#Clive Graham

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: The Hell Candidate

Graham Masterton: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of what if satan ran for president Masterton: think about it! if satan was president, he could do anything Barker: i mean, he already can do anything can't he? Barker: he's satan Masterton:

Masterton: if satan was president of the US, he could do all sorts of evil things! Masterton: could you imagine? the very engine of government, turned toward evil! Masterton: why, it might commit genocide or institute slavery! King: wow, scary stuff! King: glad this is only a story

Masterton: imagine a world where the prince of darkness himself runs to be president of the united states King: i don't have to imagine it! King: I lived under DONALD DRUMPF!

King: eh? eh? King: see, the joke is that drumpf sounds like- Dan Simmons: JEEZ steve why'd you have to go and make it POLITICAL

Masterton: so the devil himself runs for president Masterton: and you what would happen if satan became president? Masterton: why, he'd probably pass all sorts of crazy laws!

Masterton: like he could make it illegal to pet dogs! Dean Koontz: no no no! stop it! Koontz: steve make it stop! King: it's ok dean don't worry King: satan couldn't really be president King: he'd never be able to build a working coalition

King: satan could never get the votes to become president Koontz: b-but what if he did??? King: well don't worry about that dean King: even if satan did somehow manage to become president King: he'd still be constrained by checks and balances

Koontz: steve, i can't sleep Koontz: i just keep thinking what if graham's story was real?? Koontz: what if satan could become president? King: well, steve, let me tell you something i told my boy joe when he had that same fear…

King: if that happened we'd just stage an assassination attempt and when the media saw the candidate using a child as a human shield, his whole campaign would collapse Koontz: oh phew! Koontz: thanks steve that makes me feel a lot better :)

[ninadove]

“Though some may call it revenge, I prefer to think of it as justice.”

— Clive Dove, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2010)

[explosionshark]

top 5 horror book recommendations? it's spooky season and i need to get my read on...

Hell yeah! Gonna break this down a little. First an obligatory rehash of books I always recommend for this, these are like all-time faves for me

Wounds/North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud - can't choose between these two, so they're tied for my favorite single author short story collection. Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite writers of all time

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado - a very very close second for my favorite single-author short story collection. Machado is a beautiful writer and finding an author writing such powerful horror from a queer woman's perspective was world changing for me.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - COME ON!!!! You might have already read this but consider reading it again! Absolute classic.

The Cipher by Kathe Koja - dark, fucked up meditation on art and addiction and toxic relationships. I think about this book all the time. A guy finds a weird hole in his apartment basement and then everything goes wrong (first slowly and then very very quickly)

Red X by David Demchuk - talked about this a lot before too but I really do love it. Fictional story inspired by real life serial killings that took place in Toronto's gay village over decades. The author inserts essays throughout the book that makes it part memoir as well. A supernatural story about real queer trauma.

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Okay with that out of the way, here's some recommendations for stuff I think would be fun for Halloween specifically

Echoes edited by Ellen Datlow - OKAY CHEATING I ALSO RECOMMEND THIS ALL THE TIME BUT IT'S A PERFECT OCTOBER BOOK!!! Fuck-off huge ghost story anthology. Huge range of tones, pretty diverse group of contributing authors, it's my all-time favorite anthology.

Slewfoot by BROM - this one's got major autumn vibes. It's a story of a woman in Puritan New England who's accused of witchcraft. It's also a story about the devil. Kind of. The print version has really amazing paintings by the author, but I've heard this is also good in audio.

Come Closer by Sara Gran - this is a great little novella. Possession story that really packs a punch. I can't really say much more than that, but it's not a huge time investment and I think it's really worthwhile.

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu - if you can, get the version edited by Carmen Maria Machado (she adds in some great footnotes and it has some neat art too). This is a classic and also quite a brisk read. The original lesbian vampire story.

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - here's a new release for you! I always watch a ton of horror movies in October, and if you're anything like me maybe you'll want to read a horror novel about horror movies. This story follows a female film editor in 90s Mexico and her washed up actor friend as they help a retired filmmaker complete his famously unfinished last film, which he had been making with a former Nazi occultist before strange misfortunes and the occultist's mysterious disappearance forced production to shut down.

