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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 25m

Looks like it’s streaming on Tubi! I’m going to watch it today. Thanks for this post, I’d never even heard of this before

Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 1h

These are all great stories! It’s funny - maybe because I listen to so many horror fiction podcasts and their Halloween stories always seem so predictable, I’ve been down on the concept for a few years. But talking about Etchison has reminded me of his great novelization of Halloween III

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 1h

Such a good writer. That first collection is one of my all-time favorites. His screenplay for Halloween IV is one of the great what-ifs of horror movies

Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 12h

May the scanning never stop

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 13h

Good luck!

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 14h

That’s a fantastic cover! I use a Canon CanoScan LIDE 400. Easiest thing in the world to set up, produces great image quality, and I paid less than $100 for it, although that was three years ago

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 17h

Reading up on Weapons (the movie) after watching it, and I see people clamouring for a sequel?

And that there's the possibility of a prequel happening?

Just... just let good movies be single one-and-done things.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

Apparently an anthology with stories by Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, among others, is TOO HOT FOR BLUESKY

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

Do I have “Masters of Darkness I,” you ask? Shamefully I do not.

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

I got that copy of the Lieber collection at one of the worst “friends of the library” sales I’ve ever attended. That book and nothing else of the remotest interest

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

The title of this makes me laugh every time I think about it. It sounds like the name of a movie Troy McClure would star in

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

[finger to earpiece] I’m being told now that people would like to see more random anthology covers

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

“Do you have a better title than ‘Lair of the White Worm’?”
“Nope.”

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

That blurb is a brutal thing to hang on an Irish writer, because any minor slip up or stumble is going to prompt some neighbor to gleefully say “Do you think Stephen King struggles that much to change a flat tire?”

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

Ooh matron!

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

The Eighties horror boom was so much fun

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17h

I got that beautiful edition of “Hill House” for cheap because the bottom edge of the dust jacket is clipped, book snobs will make mountains out of molehills