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Hunt Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Hunt Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!

Blackwood, Algernon: The Wendigo Boucher, Chris: Last Man Running Brooks, Max: World War Z

Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were None Connell, Richard: The Most Dangerous Game Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park

de France, Marie: Bisclavret Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles/Sherlock Holmes series

Fletcher, David: Hunted: A True Story of Survival

Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male Hunter, Erin: Warrior Cats

Kavan, Anna: Ice King, Stephen: Cujo

Lem, Stanisław: The Hunt London, Jack: Call of the Wild

Mallory, Thomas: Le Mort D’Arthur Manifold, John: The Griesly Wife Melville, Herman: Moby Dick Messingham, Simon: The Doctor Trap

Nisneru, Alexandra: Hunt

Ólafsson, Bragi: The Pets Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Perkins, Stephanie: The Woods Are Always Watching Perrault, Charles: Little Red Riding Hood Pierce, Tamora: Huntress Pinkwater, Daniel: The Werewolf Club Povey, Jeff: The Serial Killers Club Pratchett, Terry: I Shall Wear Midnight Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant Preiss, Byron: The Secret

Schenkel, Rudolph: Expressions Studies on Wolves Sheckley, Robert: The Seventh Victim Shusterman, Neal: Red Rider's Hood Sin, Damien: The White Tiger of Kalimantaro Stine, R.L.: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Takami, Koushun: Battle Royale Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Traditional: Actaeon

Van Allsburg, Chris: Jumanji Vega, Danielle: Survive the Night

Yoshitomi, Akihito: School Ningyo (School Mermaid)

Blackwood, Algernon: The Wendigo

In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen – divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination – are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph Défago.

While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties; Dr. Cathcart goes with Hank, while Défago guides Simpson in a canoe down the river to explore the vast territory beyond.

Simpson and Défago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that Défago senses – or at least thinks he senses – some strange and fearful odour on the wind. That night, Simpson wakes to find Défago cowering in terror from something outside the tent. Later Défago runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. He follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realising that Défago's are not the only set of tracks. The larger set of footprints are not human, and gradually it seems that Défago's own tracks have metamorphosed into smaller versions of the larger set. Eventually, both sets of tracks vanish, and Simpson believes he hears Défago's distant voice calling out from somewhere in the sky above: "Oh! oh! This fiery height! Oh, my feet of fire! My burning feet of fire ...!"

Simpson finally manages to make his way back to the main camp, where he is reunited with the others. Dr. Cathcart and Hank go back with him to search for Défago, and when camping once more out in the wilderness, Défago – or some hideous parody of Défago – appears before them before vanishing once again into the night.

Conflicted and disturbed about what they have witnessed, they return to the main camp to find that Défago – the real Défago this time – has made his own way back, suffering from delirium, exposure, and frostbite. He dies soon after, and the three men are left in a state of bafflement and uncertainty about what has occurred. Punk alone could have explained it to them, but he fled home as soon as he caught the terrible odour that Défago carried with him. As an Indian, he instantly understood that Défago had seen the Wendigo.

Boucher, Chris: Last Man Running

Synopsis: "Eager for solitude away from the TARDIS and the endlessly inquisitive Leela, the Doctor steps out onto a benign-looking planet. But the apparent tranquillity hides a terrifying secret...

The TARDIS has arrived on a world of violence, where hideous creatures hunt and kill endlessly, vying for supremacy at the top of the food chain. But is evolution on the planet natural or engineered by some higher power? And why has an aggressively suspicious alien police force sent a secret mission here?

With no one safe from the planet's tireless predators, Leela's warrior instincts are tested to the full. The Doctor, meanwhile, begins to suspect that there is a scientific purpose to the planet — one married to a sinister intelligence.

Whatever the data being collated from the planet, the Doctor soon realises its usage may have far-reaching consequences for all humanity... "

Why it's Hunt: The TARDIS has arrived in what essentially amounts to a supersoldier training ground, where everything in the environment is hostile and out to kill them.

Brooks, Max: World War Z

Zombies will chase humans for as long as it takes to catch them. A zombie will chase a human into the sea, over a cliff, into a raging inferno, it doesn't matter. A zombie will go after any living prey that it can find, and eat it to death. In the chapter where the astronaut from the International Space Station is interviewed, he mentions one zombie that chased after a small animal in the desert. When the animal burrowed under the sand, the zombie started digging for it, even as sand continued to pour back into the hole, filling it just as fast as it was dug. The zombie was digging nonstop for five straight days before it apparently lost the animal's scent and gave up.

Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were None

"First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. (...) When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion."

Spoilers: So this book's plot is the last great hunt of a Hunt avatar: Judge Wargrave. Who did the typical hunt avatar thing of joining the law to get his feel and now lets himself go all of springing a trap on his prey and playing with them like a big cat.

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Ten people, trapped on an island, all of them murderers who escaped justice. They are slowly picked off one by one as judgement for their crimes, causing them to search desperately for the killer before turning on one another, evoking themes of paranoia and betrayal akin to MAG 176: Blood Ties. {Spoilers: The killer was the judge, who had gone into law enforcement to sate his desire for killing and punishment, much like Daisy Tonner did)

Connell, Richard: The Most Dangerous Game

A ruthless hunter named Sanger Rainsford is stranded on Ship Trap Island and meets General Zaroff. Zaroff, a hunter who is bored with hunting animals, hunts Rainsford for sport.

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Big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney are traveling by ship to the Amazon rainforest for a jaguar hunt. Rainsford falls overboard while investigating the sound of gunshots in the distance and swims to Ship-Trap Island, where he finds General Zaroff and his manservant Ivan. Zaroff, another big-game hunter, knows of Rainsford from his published account of hunting snow leopards in Tibet. Over dinner, he explains that although he has been hunting animals since he was a boy, he has decided that killing big game has become boring for him. After escaping the Russian Revolution, he purchased Ship-Trap and rigged the island with lights to lure passing ships into the jagged rocks that surround it. He takes the survivors captive and hunts them for sport, giving himself handicaps to increase the challenge. Any captives who can elude Zaroff, Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days are set free; to date, though, Zaroff has never lost a hunt. Rainsford denounces the hunt as barbarism, but Zaroff replies by claiming that ‘life is for the strong.’ Zaroff is enthused to have another world-class hunter as a companion and offers to take Rainsford along with him on his next hunt. When Rainsford staunchly refuses and demands to leave the island, Zaroff decides to hunt him instead. Rainsford uses traps and cleverness to outmaneuver Zaroff, killing Ivan and one of the dogs before jumping into the sea. Disappointed at Rainsford's apparent suicide, Zaroff returns home, but finds Rainsford waiting for him, having swum around the island to evade the dogs and sneak into the chateau. Zaroff offers congratulations for defeating him, but Rainsford prepares to fight him, saying that the hunt is not yet over. A delighted Zaroff responds that the loser will be fed to his dogs, while the winner will sleep in his bed. The story abruptly concludes later that night by stating that Rainsford enjoyed the comfort of the bed, implying that he killed Zaroff in the fight.

Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park

Big hungry dinosaurs vs. small tasty humans. Muldoon commented that the raptors were cruelly intelligent and liked to hunt for sport as much as for food. It was actually justified because (as Malcolm realizes) the raptors discovered that humans are an easy meal and become a favored prey. Meanwhile, the Tyrannosaur seemed to be stalking Dr. Grant and the kids in particular, even leaving behind a Hadrosaur kill to pursue them down a river. At one point it's even waiting at the bottom of a waterfall with its jaws open, hoping they'll fall inside.

de France, Marie: Bisclavret

Covers several common themes of the Hunt -- loyalty, betrayal, and werewolves. Bisclaveret is a werewolf trapped in his lupine form by his wife's treachery, and is hunted by his king, who does not know his identity.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment

The whole book is about feeling certain that your crimes are about to be uncovered, always looking behind you for the pursuing policeman, the hand of justice that is sure to catch you at any moment.

