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Horror Magazine feat. fresh & diverse voices in genre journalism, covering film, TV, literature, podcasts, academia & events. EIC @momoshaty.bsky.social for Mourning Manor Media https://nighttidemag.com/
It’s Jazz’s birthday and she’s heading to Midsummer Scream this weekend if you’re trying to pitch in for a gift!
Jazz The 40oz Connoisseur@gtsjazz.blacksky.app · 3d agoIf you wanna buy a birthday drink or trinkets/dvds at Midsummer cash.app/$harleyquinn04
🚨This upcoming four-day weekend @nighttidemag.bsky.social is reopening its abstract window for THE HORROR OF CONTROL, our 2nd annual virtual horror symposium. 👻💻 Submission details here: nighttidemag.com/2026/03/31/h...
THE MORBID MINDS MEET AGAIN…
A Virtual Horror Symposium by NightTide Magazine NightTide Magazine’s Meeting of the Morbid Minds: The Horror of Control At NightTide, horror has always been more than a genre. It’s a lens through …
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I'm excited to finally share that my @nighttidemag.bsky.social essay investigating the etymology of "J-Horror" is being printed in my colleague Tom Mes' amazing book! I grew up reading Tom's work, so this is really a hell of a thing that I can't believe is real. On sale 8/27 at Frightfest!
Fab Press Launch FrightFest Guide To Japanese Horror
Next month The dark heart of cinema, Tubi FrightFest will kick-off their 2026 Festival. Today FrightFest and Fab Press join forces
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From Moby-Dick to House of Leaves and the endless corridors of the Backrooms, Peyton Mills explores how existential horror has evolved alongside humanity's deepest anxieties, transforming the unknown from the natural world into the digital spaces we now inhabit. 👻📽️📚💻 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/29/m...
FORM DOESN’T FOLLOW FUNCTION: HOW THE BACKROOMS UPDATE AN ANCIENT EXISTENTIALISM FOR A DIGITAL AUDIENCE
From Moby-Dick to House of Leaves and the endless corridors of the Backrooms, Peyton Mills explores how existential horror has evolved alongside humanity’s deepest anxieties, transforming the…
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We're live with my cosmic horror / space-will-kill-you-but-it-also-ROCKS article about Muse's The Wow! Signal album, named for a WEIRD space thing that actually happened! While there, hop over to my other NightTide piece about all the weird sh!t Muse has taught me: nighttidemag.com/2026/07/29/h...
MUSING ON COSMIC HORROR: BREAKING DOWN MUSE’S “THE WOW! SIGNAL”
From indifferent gods to humanity’s fragile place in the cosmos, Muse’s newest album proves that cosmic horror isn’t confined to literature or film, it can be heard just as powerf…
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NightTide Magazine@nighttidemag.bsky.social · last wk.From indifferent gods to humanity’s fragile place in the cosmos, Muse’s newest album proves that cosmic horror isn’t confined to literature or film, it can be heard just as powerfully through music. @leannareneehieber.bsky.social has the details. 👻 👾🎶 horror-breaking-down-muses-the-wow-signal/
By comparing two radically different interpretations of The Turn of the Screw, Ava DeVries explores how unreliable narration shapes horror, and why what we can’t trust is often far more frightening than what we can see. 👻 📺 📽️
“SOMETIMES ONE CAN’T HELP IMAGINING THINGS”: AMBIGUITY AND THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR IN TWO ADAPTATIONS OF THE TURN OF THE SCREW
What is lost when an adaptation chooses certainty over ambiguity? By comparing two radically different interpretations of The Turn of the Screw, Ava DeVries explores how unreliable narration shapes…
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From indifferent gods to humanity’s fragile place in the cosmos, Muse’s newest album proves that cosmic horror isn’t confined to literature or film, it can be heard just as powerfully through music. @leannareneehieber.bsky.social has the details. 👻 👾🎶 horror-breaking-down-muses-the-wow-signal/
🚨 @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social has another release roster for you in the BIPOC and Dark Fiction categories for August! We may have just found your favorite new reads for the summer! 👻📚 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/29/s...
