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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 1d

I will join you…😵‍💫

Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 1d

You will join us on Tuesday for SUNKEN PLACES - HYPNOSIS IN HORROR CINEMA
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 1d

We touched on this in my @miskatonicihs.bsky.social talk on Shoegaze Horror! A hauntological flypaper trap. An endlessly looping present built from a vortex of regurgitated pasts, with no future to escape to, where every doorway leads back to where you already are. Kojima’s PT on a cultural level.

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Strange Attractor Press @strangeattractor.bsky.social · 1d

From 1892-1954, cabaret restaurants in Montmartre Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness...

Cabarets of Death, by Mel Gordon ed. by Joanna Ebenstein
Buy now 🧠 strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/cabarets...

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 1d

You will join us on Tuesday for SUNKEN PLACES - HYPNOSIS IN HORROR CINEMA
You will join us... you will join us... you will join us...
Buy tickets billetto.co.uk/e/sunken-pla...
Buy tickets billetto.co.uk/e/sunken-pla...
Buy tickets billetto.co.uk/e/sunken-pla...

a cat wearing a top hat and a bow tie

ALT: a cat wearing a top hat and a bow tie

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent presentation by @andrewpope.bsky.social at the latest event from @miskatonicihs.bsky.social. This sub genre is very much my thing so it was a pleasure to hear Andrew’s informative analysis. Nice to see @momoshaty.bsky.social again…

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 8d

@miskatonicihs.bsky.social is back! Learned a lot about the shoegaze horror subgenre by lecturer @andrewpope.bsky.social and introduced by our emcee @cigaretteburns.bsky.social

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 9d

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) d. Jane Schoenbrun
Final re-watch before tomorrow's presentation @miskatonicihs.bsky.social by @andrewpope.bsky.social on 'Shoegaze Horror'. I love this one. Heartbreakingly sad; it got under my skin the first time I saw it and has stayed there ever since.

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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 10d

So proud of my über-intelligent horror-head husband @andrewpope.bsky.social! Creating new subgenes and shit! If you’re in London, pop down to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social for his lecture on SHOEGAZE HORROR: Bad Vibes, Liminal Loops and Deadly Dissociation.
Get 🎟️ here: billetto.co.uk/e/shoegaze-h...

Shoegaze Horror: Bad Vibes, Liminal Loops and Deadly Dissociation

All events start at 19:00, for 19:15, please do not be late. Step into the hazy, destabilising worl...

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Subterrenea Britannica @subbrit.bsky.social · 10d

Descend beneath Russell Square for a talk in the atmospheric basement of the Horse Hospital.
The @miskatonicihs.bsky.social presents Antony Clayton, talking about a century of celluloid horror lurking beneath the capital.

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 13d

This train terminates here (and so might you): Horror on the Underground

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This train terminates here (and so might you): Horror on the Underground

Next month, brave souls are invited to descend beneath Russell Square for a talk that proves the London Underground isn’t just a transport network -- it’s a vast subterranean horror franchise waiting ...

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 13d

This train terminates here (and so might you): Horror on the Underground

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/thi...

This train terminates here (and so might you): Horror on the Underground

Next month, brave souls are invited to descend beneath Russell Square for a talk that proves the London Underground isn’t just a transport network -- it’s a vast subterranean horror franchise waiting ...

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 10d

London Miskatonic kicks off on Tuesday - Grab your passes while you can!!!
clicky click click - billetto.co.uk/e/autumn-202...

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 15d

Schramm (1993) d. Jörg Buttgereit
Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt (2019) short d. Robert Morgan
Tonight's the night! @miskatonicihs.bsky.social

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating Jörg Buttgereit interview at Miskatonic University tonight. It's really good to be back there. @miskatonicihs.bsky.social

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 14d

This was an excellent 'in conversation' with the inimitable Jörg Buttgereit. Host @donnerpartyofone.bsky.social had done their homework which was rewarded by a fascinating and insightful interview. Even Jörg himself learnt something! Thank you @miskatonicihs.bsky.social. 🙏

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 14d

Peek under the sheet of "Ghosts & the Gothic" (Eds. @ruthheholt.bsky.social @joparsons.bsky.social) w/chapters by Katarzyna Ancuta on Asian spirits + Ardel Haefele-Thomas on specters of Black oppression in MASTER & DESCENDENT. @manchesterup.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

The cover of the book "Ghosts and the Gothic" in a muted aqua color, showing three ghostly figures draped in white sheets, hovering about in an empty room.

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Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social · 16d

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 15d

Last call for Online Semester Passes
First session starts tonight!
Grab your pass asap billetto.co.uk/e/online-aut...

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 16d

Skinamarink (2022)
Heck (2020) short
both d. Kyle Edward Ball
Creepy stuff! Can't wait to hear what @andrewpope.bsky.social has to say about Skinamarink in their presentation on 'shoegaze horror' @miskatonicihs.bsky.social next week. Tickets still available.
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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 16d

Excited for this! 🔥

Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 17d

TOMORROW Miskatonic Online kicks off with a cracker of an opener - the one and only Jorg Buttgereit in conversation!
Grab your semester pass here: billetto.co.uk/e/online-aut...

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Matt R @bavalamp.bsky.social · 26d

The Crowdfunder for #DarkestMargins is live! 24 essays on liminality and liminal spaces in horror!

Pre-order your copy of the limited edition first print run and claim some REALLY FUCKING COOL PERKS!

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DARKEST MARGINS

The aim is to raise funds for the 1st print run of DARKEST MARGINS: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre.

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 17d

TOMORROW Miskatonic Online kicks off with a cracker of an opener - the one and only Jorg Buttgereit in conversation!
Grab your semester pass here: billetto.co.uk/e/online-aut...

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you everyone who has retweeted my @miskatonicihs.bsky.social talk on Sept 30th!💕

Come & hear about Shoegaze Horror: the past is lost, the future’s dead & the present is eating itself. From We’re All Going To The World’s Fair to The Backrooms, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Skinamarink, It Follows…

Shoegaze Horror: Bad Vibes, Liminal Loops and Deadly Dissociation

All events start at 19:00, for 19:15, please do not be late. Step into the hazy, destabilising worl...

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 21d

Mark your calendars for our Online Semester dates - No pressure...
Grab your Semester Pass here: billetto.co.uk/e/online-aut...

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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 22d

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) d. Panos Cosmatos
Re-watch in prep for an upcoming presentation @miskatonicihs.bsky.social by @andrewpope.bsky.social on
'Shoegaze Horror'... can't wait.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 22d

A few years ago I did an online lecture for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social
on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...

Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies

Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.

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