aka Abraham Bacoln

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black and white photograph from around floor height and it shows on the left a strange blurry organic but unidentifiable form, and on the right there's a table with clawed hands reaching out from underneath
Photograph of a tabby cat sitting in a dark room in front of a lamp, with a window on the right reflecting his image.
Screenshot of an order confirmation for the book Cold Empty Rooms by Andy Marino
Screenshot of an order confirmation for the book The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson
Photograph of an open pantry door. The pantry is pretty stacked with items including, on the middle shelf, a gray tabby cat who is looking at the viewer.
Screenshot of part of the original post which reads: “Tom Hanks was born today in 1956; Rip Torn died on this day in 2019.”
An animated gif of a black men’s hat blowing along a forest path covered with leaves, but no leaves are moving save those actually being touched by the hat. This is from the opening of Miller’s Crossing.
screenshot from the movie The Green Mile showing character John Coffey saying "I'm tired, boss."
Video of a black bear cub filmed from behind a door. The cub gets a flower stuck to himself and can’t figure out how to get it off.
Screenshot of an email. The majority of the words aren’t important, just that it shows a preorder of a book.
Photograph of an old and rusting sign that reads SUGAR KINGDOM
Screenshot of two frames from the Lord of the Rings movies showing Bilbo Baggins looking at the One Ring and saying "After all ... why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?"
Screenshot of a bookstore website showing a preorder confirmation for The Minimalist
A photograph of a road sign in Italy. It is a red triangle with white interior and a black pointy symbol. The symbol resembles the costumed head of rock band Angine de Poitrine’s drummer, Klek.
"In Amarillo one night, we had one song left at this big outdoor festival type show," Lewis says. "So I took the moment to say 'I believe in women's rights, I believe in trans rights, and I believe you should be able to love who you love, so that's why I vote Democrat, and the whole crowd just turned on a dime, thousands of people just hating my guts as we played that last song."
Photograph of an adolescent black bear crossing a sidewalk. There’s a man walking his dog in the background.
This is one of the most fascinating, dreamlike, engrossing, repulsive, and enthralling books I've ever read. I was hooked from page 9 onwards, sometimes unsure what I was reading. always certain I had no idea where the story was going. This was horror in a way that I've never seen before. There were no jump scares, no creepy crawlies. Sections of this book were horrific in the same way that photojournalism from war zones is. Dispassionate is the only way I can think to describe it. I would not be surprised to find that Enriquez deliberately chose which passages would be in third person (versus the few that were in first person) and left the most monstrous of scenes there so that we wouldn't be treated to characters' descriptions of what they were seeing or their emotions about it. This was a cold, cold, book. A knife of a book. Enriquez's descriptions of the supernatural were detailed and unlike anything I've ever read, in great part because they were so clinical - and yet somehow she kept some mystery there. She revealed just enough that reading it felt like flashes from a bad dream, desaturated. I don't know how descriptions of the woods at night, with splashes of hot blood, can seem so colorless with the exception of gleaming golden claws. Fascinating book. Absolutely horrific.
Screenshot of an email from LiveJournal telling me that my blog is 25 years old at this point
Book cover for The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin. In the middle is a rider on horseback in black silhouetted against an orange sun and a red sky.
Photograph of two great horned owls high in a tree. The one on the left is a fluffy juvenile. The one on the right is the father.
Photograph of two tabby cats curled up together on a (human) bed. They are laying on their sides forehead to forehead. One is mostly on a cat hot pad, the other is not.
Screenshot of the crossword from the Washington Post though I believe it's the same one the LA Times uses. The clue for 46 across is: "A Master of _____": P Djèlí Clark novel inspired by Islamic mythology
Screenshot of a drop-down in a web form choice for language spoken. Some of the options are Egyptian (ancient), Elamite, old English (ca. 450-1100)
screenshot of the title image for an old children's show called Today's Special. There's a sign at the top that reads Today's Special but the word special has been covered up with the word textures. Below are two humans flanking two puppets.
Photograph of many pieces of gum stuck to a telephone pole. They are arranged in an interesting and mostly symmetrical shape which resembles an arcane symbol.
Photograph of a hardcover copy of the book Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig.
Photograph of a tabby cat on a beige cat tree. His baggy belly is falling through a hole in the tree meant as a pass-through. It is an impressive amount of skin and fur hanging down.
Screenshot from the movie Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carey’s character talking to two guys in a parking lot. The text reads “hey guys! Ooh, Chateau Corbeau, huh? Alright! Welp, see you later!”
Photograph of the Falling Water River in middle Tennessee. It’s not terribly wide, and it has trees along both sides. It’s late fall so the trees are mostly bare. There’s some fog or mist hanging around along the surface.