BIPOC & Dark Fiction Releases — August 2026
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors by Nailah King.
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The 1% be wilin'. @sharai.bsky.social looks into Rosebush Pruning and its bloody, skeevy, and shameless plot. nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/r... 👻📽️
ROSEBUSH PRUNING (2026) A FILM WHERE THE RICH EAT THEIR OWN (MUBI FESTIVAL CHICAGO)
The first in Saltburn’s shadow of rifling through the 1%’s evil drawers, Rosebush Pruning is not for the weak. Sharai Bohannon has the news.
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I fucking love this movie and I fucking love that this is the best piece I have written on it. Now no one has to give the bad place clicks to see me gush over my favorite Grampa Gooey film.
NightTide Magazine@nighttidemag.bsky.social · 2w agoBelieve it or not, The Fly is an ooey-gooey love story. @sharai.bsky.social dives in for its 40th anniversary. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
Believe it or not, The Fly is an ooey-gooey love story. @sharai.bsky.social dives in for its 40th anniversary. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
MUBI FEST CHICAGO SCREENED THE FLY ON 35MM FOR ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
MUBI Fest honors the 40th anniversary of David Cronenberg’s The Fly and Sharai Bohannon reminds us the putrid journey where love just isn’t enough.
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Greenpoint Film Festival hits 15 and @micheleschultz.bsky.social chats with the filmmakers of its UNBOUND selections. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FACES OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL GREENPOINT FILM FEST HORROR LINEUP
Michele Schultz gets the deets on Greenpoint Film Festival’s ‘Unbound’ selections.
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Before I Know What You Did Last Summer was a slasher franchise; it was Lois Duncan’s novel. @sharai.bsky.social explores the space between fiction & reality, adaptation & authorship, & why Duncan’s legacy deserves to be remembered alongside the films it inspired. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/s...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LOIS DUNCAN AND I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Before I Know What You Did Last Summer became a slasher franchise, it was Lois Duncan’s novel; and behind its success was a mother navigating an unimaginable personal tragedy. Sharai Bohannon…
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Though its leisurely pace and romanticized vision of the South occasionally dull its edge, Carolina Caroline finds its strength in subverting expectations rather than reinventing them. @sharai.bsky.social has thoughts. 👻📽️🎬 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/c...
CAROLINA CAROLINE (2025): A MOVIE FOR THE CON ARTISTS AND THE ROMANTICS
Though its leisurely pace and romanticized vision of the South occasionally dull its edge, Carolina Caroline finds its strength in subverting expectations rather than reinventing them.
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"I kept trying to write a celebration of Sam Neill's horror career, but every draft felt distant. Then I realized I'd been writing about the films instead of why they've stayed with me and about the person I've become since I first watched him." - Mo Moshaty 👻📽️🖤 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/16/s...
THE MANY FACES OF SAM NEILL: FEAR AND FUTILITY IN HORROR
Across Possession, Event Horizon, and In the Mouth of Madness, Sam Neill’s greatest horror performances reveal not the terror of monsters, but the devastating horror of losing the person we b…
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🚨@sharai.bsky.social has the Deadite deets on Sébastien Vaniček's take on the franchise. nighttidemag.com/2026/07/10/w... 👻📽️🍿
EVIL DEAD BURN (2026) IS A RELENTLESS AND TWISTED LITTLE ADDITION TO THE FRANCHISE
Dysfuntional family gets the Deadite treatment in Sébastien Vaniček’s spin on the franchise. Sharai Bohannon reports.
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... @sharai.bsky.social remembers the legacy of queer black filmmaker Bill Gunn @nighttidemag.bsky.social, @elainechen.com contrasts the handling of stereotypes in horrors past & present @crimereads.bsky.social, and @boneysoups.bsky.social talks The Red Sacrament with @gnofhorror.com! Happy reading!
Brokeula, Wisdom Corner, and one other BIPOC dark fiction book are now here! Check out the third title publishing today and other July releases in my first column in @nighttidemag.bsky.social nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/s...
BIPOC & Dark Fiction Releases — July 2026
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors by Nailah King.
