What Sleeps Beneath
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WSB is an online magazine that explores the horror genre as one of the most important cultural vehicles of our time.
👁️ He watched. He witnessed. He saw things he can never unsee. Happy Sam Neillvember! We're celebrating Sam Neill's horror legacy all month, starting with Magill Foote's look at sight, surveillance, and psychological terror. Read The Man Who Saw Too Much: www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/sam-...
Pittsburgh has always had a thing for horror. Now, Three Rivers Film Festival is making more room for it. Nov. 4–15. Read Ande Thomas's interview with Shanna Carrick, Film Pittsburgh’s executive director, on WSB. www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/thre... #3RFF #PittsburghHorror #IndependentFilm
The Backrooms are creepy for many reasons, but here's one more: because they feel like your office. Read Kit Neikirk's #openaccess essay "Backrooms, Rose of Nevada & Job Anxiety Thru Liminal Spaces" @whatsleepsbeneath.com www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/backrooms-rose-of-nevada-liminal-spaces
Just in time for Halloween and Filipino American History month, I pulled some quotes from my piece on the manananggal for @whatsleepsbeneath.com. She is a folklore figure rich in history and symbolism who recently played a big part in Forgotten Island (2026) but made her cinematic debut in 1927!
... @sallyannemartyn.bsky.social talks The Wicker Man, folk horror and more @gnofhorror.com, Kit Neikirk examines job anxiety through liminal space in Backrooms & Rose of Nevada @whatsleepsbeneath.com, and @horrortree.com strap in for an author interview with Deborah Sheldon! Happy reading, friends!
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The temperature is dropping, the veil is thinning, pumpkin spice is in the air. Why stop at lattes when you can drink this in the evening? #horrorsky #halloween #cocktailrecipe #spookyseason
Pumpkin Bourbon Cocktail Recipe | Halloween (1978)
Make a pumpkin bourbon cocktail inspired by Halloween (1978), with browned butter, spiced pumpkin syrup, and a smoky Scotch float for movie night.
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@lunagrayhorror.bsky.social writes: "For Haven, compartmentalization begins as a means of survival [...] and Faubion builds the novel’s supernatural system directly on top of that machinery. Haven’s nightmares draw power from what she refuses to examine." #horrorsky #booksky
What a Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion: Book Review
Rebekah Faubion’s What a Nightmare turns “good for her” horror into a thornier story about inherited trauma, righteous violence, and moral permission.
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📢 OPEN CALL: JAMES WAN-UARY ❄️ WSB is seeking non-fiction papers on the horror films of James Wan — Conjuring, Saw, Insidious. Film analysis, essays, all interpretations welcome. Submissions Close Monday, Nov. 30. whatsleepsbeneath.com/submit #jameswan #horrorwriting #callforpapers
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What Sleeps Beneath is now accepting guest writers! We are looking for original scholarly articles, film analysis, book reviews, and pieces that examine the horrific and the horror genre.
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... Christian Wallis & @drforge.bsky.social recommend 6 stories for newcomers to creepy pasta @whatsleepsbeneath.com, @michaelwehunt.bsky.social picks 6 Georgia based horrors by Georgia authors @crimereads.bsky.social, and A. Rushby sits down for an author interview @gnofhorror.com! Happy reading!👻
"Thomas Ligotti wrote that 'the highest aim of the realistic horror writer is to prove, in realistic terms, that the unreal is real.' Nowhere is this sentiment embodied so well as in creepypasta." Christian Wallis and @drforge.bsky.social share their expertise on internet horror! #horrorsky
What Is Creepypasta? 6 Stories to Start With
Explore creepypasta with six unsettling stories, from "Candle Cove" to "Borrasca," and discover how online horror turns ordinary posts into terrifying fiction.
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"Unlike the aristocratic vampire of Dracula, whose predation is frequently externalized and tied to anxieties about invasion, Good Stab’s transformation is explicitly located within colonial encounter ... Vampirism is thus inseparable from colonial incursion; it is produced by it." #horrorsky
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: Vampires and Colonial Violence
How Stephen Graham Jones's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter uses vampirism and contested testimony to confront colonial violence and resist Indigenous erasure.
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📢 OPEN CALL: JAMES WAN-UARY ❄️ WSB is seeking non-fiction papers on the horror films of James Wan — Conjuring, Saw, Insidious. Film analysis, essays, all interpretations welcome. Submissions Close Monday, Nov. 30. whatsleepsbeneath.com/submit #jameswan #horrorwriting #callforpapers
Submit — What Sleeps Beneath
What Sleeps Beneath is now accepting guest writers! We are looking for original scholarly articles, film analysis, book reviews, and pieces that examine the horrific and the horror genre.
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New book review from @lunagrayhorror.bsky.social; a gruesome animal-led revenge narrative with 🚨big, 🚨glaring 🚨content 🚨warnings from @scotthawkinswrites.bsky.social! 🐺 #horrorsky #booksky #blacktail
Blacktail Review: Scott Hawkins' Brutal Eco-Horror
Scott Hawkins' Blacktail turns a wolf-dog's revenge into brutal eco-horror. Our review examines its animal perspective, violence, folklore, and moral ambiguity.
