Paul Ryan O'Connor

My first story for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/strange...

This year you can vote for the Readers Choice Award without dismembering your beloved copy of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine! Vote online today -- details at the link. www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/vote-on...

Dust Jacket for 'Necropolis' by Basil Copper. Illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian.

Try to feel unhappy watching and listening to this. I defy you…

Isabelle Huppert © Paolo Roversi

Jean Gabin in "Le Chat" - BOTD #Caturday

In honor of Al Feldstein's birthday, I'd like to share this classic story by Feldstein, Williamson, Torres, and Severin. Seventy-two years ago, E.C. Comics adapted the classic Ray Bradbury story about a Time Safari which got interrupted by "A Sound of Thunder!" www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Brando Calrissian

Bela Lugosi

#NationalFoodDay

BTD: Merian C. Cooper. King Kong, 1933. Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper. Starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot. Original Japanese release poster.

Getting closer to Halloween... *Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Jayne

Discover the secrets behind Secret Wars. An interview with author Tom Mason @tommakescomics.bsky.social on the release of his book, which might just be the rubric to December's big Marvel Cinematic Universe release. #comicsky www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/marvel-...

No relation, alas, but on my black & white television enough when I was growing up that she felt like my aunt. Happy birthday, Una!

An early bird show is considerate when you’re taking in the Legend of Hell House.

Never forgotten, always in my thoughts, happy birthday, Jerome!

Weaving in and out of multiple points-of-view, made to look effortless by a master of the craft. #writingcommunity www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/viewpoi...

Good morning and happy 83rd birthday to the fabulous Catherine Deneuve 🤍

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

Discover the secrets behind Secret Wars. An interview with author Tom Mason @tommakescomics.bsky.social on the release of his book, which might just be the rubric to December's big Marvel Cinematic Universe release. #comicsky www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/marvel-...

© John Vachon Times Square, New York, 1943

Hey, it’s Best American day! This is my sixth volume as series editor of Best American Mystery and Suspense, and I had the honor of working with my revered friend @meganabbott.bsky.social to select these 20 exceptional stories.

Bela Lugosi🧛 20 Oct 1882🎂 #FilmSky🎞️

My latest: a defense of piracy in the name of film preservation. It's not often one gets commissioned to write one's dream piece, yet here we are! Featuring @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social @jamesflowerfilm.bsky.social and @willaharlowross.bsky.social

Measurements, numbers, and notes behind "As You See The World" -- my second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. #writingcommunity www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/the-wor...

“Stop Making Sense” premieres 42 years ago today. 🎂 “.. shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do,” said director Jonathan Demme. “Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.” [“Slippery People”]

"All my life I wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor. Now Elizabeth Taylor looks like me." -Divine #BOTD

On general release #OTD in North America in 1941 - my Letterboxd notes on one of the greatest directorial debuts ever, John Huston's THE MALTESE FALCON #FilmSky boxd.it/9H0VaB

Learn the secrets behind Secret Wars! An interview with author Tom Mason @tommakescomics.bsky.social on the release of his book, which might just be the rubric to December's big Marvel Cinematic Universe release. #comicsky www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/marvel-...

Tor Johnson was born today in 1903 #botd

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." ✒️ Remembering #JohnleCarré [pen name for David Cornwell], English novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), who was #BOTD 19 October 1931. #Literature

Julie London (September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000)

Cleopatra as painted by Henry Clive.

“The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity." Arthur Miller, born on this day in 1915

Creech! #photoart #creaturefromtheblacklagoon #universalmonsters #halloween

Rita Hayworth #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

All she really has to do is stand there. That's all it takes. #bmoviemaniacs

Angela Lansbury - BOTD in 1925

My second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine was "As You See The World," a tale of obsession, taking risks, fresh starts and ... how you see the world. www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/as-you-...

#NationalGrouchDay