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles/Sherlock Holmes series

As per this post: "I know he's already been in the Eye Poll, but trust me, he's such a Hunt guy. All of his observational skills aren't Eye (he'd probably think that was cheating), but the result of a finely trained mind and keen, Hunt-enhanced senses. He's relentless in his pursuit of criminals, trekking for miles through city and country alike to track down a suspect. He gets bored and listless without the thrill of the chase, as Watson has so often remarked, as though something was sapping his energy. Feed your god, or it will feed on you."

Fletcher, David: Hunted: A True Story of Survival

The author is pursued for the entire book by a furious mother bear after he kills her cub in a series of escalating cinematic attacks and escapes.

Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male

A bored, upper-class British sportsman is found on the grounds of an unnamed European dictator's residence with his hunting rifle in hand, and subsequently arrested. His claim, maintained under torture, that he was stalking the dictator purely as an exercise in the skill of the hunt and that he had no intention of firing is so audacious that it is almost believed — but nonetheless he cannot be allowed to live. To execute such a well-connected Briton would cause an international incident, so his captors decide to kill him by throwing him over a cliff so that his body will show injuries consistent with accidental death. Though badly injured he survives and manages to make his way to the Channel and from there back to England. Where he discovers that home does not mean safety, nor an end to the pursuit.

Hunter, Erin: Warrior Cats

this book series has inspired children for year after year to run around pretending to be feral cats on the playground. it's hunt.

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This book was made for The Admiral

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The concept of your housepet running off to join a feral cat society just feels Hunt-y to me.

Kavan, Anna: Ice

The book follows a male protagonist who feverishly pursues a young nameless woman from country to country as society collapses due to a beginning of a new ice age. People flee their cities to go south, so a lot of the scenes take place in the wilderness and the forests. The protagonist often fantasizes about the woman being torn to shreds by wild animals as she flees a pursuer, and often compares her to prey animals.

King, Stephen: Cujo

A formerly friendly St. Bernard turns into a killing machine after being bit by a rabid bat.

Lem, Stanisław: The Hunt

A runaway is chased by humans with dogs. As the story evolves, it becomes clear that it is a robot, an intelligent machine, one of many created by humans to be hunted. For this reason it was endowed with wit and strength and an ability to be afraid, so that it would run away and make a hunt interesting: "... a tangled plot full of surprises, a forest strategy, a duel of cunning, of tactics, including laying double trails, dodging, looping the scent back on itself, crossing white-water streams and aerial bridges formed by fallen trees". A little girl helps him to hide, but eventually it turns out that her goal was to lay her hands on a gun and shoot the hunted robot herself. It is well known that Lem was ruthlessly burning his unpublished works, and the researchers were puzzled why Lem kept this one. Stanisław Bereś attempts to explain this as follows. Lem never wrote and seldom spoke about his life during World War II in Nazi-occupied Lwow. However one can decipher subtle hints about his experiences of that time in various Lem's works of fiction. Bereś points out an obvious parallel of the runaway's hopeless struggle for his life from The Hunt story, with the experience of the Jews during the Holocaust, including Lem's own. Therefore Bereś suggests that Lem felt overexposing himself in the story, therefore he set it aside and eventually wrote another, a more entertaining version and possibly forgot about the older manuscript.

London, Jack: Call of the Wild

The story follows Buck—a mix of St. Bernard and Scotch collie—throughout his journey as a sled dog. Buck’s story begins at the house of Judge Miller in Santa Clara, California. Here, Buck is a beloved domesticated pet, living comfortably. However, after gold is discovered in the Yukon territory of Canada, Buck is stolen by one of Miller’s gardeners as the demand for sled dogs increases. The gardener sells Buck to dog traders and makes a profit, and Buck is soon shipped north, abused and beaten as he goes. Along with a sweet, unassuming dog named Curly, Buck is sold to two government couriers, François and Perrault, who put him to work as a sled dog. Buck is soon overwhelmed by his surroundings, particularly when he sees a group of huskies attack and kill Curly. As Buck is forced to adapt to the wild, his primitive instincts begin to surface. It is during this time that he makes an enemy of the lead sled dog, Spitz. The two fight a number of times, and Buck consistently undermines him in the hopes of diminishing his authority. After a final, decisive battle, Buck kills Spitz and appoints himself as the new lead dog.

Mallory, Thomas: Le Mort D’Arthur

Large portion of it is about the Quest for the Holy Grail and how all the knights keep setting out to find it and failing

Manifold, John: The Griesly Wife

A poem in which an abusive husband chases his new wife through the snow -- until she changes into a wolf and turns the tables on him. http://mohammadmirzaee.blogfa.com/post/527/Poem-The-Griesly-Wife-By-John-Manifold

Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

Ahab goes on a mad, doomed hunt for a white whale that may or may not be an eldritch abomination and represents God/nature/life, despite the numerous signs that he should give up on his quest and live a fuller and happier life. Unsurprisingly, everyone except Ishmael gets killed by said whale, with Ahab getting tangled in his own harpoon line and dragged down to the depths (in an ironic echo of his own words about how a drowning creature stays down the third time).

Messingham, Simon: The Doctor Trap

Sebastiene was perhaps once human. He might look like a 19th-century nobleman but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal...

In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more prize. For this trophy, he knows he is going to need help. He's brought together the finest hunters in the universe to play the most dangerous game for the deadliest quarry of them all. They are hunting for the last of the Time Lords - the Doctor.

Nisneru, Alexandra: Hunt

Monsters are real. For Emily and Jeremy, the price of this truth was extremely high. Ten years after their mother's death, they hunt these creatures. But every once in a while, they become the hunted. When Emily finds herself in trouble, who will save her?

Ólafsson, Bragi: The Pets

Back in Reykjavik after a vacation in London, Emil Halldorsson is waiting for a call from a beautiful girl, Greta, that he met on the plane ride home, and he's just put on a pot of coffee when an unexpected visitor knocks on the door. Peeking through a window, Emil spies an erstwhile friend - Havard Knutsson, his one-time roommate and current resident of a Swedish mental institutionon his doorstep, and he panics, taking refuge under his bed and hoping the frightful nuisance will simply go away.

Havard won't be so easily put off, however, and he breaks into Emil's apartment and decides to wait for his return. Emil couldn't have gone far; the pot of coffee is still warming on the stove. While Emil hides under his bed, increasingly unable to show himself with each passing moment, Havard discovers the booze, and he ends up hosting a bizarre party for Emil's friends, and Greta.

Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel

"They seek him here, they seek him there / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere / Is he in heaven, or is he in hell?/ That damned, elusive, pimpernel."

Perkins, Stephanie: The Woods Are Always Watching

Bears aren't the only predators in these woods.

Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together—a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest.

Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare; and then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways.

Perrault, Charles: Little Red Riding Hood

You know why

Pierce, Tamora: Huntress

Corey wants to fit in with the cool kids at her school and ignore her family's oddball religious practices. However, the group of popular kids that Corey has befriended regularly hunts people for sport. They try to hunt her when she refuses to participate, only for the Goddess that Corey's family worships to appear and hunt them instead.

