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conjuremanj · 4 months

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The Souls Within Spanish Moss.

Here in the Southern U.S states, our old trees have this spiderweb-like plant called Spanish moss aka (old man's beard) some say. It's really not a moss at all. But It grows from Louisiana, all the way to Virginia even through some of South Carolina I read, basically anywhere there a lot of moister. Even Native Americans used it for medicine. This is the kind of plant that gives the south a Gothic look, that is shown is seen in a bunch of movies and Tv shows.

This Moss absorbed the humidity and helps keep the heat bearable. Some Slave families would sit under those trees to rest. Some people with Gullah heritage would celebrate their, or Congolese people in Louisiana gathered by a big tree with moss to celebrate their hopes, dream. You can probably imagine the amount of spirits of slaves that still have their hearts, souls and struggles in the moss, The men & women who built these plantations all those years ago.

Spanish Moss In Magical Practices. In Voodoo & Hoodoo practicers Some use spanish moss for positive and negativity workings. It absorbs the energy that the practicer gives to it. This moss can be used to create dolls like our voodoo dolls here in New Orleans. Its added to bottles of War Water & Snake Oil. (See my posts on both) It can be used to create a protection oil or wash. Therefore, Spanish moss have magic properties that is used in southern hoodoo & voodoo traditions alike.

How to Work with Spanish Moss in Your Magick First, If you buy or collect your Spanish moss yourself wash it, Sometimes It can have small pests/ bugs, ants etc that lives with in it. And I would know I got bit by fire ants years ago collecting some.😁 Now after it's clean let it dry.

Ways That It's Used. Stuffed into dolls for workings, used to make War water, Stuffed into herbal pillows. Put in spell bottles. Attached to ceremonial clothing. Use on the altar as a representation of the South and traditional hoodoo. There's many ways to use it.

The Legend of Spanish Moss and the Princess’ Hair In Florida. I read a old Native legend about how Spanish moss began and I wanted to share it. There was a Native Princess who fell in love with a Spanish soldier. Her father, the chief, forbade her to see her true love. The story is tragic – the Princess hangs herself by a tree when she realizes her father had her true love killed. Her hair stayed in the tree and continued to grow, becoming what we call Spanish moss. Another variation of this legend tells the tale of an old man who’s long beard is caught in the trees and becomes Spanish moss.

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johnny-cages-used-sock · 3 months

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What do i do when i have several aesthetics and obsessions like its hard to juggle them. Its like im stuck between these egos SPECIFICALLY

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-mid 2010's dork watching markiplier and Garret watts and old Shane Dawson vids 24/7and dreaming of california and florida, late summer nights, solely drinking starbucks, having the soft girl aesthetic and religiously following niche moodboards from 2018...also downtown coffee shops

-Mcbling Queen living in the 2000s with a pink room and glitter everywhere, watching The Simple Life and going on shopping sprees alot while living off of starbucks, lowkey a slut

-Early 2000s kinda suburban, kinda country kid? Watching Supernatural, Listening to Big Thief, going out on hikes and practically living outside. Collecting bugs and plants, obsessed with the Midwest and South, writing poetry in a beat up journal, mazzy star and dreaming of leaving this town one day

-insane storyteller and writer with big collections turning her house into a musuem and searching for her dark academia soulmate

-cowboy.

-Southern Gothic/coquette? Like, redneck coquette. Out in the midwest or deep south, living in a small town, housed in a trailer park. Early morning runs to the gas station with almost nothing on. Walks in the farmers market. Exploring the woods. Church potlucks. Exploring folklore. Supernatural. Living my best life in the rural empty countryside.

-NEW OBSESSION THAT JUST DROPPED OUTTA NOWHERE FOR ME: 2010s, Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher, cryptidcore, pretending im a hunter, exploring woods and abandoned lots with starbucks and notes, writing a cryprid entry journal, being real dramatic and dreamy, flannel on and boots. BOOTS!!! coffee shop meetings downtown, rainy/gloomy days. Hyperfixated on mystery and supernatural tales and folklore, rambles alot

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Tbh I've embodied each of these but now I'm at a standstill, i want to be all of them but i feel like i just HAVE to dedicate myself to one!!! It's this weird conflicting teeth gnashing feeling like i want to rip all these things apart and eat them

But like, i can be a coquette cryptid hunter drinking starbucks stopping by a gas station in the rural south right? In my soft pink Juicy Couture tracksuit, right? With Markiplier merch in my car?

