essential-horror-of-joe-r-lansdale-by-joe-r-lansdale/

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky @bookstodon #Horror