Pinkwater, Daniel: The Werewolf Club

A boy whose parents raised him to be a dog inadvertently joins a club of actual werewolves.

Povey, Jeff: The Serial Killers Club

When our unlikely hero runs into a murderer, he ends up killing the killer. Then he goes through his attacker's wallet and finds another shocker: an invitation to a party hosted by Errol Flynn. Errol Flynn? Isn't he dead? Intrigued, our hero crashes it - and discovers the Serial Killers Club. Its mission: share thrills and make sure members don't target the same victims. With aliases from old Hollywood, they include "Tallulah Bankhead", "Richard Burton", and soon, "Douglas Fairbanks Jr.", our hero himself. But "Dougie" isn't going to waste the innocent. Instead, he plans to knock off the "stars" one by one. And when they notice their numbers dropping, he'll have to answer a killer question: is he one of them - or not?

Obviously there are some strong Hunt element here, killing killers, questions of morality, becoming the monsters that you kill, etc. But also, "Okay, I know how it sounds, but Murder Club wasn’t supposed to be like this."

Pratchett, Terry: I Shall Wear Midnight

The villain of this novel is the Cunning Man, the spirit of a witchfinder who sows suspicion of witches among the people of the Disc in hopes of reigniting the witch hunts.

Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant

"The Scone of Stone, an ancient dwarven artifact, has been stolen, and without it, the new Low King of the Dwarfs cannot be crowned. It's up to Sam Vimes and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch to travel to Uberwald and unravel the dark conspiracy surrounding the theft. Also, Vimes fights werewolves."

Not the strongest contestant, but Vimes does spends a chunk of time being hunted down by werewolves

Preiss, Byron: The Secret

This book contains 12 gorgeous, detailed paintings. Each painting contains clues to the location of a treasure box. Originally published in 1982, only 3 of the treasure boxes have been found. For over four decades, people have been possessed by obsession with finding the treasure boxes, a hunt being passed down by parents to their children. This is very reminiscent of the Hunt ritual we see in MAG 133: Dead Horse. The promise of a treasure pulling people in to a neverending hunt.

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The Secret is a treasure hunt created by Byron Preiss. The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada that symbolically represent events and peoples that played significant roles in North American history. Anyone who uncovered one of the treasure boxes was entitled to exchange it with Preiss for a precious gem; after Preiss died in 2005, his estate assumed the responsibility of honoring the terms of the treasure hunt. As of 2024, only three of the twelve boxes have been found. Preiss kept no record of the treasure boxes' exact locations before his death, leaving it a possibility that the remaining boxes may never be recovered.

Schenkel, Rudolph: Expressions Studies on Wolves

This is THAT study. The one that was conducted on a tiny sample of wolves in captivity, yet so quickly taken up by pop culture? The one that gave us the Omegaverse, but also a whole new hierarchy for toxic dudebros to measure themselves up against.

Sheckley, Robert: The Seventh Victim

Takes place in a world in which society that has eliminated major warfare by allowing members of society who are inclined to violence to join The Big Hunt, a human hunting game in which participants alternate between being a "hunter" and a "victim". The protagonist is surprised to learn that his intended victim is a woman, something which he has never heard of. As he tracks said victim down, he begins to fall for her -- but will love or death rule the day?

Spoiler: It's death. But not hers!

Shusterman, Neal: Red Rider's Hood

In this second entry in Neal Shusterman's Dark Fusion series, he twists the familiar fairy tale of Red Riding Hood into a brooding story about a city plagued by gangs. Red, a boy famous for cruising around in a blood-colored Mustang, takes on the Wolves after they rob his grandmother He decides to beat them by joining them to learn their weaknesses After a while, however, he finds himself drawn to the pack. At the next full moon, will Red take up their murderous ways or will he take them down?

Sin, Damien: The White Tiger of Kalimantaro

Two retired ex-cops travels to the Indonesian jungles to hunt a divine white tiger, only to realize the tiger to be old, mangy, lice-ridden and ready to die of age and disease. They kill it anyway, along with several other animals that they encounter along the way, in gruesome detail. Then the real white tiger shows up, and it turns out to be a god-like entity the size of an elephant possessing supernatural necromantic powers, given how it resurrects the old, slain tiger into a tiger zombie...

Stine, R.L.: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible. It started with the strange howling at night. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side. But Grady knows his dog is just a regular old dog. And most dogs don't howl at the moon. Or disappear at midnight. Or change into terrifying creatures when the moon is full. Or do they?

Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Dracula is all about the hunt and the hunted. Dracula hunts the innocent for their blood, stalking them and draining them to turn them into hunters in their own right. The protagonists, in turn, hunt Dracula. A Leitner version of this book would probably turn anyone who read it into another Trevor Herbert.

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Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism.

Takami, Koushun: Battle Royale

From Goodreads: "(...) a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. (...)"

I mean, the concept of hunting each other until only one person remains in video games did get named after it, so it's a prime Hunt candidate for me.

Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Gonzo journalism featuring Thompson and his Samoan lawyer on the hunt for the American Dream by way of semi-biographical of a road trip, reporting on a biker race, a lot of booze and drugs, and deliberate confusion.

Traditional: Actaeon

(Summary via Wikipedia) Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Artemis got revenge on Actaeon: she forbade him speech – if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag – for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately transformed. At this, he fled deep into the woods, and doing so he came upon a pond and, seeing his reflection, groaned. His own hounds then turned upon him and pursued him, not recognizing him. In an endeavour to save himself, he raised his eyes (and would have raised his arms, had he had them) toward Mount Olympus. The gods did not heed his desperation, and he was torn to pieces.

Other versions of the myth suggest his fault was bragging that he was a better hunter than Artemis, not seeing her naked.

Van Allsburg, Chris: Jumanji

A Leitner version of this book would cause the jungle to manifest physically in your home, with new animals escaping to hunt you down with every page turned.

Vega, Danielle: Survive the Night

Julie lies dead and disemboweled in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers. Her friends think she’s just off with some guy—no one could hear her getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music.

In a tunnel nearby, Casey regrets coming to Survive the Night, the all-night underground rave in the New York City subway. Her best friend Shana talked her into it, even though Casey just got out of rehab. Alone and lost in the dark, creepy tunnels, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get any worse . . . until she comes across Julie’s body, and the party turns deadly.

Desperate for help, Casey and her friends find themselves running through the putrid subway system, searching for a way out. But every manhole is sealed shut, and every noise echoes eerily in the dark, reminding them they’re not alone. They’re being hunted.

Trapped underground with someone—or something—out to get them, Casey can’t help but listen to her friend’s terrified refrain: “We’re all gonna die down here. . . .” in this bone-chilling sophmore novel by the acclaimed author of The Merciless.

Yoshitomi, Akihito: School Ningyo (School Mermaid)

A horror manga / anthology series by Akihito Yoshitomi about Japanese school girls who really want boyfriends. But rather than going through the trouble of getting the attention of a boy, talking to them and just being themselves, they decide on a much quicker way to do so... By hunting mermaids in their school and eating their flesh.

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Violet & Daisy (2011) Geoffrey S. Fletcher

July 21st 2019

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Original watercolor by Geoffrey S. Fletcher depicting the library of Sherlock Holmes at 221A Baker Street (1957). Affixed to a larger sheet of paper and signed by numerous members of The Baker Street Irregulars at their Annual dinner on 10 January 1958. —The Sherlock Holmes Collection of Daniel Posnansky

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04012023: Room 8 (2013) / James W. Griffiths

Esta noche no teníamos demasiado tiempo para ver una película, por lo que hemos optado por ver un corto.