Also the worser part of this. The men. The men I fixate and associate with all of these.

Johnny Cage is Trashy Y2k, SPN cast is Southern Gothic, 2018 is Markiplier, Arthur Morgan is cowboy, some random dilf for coquette, and idk who it'll be for this new one....

#johnny cage #female insanity #aesthetic #rambles #ADVICE? HOW DO I CALM DOWN

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screen1ne · 2 years

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Avaryana Rose Joins The Cast Of Bitter Souls

Avaryana Rose Joins The Cast Of Bitter Souls. Get all the latest info here #AvaryanaRose #BitterSouls #Horror #Movie #Inproduction @joyHorror @AvaryanaRose

Avaryana Rose joins BITTER SOULS, A Terrifying Tale of Voodoo, Resurrection and Vengeance. A teenage love story in the Southern Gothic tradition exploring Black Magic and the sweet taste of Damnation. Starring Avaryana Rose and Michael McKeever. From Showtown American Pictures and Producers McKeever, Oifer, McCallum and Sarullo. The Producers of Gibtown Florida Werewolf Feature THE BEAST…

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#Avaryana Rose #Bitter Souls #horror #Michael McKeever #movie #Production

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creativity-is-rebellion · 4 years

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My Love of the Southern Gothic Horror Genre

I’ve always been drawn to the Southern Gothic Horror Genre, with anything from Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories, to William Faulkner’s Sanctuary, and Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat Series. It’s a genre I want to dabble with for my next story idea, but am concerned that I won’t nail it right, as I am not from the South, let alone from the U.S. For those of you who do not know, Southern Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in the American South, and includes deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may be involved in hoodoo, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty, alienation, crime or violence. Southern Gothic writing is thus an extension of Gothic fiction, which originated in England in the 18th Century, and includes novels such as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1794), and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). These novels all contained elements of horror, death and romance, often revolving around events that appear to be supernatural, but which ultimately have a natural explanation. Furthermore, the word ‘gothic’ can be taken as an historical reference to the Goths, the people responsible for the first known example of Germanic language during the 4th to the 6th Centuries AD. It denotes the Dark Ages, and the brutality, horror, and decadence associated with this period. It also refers to Medieval architecture; location is very much a character in itself in these novels, which often take place in castles, manors, and monasteries.

The popularity of Gothic fiction could also be seen across Europe: Germany’s Schauerroman (shudder novels) were much darker than their English counterparts, and stories such as Carl Friedrich Kahlert’s (writing as Ludwig Flammenberg) The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) and Carl Grosse’s Der Genius (1796) contained a greater focus on necromancy and secret societies. European Gothic fiction was used by authors to delve deeply into their history, allowing its audience to experience the thrilling terrors of the dark past, which was naturally echoed in the American Southern Gothic tradition.

Elements of a Gothic treatment of the South were apparent as early as the 19th Century, in the grotesques of Henry Clay Lewis and the de-idealised visions of Mark Twain. However, the genre came together only in the 20th Century, when dark romanticism, Southern humour, and the new literary naturalism merged into a new and powerful form of social critique. The thematic material was the result of the culture existing in the South following the collapse of the Confederacy, which left a vacuum in both values and religion that became filled with poverty due to defeat in the Civil war and reconstruction, racism, excessive violence, and the theological divide that separated the country over the issue of slavery.

The Southern Gothic style employs macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American South, thus, it uses the Gothic tools not just for the sake of suspense, but also to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South, with the Gothic elements often taking place in a magic realist context rather than a strictly fantastical one.

Warped rural communities replaced the sinister plantations of an earlier age, and in the works of leading figures such as William Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor, the representation of the South blossomed into an absurdist critique of modernity as a whole.There are many characteristics in Southern Gothic Literature that relate back to its parent genre of American Gothic and even to European Gothic. However, the setting of these works is distinctly Southern. Some of these characteristics are exploring madness, decay and despair, continuing pressures of the past upon the present, particularly with the lost ideals of a dispossessed Southern aristocracy and continued racial hostilities.

Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements".Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic gives us the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. Villains who disguise themselves as innocents or victims are often found in Southern Gothic Literature, especially stories by Flannery O'Connor, such as Good Country People and The Life You Save May Be Your Own, giving us a blurred line between victim and villain. Southern Gothic literature set out to expose the myth of old antebellum South, and its narrative of an idyllic past hidden by social, familial, and racial denials and suppressions

The term "Southern Gothic" was originally used as pejorative and dismissive. Ellen Glasgow used the term in this way when she referred to the writings of Erskine Caldwell and William Faulkner. She included the authors in what she called the "Southern Gothic School" in 1935, stating that their work was filled with "aimless violence" and "fantastic nightmares." This is a sentiment that has been expressed less and less, as it’s seminal authors, such as Flannery O’Connor, become lauded as being some of the most important icons in American literary history.

Of course, the genre also exists in film and television, with movies such as The Gift, and TV series like American Gothic and Season One of True Detective, the latter being one of the greatest TV shows of the last 10 years. The first series of True Detective, in addition to its Southern Gothic setting and characters, incorporates many of the core aspects of Gothic fiction, as well as drawing on the work of specific American horror authors, notably Lovecraft, Chambers and Ambrose Bierce. The setting is truly breathtaking and depressing in it’s dilapidation, and it’s clearly poverty-laden surroundings, as well as it’s troubled but fascinating key characters. Every time I watch the series, I imagine what it might have looked like if it was in the form of a written novel instead of a television series.

But I digress. As much as I love this genre, my personal experience of the American South is restricted to visiting Florida on holiday for three weeks when I was 10, so I think that I might steer clear of writing the next great American Gothic horror novel for the moment. Instead, I might focus on a writing project centring around European Gothic horror, as I lived in Norway for 6-and-a-half years. Norway, with its bitterly cold autumns and winters, and sweeping fjords and mountains creating great chasms between communities seems like an ideal setting for writing a good Gothic novel. I am even privy to the fact that Norway is home to an infamous, long-since abandoned mental asylum, which housed the criminally insane and where lobotomies and mysterious, unsolved deaths involving patients were commonplace. So, this will be the setting for my next novel, and my American-style Gothic horror story will have to wait. Stay tuned.

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notagoodfather · 4 years

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Sven is a horrible person

Mark the ones your muse has done.

Use your result as your post title.

Please repost and don’t reblog!

Tagged by: stole it again from @deathblssms Tagging: @redjaybird @spatiumferrumsecandi @bluehaired-tales @bushelofmuses @missninetails and you!

[X] consumed alcohol [X] slept in the same bed with someone of another gender [X] slept in the same bed with someone of the same gender [X] kissed someone of another gender [X] had sex [X] had someone in your room other than family [X] seen porn [ ] bought porn [X] tried drugs [X] been drugged

TOTAL: 9

[X] taken painkillers [ ] taken someone else’s prescription medicine [X] lied to your parents [X] lied to a friend [X] snuck out of the house [X] done something illegal [X] felt hurt [X] hurt someone [X] wished someone to die [X] seen someone die

TOTAL: 18

[X] missed curfew [X] stayed out all night [ ] eaten a carton of ice cream by yourself [ ] been to a therapist [ ] received a ticket [ ] been to rehab [ ] dyed your hair [X] been in an accident [ ] been to a club [X] been to a bar

TOTAL: 22

[X] been to a wild party [ ] been to a Mardi Gras parade [X] drank more than three alcoholic beverages in a night [ ] had a spring break in Florida [ ] sniffed anything [X] wore black nail polish [ ] wore armbands [ ] wore t-shirts with band names [X] listened to rap

TOTAL: 26

[X] dressed gothic [ ] dressed girly [X] dressed punk [ ] dressed grunge [X] stole something [X] been too drunk to remember anything [X] blacked out [X] fainted [X] had a crush on a neighbor

TOTAL: 33

[X] had a crush on a friend [ ] been to a concert [ ] dry-humped someone/been dry humped [ ] been called a slut [X] called someone a slut [ ] installed speakers in a car [X] broken a mirror [X] showered at someone of another gender’s house [ ] brushed your teeth with someone else’s toothbrush

TOTAL: 37

[ ] considered Ludacris your favorite rapper [X] seen an R-rated movie [ ] cruised the mall [ ] skipped school [X] had surgery [X] had an injury [ ] gone to court [ ] walked out of a restaurant without paying/tipping [X] caught something on fire [ ] lied about your age

TOTAL: 41

[X] owned/rented an apartment/house [ ] broken the law in the police’s presence [X] made out with someone who had a GF/BF [X] got in trouble with the police [X] talked to a stranger [X] hugged a stranger [X] kissed a stranger [X] rode in the car with a stranger [X] been harassed [X] been verbally harassed

