elie lichtschein
@eliethewriter.bsky.social
writer of horror, lover of sharks, believer in aliens biblicallyaccuratealiens.substack.com
new post: in dec 2018 a man on a cliff in thailand showed me three lights in the sky and told me which nights they belonged to. the third was new york. two days later the sky over astoria turned blue. also his nose kept disappearing. here's more
my ²ⁿᵈ alien encounter [december 2018]
green lights + anti-geometric beings on the beach in thailand
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chapter 2.3 of my mom's notebook of the 36 hidden holy ones is live!! in boro park, november 1975, a woman lights five matches at 3:06 pm and throws them on her kitchen floor. across the neighborhood, five firecrackers fall out of a clear sky onto the boys who stole my uncle's sweater.
my mom's notebook of the 36 hidden holy ones [2.3]
the matchbook + the burial
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new story's up! a jewish accountant with schizophrenia spends seventeen years convinced the fruit in eden was a human child, and realizes that he is, in fact, the messiah. genesis, philipp mainländer, and a linen closet in jerusalem.
the universe is the decaying corpse of a god who willed his own nonexistence
a horror story [𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕒 ᵖᵃʳᵃⁿᵒⁱᵈ 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕫𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕔 ᶻ𝗓𐰁]
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36 hidden righteous ones quietly hold up the world. my mom spent her life tracking them down. this week: an old woman lights two green candles at exactly 8:18pm. across town, a car spinning out on a rain-slick highway flickers back to life. certain people are meant to hold candles. 🕯️👽
my mom's notebook of the 36 hidden holy ones [2.2]
the candleholders + the clock
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when i was 13, during a blackout, i watched my dad wave at me from my bedroom window -- while he was standing five feet away from me on the street. i had the same dream for a week after. it stopped on the morning of 9/11 🛸 biblicallyaccuratealiens.substack.com/p/how-i-real...
how i realized i'm an alien antenna
i saw something u̷n̷e̷x̷p̷l̷a̷i̷n̷a̷b̷l̷e̷ when i was 13
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new piece on the nefilim, ezekiel's chashmal, and why bob dylan's sad-eyed lady is covered in eyes that never close 𓁹
how to spot dead angels
ⁿᵉᶠⁱˡⁱᵐ are real & they're hiding in ʸᵒᵘʳ smile
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Tomorrow I'm going to read this poem to my Year 7s as part of our poetry study - it's going to blow their minds. Congrats @eliethewriter.bsky.social, amazing work in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ska...
skating in 8s: the time i was abducted by Elie Lichtschein
i was trying to land this trick, skating the alley behind the house we rolled, just shy of 2 am, a kickflip with a back toss, the trucks hitting in parallel, and it just wasn't happening but i didn't ...
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there are 36 hidden righteous people quietly holding up the world. you get one shot to meet one — at 18 — and 99.9% of us miss it. my mother is the 0.1%. new chapter of THE 36 is up: the notebook, the birds, the candlesticks, and everything she's refused to explain for 48 years.
my mom's notebook of the 36 hidden holy ones [2.1]
the old woman's aide + the numbers
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The best thing about being a moderately successful author is not money (lol, it is actually sub-minimum wage) or fame (nobody reads books). It is having enough mild prestige to relatively easily connect with fellow-creators whom you respect, and meet ones you haven't even heard of before
im writing a gay arctic exploration romance novel but its set in 1907 im 30,000 words in call it unheated rivalry
David Avallone@davallone.bsky.social · last mo.Gay World War One arctic exploration romance. Heated Rivalry, but it’s Shackleton and Amundson. Just spit-balling here.
in jewish mysticism, 7 is nature and 8 is what's above nature — the supernatural, the eerie, the unexplainable. in my horror-wracked brain, that meant aliens. so i wrote L8ER SK8ER, a novel about skateboarding aliens and cults. it never sold. this is what happened 👽🛹
L8ER SK8ER, a history
on writing about 8️liens and cuㄥts
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four men opened up judaism's most guarded secrets -- the arizal, the ramchal, rebbe nachman, and franz kafka. not one made it past forty new piece on the old warning against learning kabbalah too young, and what happens when you do 👽 biblicallyaccuratealiens.substack.com/p/jewish-mys...