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Dave V. Riser takes us on a journey (and stocks our TBR) with over 60 incredible trans horror books from 18 authors, both new and established, from large and small publishers! #horrorsky #booksky
Trans Horror Books: 60+ Novels, Anthologies & More
Discover 60+ trans horror books by 18 authors, from body horror and queer Gothic fiction to graphic novels, cosmic horror, and small-press anthologies.
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... Cailín Frankland finds a Gen Z horror movie landscape full of promise @whatsleepsbeneath.com, @danielkurlansky.bsky.social takes a tour of the Ozploitation sub-genre starting with the Penny Lane is Dead @dreadcentral.bsky.social, and Vincent Ralph talks grief in horror @gnofhorror.com Enjoy! 🦇🦇
PENNY LANE IS DEAD is a brutal debut from Mia'Kate Russell on @shudder.com starting 8/28! #horrorsky #filmsky
Penny Lane is Dead Review: Ozploitation With Punk Swagger
Mia’Kate Russell’s Penny Lane Is Dead revives Ozploitation with punk swagger, gendered rage, and a brutal beach-house fight for survival.
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... Alastair Canavan analyses the embracing of transgender monstrosity in horror lit @whatsleepsbeneath.com, @themckelsey.bsky.social recommends 4 indie & small press horrors @the-line-up.bsky.social ... 2/3
Monday *always* means #MustRead horror. This week: Harri Chan gets into the Filipino folklore of the Manananggal @whatsleepsbeneath.com, Hannah Whitten picks out 8 horror books with the ocean as the setting @crimereads.bsky.social ... 1/?
Bob Pastorella@bobpastorella.com · 3mo agoI might be on vacation this week, but the 5 #mustread horror articles online, curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, never take a break. Only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.
Do you know your local blood-sucking fem-monster of cinema? Harri Chan brings Filipino folklore and history to "The Manananggal" in a new essay @whatsleepsbeneath.com www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/mana...
The Manananggal Explained: Filipino Horror, Feminism, and Colonialism
Within Filipino folklore, no creature captivates and horrifies like the viscera-sucker, or manananggal . In Ramos’s taxonomy of aswangs, they are typically portrayed as beautiful women with long hair...
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EXCITING NEWS! DieDieBooks and Encyclopocalypse have joined forces to bring SLEEPAWAY CAMP to audiobook, currently available on Audible. If you want it on other platforms — tell the publisher! We are just authors and don’t control that! www.amazon.com/Audible-Slee...
Sleepaway Camp: DieDieBooks
Amazon.com: Sleepaway Camp: DieDieBooks (Audible Audio Edition): The Wives Colangelo, BJ Colangelo, Harmony Colangelo, Elizabeth Callens, Encyclopocalypse Publications: Audible Books & Originals
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Here's an essay that we're really excited about! @heyriette.bsky.social introduces us to the manananggal, a creature from Filipino folklore that is as gruesome as it is loaded with national identity. #horrorsky #folklore
The Manananggal Explained: Filipino Horror, Feminism, and Colonialism
Within Filipino folklore, no creature captivates and horrifies like the viscera-sucker, or manananggal . In Ramos’s taxonomy of aswangs, they are typically portrayed as beautiful women with long hair...
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See you this afternoon at the soft launch of LOST LIZARD VIDEO up on Butler Street from 12PM-6PM! 🐊 📼
What Will You Find at Lost Lizard Video in Lawrenceville? | Pittsburgh Magazine
Lost Lizard Video gives grindhouse cinema a home. On Aug. 8 from noon to 6 p.m., owner Vincent Santis will launch a soft opening of the video rental shop
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"It’s one of the film’s most distinct callouts to the problem with women’s health: the utter dismissal and lack of conversation around what new mothers go through postpartum." Read @wsbdestiny.bsky.social's review of NIGHTBORN below! #horrorsky #motherhoodhorror #shudder
Nightborn (2026) Movie Review
After a traumatic labor, Saga wakes to the cries of her newborn son in his bassinet on the other side of the room. While most watching will likely pick up on baby Kuura’s negative reaction to sunlight...
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Happy Shark Week! To all those who celebrate, enjoy our spin on the Shark Bite cocktail, inspired by the GOAT of shark films! #horrorsky #cocktailrecipe #sharkweek
Blood in the Water: A ‘Jaws’ Cocktail Recipe
In celebration of Shark Week 2026, we bring you…Blood in the Water.
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: SAM NEILLVEMBER 🎃 This November, we're dedicating our pages to one of horror's most underrated leading men: Sam Neill. In the wake of his passing, we want to celebrate that legacy properly. 🖤 Submissions Open Now! 🖤 #SamNeillvember #HorrorWriting #CallForPapers
Renfield is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. He is a fiercely loyal, insect-eating inmate at a lunatic asylum who serves as the vampire Count Dracula's brainwashed thrall. Anyway, RIP SC Senator Lindsey Graham.
Spinning the wheel to find out what we're watching tonight! @umbrellaent.bsky.social @lloydkaufman.bsky.social #physicalmedia #horrorsky #troma #toxicavenger #wheelofterror