TOTAL: 50

[ ] met face-to-face with someone you met online [ ] stayed online for 5+ hours straight [ ] talked on the phone for more than 4 hours straight [ ] watched TV for 5 hours straight [ ] been to a fair [X] been called a bad influence [ ] drank and drove [X] prank-called someone [X] laid on a couch with someone of another gender [ ] cheated on a test

GRAND TOTAL: 53

If you have 00-10 … write [I’m a goody-goody] If you have 11-20 … write [I’m still a goody-goody] If you have 21-30 … write [I’m average] If you have 31-40 … write [I’m a bad kid] If you have 41-50 … write [I’m a very bad influence] If you have 51-60 … write [I’m a horrible person] If you have 61-70 … write [I should be in jail] If you have 71-80 … write [I should be dead] If you have 81-90 … write [I got a ticket to Hell]

#dash games

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antiquery · 5 years

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el’s guide to the lovecraft mythos

hey! so this is mostly a post for my dear friend will @wellsforboys, who asked for a primer of sorts on the best lovecraft stories, because his collected works are such a doorstopper, and reading them all in chronological order is quite an intensive task. these are, in my opinion, the cream of the crop; keep in mind that, for a lovecraft fan, my tastes tend towards the unconventional, and if you ask someone else you might get a very different list. i’m going to try my best to avoid the most intensely, egregiously bigoted, but if there’s something i feel merits inclusion despite the aforementioned bigotry i’ll include a warning. i’ll also provide links to all of these stories through the free online archive, but if you’d like to get a hard copy and delve deeper, i recommend this one from arcturus or this one from barnes & noble. if you’re strapped for cash and/or would prefer to read more online, here’s the link hub for the complete works. let’s get started!

lovecraft stories are typically broken up into two categories: the “mythos” stories, and the “dreamlands” stories. the former are the stories you typically think of when you think of lovecraft, if you know weird fiction— they tend more towards hard sci-fi, and usually deal with doomed scholars, hubris-ridden scientific exploits, the massachusetts countryside, outer gods, and various types of aliens. they’re far more famous than the latter, most of which concern the adventures of various vaguely keatsian protagonists in a narnia-ish realm dubbed the dreamlands, which is internally consistent and frequently cross-referenced. the distinction between these two types of stories is only a very broad one, though; characters, locations, and themes. frequently appear in both. the term “mythos” is rather misleading— all the stories take place in the same ‘verse, with the same gods and the same cosmology. really, it’s a division of style and subject material. personally, i prefer the dreamlands stories, but most lovecraft fans (unsurprisingly) prefer the mythos tales (which i will admit are more technically, narratively apt). i’ll try and include a roughly equal amount of both, so that you can get a feel for what you prefer.

so, without further ado, here’s the list! in chronological order:

the statement of randolph carter: first story, first appearance of my boy! here he’s wracked by ptsd from the great war and the recent eldritch demise of his boyfriend research partner; the story is told in the form of a police statement. this is one of the most gothic of lovecraft’s tales, and also the one with Alternate Universe Florida. it’s a fave.

celephais: sort of a dry run for the dream-quest of unknown kadath, but clever and unique in its own humble way. it’s got the same themes of refuge in dream, and it’s got a sweet ending that’s cleverly subverted by the protagonist’s later appearance in the dream cycle.

from beyond: people have mixed opinions on this one, but i’m fond of it. while usually classed as a dream cycle tale, it has that element of scientific hubris that pops up so often in mythos stories, and an absolutely chilling central premise.

nyarlathotep: first appearance of probably the most well-known mythos baddie after cthulhu. here he’s terrorizing innocent humans in the guise of Eldritch Modernist Nikola Tesla. will, for you specifically— if you like nikola orsinov from the magnus archives, you’ll like nyarlathotep (both the character and the short story).

the nameless city: this might just be my favorite one-off tale (though i am fond of the lovecraft reread’s hypothesis that the unnamed protagonist might be our boy randy carter, because this is precisely the kind of stupidity he’s so prone to). top-notch archaeological horror about exploring a deserted city that might not be as empty as it seemed.

the music of erich zann: lovecraft doing chambers, basically. it’s a clever little tale, and has an innovative use of auditory horror, which wasn’t all that common for hpl.

hypnos: probably the second most homoerotic story lovecraft ever wrote (though there are a lot of those, surprisingly enough). local keatsian meets a supremely beautiful, nameless man, they fall into dreaming (and opium addiction) together, things go downhill from there.