Okay that was double the amount of recommendations requested so I'm stopping here. Haha don't look in the tags don't worry about it there's nothing there you're crazy

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Little Prince (1974, Stanley Donen)

11/5/22

[whatcha-reading-today]

Summerween Day 3: Screams Under 200 pages

This is part of the recommendations for Summerween 2024. See the masterpost here.

A good scare can be very long, or can be quite short. Here are some recommendations of quick and scary reads under 200 pages (or slightly over).

Ring Shout | P. Djèlí Clark (185 pages): Racism is a disease that transforms Klan members into monsters.

Tender is the Flesh | Agustina Bazterrica: (208 pages): Disgusting! Humans can't eat animal products anymore for reasons, so we now cultivate humans for consumption.

The Hellbound Heart | Clive Barker: (164 pages) The story that inspired Hellraiser. Barker's writing is crisp and easy to read quickly, but boy is THH a blast.

Audition | Ryu Murakami (208 pages): There's a movie version of this and I have such a hard time watching it. But, a guy auditions women to be his girlfriend, and unfortunately, the woman he's interested in may have some violent tendencies.

Night of the Mannequins | Stephen Graham Jones (144 pages): If you love SGJ's work, I highly recommend you go in as blind as possible on this one.

Ring | Kōji Suzuki (288 pages): What if you watched a video tape and died a week later?

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison (134 pages): I first interacted with this story as a point and click adventure horror game. Recommend both the story and the game.

[cringeworms]

Someday I will write a Hellraiser/Hannibal au fic, it’s been rattling around in my brain. You can’t convince me Will and Kirsty wouldn’t be absolute bffs. And Julia and Hannibal would have a courteous relationship until Hannibal tries to eat Frank and Julia tries to kill Hannibal or something hilarious like that. Obviously I’d include the plot of Hellbound because there’s so much potential with the asylum and all.

[randomrichards]

HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT:

A kindly waiter

Shields socialite form husband

Clash leads to shipwreck

[thehauntologicalsociety]

The Breakthrough — A Story by Daphne du Maurier — A Teleplay by Graham Evans and Clive Exton

Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?

On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.

There are very audible echoes of Peter Newbrook’s The Asphyx and even Peter Sasdy’s The Stone Tape, scripted by Nigel Kneale in The Breakthrough, though it’s actually based on a Daphne Du Maurier short story that predates both of them. Written in 1964 as a favour to Kingsley Amis who was looking to put together an anthology of science fiction stories that was never published, the short story turned up in Du Maurier’s 1971 collection Not After Midnight, and Other Stories. Graham Evans’ television play, adapted by Clive Exton, is faithful to the story but possibly as a consequence it’s far too leisurely for its own good.

Computer specialist Stephen Saunders (Simon Ward) is sent by a government minister, Sir John Fowler (Anthony Nicholls), to a laboratory, Saxmere, situated on the salt marshes of the East Suffolk Coast, ostensibly to help maintain it’s fantastically clunky and oh-so-70s computer – all oscilloscopes, huge reels of tape and inexplicable banks of flashing lights. It turns out that the Saxmere team, made up of “Mac” Maclean (Brewster Mason), Robbie (Clive Swift), Janus (Roy Boyd), Ken (Thomas Ellice, here credited as Martin C. Thurley) and Cerberus the dog are trying to use the computer to help them capture human psychic energy (or “Force 6” as Mac dubs it) at the very moment of death. The terminally ill Ken is chosen as the test subject and a developmentally challenged young local girl, Niki (Rosalind McCabe), who shows some talent as a medium and seems to have caused poltergeist activity in the past, is drafted in to act as a conduit to him after he dies. The experiment seems to be a success but Niki reports back that Ken wants his life force released and the researchers realise with horror that their process captures more than just psychic energy.

