A lone autumn tumbleweed drifts along beneath an overcast, southwestern desert sky. Atmospheric

Anthology ~ Shapes that Haunt the Dusk 🎃 If you like your ghost stories on the old and cozy side. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/a...

Anthology ~ Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk, edited by Henry Mills Alden & William Dean Howells With good reason, all ten stories in Shapes that Haunt the Dusk appear on Jean Hawkins’ list of Ghost Storie…

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Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy bk 1, ch 33 "This idea, that he was ready to sacrifice all on moral grounds, and marry her, again made him feel very tender towards himself." #TolstoyReadalong

Maybe fall frisbee league starts tonight. Maybe it doesn't because it rained in the last 24 hours and Scottsdale might close the fields. The conundrum of someone who loves weather, but lives in the Phoenix metro.

Framed has not been kind lately . . . Framed #1662 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game

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Share a favorite music video (So goth it's almost camp! 💀)

Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

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Trash Witch 🎃🦇@trashwitchh.bsky.social · 2d ago

Share a favorite music video 👻🦇🧟‍♂️🏰💀🧛🏻

Can't sleep, dolls will eat me. The latest @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social special issue is here, all about dolls, dollhouses, and the horrors of the miniature in LONGLEGS, WEDNESDAY, TALES FROM THE HOOD, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and more. #openaccess www.horrorhomeroom.com/special-issu...

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between—Is my journey’s end coming?

Movie ~ Backrooms (2026) 🪑 I am obligated by the season to watch one of the most popular horror movies of the year. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/m...

Movie ~ Backrooms

Backrooms Year: 2026Runtime: 2h 6mRated: R Writers: Will SoodikDirector: Kane ParsonsStars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass I don’t find liminal spaces creepy. I’ve worke…

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I'd never heard of "Choosin' Texas" or Ella Langley until today. I don't watch broadcast news or short form videos (TikTok). I haven't been subjected to any sort of Top 40 in decades. Is my media siloing a failure on my part? Maybe. I like what I like. For the record, that includes some country.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 3d ago

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

Your daily affirmation: The weekend is a great time to start an ambitious new project - one that you have no intention of ever finishing. Think big and fail bigger.

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Monkey Man: Taking Off The Mask

Alt: Dev Patel

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ᗷᖇ[IT] ᑕOᗰEՏ ᗩT ᑎIGᕼT 🎃@babysip.bsky.social · 5d ago

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy bk 1, ch 29 "Maslova sat with her hands inside her sleeves, hanging her head and looking in front of her at the dirty floor without moving, only saying: 'I don’t bother you, so don’t you bother me. I don’t bother you, do I?'" #TolstoyReadalong

There is the most delicious cool breeze coming in the back window this morning.

Morning earworm: R.E.M. – "Pretty Persuasion" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOHi...

Pretty Persuasion (Remastered 2006)

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It is time for my weekly computer struggles.

Short Story Round-Up, 9/23/26 📚 Three flash fiction stories from around the internet. 🌇 Stories from The Shapes that Haunt the Dusk. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/s...

Short Story Round-Up, 9/23/26

Photo by Min An on Pexels.com From Around the Web “A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking” by Kim Harbridge”A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King” by M. R. Robinson I ab…

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Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy bk 1, ch 27 "Nekhludoff felt as a horse must feel when it is being caressed to make it submit to having the bit put in its mouth and be harnessed, and to-day he felt less than ever inclined to draw. " #TolstoyReadalong

Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy bk 1, ch 26 "... then suddenly, as if the bright sun shone on her, he saw her defects and could not help seeing them. This was such a day for him." #TolstoyReadalong

Happy Equinox! May your shorter days be pleasant and your longer nights be cozy! 🎃🍂💨

Probably my favorite title sequence ever. youtu.be/mqdkDwOY9fw?...

Carnivàle opening credits HD

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Well, heck. I've even seen this movie. Framed #1655 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf

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Hmm. This feels very unsubtle for Saulnier. But the needle drop in the teaser is excellent.

FANGORIA@fangoria.bsky.social · last wk.

Watch the new teaser for SLAYGROUND right here.

Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy bk 1, ch 25 " 'We have condemned a woman, and I should like to appeal to a higher court.' . . . "'I shall look the case through to-morrow or the day after—no—better on Thursday.' " #TolstoyReadalong

Morning Earworm Squirrel Nut Zippers – "Bad Businessman" youtu.be/uknbM3yyNvw?...

Bad Businessman (Remastered 2016)

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The twenty year nostalgia window is the year 2000. That . . . can't be right.

Novel: Tidepool 🦑 A little sea-side horror for the season. katenread.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/n...

Novel: Tidepool

I set out to read all sorts of 19th century/early 20th century horror this month! . . . And then I decided I needed a 21st century palate cleanser. Also, I’d been reading a few too many short…

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Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy bk 1, ch 23 "'D’you know, sirs, we have made a shameful hash of it?' said Peter Gerasimovitch, approaching Nekhludoff, to whom the foreman was relating something. 'Why, we’ve got her to Siberia.'" #TolstoyReadalong