#Elliott Gish

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: April 9, 2024

Young Adult Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a quest designed by one. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who’s as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The…

[crushcandles]

rec: grey dog by elliott gish

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past — riddled with grief and shame — has never seemed so far away. But then, Ada begins to witness strange and grisly phenomena: a swarm of dying crickets, a self-mutilating rabbit, a malformed faun. She soon believes that something old and beastly — which she calls Grey Dog — is behind these visceral offerings, which both beckon and repel her. As her confusion deepens, her grip on what is real, what is delusion, and what is traumatic memory loosens, and Ada takes on the wildness of the woods, behaving erratically and pushing her newfound friends away. In the end, she is left with one question: What is the real horror? The Grey Dog, the uncontainable power of female rage, or Ada herself?

We're only halfway through 2024, but Grey Dog is the best book I've laid hands and eyes on this year. It's tight and lush and gross, with a protagonist spiraling out of repression and control. It pores over the details without explaining everything, letting your imagination run as wild as Ada's. The first-person, diary-writing, historical fiction framework is wonderfully done, and takes that style and uses it to examine a bloody, wild story of landscapes, bodies, anger, and desire. Queer, in multiple senses, and so exciting, both in its story and in its audacity to be what it is. An incredible debut.

[babadork]

"But the knock," I said desperately. I was almost pleading, I realized, on the verge of begging on my knees for someone else to experience what I was experiencing, to assure me that what was happening was happening, that I was not -- oh please! -- going mad. "There was a knock, Agatha, surely you heard it!"

Agatha's frown deepened. "There is no one knocking, Ada."

The knock came again at the end of her sentence, again as though it had been carefully timed, and this time I felt sure that there was an edge of mockery to it. Whatever was on the other side of the door could hear her and knew that she was deaf to whatever noises might come from it. It knew it could get up to whatever mischief it wanted, and I would not be believed -- I would never be believed!

The anger that sparked in my breast at that moment spurred me to my feet. The anger was unexpected, but bracing in its sudden, righteous burn. How dare this spectre, this thing, torment me! How dare it mock my terror, my pounding heart, the hairs that stood up on the back of my neck! I was at the door -- I had hold of the knob -- I had it flung open with a hoarse and incomprehensible shout!

Agatha shouted something behind me, some word of alarm or reproach, but I scarcely heard it. Unburdened by hat or coat, I stepped over the threshold and into the snow.

"Coward!" I screamed. "Watch me from the shadows, will you? Whisper my name? Knock in the middle of the night? Come out and look me in the eye!"

[whatcha-reading-today]

Grey Dog | Elliott Gish

I picked this up at my library because that cover is pretty awesome. Our main character Ada Byrd takes a teaching post in an isolated town and spooky shit just starts happening. This is absolutely one of those nasty books where bad shit happens and people accept it for a bit. The writing is so beautiful and a bit on the flowery side which I think is good--please describe that nastiness with loving language. The ending is great, though I must say visualizing our protagonist being constantly naked and covered in grime. Vile. Gross. But that's why I come to horror.

Format: Physical Copy

Read in: August 2024

[metaphorosis]

It came from Elliott Gish

It came from Elliott Gish, @Elliott_Gish

Elliott Gish’s story “From a Mother to Her Daughter, on the Eve of Her Wedding” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 20 May 2022. While reading a book about Victorian social and sexual mores as research for another project, I began to think of how uninformed young women in that period were, even on their wedding nights. In such a repressed and sexually anxious society, much of the information…

[thegalaxyonherlips]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2

Queer rage, female rage, feral rage

I love Elliott Gish's Grey Dog. It is very hard, as a queer afab educator, not to identify with the protagonist Ada Bird as she blunders her way through the mystery of her predecessor. Her uncomfortable yet affirmed feelings towards the secondary character Agatha, the minster's wife, make for a road worth walking. Set in the early 1900s, Ada finds herself in a secluded village attempting to teach the village children at an old school house. Through multiple reviews and observations, Ada finds herself again bare to the wolves out to skin her. Ready to cannibalise her insecurities and improper thoughts. Though prayer may be one answer, and seeking comfort in sin another, Ada can't help become prey to the Grey Dog. Always watching. Speaking in soft growls, as distinct as a faint wind at first.

A beautiful book discovering female sexuality and female rage. Worth a read. Definitely a queer masterpiece.