the number 40 & the mystics who died young
on writing & not telling ✧˖°.☾
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wrote a short horror story about a creepy man hiding in a woman’s bedroom this was definitely inspired by the boogeyman episode of widow’s bay (with my own alien obsession woven in)
the strange man in her bedroom
a short story ▬ι𓆃
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wrote a single-sentence horror story about a stalker in the orbit of an unnamed pop star, built around lyrics from a sad-girl album i can't stop playing cw: obsession, violence, self-harm. it's not nice. 🔪👁️
ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ🔪 i know everybody changes but i hope that we don't
a short story
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why haven’t i finished most of the michael jackson horror stories i’ve started? i keep landing on the same uncomfortable answer, which is that i don’t have to write them at all. michael’s life, the revealed and the hidden, was a horror story at every turn.
writing horror about michael jackson
on writing
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new ghost story about disassociation is up a bullied girl climbs a tree to be popular. nobody comes down the same
the popular ghost of the poplar tree
a short story
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in 1975, two strangers convinced 20 people to walk into the dark and leave their entire lives behind. they claimed god was an alien and heaven was a place in outer space. my newsletter is about beings like that. new chapter starts now 👽
what are biblically accurate aliens?
announcing the next incarnation of this newsletter
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This is a really good piece about how much of the wiring you want visible in a story
elie lichtschein@eliethewriter.bsky.social · 3mo agoten years ago an editor called the portal in my novel “contrived.” that one word fogged up my head for months. it took watching a24’s BACKROOMS (2026) fail at its own portal to finally understand what she meant hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/review-of-...
GUYS. have you thought of listening to The Stone Roses' first album while you are HIGH ON WEED????? i mean like my friend told me she did it once but i wouldn't know, no ma'am not me
bari weiss heading two news channels while the best writers and reporters i know dont have a steady paycheck. fuck this
ten years ago an editor called the portal in my novel “contrived.” that one word fogged up my head for months. it took watching a24’s BACKROOMS (2026) fail at its own portal to finally understand what she meant hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/review-of-...
review of BACKROOMS (2026)
on writing
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after a way too long writing drought i finished an essay yesterday and am writing another, yay the deadline made me do it
new story's up — an erotic horror age-appropriate retelling of the classic 90s urban legend "The Girl With the Green Ribbon," by way of Machado, by way of a college party in the early 2000s hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/the-girl-i...
The Girl in the Green Choker (Censored)
An erotic horror retelling of an urban legend from the 90s
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new piece: a satirical inversion of Henry Ford's The International Jew, written in the voice of the original pamphlet but aimed at Ford himself hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/the-intern...
In August 2018, Jeffrey Epstein texted Steve Bannon about Goebbels's 1940 propaganda film "The Eternal Jew." His ex, he said, wanted to remake it as "The Eternal J E." I wrote about that text, and about a 2015 dinner invite where his name appears twice. hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/the-eterna...
The Eternal Jew, the Eternal Jeff
Nazi propaganda, texting scum, and one telling typo
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In my new short piece of weird fiction, a desert security guard logs shifting cacti, silent orders, and a partner who vanishes after meeting an astronaut walking away from the base. Sometimes the desert looks back. 🌵👁️ hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/security_i...
Security_in_the_Desert
He never was: A field report from Area <51>
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Jeffrey Epstein had a fully equipped dental operatory on his private island lined with sculpted faces. His last girlfriend was a dentist. The word "dentist" appears 1,815 times in his emails. New piece on the strange dentistry of Jeffrey Epstein 🦷 hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/the-strang...
The Strange Dentistry of Jeffrey Epstein
The convicted sex offender's dark obsession with teeth
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The DOJ released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s townhouse after his 2019 arrest. I went through them room by room. The art, the surveillance setup, the massage room, the symbolism — it reads less like décor and more like a psychological blueprint. hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/inside-jef...
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC Townhouse
A room-by-room tour of Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion, featuring raid photos, hidden symbols, Bannon footage, and the artifacts of power.
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New story is up! This one is about a subway encounter that leads to a mysterious rebbe, a rooftop BJ during the Super Bowl, and a prophecy that hits with actual lightning Jewish mysticism meets NYC chaos hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/tell-your-...
"Tell Your Wife the Lightning Is Not For Her"
A visit to a Manhattan mystic yields a cryptic warning
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