herbert west— reanimator: this one’s a bit longer, but it’s a cult classic, adapted into a delightfully campy 1985 film starring jeffrey combs. it’s about a scientist who goes Too Far, in the frankenstein sense, in pursuit of...well, you can guess from the title. it’s a fun modern (for the twenties) twist on the gothicism of mary shelley, and the title character is so much fun.

the hound: another super-gothic tale, and probably the single homoerotic story lovecraft ever wrote. actually, it’s kinda like a mini the secret history via poe. local decadents get into the occult over their heads, pay the spooky spooky price. gotta love it.

the rats in the walls: this one’s another classic poe-esque story, pretty clearly a riff on fall of the house of usher. it’s a wonderfully psychological piece of gothic horror, but huge trigger warning for The Infamous Cat Name. aside from that bit of unpleasantness, this is one of the first pieces where lovecraft handles the horror of ancestry well, with the classic conceit of a literal decaying house (or priory, as the case may be), and it’s pretty cool to see him really come into his own with something that’d so fundamentally define his work.

the unnameable: another carter story! this time he’s acting pretty transparently as lovecraft’s author avatar, talking about the value of horror fiction and, uh, fainting in terror at the slightest hint of any actual horror. better luck next time, randy. we’ll check in with him again in a few.

the festival: first canon mention of the necronomicon! exciting! and, if i recall correctly, the only story actually set in kingsport, one of the small massachusetts towns (along with arkham, dunwich, and innsmouth) that make up the major landmarks of lovecraft country. it’s about, as the title suggests, a Nefarious Ritual, and also astral projection? cool. it’s a pretty neat bit of creepery, nothing really special, but a good example of the kind of regional horror lovecraft was starting to handle particularly well.

the call of cthulhu: i’m basically obligated to include this one, though to me it’s not really a standout, because it’s so damn famous. it does get points for a clever and thematically intelligent narrative structure, and the astoundingly creepy idea of artists’ dreams being influenced by an Imminent Horror.

pickman’s model: another super chambers-esque story, and one where the monologue formatting works loads better than it did in statement of randolph carter. like in music of erich zann (and, to some extent, call of cthulhu) this is lovecraft wrestling with the cosmic-horror implications of the fine arts. it’s also got a lovely twist at the end, one of those really chilling clincher lines lovecraft is starting to develop a knack for.

the silver key: chronologically the third carter tale, though no one’s entirely sure where it fits in the narrative sequence of his stories. it’s basically a modernist diss track, wherein our boy wrestles with the ennui that comes from, uh, reading t.s. eliot? (funnily enough, this is basically “the hollow men” via keats.) it’s not really a horror story, but it’s one of my favorites nonetheless.

the dream-quest of unknown kadath: FINALLY, we get to my favorite. this is a short novel chronicling randolph carter’s adventures in the dreamlands as he seeks out a dream-city that the gods have denied him. it’s the odyssey via lord dunsany, with a few twists— carter’s not really an epic hero, polutropos or otherwise, and it’s fun to watch him navigate a treacherous landscape in such an unconventional fashion. it has an excellent, atypical twist ending, and my favorite appearance of nyarlathotep ever. it’s also the chronological end of the carter cycle,* and our boy goes out with a very pratchett-esque bang.

the case of charles dexter ward: a lengthy slow-build tale of an evil necromancer and his impressionable descendent. it moves somewhat slowly, but it’s so delightfully atmospheric that you don’t really mind. bonus points for the clear riff on wilde’s the picture of dorian gray. also, first appearance of mythos deity yog-sothoth!

the dunwich horror: aaaand now we get into the string of very well-known mythos tales that lovecraft wrote around 1930. this is a classic, about an insular family with a destructive predilection for the occult.

the whisperer in darkness: a lovely slow-build and partly epistolary tale, featuring the classic Intense Stupidity of mythos protagonists. also featuring aliens from...pluto? and the first real appearance of the theme of bodily dissociation, which lovecraft got super into near the end of his career.

at the mountains of madness: this one’s so good. it’s more of a novella than a short story, about a doomed expedition to the antarctic sponsored by our favorite Dark Ivy, miskatonic university. it’s an awesome piece of worldbuilding about the pre-human earth, and a near-unique bit of sympathy for the non-human. it was also the inspiration for john carpenter’s 1982 classic the thing, as well as a tragically abortive guillermo del toro adaptation.

