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Rebecca Stone Gordon

@meanlouise.bsky.social

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Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo Also @excavatinghorror.com Not weird at all

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · Feb 17

I need to quit watching this but it’s too delightful to fade away yet so I’m pinning it for a spell.

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · Feb 13

The Ninth Configuration (1979) is a gothic horror-comedy set in a secret military asylum in a gothic castle on an island in the Pacific NW. Jason Miller understood the assignment. His intensity & commitment is a marvel. youtu.be/_hAA_ppWwks?...

The Ninth Configuration - Jason Miller Scene

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 2m

Im glad i saw this & held off on a post about frostbitten toes because it would have 💯 looked like a subtweet.

I’ll be be sure to tag you instead 😜

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 59m

Eric wants a disgruntled GenX flannel alert system. I’m not sure if the system is meant to be disgruntled or wearer, tho. Why not both?

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 1h

🖤🖤🖤

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 22h

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is an INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!! I'm SO GRATEFUL! Could not be more thrilled about this, I'm physically woozy with joy! Thank you to my co-author Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & our @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social team!

USA TODAY BESTSELLER LIST with a heart around our title, out of 150 titles, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC co-authored by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes clocks in at 74 its release week, making it an instant BESTSELLER, Leanna drew a blue heart around their placement on the list 🖤

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 1h

That’s going to be such a lovely gathering of weirdos. I hope everyone has a blast. 🖤

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 15h

That’s amazing & fantastic & I hope you have cake to celebrate!!!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know @nightmare-magazine.com turned 13 this month??!?
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Editorial: October 2025 - Nightmare Magazine

We always try to pull out the stops in our birthday issues, and this year is no different. There’s no real theme this month---although regret and reparation loom large---but every single piece is out ...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 16h

Variation of the goose chase meme, the goose asking: "What happened to the Weimar Republic?" in this version.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 15h

There have been some great vege places in F’burg over the years but the s’mores incident threatens to overshadow all their memories 🤣🤣🤣

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 15h

Thank @beckyhammer.bsky.social! I regret not catching my DJ/reformed ethnomusicologist husband’s reverent “There are…tabs.” on video when he first saw it. A perfect acknowledgement of this fan-fueled labor of love.

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 16h

When we worked early my boss & I used to have dance parties between the coffee kicking in & the doors opening (library) & when Clandestino came out…Whew. On repeat for WEEKS. The dean finally came down to tell us to turn it down one morning & that’s when we learned she was a hell of a dancer 😂

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 17h

I got to meet Elizabeth

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 18h

@drskyskull.bsky.social

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 19h

We’ve probably had this conversation but pretend I’m not a broken record on this: this is a fantastic double feature with The Night House (2020).

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 19h

Then I felt bad so we had a nice chat & then I escaped & went to the pharmacy because I’m way too tired to be interacting with human beings today.

In conclusion, Halloween’s not just for breakfast anymore.

But if you’re having Halloween breakfast, Count Chocula is the best.

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 19h

I appreciate the Halloween pop-up bar guy who wasn’t Bill earnestly selling me on how Halloween is a season, not just a day. I kept a polite expression until somewhere between “You can celebrate Halloween all month long!” & “Horror movies aren’t just for October 31st!” but then I started laughing.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely worth the read, to be clear. Especially as a group w a text chain of academic besties. Also, pride as a university library is hilarious. (Page flag was for picture, not a call out. Probably)

"Oh, yes. You wouldn't believe the sort we get in here." Moore kept pointing as they walked. "That one there, he rejected submissions if they hadn't cited his own work.
"That one gave eighty-two presentations on Goethe.
"That one likes to remind folks that Dartmouth is in the Ivy
League.
"And over there— creative writing students." This was said in reference to a study room of eight Shades, all glowering at one another in silence. Somehow they always come in groups. Can't understand why."
They passed another study room, where one Shade was droning on to another in a very loud voice,"... of course, it's all very Derridean, which I am uncomfortable with because of Derrida's obsession with feces. Did you know I saw Derrida speak at a conference once? All anyone could talk about was how he got high on LSD and smeared feces all over the walls."
"Continental philosophers." Moore shuddered. "Here we
have dozens."
The procession of petty sins continued as they circled up the floors. Moore seemed to delight very much in explicating the moral failure of his fellow residents, for his hushed whispers nevertheless carried over the floors, eliciting the occasional peeved glare. "Now, that one self-published self-help productivity books.
"Calls himself a Communist, but hasn't read Das Kapital.
"Recites pi to show off.
"Had more of a comment, not a question.
"Wouldn't accept papers written in the first person.
"Turned his exam papers over very loudly.
"Still asks people what they got on their A-levels.
"Still tells people what he got on his A-levels.
"Made his wife call him Doctor. He's a medievalist, mind you.
"Now, that one keeps saying he went to school in Boston and

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 20h

we’ve been talking about this museum all morning. I hope the effect multiplies & gets people through the door & excited about this place & about art. But I’m still gonna make jokes

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 20h

Even tho I subscribe to & read the Inquirer I genuinely wasn’t aware of how far & in how many ways the City’s institutions have taken the PHAM branding as it relates to a lot of different venues & activities. So connecting PAM to the PHAM efforts is sounding pretty smart, I gotta admit

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 20h

It really is a breathtaking view. And for all my jokes, Philly is an A+ place to build an audience for sports & art & history

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 22h

No dog is kinda a dealbreaker.

Seriously though, congratulations!

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 22h

I'm going to eat a cheese sandwich while I watch the rain

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 22h

the bench next to ours! I do wish they'd identify everyone in these pictures.

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 22h

you have to start here to understand the full horror unleashed that day in Fredericksburg bsky.app/profile/mean...

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 15d

20. @claymcleod.bsky.social, The Remaking (2019)

Reboots can ruin your life, kids.

This is my kind of curse/legend turducken.

Rating: Huge tray of s’mores. Real ones, not like that hipster place in F'burg that closed to absolutely no one's surprise bc WTAF were they thinking
#MeanLouiseReads2025

Clay McLeod Chapman's The Remaking. Black background with an illustration dominating the page in which a snake is swallowing it's own tale, with a pattern on it's body resembling a film strip.

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 22h

omg I want you & @artologica.net to team up on a science art collaboration proposal immediately. this is hilarious, and also brilliant. except I'm already thinking of the two of you as The Methane Sisters and maybe we should just stop while we're ahead.

Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 23h

26. R.F. Kuang. Katabasis (2025).

Academia is Hell.

Rating: 6 pieces of chalk & a box of goldfish crackers, but the organic version in a not-trademark-infringing animal shape that's mostly fine but not entirely satisfying if you think too much about them but you can't quite pin down the problem.

R.F. Kuang's Katabasis: A Novel. The cover image is an escher-esque depiction of an academic building viewed from the open top as the descending levels of hell.

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