[gigantomachylesbian]

Grey Dog by Elliott Gish is my favorite horror I've read this year for sure!!! It's one of those books that's so up my alley and has so many things I love that it feels like it was handcrafted for me personally >:^) I really recommend it if you like historical horror, especially with natural themes. Plus just look at this cover!!!

Also it felt like a perfect blend of the songs Gigantomachy by cake bake betty and animal fear by marika hackman in case anyone has the same exact music taste as me

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in April 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Spring on the Peninsula - Ery Shin 🧡 When I Arrived at the Castle - Emily Carroll 💛 Bloodline - Jenn Alexander 💚 Grey Dog - Elliott Gish 💙 Every Time You Hear That Song - Jenna Voris 💜 I'm in Love with the Villainess v. 2 - Inori and Hanagata ❤️ The Caravaggio Syndrome - Alessandro Giardino 🧡 Leather, Lace, and Locs - Anne Shade 💛 Firebugs - Nico Bulling 💙 I Married My Female Friend v.2 - Shio Usui 💜 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🌈 A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland ❤️ The Selected Shepherd: Poems - Reginald Shepherd 🧡 Rough Trade - Katrina Carrasco 💛 Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married - Georgia Beers 💚 Taming of a Rebel - Eada Friesian 💙 Dayspring - Anthony Oliveira 💜 The Titanic Survivors Book Club - Timothy Schaffert ❤️ Orphia And Eurydicius - Elyse John 🧡 The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers - Samuel Burr 💛 A Good Happy Girl - Marissa Higgins 💙 Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine - Nicole Melleby 💜 Here We Go Again - Alison Cochrun 🌈 Women! In! Peril! - Jessie Ren Marshall

❤️ Blood City Rollers - V. P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill 🧡 The Prospects - KT Hoffman 💛 Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia - Christi Furnas 💚 WATCHNIGHT - Cyree Jarelle Johnson 💙 Love From The Sidelines - Tuesday Harper 💜 The Pleasure in Pain - Roxie Voorhees ❤️ Mal - Perla Zul 🧡 The Black Girl Survives in This One - Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell 💛 Darker by Four - June C.L. Tan 💙 Otherworldly - F.T. Lukens 💜 Hearts Still Beating - Brooke Archer 🌈 Tryst Six Venom - Penelope Douglas

❤️ Teenage Dirtbags - James Acker 🧡 The Heart Wants What It Wants - D.M. Batten 💛 Something Kindred by Ciera Burch 💚 Sheine Lende - Dr. Darcie Little Badger & Rovina Cai 💙 Rainbow Overalls - Maggie Fortuna 💜 Flowers for Dead Girls - Abigail Collins ❤️ Canto Contigo - Jonny Garza Villa

❤️ Court of Wanderers - Rin Chupeco 🧡 Molten Death - Leslie Karst 💛 Triad Magic - ‘Nathan Burgoine 💚 You, Me and Bad Movies - Twoony 💙 The Faithful Dark - Cate Baumer 💜 A Case for Discretion - Ashley Moore ❤️ Party of Fools - Cedar McCloud 🧡 The Last Love Song - Kalie Holford 💛 This is Me Trying - Racquel Marie 💙 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 💜 Sun Eater - Dre Levant 🌈 The Breakup Lists - Adib Khorram

❤️ Bad Dream - Nicole Maines & Rye Hickman 🧡 If We Were Stars - Eule Grey 💛 The Broken Lines of Us - Shia Woods 💚 Eye of the Ouroboros - Megan Bontrager 💙 Henry Henry - Allen Bratton 💜 Dear Bi Men - JR Yussuf ❤️ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde 🧡 Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership - Chaya Milchtein 💛 Wide Awake Now - David Levithan 💙 Merciless Saviors - H.E. Edgmon 💜 Smile and Be a Villain - Yves Donlon 🌈 Crash Landing - Charmaine Anne Li

❤️ Call Forth a Fox - Markelle Grabo 🧡 Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2024 - Beau Adler 💛 Good Bones - Aurora Rey 💚 Curiosities - Anne Fleming 💙 Someone You Can Build a Nest in - John Wiswell 💜 Revisiting Summer Nights - Ashley Bartlett ❤️ Bright Spring - Emmaline Strange

❤️ Girls Night - I.S. Belle 🧡 Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings 💛 Withered - A.G.A. Wilmot 💚 A Wolf Steps in Blood - Tamara Jerée 💙 It Always Finds Me - Anthology 💜 Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt ❤️ Moon Dust in My Hairnet - JR Creaden 🧡 Blood Justice - Terry J. Benton-Walker 💛 Relinquishing Control - J.J. Arias