— Kevin Lyons — EOFFTV - The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television

[therealmrpositive]

The Wicker Tree (2011)

In today's review, I find that this May Day may lead to a religious experience. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2011 folk-horror sequel, The Wicker Tree #GrahamMcTavish #JacquelineLeonard #BrittaniaNicol #HenryGarrett #HoneysuckleWeeks

While it can be somewhat difficult for old-fashioned divinity to prosper in an era of secular ideals and alternative beliefs, that doesn’t stop the devoted from trying to instil their beliefs in the very four corners of the earth. Whether to appease the almighty for their past transgressions or to help purify the masses, the zeal is equally matched by the hardship of the journey. In 2011, with a…

[bitterkarella]

JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i want you to sssay hello to Rowling: graham lineham Lineham: [wearing foil hat] free masons run the country Rowling: he'sss got sssome great ideasss you should hear

Poe: joanne you don't need to bring him here Poe: like, you really don't Rowling: he hass thingsss to sssay and you're ALL going to hear them Poe: this is really kind of off topic for us here Rowling: EVERYONE will hear them

Rowling: ssssee, yearsss ago i disssmisssed graham lineham'ssss babble as the bad opticsss ravingsss of a lunatic Rowling: but now that the overton window hass sshifted Rowling: i'm proud to sssay thessse bad opticsss ravingsss are quite good actually!

Rowling: go ahead, graham, tell them what you told me Lineham: trans people produce no great films, no music, no art Lineham: they're incapable of doing this basic human thing because they're subhuman Lineham: untermensch, if you will Rowling: isssn't he great?

Lineham: trans books are always universally panned because of their incoherence Billy Martin: Hailey Piper: Eve Harms: Gretchen Felker-Martin: Joe Koch: M. Lopes da Silva: Arden Powell: Lor Gislason: Julya Oui: LC von Hessen: GE Woods: Michelle Belanger: Rain Corbyn: SA Chant:

FT Catulla: Viktor Athelstan: Meagan Hotz: Ziggy Schutz: Rose Sable: WN Derring-Judith: Charles Maria Tor: Devaki Devay: Dayna Ingram: Ori Jay: Ai Burton: Gabriel Valentine: Cosmin-Mihai Birsan: Jei D Marcade: Rhiannon Rasmussen: Max Turner: Taylor J Pitts: Vincent Endwell:

Bri Crozier: Theo Hendrie: Derek des Anges: Briar Ripley Page: Winter Holmes: gaast: Maya Deane: Charles-Elizabeth Boyles: Layne van Rensburg: Amanda M Blake: May Leitz: Alison Rumfitt: Rivers Solomon: Lillian Boyd: Torrey Peters: Taliesin Neith: Daniel M. Lavery: Joss Lake: Aubrey Wood: Jonah Wu:

Daphne du Maurier: Patricia Highsmith: Franz Kafka: Kafka: wait Kafka: why did the camera pan to me

Barker: oh you know why haha Poe: clive Kafka: why Kafka: [hugging blåhaj] i don't know what you mean

[ninadove]

“It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero”

Actually Taylor you have no idea what you’re talking about I’m doing amazing thank you very much

[ianchisnall]

Children’s food and drink to reduce child obesity

On the House of Lords on Thursday, 1st February last week there was a discussion entitled Child Obesity which was set out by Clive Brooke who is a Labour member who is from Yorkshire. The responses from Clive and indeed a number of other members of the House of Lords were responded by Graham Evans who was the Conservative MP for Weaver Vale MP until 2017 and he is a Minister member of the…

[mariocki]

The Saint: A Double in Diamonds (5.24, ITC, 1967)

"Were there... difficulties?"

"Does it matter?"

"Not to me. I was merely being polite, an art you should strive to master."

[filosofablogger]

♫ All Out Of Love ♫ (Redux)

I last played this in January 2020, and I have no idea why I’m playing it again tonight, but for some reason I had it on my list, so … either somebody requested it, or it got stuck in my head one day and I jotted it down but failed to jot down the reason! Released in February 1980, this is a song by the Australian soft rock group Air Supply.  The song was written by Graham Russell & Clive Davis.…

[insidecroydon]

Jewitt sacked while Newman Numpties scramble back to power

CROYDON IN CRISIS: “Lazy” Clive Fraser and Sean Fitzsimons, long-time loyal supporters of the Labour leadership which crashed the council’s finances, did not have to wait too long before being handed jobs under new(ish) leader Stuart King. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Dropped: Karen Jewitt has been sacked from her licensing and general purposes committee roles Karen Jewitt, one of Croydon Labour’s…

[rmstitanics]

* FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS WITH YOUR MOON SIGN.