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Woke up to the news that my Bill Gunn piece for @nighttidemag.bsky.social made it into the This Is Horror 5 Must Read Articles for last week. Always honored to be highlighted and especially for pieces celebrating the overlooked legacies of Black creatives. www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...
5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 July 2026
Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Bloody Disgusting look back at Ginger Snaps 2: Unleash…
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My very first @nighttidemag.bsky.social turned two this year and I missed the anniversary. However, Lacey should be on your radar if you like watching awkward Black women kick ass. nighttidemag.com/2024/02/29/t...
SHE NEVER DIED: The Most Promising Movie We Don’t Talk About Enough
In She Never Died, an awkward loner, Lacey (Olunike Adeliyi), saves a girl, Suzzie (Kiana Madeira), from being murdered on the dark web. Lacey then decides to put an end to the criminals behind the…
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The horror community often asks for more diverse voices & more stories that challenge the boundaries of the genre. This month, the Forbidden Planet Megastore will welcome internationally acclaimed author Silvia Moreno-Garcia for an intimate in-conversation event. 👻📚 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/01/s...
STEP INSIDE THE INTRIGUE: SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA HEADS TO FORBIDDEN PLANET LONDON
The horror community often asks for more diverse voices, more women in horror, and more stories that challenge the boundaries of the genre. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is heading to Forbidden Planet’…
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It's all Tribeca, all day! @micheleschultz.bsky.social brings us WTF to Monstrous with Escape from Tribeca 2026 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/01/f... 👻📽️
Escape From Tribeca: WTF to the Monstrous Celebrated 25th Annual Tribeca Fest
Body Horror abundance at Tribeca Film Festival 2026 proves horror never shys away from reproductive nightmares.
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BIPOC authors get less spotlight than others, and if you're looking to expand your TBR, @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social begins her monthly column at #NightTideMag to help you out! nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/s... 👻📚
BIPOC & Dark Fiction Releases — July 2026
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors by Nailah King.
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Please put some respect on Bill Gunn’s name as we open the libraries.
NightTide Magazine@nighttidemag.bsky.social · last mo.As a queer Black artist, Bill Gunn created one of the most influential horror films of the 1970s, Ganja and Hess. @sharai.bsky.social looks at Gunn's legacy, the cost of historical erasure, and why giving overlooked artists their flowers matters for #NightTideMag 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/t...
As a queer Black artist, Bill Gunn created one of the most influential horror films of the 1970s, Ganja and Hess. @sharai.bsky.social looks at Gunn's legacy, the cost of historical erasure, and why giving overlooked artists their flowers matters for #NightTideMag 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/t...
REMEMBER BILL GUNN’S LEGACY ALL YEAR LONG, INCLUDING PRIDE MONTH
Bill Gunn deserves to be mentioned alongside the filmmakers who changed horror. A playwright. Actor. Activist. Novelist. Visionary filmmaker.
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Happy Summer Solstice to all who celebrate! May your crops flourish, your maypole remain upright, your wicker effigies stay unoccupied, and your afternoon picnic not end in existential mystery. 👻 📽️ 🌞
More than a date on the calendar, Juneteenth marks a pivotal moment in American history; L. Marie Wood explores why it will always matter for #NightTideMag nighttidemag.com/2026/06/19/t...
IF YOU DON’T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW
More than a date on the calendar, Juneteenth marks a pivotal moment in American history; L. Marie Wood explores why it still matters.
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You know I love making lists and decentering male leads.
NightTide Magazine@nighttidemag.bsky.social · 2mo agoHorror has always been queer, so let's talk about some of the best films centered on women loving women, and why representation deserves a closer look. @sharai.bsky.social's got you covered with a stellar list for #NightTideMag! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/06/18/1...
Horror has always been queer, so let's talk about some of the best films centered on women loving women, and why representation deserves a closer look. @sharai.bsky.social's got you covered with a stellar list for #NightTideMag! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/06/18/1...
10 HORROR MOVIES WITH LESBIANS DRIVING THE NARRATIVE
Not all representation is created equal, so let’s dig into some horror films where women who love women get to be messy, monstrous, romantic, and unforgettable.
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