Robia Tiemstra

SILENT KEY ••• —•— a new horror audio drama from ARC Productions. Written & created by Robia Tiemstra broadcast begins 10.29.2026

Our show comes out next Thursday! I'm not nervous at all. Here's a preview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHCI...

During Tuesday's Criterion Collection flash sale, I accidentally put my childhood home (now owned by an OPD officer) as the shipping address for my order. As annoying as this is, I am amused by the thought of an Oakland Cop receiving an unsolicited copy of A History of Violence on his doorstep.

A pedantic horror movie take: The “oo” in BABADOOK is pronounced like in BOOK and LOOK, not SPOOK or KOOK they say it that way in the movie y’all, how does everyone get this wrong

Do not interrupt him while he’s working

Things that you could buy with 80 billion dollars (Anthropic's loss for the first half of this year): - The top 5 major league mens' sports THREE TIMES - Twenty new World Trade Centers - 320 sequels to James Cameron's Avatar - The gross domestic product of Azerbaijan - 80 GTA VIs - Two twitters.

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

How I imagine my true crime research/writing job looks to the 4 month old kitten we just adopted.

The frustrating thing about the Musk Documentary: I know he sucks. I know too much about how he sucks. I don’t particularly want to devote 4 hours of my life to re-learning how he sucks. And yet, I also want this film to succeed more than anything else coming out this year.

Top 12 of the year so far: #filmsky

Clive Barker 73 Ernest Dickerson 75 Cassandra Peterson 75 Brad Dourif 76 Sissy Spacek 76 Robert Englund 79 John Carpenter 78 Stephen King 78 Joe Dante 79 David Cronenberg 83 Dario Argento 86 Ellen Burstyn 93 Tippi Hedren 96 Let us celebrate them and show gratitude while they’re still with us.

Writing Halloween Specials for podcasts (like I've done for every year since 2019) is a fun way of getting into the spirit of Spooky Season 1 - 3 months in advance.* *(who am I kidding? I'm always in a Halloween mood!)

People are so bad at using apostrophes these days I wouldn’t be surprised if the next Microsoft OS is called Window’s 12

Circumstances forced me this summer to write almost an entire season of an audio drama using Final Draft’s mobile app. I have either drastically exceeded what this program was designed to do, or the ghost that haunts FD Go hates me. Both equally possible at this point.

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Me: *stumbling through the rain to find my AirBnB in the middle of a town I’ve never visited before* My Brain: “This is just like the motion picture Barbarian.” …sometimes my brain is unhelpful.

This same cat just jumped up onto my lap and decisively deleted a scene from our season finale. I think she needs a story editor credit

Still shaken by the passing of Tim Curry, but thinking about it… it’s nice that he got to publish his memoir last year and do a publicity tour where everyone in show business got to tell him how much his work meant. That doesn’t sound like a bad way to spend your last 10 months or so.

I've never been a huge country music person, but I'm very fond of the movie 9 to 5 and the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine. RIP Dolly Parton.

Whoever cut this trailer to the restoration of THE DEVILS deserves a raise. I watched it like 4 times today. youtu.be/ImeXlanF3iY?...

I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.

Fave film for each year of the 1960s: 60: The Apartment 61: Yojimbo 62: Lawrence of Arabia 63: The Haunting 64: A Hard Day’s Night 65: The Sound of Music 66: Persona 67: War and Peace 68: Rosemary’s Baby 69: The Damned

Wrote a bit about the new Kiyoshi Kurosawa film. Surprising no one, I — an avowed lover of feudal drama and mysteries — was into it boxd.it/fBR7lp

The Dune Generation, directed by Gregg Arrakis

Thor (2011) walked so that Masters of the Universe (2026) could walk with better music

Has anyone done a study on how horror soundtrack trends influence the music spotting in True Crime documentaries?

Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?

*sends up Bat Signal for Robert Eggers*

The way I yelped in delight when I read this news.

Every non-AI advertisement these days is either A GLP-1 drug (chemically starve yourself for beauty standards) or Unholy Protein Supplements (eat like a bodybuilder regardless of your actual dietary needs) Normal society we got here.

Lich McConnell

My cat enters a room like an FBI agent in the field — push open door, check all corners, then approach suspect for scritches

What horror movie image haunts you?

Cat walked across my keyboard while I was worldbuilding, now my show bible contains the crucial line ‘/:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::”? I should leave this in and see how long it takes the producers to notice.

Political conversations over breakfast: “I forget, did JD Vance convert to Catholicism first, or kill the pope then convert?” “I think he converted first…” “He had to. It was the only way to get in the same room as his target.”

We were the correct amount of critical of Camerahead Cenobite though.

Always a delight voting in the FANGORIA CHAINSAW AWARDS. This year has been so stacked with great horror that I almost forgot my favorite horror film of 2026 (28 YL: TBT) www.fan.gd/share-vote-bs

As I've been going back to writing short fiction post-StokerCon, a nugget of writing wisdom from Jamie Flanagan (Hill House, Bly Manor, Midnight Mass) has stuck in my head: "[a short story] is a knife thrown through a piece of paper, guided by theme."

Impressed that this almost scans as iambic pentameter

Breaking: the laws of physics no longer seem to apply in my apartment’s tea cupboard. Retrieve the chamomile at your own risk.

We’re now halfway through Pride month and your favorite horror movie is more queer than most people realize.

Got this email 2 hours before I’m scheduled to see Backrooms. Bold of AMC to seemingly build a theater with its own backroom auditorium