Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction)

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The theatrical poster for the film American Splendor. It depicts comic book writer Harvey Pekar, played by actor Paul Giamatti, sitting, sliders hunched, with his back against a wall adorned with mostly empty comic book panels.
A paragraph from the editorial section of issue #5 of this current incarnation of the comics magazine Heavy Metal: “In an era where comic book culture has been "sanitized" by massive corporate cinematic universes, Heavy Metal remains essential because it is unapologetically adult, messy, and experimental. Let's face it, we live in a world of digital algorithms, social media, and A.l.-curated content. The "hand-picked chaos" of a magazine like Heavy Metal is generated by HUMANS! It is a necessary antidote to the predictable, computerized content you may get from an aggregating app or orchestrated streaming service. And we do it for no other reason than to blow your mind!”
A stunning Norm Breyfogle drawing of Batman and Robin standing on a ledge with a searchlight shining on them. Bats surround them. Batman’s cape looks alive as he wraps it around himself.
An image from the television series Hey, Vern! It’s Ernest. Ernest is in the chair at a barber shop. His hair has been styled to look like a windswept sand dune. As Ernest looks at himself in the mirror, he decides it could work
The cover to the Little Golden Book version of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We are the Dwarfs being charmed by a singing Snow White. Except Grumpy. He’s Grumpy.
A still from Star Trek: The Animated Series. It shows Spock sitting at his station on the bridge of the Enterprise. His eyes are closed and his hands are raised in front of him as he tries to make telepathic contact with a sentient cloud in the episode “One of Our Planets is Missing.”
A still from Star Trek: The Animated Series. On a green planet with a green sky, James T. Kirk had a conversation with a green alien. The aliens looks a bit like an Octopus stacked on top of a squid. I haven’t seen this episode yet. I just came across the image and thought it was great. I’m looking forward to watching it.
Rainbow Brite rides her steed Starlite on a rainbow across space. Flying beside them is the robotic horse On-X and his rider Kris.
A scene from the 1985 film Legend directed by Ridley Scott. We see a very wide shot of one of the rooms in Darkness’ castle. There are enormous pillars rising from the floor. Princess Lilly runs through them, dwarfed by their immensity. She appears as little more than a wisp moving through blue, lunar shadows.
A still image from the 1926 silent film Faust. It sees a misty landscape, a burning sun, tall, leaning black tree, and a robed figure with their back to us. It is ominous and eerie.
The title screed for TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE.
A screenshot of the audiobook for The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway written by Una McCormack and read by Kate Mulgrew.
The Seventh Doctor, as portrayed by Sylvester McCoy, playing the spoons like a badass.
These are my grandparents sitting at a picnic table with a chimpanzee wearing clothes.
A round, glass ornament with black and orange swirls
Text on a black screen: Two Toes There once was a boy with only two toes. Both of them were pinkies, right left. Between them was smooth hotdog skin that got tights and bubbled in the summer:
The title card for a fictional episode of Deep Space Nine called “THE NAME OF THE PLACE IS BABYLON 5”
A title card for Star Trek: The Original Series that reads, “The Harlan Ellison Episode,” as opposed to “The City on the Edge of Forever.”
A mustachioed man in a purple shirt with red and yellow text reading: Whovian. This is from an American Doctor Who convention in the 1980s. He is very excited at the prospect of Colin Baker taking over the role of the Doctor.
The title card for the 1982 Jim Henson/Frank Oz masterpiece: The Dark Crystal.
One of the covers for The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany. It looks like a stained glass.
A screenshot of Madonna floating in the air, her body wrapped in dark robes, her black hair blowing in the wind. The background is an overcast, ominous sky.
A snapshot from The Tragedy of Macbeth. We see a hazy battlefield. Standing by at the edge of a large puddle is a woman in dark robes. Her reflection appears twice, as though two others we can’t see stand beside her.
A snapshot from the music video for “Book of Days” by Enya. The Irish singer stands at a desk with books and candelabras. It looks very whimsical and magical.
A scene from Faust (1926) in a dark, intimidating horror with a strange man sitting on the tangled root of a twisted tree.
A picture of the Corning Inc office building with trees and a green lawn in the front, and a white tower in the back
A sepia tone image of a crumbling castle outlined against a misty morning sky, and people dressed in Mummer outfits dancing down the road
The Black Fairy from Shirley Temple’s Storybook sitting on the back of a stone horse. She looks cool, mysterious and witchy. The fog is nice.
The theatrical poster to the 2000 fantasy film Dungeons & Dragons.
The cover for the novel The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. The text on the cover reads: STEPHEN KING THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE I’m sharing this image with the post because the prose in The Drawing of the Three is very different than its predecessor, The Gunslinger. So, I’m saying the sequel to my novel, Phantom Delivery, may turn out as different from it as The Drawing of the Three was from The Gunslinger.
