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Critical Hauntology

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Feral writer. Intergenre. Opstmodern. Hedorahgroove. Smogwave. The Hazeland books. Horror fantasy crime on the streets of 80s LA. No rep. Bad reputation. California · highway62press.com

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 8h

When they are not being terrors, yes.

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 8h

Golly that just seems so hard to believe. I mean just unbelievable.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 8h

Knuckleheads update (photo credit my daughter)

Two orange kittens cuddled together and sleeping. It's too sweet.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 9h

It do be like that sometimes.

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 9h

Right. Travel day tomorrow, which means no sleep tonight overthinking everything about the travel day (and other stuff, lots of other stuff, totally normal other stuff to be overthinking.)

*sigh*

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 9h

I missed it by three days, as I'm driving to LA tomorrow and I am more than a little bummed about it.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 9h

Choosing a horror queen:

Meiko Kaji as Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion. She wears a long black coat and wide, flat-brimmed hat and a glowering expression

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 10h

"I'm always buying records, Cap."

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 10h

Oooof.

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 11h

Or Chunky Slobs

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 11h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

Quatermass and the Pit
The Legend of Boggy Creek
Black Sunday
Night of the Demon
Night of the Living Dead
Near Dark
Alien
Prince of Darkness
Bride of Frankenstein
Return of the Living Dead

I left your favorites off deliberately.

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🚑 Return of the Living Dead
🥩 Ravenous
💃 From Dusk Till Dawn
🧛‍♂️ Nosferatu
📚 In the Mouth of Madness
☎️ Skinamarink
🪓 The Shining
🖐 Evil Dead II
🕶 Near Dark
📷 Lake Mungo

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11h

a little nostalgia trigger for the old nerds on here

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 11h

Trying to think up a more review-proof recording artist right now. Just exerting her own gravitational pull on everything in the business.

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 11h

I could go to Amoeba in a couple days. I'd be close.

I've also got... many albums on my Bandcamp wishlist...

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 12h

Nigel Kneale undefeated.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 12h

Weirdest giallo title ever.

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 12h

"Robot [clause] + then I'll do it."

Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, Companion's "Robot that really would prefer to just opt out of the whole thing and if you're gonna make me do all this just to do that" is almost in a category by itself (though still fundamentally Pinocchio.)