Michael Maycabre 🎃

On to the second book in the Old Black Witch trilogy: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

More goth playlist scouting. Added the whole Lycia double-album. Great, synthy, moody stuff.

Time to close the squeaky door one final time on season 6 of @crestwoodhouse.bsky.social! In the season finale @shawnrobare.com undead walks @michaelmay.bsky.social and me through the 1974 blacksploitation zombie flick Sugar Hill. Download us one final time!!! cultfilmclub.com/crestwood-ho...

Happy Jami Gertz Day! #botd

Goodnight. 🖼️ Edna Eicke, New Yorker October 27, 1945.

Happy Elsa Lanchester Day! #botd

This was a new movie for me and a great conversation to end the Official Crestwood House season. Unofficially, we have one more episode coming on Friday with the second part of our annual @hellbentforletterbox.com crossover, so the Halloween party continues!

"I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau, containing several articles of dress and some books... they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter. The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight." www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...

Post a 1950s movie that starts with the letter H #50sMoviesAtoZ House on Haunted Hill (1959)

I like that Peter Cushing seems to be wearing roughly the same outfit he wore as Dr. Who.

There's a lot to like about the 7 Golden Vampires, but my favorite thing is how their vampire minions cutely hop-step into battle.

The third Peanuts special, the Emmy-nominated "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," was first broadcast 60 years ago, on October 27, 1966. (The special lost the Emmy Award to Hanna-Barbera’s largely forgotten adaptation of “Jack and the Beanstalk”…huh??)

Happy Simon Le Bon Day!

First four days of #tolktober this year. I think this is my best year of work so far! #lotr #tolkien

More classical recommendations from my reading playlist

Open carefully. Something supernatural waits inside. 👻 Faceless women, headless demons and spectral brides haunt the 20 tales in Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese Ghost Stories, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Would you dare to read it after dark? https://www.foliosociety.com/japanese-ghost-stories

Time for my annual reread of my favorite Halloween books for kids. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Btw, this was a super fun episode! It also proved how little of a game person I am — and that’s okay! I was proud of my SAW game, and I was wayyyy impressed by everyone else’s far superior thought process! Thanks for having me on @afterlunch.bsky.social — happy Halloweek! 💕🎃

Next on the reading pile.

Every Gothic starter pack needs a monster, a haunted house and a terrible secret. 🕯️🖤 From Frankenstein and Carrie to Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, these Folio books promise a descent into darkness. Which are you pulling from the shadows first?https://www.foliosociety.com/

More goth playlist scouting. Neither of these albums are fully the vibe I'm looking for, but I did add "Stripped" from Black Celebration.

Share your face for the week!

From this month's Patreon LOTR paper figure set: Aragorn's companions on the paths of the dead

Post a 1950s movie that starts with the letter G #50sMoviesAtoZ The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

Added to my Tears for Fears vinyl library

How about a 2-part crossover? Marvel was fond of these in the Bronze Age. • Gil Kane, Tom Palmer, and John Romita covered Tomb of Dracula 18 (1973). • Mike Ploog covered Werewolf by Night 15 (1973).

Tonight’s Movie

Happy Birthday, @jodycollins.bsky.social! Hot chocolate’s on me!

Happy Jackie Coogan Day! #botd

Got myself locked out of Bluesky somehow! But I’m back and with a ton of Tolkien art to share! Here is a miniature I painted this week as part of #tolktober The Grey Pilgrim

#JusticeForLaura

Got: Hunchback of Notre Dame Wish I Got: Literally anyone else. Glad I Didn't Get: I don't know, Jehan, I guess? Not that he was an option.

“Election workers care for the voting process. Our chaplains care for the people moving through it"

FWIW if I ever become President the White House will look like Disney World's Haunted Mansion.

This week's Movie Queue:

Me and the regular group who likes my posts

Monster wine

You could certainly make a vampire movie about Elizabeth Báthory. Sadly, Hammer decided not to.

Rewatched this for the most recent @afterlunch.bsky.social episode.

Not every '70s vampire movie is a winner.