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#TimeTravelAuthors May 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: use the word "may") 3. Old buildings in your story 5. A character's favorite snack 7. First lines spoken by an unimportant, non-major, or unnamed character 9. Saturday except (optional word: hide/hidden 11. Do your characters ever undo anything? 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: peace) 15. What might change if your story started in a different year? 17. Sleep habits/schedule 19. How organized are your characters? 21. Do characters meet any relatives when they time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: rescue/save) 25. Something pretty/beautiful in your story 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: clever/smart) 29. A weird comp (any medium) for your time travel story 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
In person, Wes Craven is soft-spoken, thoughtful, articulate. His style seems more of the academic world than of Hollywood; it's not too much of a stretch to imagine him as a member of the distinguished faculty of H. P. Lovecraft's Miskatonic University, teaching nineteenth-century literature (one of his passions) to eager young Herbert West wannabes.
#TimeTravelAuthors May 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: use the word "may") 3. Old buildings in your story 5. A character's favorite snack 7. First lines spoken by an unimportant, non-major, or unnamed character 9. Saturday except (optional word: hide/hidden 11. Do your characters ever undo anything? 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: peace) 15. What might change if your story started in a different year? 17. Sleep habits/schedule 19. How organized are your characters? 21. Do characters meet any relatives when they time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: rescue/save) 25. Something pretty/beautiful in your story 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: clever/smart) 29. A weird comp (any medium) for your time travel story 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
#TimeTravelAuthors May 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: use the word "may") 3. Old buildings in your story 5. A character's favorite snack 7. First lines spoken by an unimportant, non-major, or unnamed character 9. Saturday except (optional word: hide/hidden 11. Do your characters ever undo anything? 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: peace) 15. What might change if your story started in a different year? 17. Sleep habits/schedule 19. How organized are your characters? 21. Do characters meet any relatives when they time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: rescue/save) 25. Something pretty/beautiful in your story 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: clever/smart) 29. A weird comp (any medium) for your time travel story 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
#TimeTravelAuthors May 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: use the word "may") 3. Old buildings in your story 5. A character's favorite snack 7. First lines spoken by an unimportant, non-major, or unnamed character 9. Saturday except (optional word: hide/hidden 11. Do your characters ever undo anything? 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: peace) 15. What might change if your story started in a different year? 17. Sleep habits/schedule 19. How organized are your characters? 21. Do characters meet any relatives when they time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: rescue/save) 25. Something pretty/beautiful in your story 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: clever/smart) 29. A weird comp (any medium) for your time travel story 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
#TimeTravelAuthors May 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: use the word "may") 3. Old buildings in your story 5. A character's favorite snack 7. First lines spoken by an unimportant, non-major, or unnamed character 9. Saturday except (optional word: hide/hidden 11. Do your characters ever undo anything? 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: peace) 15. What might change if your story started in a different year? 17. Sleep habits/schedule 19. How organized are your characters? 21. Do characters meet any relatives when they time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: rescue/save) 25. Something pretty/beautiful in your story 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: clever/smart) 29. A weird comp (any medium) for your time travel story 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks in Scream 2 explaining that Life is life, it doesn’t imitate anything.
The DVD cover for the complete series collection of The Lone Gunmen.
Nancy Thompson turning her back on Freddy after taking his power away and calling him shit. She’s a hero!
The cover for Heir to the Empire. The text reads: THE SAGA CONTINUES! STAR WARS VOLUME 1 OF A THREE-BOOK CYCLE HEIR TO THE EMPIRE BY HUGO AWARD-WINNER TIMOTHY ZAHN
The theatrical poster for The Monster Squad.
The theatrical poster for The Monster Squad. It is a Drew Struzan masterpiece.
Verity Lambert and William Hartnell have a chat on the set of Doctor Who. It’s from the BBC television film An Adventure in Space and Time.
A snapshot of the terrifying Meg Mucklebones from the film Legend.
A picture of screenwriter/director David Koepp. He looks like a guy who would write Michael Crichton thrillers.
Freddy Krueger smiling.
A neat cover for A Wizard of Earthsea featuring and ominous, impressionistic depiction of the final confrontation.
A publicity of photo of Wes Craven in a black sweater and gray slacks, sitting on a stool in front of a white screen.
The cover to Brad Meltzer’s novel The Escape Artist: there’s a silhouette of a running woman and an old key that is red, blue, and steel.
A still from the animated film The Last Unicorn featuring Schmendrick the Magician and Molly Grue standing opposite King Haggard and his son, Prince Lir, with an old man between them named Mabruk.
A screenshot from the Bagel Bites commercial: someone holding a pizza bagel between their fingers, showing how small it is. There’s a graphic of a hand pointing to the bagel with the word “Pizza” above it.
The DVD cover for the unrated version of Cursed. The floating heads of Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Shannon Elizabeth over a highway with a full moon.
The awesome cover for the book The Paradise Snare, The Han Solo Trilogy: Book 1 by S.C. Crispin. We see a young Han Solo with his blaster,a setting sun, space ships, a panther person and a woman with a blaster.
A publicity photo of Wes Craven sitting and looking smart
A random text I received from a random guy. He is in his car with a drink. The message above him reads “Muuuah.”
The stoners from Friday the 13th Part 3 sitting on a couch stoned.