En Twitter alguien me ha comentado que Room 8 es el resultado de un concurso en el que se le pidió a varios directores que produjeran un corto con un guion escrito por Geoffrey S. Fletcher.

El resultado a manos de James W. Griffiths es una historia que recuerda a Borges en sus dimensiones intrincadas y en su brevedad. Es sencilla, pero efectiva al mantener la atención del espectador.

De este corto me agrada su brevedad, creo que allí es donde está también su potencia. Un film corto necesita conservar la atención del espectador después de que corran los créditos, debe ser rápido y eficaz en su misión de dar un mensaje, porque tiene menos tiempo y atención que otros formatos.

¿Cuántas teorías podríamos trazar sobre esta historia que se muerde la cola como un uróboro?

Les dejo el enlace por si quieren verlo :)

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✧･*ﾟscottish male names

→ link to my scottish female name masterlist → link to my scottish surnames masterlist

under the cut are a mixture of 281 traditional, modern and uncommon scottish male names. this masterlist was created for all in one breath rp, but feel free to link on your own sites! names are listed in alphabetical order. as always, it's a good idea to google pronunciations (some of them might surprise you!). my favourites are in bold, just because. please like♡ or reblog if you found this useful.

aaron, abhainn, adie, adam, aedan, aibne, ailbeart, ainsley, alasdair, alec, alban, allan, alpin, andrew, angus, archibald, arran, argyle, armstrong, artair, askill, aulay, avery

B

baen, baigh, baird, balloch, banner, barclay, bartholomew, bean, bearnard, birk, blaine, blair, blake, bothan, boyd, braden, bram, brian, brochan, broden, brodric, brody, bruce, bryce, bryson, busby, buzz

C

caddock, caelan, cahal, cailean, calder, callum, camden, cameron, campbell, carson, ciaran, cinead, clement, clyde, coinneach, coby, colin, collum, colwyn, comhnall, constantine, corey, cormac, craig, creighton, crisdean, cuthbert

D

daffyd, daimh, dallas, dalziel, damhan, dand, derrick, davy, dewey, donal, doughall, douglas, duncan, diarmid, domhnall, duff

E

edan, ellar, elliot, emlin, ennis, errol, erskine, eugene, evan, evander, ewan, ewart

F

farlan, farquharson, fergus, fillan, fingal, fingan, finlay, fionn, fletcher, forres, francis, frankin, fraser

G

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L

labhrainn, lachlan, lamont, laine, lennox, leod, lewis, llewellyn, lloyd, logan, lorne, lucas, ludovic, luthais, lyall

M

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N, O, P, Q

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ramsay, ray, reed, rhett, ringan, robert, rodrick, ronald, rory, ross, roswald, roy

S

sandy, scott, seth, seumas, shaw, sholto, siomon, sloan, solomon, somerled, sorley, stewart, struan

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tamhas, taveon, tavin, tavish, teague, thacker, thane, thaxter, theobald, todd, toren, torgeir, torhte, tormaigh, torrence, torrian, torsten, torquil, tristan, tyree, tyrone

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REVIEW

The Spy Who Swapped Shoes by Geoffrey Davison

Stephen Fletcher Espionage Thriller #1

Set in the 60’s Cold War era Stephen Fletcher, on a train, goes undercover. He takes the place of someone being sent to England – undercover – and hopes to pull it off. The story is reminiscent of older spy stories I read in high school and had more telling than doing so might put off those who are younger and into the action-packed thrill ride some current readers seem to thrive on.

This book was well written and made me feel time period it occurred in. I felt I got to know the characters fairly well but kept thinking that one might have to take the story with a grain of salt in regard to how believable it would be in real time and real life. Fletcher is definitely not Bond but perhaps more real...maybe?

Did I enjoy this book? Yes

Would I read more in the series? Maybe

Thank you to NetGalley and Sapere Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.

3-4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46742221-the-spy-who-swapped-shoes

BLURB

A chilling Cold War thriller! Perfect for fans of Len Deighton, John Le Carre, Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming. A deadly game of cat and mouse — but who has the upper hand? Eastern Europe, 1964 Three men and a woman are seated in a train carriage travelling from Istanbul to Vienna. As they cross the Bulgarian border, a fourth man enters and joins them. That man ends up dead. The other passengers get to work transforming a British agent into a Soviet spy – taking the dead man’s clothes and stealing his identity. Under hypnosis, the British agent must forget all memories of his past. That life is gone, and he is now Comrade Dimitri Nickovitch. But will the months of training be enough? Can the British agent infiltrate the Soviet camp? Or could this foray through the Iron Curtain be his last…? THE SPY WHO SWAPPED SHOES is the first classic international Cold War mystery in the Stephen Fletcher espionage thrillers series: intriguing political double-dealing spread over Europe and the Middle East. THE STEPHEN FLETCHER ESPIONAGE THRILLER SERIES: Book One: The Spy Who Swapped Shoes Book Two: Nest of Spies Book Three: The Chessboard Spies

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Watch Laura Dern in Trial by Fire

Here is the first trailer for Trial by Fire, director Ed Zwick’s controversial film that premiered at Telluride last year. It’s the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond between a death row inmate and a mother of two from Houston who, though facing staggering odds, fights mightily for his freedom.

Cameron Todd Willingham (Jack O’Connell), a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak and a criminal record, is convicted of arson-related triple homicide in 1992. (“Any man can’t save his own kids don’t deserve to live,” he says.) During his 12 years on death row, Elizabeth Gilbert (Laura Dern), an improbable ally, uncovers questionable methods and illogical conclusions in his case, and battles with the state to expose suppressed evidence that could save him. Her efforts ultimately fail, and since Willingham’s execution, the disturbing question remains: Did Texas execute an innocent man?

“I did not kill my own children, Elizabeth,” Willingham says in their initial jailhouse meeting. “I love them more than I love life itself.”

Geoffrey Fletcher wrote the pic based on The New Yorker article “Trial by Fire” by David Grann and the letters of Cameron Todd Willingham. Emily Meade co-stars. It’s produced by Allyn Stewart, Kipp Nelson, Edward Zwick and Alex Soros, with Kathryn Dean and Marshall Herskovitz as exec producers.

Roadside Attractions acquired the pic in February and will release it in theaters May 17, Check out the first trailer and poster below.

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Read the complete list of 2019 BAFTA nominees.

Best Film

BlacKkKlansman – Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele

The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday

Green Book – Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor

Outstanding British Film

Beast – Michael Pearce, Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, Ivana MacKinnon

Bohemian Rhapsody – Bryan Singer, Graham King, Anthony McCarten … our interview with Dexter Fletcher is here.

The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

McQueen – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig

Stan & Ollie – Jon S. Baird, Faye Ward, Jeff Pope

You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, James Wilson

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer

Apostasy – Daniel Kokotajlo (Writer/Director)

Beast – Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)

A Cambodian Spring – Chris Kelly (Writer/Director/Producer)

Pili – Leanne Welham (Writer/Director), Sophie Harman (Producer)

Ray & Liz – Richard Billingham (Writer/Director), Jacqui Davies (Producer)

Film Not In The English Language

Capernaum – Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar – Our interview with director Nadine Labaki is here.

Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski, Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska

Dogman – Matteo Garrone

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kaoru Matsuzaki

Documentary

Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

McQueen – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui

RBG – Julie Cohen, Betsy West

They Shall Not Grow Old – Peter Jackson

Three Identical Strangers – Tim Wardle, Grace Hughes-Hallett, Becky Read

Animated Film

Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker

Isle Of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord 

Director

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee

Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski

The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper

 Original Screenplay

Cold War –  Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski

The Favourite – Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

Green Book – Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Vice – Adam McKay

Adapted Screenplay

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott

Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty

First Man – Josh Singer

If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth

Leading Actress

Glenn Close – The Wife … read our interview with Close’s daughter, actress Annie Starke, on acting in The Wife, here.

Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Olivia Colman – The Favourite

Viola Davis – Widows

Leading Actor

Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born

Christian Bale – Vice

Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody

Steve Coogan – Stan & Ollie

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book

 Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Vice

Claire Foy – First Man

Emma Stone – The Favourite

Margot Robbie –  Mary Queen of Scots

Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Supporting Actor

Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman

Mahershala Ali – Green Book

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sam Rockwell – Vice

Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy

 Original Music

BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard

If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell

Isle Of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat

Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

Cinematography

Bohemian Rhapsody – Newton Thomas Sigel

Cold War – Łukasz Żal

The Favourite – Robbie Ryan

First Man – Linus Sandgren

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Editing

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman

The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis

First Man – Tom Cross

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough

Vice – Hank Corwin

Production Design

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald – Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock

The Favourite – Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton

First Man – Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas

Mary Poppins Returns – John Myhre, Gordon Sim

Roma – Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enríquez

Costume Design

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres

Bohemian Rhapsody – Julian Day

The Favourite – Sandy Powell

Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell

Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne

Make Up & Hair

Bohemian Rhapsody – Mark Coulier, Jan Sewell

The Favourite – Nadia Stacey

Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore

Stan & Ollie – Mark Coulier, Jeremy Woodhead

Vice – Nominees TBC

Sound

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst

First Man – Mary H. Ellis, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor

Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Gilbert Lake, James H. Mather, Christopher Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith

A Quiet Place – Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter, Ethan Van der Ryn

A Star Is Born – Steve Morrow, Alan Robert Murray, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic

 Special Visual Effects

Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port, Dan Sudick

Black Panther – Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald – Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, David Watkins

First Man – Ian Hunter, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, J.D. Schwalm

Ready Player One – Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett, David Shirk 

British Short Animation

I’m Ok – Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popović

Marfa – Gary McLeod, Myles McLeod

Roughhouse – Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom

British Short Film

73 Cows – Alex Lockwood

Bachelor, 38 – Angela Clarke

The Blue Door – Ben Clark, Megan Pugh, Paul Taylor

The Field – Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay

Wale – Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

Barry Keoghan

Cynthia Erivo

Jessie Buckley

Lakeith Stanfield

Letitia Wright

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B Gerald Baptiste, Lad.9 A.C. Gerard Barbara, Cmd. Ctr. Matthew Barnes, Lad.25 Arthur Barry, Lad.15 Lt.Steven Bates, Eng.235 Carl Bedigian, Eng.214 Stephen Belson, Bat.7 John Bergin, Res.5 Paul Beyer, Eng.6 Peter Bielfeld, Lad.42 Brian Bilcher, Sqd.1 Carl Bini, Res.5 Christopher Blackwell, Res.3 Michael Bocchino, Bat.48 Frank Bonomo, Eng.230 Gary Box, Sqd.1 Michael Boyle, Eng.33 Kevin Bracken, Eng.40 Michael Brennan, Lad.4 Peter Brennan, Res.4 Cpt. Daniel Brethel, Lad.24 (D) Cpt. Patrick Brown, Lad.3 Andrew Brunn, Lad.5 (D) Cpt. Vincent Brunton, Lad.105 F.M. Ronald Bucca Greg Buck, Eng.201 Cpt. William Burke Jr., Eng.21 A.C. Donald Burns, Cmd. Ctr. John Burnside, Lad.20 Thomas Butler, Sqd.1 Patrick Byrne, Lad.101

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P Jeffery Palazzo, Res.5 B.C. Orio Palmer, Bat.7 Frank Palombo, Lad.105 Paul Pansini, Eng.10 B.C. John Paolillo, Bat.11 James Pappageorge, Eng.23 Robert Parro, Eng.8 Durrell Pearsall, Res.4 Lt. Glenn Perry, Bat.12 Lt. Philip Petti, Bat.7 Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, Eng. 33 Lt. Kenneth Phelan, Bat.32 Christopher Pickford, Eng.201 Shawn Powell, Eng.207 Vincent Princiotta, Lad.7 Kevin Prior, Sqd.252 B.C. Richard Prunty, Bat.2 (D)

Q Lincoln Quappe, Res.2 Lt. Michael Quilty, Lad.11 Ricardo Quinn, Paramedic

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Scary Christmas Stories: A History of the Holiday’s Ghostly Tradition

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“It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story” – Jerome K. Jerome, 1891

In the English countryside, dinner had ended, and the company retired to the drawing room. They gathered around the fire as the parson, who sat in a high-backed oak chair, proceeded to tell of goblins and ghosts. The squire, not a superstitious man himself, listened intently  as the parson spoke about the crusader who rose from his tomb for a nighttime ride. The old porter’s wife added to the tale with her own of the crusader’s march on Midsummer Eve, when fairies became visible.

Such was Christmas Night at Bracebridge Hall, England, in 1820.

The story set in the fictional manor was written by American author Washington Irving, and published in 1820 in the fifth installment of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This was less than three months before the world was introduced to the Headless Horseman in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” prior to the start of the Victorian era – and when Charles Dickens was only seven years old.

Twenty-three years before Ebenezer Scrooge changed his ways on the holiday in 1843, and 143 years before Andy Williams first sang about the most wonderful time of the year in 1963, Christmas had already been established as the season for telling scary ghost stories.

Irving’s English countryside story reminded readers of the idea of the paranormal and Christmas connection, but he didn’t invent it by a long shot.

Before it was “Christmas,” it was midwinter, solstice, Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, and Yule. It was the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It represented death, and rebirth, and was a time when the veil between worlds was thin. And it took place around December 21. 

Prior to the emergence of what we know as the seasonal mascot Santa Claus, there was Sinterklass, and Saint Nicholas before him. There was the long-bearded Odin who would lead a band of hunters, or fairies, or armies of the dead across the sky during Yuletide on the Wild Hunt of Old Norse and Germanic Pagan beliefs. And much like Odin, and solstice, were appropriated, or enveloped, into Christmas, so were seasonal pagan songs turned into carols.

As Christianity spread, folklore incorporated the supernatural with the religious holiday. The anti-Claus Krampus is possibly from a pre-Christian era, but the beast of Germanic and Eastern European origins became a counterpart to St. Nick, and appeared as a hairy goat-like demon with horns and cloven hooves. Written in the 9th-11th century, the Sagas of the Icelanders has some pretty heavy duty spectral action during the season, including revenants. And the underworld race of goblins known as kallikantzaroi emerged in Southeastern Europe in (approximately) late 14th Century with a mission to wreak havoc during the 12 Days of Christmas.

The idea of paranormal stories told during the winter had already been documented in fiction by 1589, when Christopher Marlowe wrote of the season’s tales of “spirits and ghosts” in The Jew of Malta. Shakespeare shortly thereafter wrote of a sad story best for winter, “of sprites and goblins” in 1623’s The Winter’s Tale — nearly two decades ahead of Oliver Cromwell banning, or trying to, Christmas celebrations in 1644 during the English Civil War.