the shadow over innsmouth: i’d call this the climax of lovecraft’s writing on hereditary horror, and it’s brilliant. the ending is one of my favorite final paragraphs in all of lovecraft, maybe surpassed only by dream-quest. the story proper is about a young massachusetts native investigating the strange coastal town of innsmouth, and just why, exactly, something isn’t quite right about it. it loses points, though, for a truly horrible and lengthy application of dialect, and for being a very obvious metaphor about interracial marriage. sigh.

the dreams in the witch house: probably my favorite story after dream-quest of unknown kadath. it’s...kind of dark academia-y, actually, about a miskatonic undergrad who moves into a house formerly owned by a famous witch and discovers a method to travel to other dimensions— at a price, of course. lovecraft was never good at character building, but he did manage to create a genuinely sympathetic protagonist in walter gilman, which makes the ending all the more chilling. there’s also an awesome rock opera adaptation of this story, which i highly recommend.

the shadow out of time: another favorite! it’s the culmination of lovecraft’s late-career fondness for body-swapping horror, and as well as being genuinely cosmically terrifying (and wondrous) it’s quite psychological, in a way lovecraft wasn’t usually very apt at. it’s got alien civilizations! anticipatory soviet terror! the horrors of interplanetary colonialism! awesome libraries! what’s not to love?

the haunter of the dark: the last independent story lovecraft wrote before he died in 1937, it’s a beautiful send-up of providence, hpl’s hometown, and a delightful final appearance of my man nyarlathotep (albeit in a new form). plus...eldritch journalism? it’s great. also, i can’t mention this story without referencing this fic, which you should absolutely read immediately after the actual tale.

and that’s it! happy reading!

* you can read “through the gates of the silver key” if you want, it’s technically the culmination of the carter cycle, but it was mainly written by e. hoffman price and edited by lovecraft, and i (along with plenty of other hpl scholars) don’t really consider it canon. it was lovecraft’s first real foray into body-swap horror, but because he’s trying to shove it into a character arc that’s already over and done with it doesn’t do very well. you get essentially the same narrative with “the shadow out of time,” done much more skilfully. to me, “gates” smacks intensely of derleth, lovecraft’s “posthumous collaborator” and Mythos Manichaean, which...ack.

#bookshelf blogging #o do not ask what is it #sorry will this took foreeeeever to get down on rhetorical paper but It Is Here #it's time for elizabeth's opinion!#mine

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creaturesfromelsewhere · 5 months

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New Tales of Florida Gothic - Chapter 6

"Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk." Robert Bloch

Whenever a freshly dug grave appears in your yard, you know it's time to kill again.

Although not native to Florida, many swamp witches cultivate Aspen trees for use as an extra set of eyes.

With basements so uncommon in Florida, most police never think to look for hidden trapdoors.

Something has been clawing at the trees in the swamp behind your house. A direct challenge to your territorial hunting grounds that cannot go unanswered.

Florida homes that survive hurrricanes unscathed are usually protected by the old gods, not the new.

Warning signs in Florida should be taken seriously. Very seriously.

creaturesfromelsewhere 11/22/2023

#new tales of florida gothic #florida gothic #darkly inclined #gothic horror #the old gods #freshly dug graves #warning signs #territorial hunting grounds #swamp witches #all seeing aspen trees #creaturesfromelsewhere #creepy #macabre #eerie #haunting

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nprfreshair · 6 years

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Southern Gothic 'Florida' Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

Lauren Groff sets her new story collection in what she calls the "sunniest and strangest of states." Critic Maureen Corrigan says the tales are "brooding, inventive -- and often moving."

#Books #npr books #Maureen Corrigan #Lauren Groff #Florida #book review

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wwormtown · 6 years

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ABC tag game

I got tagged by @allltheprettyboys and @dammit-andy (thank you!!!!! love u nasty boy nation)

A- age: almost 16

B- birthplace: bold of you to assume I was born

C- current time: 12:05 pm

D- drink you last had: nut juice

E- easiest person to talk to: my friends, in general im a very easy person to talk to

F- favorite songs: so many!!!

“Очки Собчачк” by Leningrad,

“Runnin’ Outta Luck” by Alex Cameron,

“Simple and Sweet” “Ungrateful Eyes” and “Morning in America” and “Jungle” by Jon Bellion” ,

“Roaring 20s” by Panic at the Disco,

“Pretty Vacant” by the Sex Pistols,

“Best Friends” by grandson

“Back in the USSR” Dead Kennedys version

G- grossest memory: I suppose when I get super sick in Ukraine and its ugh gross ioengriewgjeir

H- horror yes or no: I really love crytpic/mysterious stuff, a gothic energy aesthetic, so I suppose?