❤️ Selamlik - Khaled Alesmael 🧡 Houseswap 101 - Jaime Clevenger 💛 Earthflown by Frances Wren & Litarnes 💚 Covenant v.1 - LySandra Vuong 💙 Honey - Victor Lodato 💜 The Dragonfly Gambit - A.D. Sui ❤️ Double Dyno - Sharon K Angelici & Taylor Rose

[vauxxy]

songs i think the marauders era characters would EAT THE FUCK UP!!

james potter

‘say yes’ by elliott smith

i feel like james doesn’t really listen to music that much, more so just pick out a few songs that sirius and remus like and just go with it. remus loves elliott smith (despite his more ‘grunge’ music taste) so he would play a lot of his songs when he’s alone or just chilling out.

james would hear this song and be like “UMMM THIS IS SO ME CORE” and he’d listen to it on repeat for WEEKS.

remus lupin

‘my iron lung’ by radiohead

this mother fucker is a radiohead stan. remus is the radiohead bf sirius is his blur gf.

he loves a little guitar riff and then absolutely nonsensical breakdowns in the middle of the chorus 👍

also i feel like he just relates to the teen angst vibe of it. he listens to it when he’s upset that he’s a queer werewolf from care home. so HIS ‘iron lung’ in that sense would be he queerness and his upbringing, or maybe even sirius at some points.

sirius black

‘beetlebum’ by blur

one thing abt sirius is that he only listens to brit-rock or 2000’s pop punk bangers with explicit sexual innuendos. they just hit!

he’s an early p!atd stan btw. soz.

and a deftones boy. cringe!

but he really likes blur!! he listens to it for hours at a time. he just LOVES the chorus soooo much. it’s a bit basic but he likes it.

lily evans

‘velvet ring’ by big thief

i feel like lily is a folk fan above all other genres of music. obviously she loves fleetwood mac, taylor swift, etc… but her loyalties lie with the cluttered, wordy and intimate lyricism of artists like big thief, clario and sidney gish.

lily listens to this specific song whenever she feel nostalgic or when she’s got growing pains. it kinda grounds her. she’s the type of person who gets so fixated on the past or what her futures gonna look like, so she channels those feelings into reflection instead. she finds a lot big thief’s songs do just that :)

marlene mckinnon

‘debris’ by lowertown

marlene loves indie girl music!! she loves messy vocals and melancholic chord progressions, so she lovesss lowertown.

this song is basically the verbalisation of how she feels other people would treat her if she finally opened up. she feels deeply attacked by the lyrics lol xx

mary mcdonald

‘this is what makes us girls’ by lana del rey

this mf loves lana del rey more than anything. she is a dark feminine born to die giant falsies dark pink french tips and ices mocha latte typa girlie.

this song just makes her feel so powerful and so connected to her friends!! she thinks it’s just so her. she also feels like her attractiveness is one of her best qualities (which isn’t true she’s literally the funniest and kindest girl at hogwarts) and one of her only strengths and she HATES FEELING THAT WAY… so when she listens to lana she’s like ‘mmm she’s so mother! she gets me!!!’

she knows she’s a pretty girl with a group of pretty girl friends and she loves it!!!!

regulus black

‘you’re on your own kid’ by taylor swift

ok regulus is not a tswizzle fan by any means.

but pandora likes her and forced him to listen to a few of her favourite songs. when this song came on he was like “… ok wtf 😧 she’s so me”

all of the lyrics just ATE in his mind. he relates to every lyric PAINFULLY SO.

pandora

‘whatever’ by elliott smith

pandora listens to literally every type of music ever.

she likes phoebe bridgers and found out about elliott smith though her, and heard this song and was like “elliott smith wrote this song about reggie and i xx”

they’re best friends! they are literally the bestest of friends. such a pure friendship.

all of them :)

‘spring’ by angel olsen

bro you’ve gotta listen to this song. it’s like evil crack.