Meanwhile, in the colonies, the Puritans rejected the pagan trappings and revelries of Christmas. Stephen Nissenbaum, author of The Battle for Christmas, writes that from 1659 to 1681, Massachusetts made public celebrations of the holiday a criminal offense carrying a fine. Notably, Captain John Smith of Jamestown celebrated the holiday in 1607, but festivities in America weren’t widespread. Christmas wasn’t even a national holiday until 1870.

By the time Irving came to write of English Christmas traditions, which also involved “mumming” and hanging mistletoe, it was a romanticized notion, and not likely being observed with much fanfare outside the countryside. In the industrial areas, December 25 was just another day of work.

But Irving’s story nonetheless connected with Charles Dickens. In his book Dickens, Peter Ackroyd writes the author had lived an idyllic life in the country until that happy existence abruptly ended, and his father was sent to a debtor’s prison when young Charles was just 12. So Irving’s Bracebridge — a setting familiar to Dickens, and based on the real-life Watt Family at Astor Hall — must have stirred up nostalgia for his childhood lost.

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In time, Dickens and Irving became friends, and the former credited the American author with influencing his own Christmas writings. A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas was published December 19, 1843, but Dickens’ previous work The Pickwick Papers had already included a story about a Christmas Eve with ghost stories, reminiscent of Irving’s “Old Christmas.” He likewise introduced a proto-Scrooge in “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole A Sexton” in 1836 as a chapter of Pickwick.

Interestingly, from a paranormal perspective, Dickens’ “ghosts” in Carol are more inhuman entities than traditional spirits of those who have passed. Christmas Past is described as an “it” with a bright flame atop its head; Present is described as quite large with a wreath of holly and icicles; Christmas Yet to Come is the Grim Reaper-esque figure in a black shroud without a discernible face and body. The ghost of Marley is a familiar sort of ghost, though trapped in chains, returning when the veil is thin much like the old pagan tales suggested.

If Irving’s successful Sketch Book reminded English readers of the ghost story tradition, it was Dickens’ blockbuster hit that made it mainstream. Like any good creator, he gave the audience more, and wrote four additional Christmas books, and several essays on the topic – many of which involved supernatural elements, and promoted Dickens’ “Carol Philosophy” and themes of generosity.

After Jesus and Santa, Dickens gets a lot of well-deserved credit for how we celebrate Christmas. He helped remind the urban English population of the good ol’ days of Christmases of yore, and popularized the holiday as a secular charitable observance (and he coined the phrase “Merry Christmas”).

Though Dickens didn’t create the idea of Christmas ghost stories, he helped make it quintessentially British. Victorian magazines and newspapers took to publishing these themed stories for holiday fireside reading, and readers ate it up. Not surprisingly, other authors wanted in on the trend, even if they didn’t echo the Carol Philosophy.

Elizabeth Gaskell contributed the ghost yarn “The Old Nurse’s Story” to Dickens’ 1852 collection, A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. The list goes on: John Burwick Harwood’s “Horror: A True Tale” (1861); Ada Buisson’s “The Ghost’s Summons” (1868); Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Markheim” (1885). Even American Edgar Allan Poe set his 1845 poem “The Raven” in “bleak December,” and American ex-pat Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898) begins on Christmas Eve.

By 1891, English humorist Jerome K. Jerome commented on the popular tradition in Told After Supper:

“It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story. Christmas Eve is the ghosts’ great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their annual fete. On Christmas Eve everybody in Ghostland who IS anybody…comes out to show himself or herself, to see and to be seen, to promenade about and display their winding-sheets and grave-clothes to each other… Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood.”

This popularity of ghost stories in Christmas was aided by the fascination with the paranormal, and the rise of Spiritualism in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As seances and the use of spirit boards became more vogue, so did the holiday trend. When the religious movement faded from the spotlight in the 1920s, the ghost story tradition stuck around even if the English slightly cooled on it during the early-to-mid war-torn 20th century.

M.R. James, the medieval scholar, and one of the best ghost story writers ever, took to telling fireside tales of the supernatural while he served as Provost at Eton College from 1918-1936. In North America, Canadian novelist Robertson Davies would do the same at Massey College, according to bibliographers Carl Spadoni, and Judith Skelton Grant. Meanwhile, American horror author (and racist) H.P. Lovecraft set his 1925 Necronomicon story “The Festival” during Christmastime.

Anecdotally, it seems Halloween now dominates when it comes to the season of the ghost, even in the United Kingdom. But the Christmas tradition has not entirely faded. The 1970s BBC special A Ghost Story for Christmas has returned in recent years, and The Guardian published five such stories over the course of as many days in 2013.  

Contrary to the “scary ghost stories” lyric of classic American Christmas carol “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” the U.S. didn’t take to the Christmas ghost story in the same way our British cousins did in the late 19th century  (which makes it especially peculiar the song was written by two New York City kids, Edward Pola and George Wyle, and sung by Iowa’s own Andy Williams).

Rather, Christmas in America became especially defined by the jolly (but also supernatural) Santa Claus character presented in the 1931 Coca-Cola advertisement, painted by Haddon Sundblom, and inspired by Clement Clark Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas” aka “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” The folklore of Christmas in America in the early 20th Century was candy cane sweet. Lacking was the ominous spookiness that reminds us to seek the light.

(The indigenous peoples of North America also celebrated solstice, such as with the Iroquois Haudeshaune; the Passamaquoddy tribe’s belief that frost giants returned north during this time; the general idea across different native nations that this time is a celebration of light returning to turtle island (Earth). These traditions were never incorporated into American culture, and were instead purged by colonization.)

Still, America has gradually been making up for its absence of Christmas ghosts and goblins. The angelic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart, espouses enough of the Carol Philosophy of goodwill to make Dickens proud. In Dr. Seuss’ 1957 book, and 1966 animated special, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the creature on Mount Crumpit is a modern-day Krampus. Rod Serling toyed, somewhat literally in one case, with the notion of magic and ghosts in his 1960-62 Christmas episodes of The Twilight Zone (“Night of the Meek,” “Five Characters in Search of an Exit,” and “Changing of the Guard”).

These days the holiday horror subgenre of film has channeled the scary nature of Victorian tales. Santa -as-slasher is well-tread territory thanks in large part to 1974’s Black Christmas, directed by Bob Clark (who also co-wrote and directed A Christmas Story).  More than ghosts, the monsters of Christmas in American cinema has included Gremlins, Krampus, Jack Frost, Gingerdead Man, and the zombies of Anna and the Apocalypse. And the “real” Santa and his creepy elves themselves become the monsters in the Finnish film Rare Exports.

But perhaps with the exception of A Nightmare Before Christmas, and some of the more effective adaptations of A Christmas Carol, such as Scrooged, the sentimentality of Irving and Dickens is mostly absent from modern holiday tales of the supernatural. Yet they certainly bring us right back to the monsters and undead of the pagan tales.

However, with the seemingly nonstop demand for “content” across streaming platforms — and the seasonal English tradition gaining fresh attention on media outlets — we might be on the threshold of a new age of December-set stories populated with spirits and goblins.

Perhaps once more in the near future, every Christmas Eve will be a great gala night for ghosts.

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FOR SBS WORLD MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

  Closed Captions (CC) available for Destroyer, Her Smell and Final Portrait Audio Description (AD) available for Destroyer and Annie Hall

  MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER

The Work 1:00pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 28 November, 8:35pm)

PG USA, 2017 Genre: Documentary Language: English Director: Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous What’s it about? Set entirely inside Folsom Prison, this acclaimed fly-on-the-wall documentary follows three men during four days of intensive group therapy with convicts, revealing an intimate and powerful portrait of authentic human transformation that transcends what we think of as rehabilitation.

