Jon

giallo be having titles like The Bottle of the Gummy Flintstones

There should be more giallos. When you first get into them it feels like there are an infinite number of movies called, like, "The Maniac Is Sabotaging Her Lifespan" but then you hit a wall about two hundred movies in. Very unfair!

Christine. Cinemax. 1985

It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your mom died.

INHERITANCE

(An illustration for a short fiction piece, painted in a fugue state last night)

Taylor Swift and Freddy Fazbear: America’s new power couple

A spindly thing, long forgotten, crouches in an old refrigerator. It is grinning and has much too many limbs and teeth. it's eyes are the bruised blue bulbous orbs of a baby bird.

This time, when Tristan grasped the latch and pulled, the door swung wide, and then fell off its hinges into the dirt. It felt like the old fridge had been waiting for just that moment.

The thing crouched inside grinned into the light and slowly untangled itself to stand.

apart from the brief "homemade slime" trend there has been a paucity of goop, gak, and glop since the 90s. people simply do not respect ooze these days

Quoth the Raven “we are so back”

From my correspondence files: Nigel Kneale.