[lavander-yarn]

🦋 hello Ferrrrr<3 I hope you are doing well !! I miss you !! for the music ask : 2,8,9,11,14,17,22,30 🦋

Hi Chuck!! The weekend was hard, but I'm back to the tracks. How are you doing/feeling? I really miss you too :( but I'm glad we can talk from time to time 🦋🖤💚💜

Ok, let's get started

2. an album you wish you could hear again for the first time: Mellon collie and the infinite sadness 🌠🌌 that was really magic

8. name an artist/band that isn't touring at the moment who you'd really like to see in concert: my bloody valentine, deafness is worth the experience (that's what people say)

9. name a musician who is no longer living who you wish you could see in concert: Elliott Smith

11. what's a song that your favorite band doesn't perform live, but you really wish they would? The pumpkins never perform their Gish songs, or adore songs (besides the singles), and it's too much to ask if James Iha sings one of his songs. Meh

14. is there any band/musician who you really strongly dislike? if so, why? I HATE MUSE, what kind of music is that?? When I worked at the coffee shop, one of my worst ex coworkers loved them, and i hated him more for that

17. if you could go back in time and attend any artist/band's concert that you were unable to attend, who would it be and when? Cocteau twins in the late 80's, or i would choose lollapalooza '94, that's the good one right?

22. name a song that reminds you of one of your best memories: ohhhhhh there are a few ones, but I'm going to choose Norwegian wood by the Beatles, reminds me of my dad

30. name an album you really love that you haven't listened to in awhile: sirenas from the Mexican band division minúscula. Here, listen to one of the many beautiful love songs in my language ♡

Thank you!! 🦋💜💚🖤 Have a nice day/night 🖤💚💜

[theartisanalwriter]

Grey Dog

Shelly Kawaja reviews Halifax writer Eliot Gish’s Grey Dog (ECW Press, 2024) Grey Dog, by Elliott Gish, reads like a diary from 1901 that was hidden in the false bottom of a hope chest and discovered for our reading pleasure in 2024. It suggests that many of the social inequities and gender stereotypes of the time have also, maddeningly, been preserved to hound us in the present day; the…

[crushcandles]

13 Books Meme

Thanks for the tag @littlestsnicket! Tagging @major-trouble @samstree @zambonirider & @candybarrnerd to give me passive recs in the form of this meme.

What’s up readers?! How about a little show and tell? Answer these 13 questions, tag 13 lucky readers and if you’re feeling extra bookish add a shelfie! Let’s Go!

1) The Last book I read: I finished Poor Things by Alasdair Gray and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones basically back-to-back 2) A book I recommend: The fact that As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann isn't WILDLY popular on tumblr with people who like fucked-up queer fiction is a shame 3) A book that I couldn’t put down: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 4) A book I’ve read twice (or more): Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald 5) A book on my TBR: Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Jude Ellison S. Doyle 6) A book I’ve put down: Wintering by Katherine May 7) A book on my wish list: I'd love to start collecting volumes of Killing Stalking by Koogi 8) A favorite book from childhood: Any and all Animorph books 9) A book you would give to a friend: The Song of Achilles (of course) 10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own: Crush by Richard Siken (of course of course) 11) A nonfiction book you own: The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum 12) What are you currently reading: Nothing! I went two whole weeks without a book. 13) What are you planning on reading next? I just picked up Grey Dog by Elliott Gish from the library. I don't remember why I put it on hold but I'll find out!

[collidepress]

PECK'S BAD GIRL (1918) POSTER

DIRECTOR = CHRISTY CABANNE WRITER = D.W. GRIFFITH STARS = LILLIAN GISH + ELLIOTT DEXTER + WALTER LONG

[nevinslibrary]

Mystery/Thriller Monday

Julie has just lost her daughter, and, decides to take a teaching job on an island off the coast of Maine (it has something like more than 4500 islands, although, some of them are nothing more than very large rocks). The school, a one room schoolhouse, is in the town of Mercy. And, since I’m recommending this on Mystery/Thriller Monday, well, you probably aren’t surprised that while Mercy seems like a charming little town, underneath are the hard core secrets, a twisty bunch of secrets.

The combo of the awesome setting (isolation, the sea, oh the fog) as well as how well the author writes this small town and twists it makes for a super suspenseful novel that most definitely had me turning the pages like a madwoman. It was such a great read that even kept me thinking while sweeping me away in its story.

You may like this book If you Liked: The Woman in Cabin Ten by Ruth Ware, Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory, or Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

The Second Mother by Jenny Milchman

[paulsemel]

A walk in the woods can be relaxing.

Unless it's the woods in Elliot Gish's new haunted forest horror novel "Grey Dog."