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  TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER

The Editor 12:35am, SBS VICELAND

MA15+ Canada, 2015 Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery Language: English Director: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy Starring: Adam Brooks, Udo Kier, Paz de la Huerta, Conor Sweeney What’s it about? Rey Ciso (Brooks) was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he’s had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he’s been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. 

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  WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER

Her Smell 8:30pm, SBS VICELAND

M, CC USA, 2018 Genre: Drama, Music Language: English Director: Alex Ross Perry Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Amber Heard, Agyness Deyn What’s it about? A self-destructive punk rocker (Moss) struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. From writer-director Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Phillip, Queen of Earth).

Faces of Harassment 8:30pm, NITV

MA15+ Brazil, 2016 Genre: Documentary Language: Portuguese, International Director: Paula Sacchetta What’s it about? On Women’s Week, a studio-van was parked in locations across rich and poor areas of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The studio-van was made available to any woman who felt like sharing her story. The film, which is part of a transmedia project, is comprised of a significant number of testimonies, and reflects upon an important part of the filming process: how did these women feel when they were telling their stories?

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Pariah 10:55pm, SBS VICELAND

M USA, 2011 Genre: Drama Language: English Director: Dee Rees Starring: Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Kim Wayans What’s it about? A Brooklyn teenager (Oduye) juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression. The acclaimed directorial debut of Dee Rees, director of 2016’s Mudbound.

Final Portrait 11:50pm, SBS

M, CC UK, 2017 Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography Language: English, French, Italian Director: Stanley Tucci Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud What’s it about? In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, the American writer and art-lover James Lord (Hammer) is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti (Rush), to sit for a portrait. The process, Giacometti assures Lord, will take only a few days. Flattered and intrigued, Lord agrees. So begins a touching story of friendship and a uniquely revealing insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and, at times, downright chaos of the artistic process.

The Last Days of Disco 12:30am, SBS VICELAND

M USA, 1998 Genre: Drama, Comedy Language: English Director: Whit Stilman Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Matt Ross, Jennifer Beals, Chris Eigeman What’s it about? Charlotte (Beckinsale) and Alice (Sevigny) are friends and roommates who must deal with the changing dynamics of their social group at the end of the disco era. From Whit Stilman, writer-director of Love & Friendship and Metropolitan.

NOTE: No Catch-up at SBS On Demand

  THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER

Twelve Canoes 12:20pm, NITV

PG Australia, 2009 Genre: Drama, Omnibus Film Language: English Director: Rolf de Heer, Molly Reynolds What’s it about? A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Once Were Warriors 9:30pm, NITV

MA15+ New Zealand, 1994 Genre: Drama Language: English, Maori Director: Lee Tamahori Starring: Temuera Morrison, Rena Owen, Cliff Curtis What’s it about? A family descended from Maori warriors is bedevilled by a violent father (Morrison) and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts. This 1994 drama opened the eyes of audiences world-wide to the reality of life for a small section of New Zealand, broke domestic box office records, and was followed by the 1999 sequel What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?.

  FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER

The Panther Within 11:00am, NITV

G Australia, 2016 Genre: Documentary Language: English Director: Allan Collins, Edoardo Crismani What’s it about? A family’s quest to unravel the mystery of Joe Murray, an Aboriginal boxer and vaudevillian known as, ‘The Black Panther’.

Sunny and the Dark Horse 12:00pm, NITV

PG Australia, 1987 Genre: Documentary Language: English Director: David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall What’s it about? The story of an Aboriginal stockman, Sunny Bancroft, and his family at Collum Collum and their growing enthusiasm for “picnic races” on bush tracks in New South Wales. The film follows Sunny and his wife Liz, in their search for a winning horse to triumph on the local picnic racing circuit – but things don’t always go their way.

Mosley 8:00pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 28 November, 10:00am)

PG China, New Zealand, 2019 Genre: Animation, Family, Adventure Language: English Director: Kirby Atkins Starring: Lucy Lawless, John Rhys-Davies, Temuera Morrison, Rhys Darby, Kirby Atkins What’s it about? Tells the story of Mosley, a “thoriphant” who rebels against his life of servitude and embarks on a treacherous journey with his father to find the fabled city of Uprights.

The Claim 12:10am, SBS VICELAND

M USA, 2000 Genre: Drama, Romance, Western Language: English Director: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Sarah Polley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski What’s it about? Dillon (Mullan) is a pioneer who defied the harsh winter in search of rumoured gold. Having amassed unimaginable riches, he runs a thriving mining town called Kingdom Come. But the blind ambition and greed that drove him to succeed finally catch up to him with the arrival of three strangers. Based on Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, and directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Code 46).

NOTE: No Catch-up at SBS On Demand

  SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER

Annie Hall 12:00pm, SBS VICELAND

PG, AD USA, 1977 Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Language: English, German Director: Woody Allen Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall What’s it about? This landmark romantic comedy (and Best Picture Oscar winner) stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.

NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand

Destroyer 9:30pm, SBS

MA15+, CC, AD USA, 2018 Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action Language: English Director: Karyn Kusama Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Toby Kebbell What’s it about? Erin Bell (Kidman) is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader (Kebbell) of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, The Invitation). 

Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:

  Do the Right Thing 10:10pm, NITV

MA15+ USA, 1989 Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime Language: English Director: Spike Lee Starring: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito What’s it about? This award-winning and critically acclaimed drama, written and directed by Spike Lee (who earned a 1990 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay) takes place on the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Everyone’s hate and bigotry smoulders and builds until it explodes into violence.

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Code 46 12:10am, SBS VICELAND

MA15+ UK, 2003 Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller Language: English Director: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Togo Igawa, Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar What’s it about? In a futuristic world, an insurance investigator (Robbins) embarks on a brief but dangerous affair with a woman (Morton) wanted for holding a fake DNA identity and passport. He overlooks her crime but soon finds out that she stands accused of violating a reproductive code. From director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Trip).

NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand

  SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER

Invaders from Mars 4:10pm, SBS VICELAND

PG USA, 1986 Genre: Horror, Science Fiction Language: English Director: Tobe Hooper Starring: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Bud Cort, Louise Fletcher What’s it about? This space-age creature feature from director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) is crawling with horrifying hordes of Martians hell-bent on stealing your soul – as well as your planet. Little David Gardner’s starry-eyed dreams turn into an out-of-this-world nightmare when invaders from the red planet land in his backyard and unleash their hostilities on unsuspecting earthlings. 

NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn 8:35pm, NITV

M USA, 2020 Genre: Documentary Language: English Director: Muta’Ali Muhammad Starring: Yusuf Hawkin, Joseph Fama, Keith Mondello, Al Sharpton What’s it about? The 30-year legacy of the murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a group of young white men in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as his family and friends reflect on the tragedy and the subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City.

Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:

Hard Eight 12:30am, SBS VICELAND

MA15+ USA, 1996 Genre: Drama, Thriller Language: English Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Starring: Philip Baker Hall, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. Reilly, Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters What’s it about? Veteran gambler, Sydney (Hall), befriends John (Reilly) and proceeds to tutor him in the art of making a living as a gambler. Sydney also takes an interest in Clementine (Paltrow), a cocktail waitress and sex worker. One night, Sydney is called to a dark hotel by John and Clementine who have bound and beaten one of her ‘Johns’ for non-payment of services – Sydney engineers their escape. The directorial debut for Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread).

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Films à voir : 2011

Violet & Daisy - Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Avec : Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini

Un duo de jeunes assassines accepte ce qui semble être une mission facile, lorsqu'un évènement inattendu chamboule leur plan.