A quote from a nola.com article about Saint’s QB Tyler Shough: “"Yeah, they've got the Creole cuisine." Shough said. "Dude, I'm in there, and it's like I'm the only white person. They've got full Nelly going on on the radio. They've got [Miami rapper] Gunplay, you know, just straight cuss words going on in there. I'm like, 'This is sick. This is awesome."”
Meme generation image of Pinhead from Hellraiser with the text along the bottom reading “we have such tattoos to give you”
Photograph of a small town’s downtown strip. The sky is cloudy and fading to blue. Streets are wet and reflecting colors from traffic lights, taillights, and shop windows.
Photograph of a white house downhill which has some porch lights lit. It is seen through a bramble of trees and weeds, out of focus
Photograph of a tabby house cat with a white chest. His front paws are crossed and he’s looking at the camera with a curious or perhaps judgmental expression. His back end is covered by a blanket and a pillow.
Photograph of a bottle of Delsym cough syrup - white bottle with orange cap and mostly orange label.
Photograph of a landscape in a cemetery. The foreground is headstones and grass. The background is a cotton candy colored sky at sunset.
Screen grab of NY Giants kicker Koo totally missing the ball and kicking the ground directly behind it instead
Photograph of an empty and unmarked hallway, walls painted white and with a checked green and white tile floor.
Photograph of a tabby cat’s head in the sunlight. He’s on a dark background which is shadowed, leaving his white whiskers showing in stark contrast.
Photograph of two cats, both gray tabbies. The one in the foreground is sitting on the bathroom counter staring at the camera. The other is hidden behind the bathroom door, but can be seen in the mirror with what looks like a shocked expression on his face.
Screenshot of the mini crossword. The highlighted word is WOAH which is not a word, the word is “whoa”, and this makes me want to throw my phone in a lake.
Screenshot of an item listed for sale on Craigslist. It is a “vintage” container of Dawn lemon scented soap, reportedly from the early 1990s. The seller, for reasons beyond my comprehension, has the selling price set at seventy-five US dollars.
Photograph of the back of a man’s leg featuring a tattoo of, among other things, a skull and a red maple leaf. The man is holding a real red maple leaf up for contrast.
Cover of the book Mister Magic which features a television displaying a test pattern while looking melty along the bottom.
Photograph of a bookshelf showing titles by Christopher Buehlman. Also visible is a bear skull on some Stephen King books.
Photograph of a tabby cat's white back legs with his paws / toes all stretched out. His toe beans are both black and pink.
A screenshot from my bluesky feed showing two authors (Tremblay and Katsu) discussing having received their contributor copies of the new book The End of the World as We Know It.
Photograph of a tabby cat in a bathroom sink. He has his face turned towards the camera and it is laying on the edge of the sink, which is smashing his fur into a perfect 90° angle.
A dilapidated sign above a rusty chain link fence. The sign reads “sugar kingdom”
Book cover for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter featuring a buffalo head looking to the right against a pale background with the book's title in red at the center
A towering stack of books to be read, placed on a table between two plants. The Buffalo Buffalo Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones Hellions, Julia Elliott Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado This Cursed House, Del Sandeen Body Broker, Daniel M Ford The Between, Tananarive Due Luna: New Moon, Ian McDonald Nevada, Imogen Binnie Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel Red Widow, Alma Katsu Clownfish Blues, Tim Dorsey The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson American Werewolves, Emily Jane A Master of Djinn, P. Djeli Clark The Hunger, Alma Katsu The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay No Sleep Till Wonderland, Paul Tremblay The Black Hunger, Nicholas Pullen Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead
Photograph of three young people: a girl with a red jacket, a boy with a purple jacket, and a boy with a blue jacket. The first two are holding flashlights, the third is holding a walkie-talkie. It is a promo image for the old 321 Contact show segment The Bloodhound Gang.
Photograph of a gray tabby cat with white chest sitting on a gray padded surface. On the left are some fake flowers. Direct sunlight streams in from the right, producing dramatic shadows.
Set of eight neon green-yellow stickers each with the word “horror” on it in black. They’re on a white piece of backing and placed on a wooden surface.
Photograph of a juvenile black rat snake, gray with black patches, in some gravel with a small bit of weeds in the frame.
Photograph of a cicada - part of Brood XIV - emerging from its shell.
Photograph of two books, both of which are Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Photograph of a tabby cat on a windowsill cat shelf with greenery visible in the window behind him.
Photograph of a tabby cat lying on the floor in front of a mat covered with cat toys of various shapes and sizes. Also visible is a cat scratcher on the right and two bowls of wheatgrass at the bottom.
Photograph of the books Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay and Ring Shout by P Djeli Clark leaning up against a windowsill with green plants showing outside