To learn why, check out this exclusive interview. https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-grey-dog-author-elliott-gish/ 📖🌳🌳🌲🌳

[ulkaralakbarova]

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.  Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Wyatt Earp: Kevin Costner Doc Holliday: Dennis Quaid Nicholas Earp: Gene Hackman James Earp: David Andrews Morgan Earp: Linden Ashby Ike Clanton: Jeff Fahey Josie Marcus: Joanna Going Sheriff Johnny Behan: Mark Harmon Virgil Earp: Michael Madsen Allie Earp: Catherine O’Hara Ed Masterson: Bill Pullman Big Nose Kate: Isabella Rossellini Bat Masterson: Tom Sizemore Bessie Earp: JoBeth Williams Mattie Blaylock: Mare Winningham Mr. Sutherland: James Gammon Frank McLaury: Rex Linn John Clum: Randle Mell Tom McLaury: Adam Baldwin Urilla Sutherland: Annabeth Gish Curly Bill Brocius: Lewis Smith Young Wyatt: Ian Bohen Virginia Earp: Betty Buckley Lou Earp: Alison Elliott Sherm McMasters: Todd Allen Francis O’Rourke: Mackenzie Astin Warren Earp: Jim Caviezel Mrs. Sutherland: Karen Grassle Frank Stillwell: John Dennis Johnston Sally: Téa Leoni Ed Ross: Martin Kove Bob Hatch: Jack Kehler Pete Spence: Kirk Fox Johnny Ringo: Norman Howell Marshal Fred White: Boots Southerland Indian Charlie: James ‘Scotty’ Augare Billy Clanton: Gabriel Folse Billy Claiborne: Kris Kamm Judge Spicer: John Lawlor John Shanssey: Michael McGrady Dr. Seger: Ben Zeller Stable Hand: Rockne Tarkington Mayor Wilson: David Doty Gyp Clements: Matt O’Toole Saddle Tramp: Brett Cullen Danny: Owen Roizman Gambler: Lawrence Kasdan McGee: Matt Beck Film Crew: Costume Design: Colleen Atwood Original Music Composer: James Newton Howard Producer: Kevin Costner Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik Production Design: Ida Random Producer: Lawrence Kasdan Executive Producer: Charles Okun Director of Photography: Owen Roizman Producer: Jim Wilson Casting: Jennifer Shull Editor: Carol Littleton Art Direction: Gary Wissner Set Designer: Charlie Daboub Key Costumer: Barry Francis Delaney Set Designer: Barry Chusid Music Editor: Jim Weidman Supervising Sound Editor: Stu Bernstein Camera Operator: Ian Fox Executive Producer: Michael Grillo Hair Supervisor: Marlene D. Williams Assistant Art Director: Gershon Ginsburg Executive Producer: Dan Gordon Camera Operator: Bill Roe Foley: John Murray Script Supervisor: Anne Rapp Second Unit Director of Photography: Richard Bowen Set Designer: Tom Reta Dialogue Editor: Lewis Goldstein Executive Producer: Jon Slan Makeup Artist: Francisco X. Pérez Stunts: Gary McLarty Visual Effects Producer: Robert Stadd Chief Lighting Technician: Ian Kincaid Still Photographer: Ben Glass Dialogue Editor: James Matheny Costume Supervisor: Cha Blevins Foley: Dan O’Connell Property Master: William A. Petrotta Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Grieve Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Rick Kline Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell Construction Coordinator: Greg John Callas Boom Operator: Joel Shryack ADR Supervisor: Jessica Gallavan Hairstylist: Elle Elliott Dialogue Editor: Alison Fisher Key Makeup Artist: Gerald Quist Makeup Supervisor: Michael Mills ADR Editor: Joe Dorn Supervising Dialogue Editor: Bobby Mackston Key Costumer: Ruby K. Manis Key Grip: Tim Ryan Location Manager: Paul Hargrave Key Hair Stylist: Dorothy D. Fox Steadicam Operator: Rusty Geller ADR Editor: Stephen Janisz Rigging Gaffer: Kim Kono Dolly Grip: David L. Merrill Costume Supervisor: Le Dawson Key Costumer: James M. George Casting Associate: Phil Poulos Casting Associate: Elizabeth Shull Movie Reviews: GenerationofSwine: Tombstone was a different beast, and that sort of overshadows this, given that one tries to be more accurate and the other goes for entertainment. Take Wyatt Earp as a biopic and it is a superb and fair film. Compare it to Tombstone which was more of a Western and it’s lacking the flair. However, it ends abruptly, and it is miscast. Cosner (and i am a fan) doesn’t really make a good Earp. Dennis Quaid who I am also a fan of, doesn’t make a good Doc. This was 1994, in the 80s I might have a dif...