La guerre est déclarée - Valérie Donzelli

Avec : Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaim

Un couple, Roméo et Juliette. Un enfant, Adam. Un combat, la maladie. Et surtout, une grande histoire d'amour, la leur...

La piel que habito - Pedro Almodovar

Avec : Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya

Depuis que sa femme a été victime de brûlures dans un accident de voiture, le docteur Robert Ledgard, éminent chirurgien esthétique, se consacre à la création d’une nouvelle peau, grâce à laquelle il aurait pu sauver son épouse. Douze ans après le drame, il réussit dans son laboratoire privé à cultiver cette peau : sensible aux caresses, elle constitue néanmoins une véritable cuirasse contre toute agression, tant externe qu’interne, dont est victime l’organe le plus étendu de notre corps. Pour y parvenir, le chirurgien a recours aux possibilités qu’offre la thérapie cellulaire. Outre les années de recherche et d’expérimentation, il faut aussi à Robert une femme cobaye, un complice et une absence totale de scrupules. Les scrupules ne l’ont jamais étouffé, il en est tout simplement dénué. Marilia, la femme qui s’est occupée de Robert depuis le jour où il est né, est la plus fidèle des complices. Quant à la femme cobaye…

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Avec : Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac

Un jeune homme solitaire, "The Driver", conduit le jour à Hollywood pour le cinéma en tant que cascadeur et la nuit pour des truands. Ultra professionnel et peu bavard, il a son propre code de conduite. Jamais il n’a pris part aux crimes de ses employeurs autrement qu’en conduisant - et au volant, il est le meilleur ! Shannon, le manager qui lui décroche tous ses contrats, propose à Bernie Rose, un malfrat notoire, d’investir dans un véhicule pour que son poulain puisse affronter les circuits de stock-car professionnels. Celui-ci accepte mais impose son associé, Nino, dans le projet. C’est alors que la route du pilote croise celle d’Irene et de son jeune fils. Pour la première fois de sa vie, il n’est plus seul. Lorsque le mari d’Irene sort de prison et se retrouve enrôlé de force dans un braquage pour s’acquitter d’une dette, il décide pourtant de lui venir en aide. L’expédition tourne mal… Doublé par ses commanditaires, et obsédé par les risques qui pèsent sur Irene, il n’a dès lors pas d’autre alternative que de les traquer un à un…

Polisse - Maiwenn

Avec : Maiwenn, Emmanuelle Bercot, Karin Viard, Marina Fois

Le quotidien des policiers de la BPM (Brigade de Protection des Mineurs) ce sont les gardes à vue de pédophiles, les arrestations de pickpockets mineurs mais aussi la pause déjeuner où l’on se raconte ses problèmes de couple ; ce sont les auditions de parents maltraitants, les dépositions des enfants, les dérives de la sexualité chez les adolescents, mais aussi la solidarité entre collègues et les fous rires incontrôlables dans les moments les plus impensables ; c’est savoir que le pire existe, et tenter de faire avec… Comment ces policiers parviennent-ils à trouver l’équilibre entre leurs vies privées et la réalité à laquelle ils sont confrontés, tous les jours ? Fred, l’écorché du groupe, aura du mal à supporter le regard de Melissa, mandatée par le ministère de l’intérieur pour réaliser un livre de photos sur cette brigade.

We need to talk about Kevin - Lynne Ramsay

Avec : Ezra Miller, Tilda Swinton

Eva a mis sa vie professionnelle et ses ambitions personnelles entre parenthèses pour donner naissance à Kevin. La communication entre mère et fils s’avère d’emblée très compliquée. A l’aube de ses 16 ans, il commet l’irréparable. Eva s’interroge alors sur sa responsabilité. En se remémorant les étapes de sa vie avant et avec Kevin, elle tente de comprendre ce qu’elle aurait pu ou peut-être dû faire.

Suicide Room - Jan Komasa

Avec : Jakub Gierszal

L’argent ne fait pas le bonheur, paraît-il. C’est aussi l’avis de Dominik, un fils de riches que la vie facile déprime. Rien à voir avec l’excitation que lui procure le monde virtuel ! Surtout la chambre du suicide, une plateforme de contacts pour ceux qui veulent mettre fin à leurs jours.

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People, November 4

Cover: Meghan Markle’s anguish 

Page 3: Chatter -- Victoria Beckham on the Spice Girls, Hilary Duff, Jimmy Kimmel on daughter Jane, Dwayne Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Charlize Theron on Nicole Kidman 

Page 4: 5 Things We’re Talking About This Week -- Jennifer Aniston makes her Insta debut, Zoe Kravitz will play Catwoman, female astronauts make history, a Grease spinoff heads to HBO Max 

Page 6: Contents 

Page 10: StarTracks -- Rebel Wilson and Scarlett Johansson at the Jojo Rabbit afterparty 

Page 11: Sean “Diddy” Combs, Taylor Swift, Rafael Nadal wed Mery “Xisca” Perello 

Page 12: Stars on Set -- Jennifer Lopez in Marry Me, Grant Gustin and Ruby Rose, Emma Stone 

Page 13: Jennifer Garner, Thomas Rhett and pregnant wife Lauren Akins, The Sandlot reunion with Chauncey Leopardi and Patrick Renna and Tom Guiry, Helen Mirren 

Page 14: Family Fun -- Pregnant Hilaria Baldwin with kids Rafael and Carmen and Romeo and Leonardo, Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa and daughter Jessica Rae, Dave Grohl and daughter Violet Maye, Cardi B and Offset and their daughter Kulture 

Page 15: StyleTracks -- yellow -- Alyssa Milano, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lupita Nyong’o, Zoey Deutch, Angela Bassett, Issa Rae 

Page 17: Jennifer Lawrence’s dream wedding 

Page 20: Heart Monitor -- Dave and Odette Annable separating, Dennis Quaid and Laura Savoie engaged, Ronan Farrow and Jon Lovett engaged, Christina Hendricks and Geoffrey Arend split 

Page 22: Felicity Huffman -- her time in prison 

Page 23: Serena Williams on her fashionable family, Scott Wolf loving life as a dad 

Page 24: Mark Ronson selling his Los Feliz home, This Week in People History -- 1982 -- Garfield went Hollywood 

Page 26: Stories to Make You Smile 

Page 28: Passages, Why I Care -- Michael Bolton helps women and children at risk for abuse 

Page 33: People Picks -- Dolemite Is My Name, One to Watch -- Da’Vine Joy Randolph 

Page 34: Bojack Horseman, Old Dominion 

Page 35: Mrs. Fletcher, American Dharma, Q&A -- Marla Sokoloff 

Page 36: Motherless Brooklyn, Western Stars, Q&A -- Alex Wolff 

Page 37: Marriage Story

Page 42: Cover Story -- Meghan Markle’s emotional interview 

Page 48: Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton in Pakistan 

Page 50: Where are the Springfield Three? 

Page 54: Sister Wives’ Maddie Brown -- our daughter’s rare condition -- FATCO Syndrome

Page 56: Vanna White -- happiness after heartbreak 

Page 60: Rare photos of Audrey Hepburn 

Page 62: Inside the lives of surrogate moms 

Page 67: Gloria Steinem -- my life in pictures 

Page 74: Heroes on the Home Front 

Page 87: Second Look -- Shonda Rhimes and Chandra Wilson and Ellen Pompeo and James Pickens Jr. and Justin Chambers 

Page 88: One Last Thing -- Naomie Harris