If you’re looking for suggestions on which authors and music artists to check out next, look to your moon sign! In Western astrology, the moon is said to represent your subconscious mind, emotions, and inner personality, so it is widely believed that we tend to relate to media by artists who share our moon sign.

♈️ ARIES MOON

WRITERS:

Gore Vidal

George R. R. Martin

Nicholas Sparks

Rick Riordan

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Christopher Paolini

MUSICIANS:

P!nk

Whitney Houston

Céline Dion

Selena Gomez

Rihanna

Tupac

♉️ TAURUS MOON

WRITERS:

Jodi Picoult

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hans Christian Anderson

Clive Barker

George Bernard Shaw

Aldous Huxley

MUSICIANS:

Pharrell Williams

Kelly Clarkson

Bob Dylan

Demi Lovato

Christina Aguilera

Pitbull

♊️ GEMINI MOON

WRITERS:

C. S. Lewis

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Orson Scott Card

Franz Kafka

Margaret Mitchell

R.A. Salvatore

T. S. Elliot

MUSICIANS:

Ella Fitzgerald

Florence Welch

Art Garfunkel

Billy Idol

Sia

Tina Turner

♋️ CANCER MOON

WRITERS:

George Orwell

Liu Cixin

Brandon Sanderson

Cassandra Clare

Diana Gabaldon

Lois Lowry

MUSICIANS:

Tchaikovsky

Taylor Swift

Kurt Cobain

Halsey

Aretha Franklin

Janis Joplin

♌️ LEO MOON

Oscar Wilde

Holly Black

Geraldine Brooks

James Dashner

Jack London

Ta Nehisi Coates

MUSICIANS:

Lana Del Ray

Paul McCartney

Queen Latifah

Niall Horan

Bruno Mars

David Bowie

♍️ VIRGO MOON

WRITERS:

Leo Tolstoy

John Grisham

Claudia Gray

Isabel Allende

Xiran Jay Zhao

Douglas Adams

MUSICIANS:

Dolly Parton

Nicki Manaj

Madonna

Lorde

Bo Burnham

Lizzo

♎️ LIBRA MOON

WRITERS:

Jane Austen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Maya Angelou

R.F. Kuang

MUSICIANS:

Ariana Grande

Charli XCX

Bruce Springsteen

Jay-Z

Harry Styles

Fergie

♏️ SCORPIO MOON

WRITERS:

Veronica Roth

Edith Wharton

V.E. Schwab

Harper Lee

Keira Cass

Meg Cabot

MUSICIANS:

Lady Gaga

Tyler the Creator

Cyndi Lauper

Beyoncé

Bob Marley

The Weeknd

♐️ SAGITTARIUS MOON

WRITERS:

Stephen King

Victor Hugo

Marie Lu

Suzanne Collins

Samantha Shannon

Adam Silvera

MUSICIANS

Hozier

Freddie Mercury

Adele

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Chappell Roan

John Legend

♑️ CAPRICORN MOON

WRITERS:

Sarah J. Maas

J.M. Barrie

Jeff Shaara

Joyce Carol Oates

Stephanie Meyer

Angie Thomas

MUSICIANS:

Frédéric Chopin

Neil Diamond

Jon Bon Jovi

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Stevie Nicks

Donna Summer

♒️ AQUARIUS MOON

WRITERS:

Margaret Atwood

Leigh Bardugo

Louisa May Alcott

Seth Grahame-Smith

Anthony Horowitz

S.E. Hinton

MUSICIANS:

Cody Simpson

Marilyn Monroe

Britney Spears

Billie Eilish

Tim McGraw

Carrie Underwood

♓️ PISCES MOON

WRITERS:

Toni Morrison

Edgar Allen Poe

Malcolm Gladwell

Lisa McMann

Alice Oseman

Philippa Gregory

MUSICIANS:

Kenny Chesney

Elvis Presley

Frank Sinatra

Prince

Kendrick Lamar

Sabrina Carpenter