I- in love: love is a tourist trap but I suppose

J- jealous: A vicious flaw of mine. I’m a recovering perfectionist and hold myself to ridiculous standards

K- kiss or be kissed: really depends? i think kiss tho

L- love at first sight or walk by again: walk by again, love at first sight is just infatuation and even though we often love to live in a fairy tale, walk by again is so much better and more real M- middle name: Technically don’t have one

N- number of siblings: Little brother

O- one wish: To achieve my goals

P- last person you called: Skyped my friend

Q- question you are always asked: “How old are you?” “Did you draw that?”

R- reasons to smile: my friends, my family, I love and am loved, how far I have come

S- song you last sang: “Cold Cold Man” by Saint Motel

T- time you woke up: time is an illusion

U- underwhelming experience: First kiss? I’d like a do-over please. (This is what jude wrote but god this is mude)

V- vacation destination: europe (my homecountry, Switzerland, France, Austria, etc) and Florida

W- worst habit: being a thot

X- x-ray: yeah i sprained my ankle once and they scanned to see if it broke

Y- your favorite food: pussy

Z- zodiac sign: Virgo, libra rising, aquarius moon

I tag @wholockheneghan @dreampaladin @amiciitia

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FINISHING LINE PRESS BOOK OF THE DAY: A Perfect Day for Semaphore by Holly Day $18.99, Full-length, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-perfect-day-for-semaphore-by-holly-day/ Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer, indexer, and editor for more than 25 years. She has over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories, and more than a dozen published books of fiction and nonfiction. Her book titles include Insider’s Guide to the Twin Cities, Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies (also released in Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Persian, Polish, Italian, and Russian editions), Music Composition for Dummies (also released in German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions), Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, Piano All-in-One for Dummies, Nordeast Minneapolis: A History, A Brief History of Stillwater, Minnesota, The Book Of, and the poetry books The Smell of Snow, Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men, and Ugly Girl. Her writing has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, a 49th Parallel Prize, an Isaac Asimov Award, eight Pushcart awards, and three Dzanc Book’s Best of the Web awards. She is the recipient of two Midwest Writer’s Grants, a Plainsongs Award, the 2011 Sam Ragan Prize for Poetry, and a Dwarf Star Award from the international-juried Science Fiction Poetry Association. A Perfect Day for a Semaphore is exactly what I hope to find when searching for a poetry book: interesting thought process, compelling narratives, deep sense of place, depth of mood/tone/emotion. Some books yield only one or two good poems, this one offers an abundant continuity of written graces. –Rhonda J. Nelson, 2000-2001 Florida Fellow in Poetry “Beyond the curve at the edge of the world, there is a monster that knows who you are” — the poems in Holly Day‘s new collection brim with stories that chill the bones, hint at Grimm tales and bad choices made long ago, under neon lights and the influence of one too many beers. With an eye for the natural world and a dark sensibility, Day writes songs to discomfit the reader, imagines drowning, envisions wings, breaks the necks of small creatures in a Gothic assemblage of poems with a sense of the inevitable, yet dares to ask, “what if?” –Julia Park Tracey, Poet Laureate emeritus, Alameda, California Holly Day‘s A Perfect Day for Semaphore turns like the earth, dark one moment, light the next. Her poems break the crust of soil and blossom, strangely ordinary, and reveal what resides in the subconscious. There is the joy of becoming lovers, having children, and becoming family. Yet while we sleep, the subconscious sends out its slippery vines of doubt and dread. The poems instruct the reader to reject the colorful birds, the dun-colored sparrows that stay constant are the ones to count on and to nourish. Just when a relationship seems doomed, accepted, sleep arrives, and in sleep, the lovers’ bodies gravitate to the embrace, saying how foolish we are to think what we know is the one true answer. Day seems to say the gods of myth gave us stories, but failed to allow us access to all that wisdom, and yet, each of these poems is in itself, a key. –Jo-Ann Mapson, Los Angeles Times‘ bestselling author of Bad Girl Creek, Solomon’s Oak, and Owen’s Daught PREORDER SHIPS SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-perfect-day-for-semaphore-by-holly-day/#poetry

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