Meredith Borders

@mereborders.bsky.social

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🌀Senior Editor, FANGORIA and STARLOG 🌀Head of Single Issue Publications, FANGORIA 🌀Author, First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium 🌀Strong Sender

An email, in German, from the Mühldorf Public Order Office. It says I was right and they were wrong, more or less :)
A screenshot from Fango's Monstrous Musings Friday newsletter. The image is of Jack Torrance hugging Danny in The Shining. The title of Phil Nobile Jr's essay is "Group Hug."
A graphic for the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards that says I Voted
A graphic advertising the newsstand cover of FANGORIA Volume 2, Issue 32, Summer 2026. Pinhead from Clive Barker's Hellraiser Revival is the main image, with smaller photos promoting Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma, Big Baby and Onslaught
The STARLOG logo over a starry black sky
A bottle of Veuve Clicquot on a patio table at dusk, garden in the background, and a little clip attaching a lit sparkler to the neck of the bottle 😭
A cylindrical marquee at dusk, with a Disclosure Day poster on it.
A picture I found on the internet of the Moore Action Figures Giles doll from Buffy. He comes with a cross, a leather satchel, a double-bladed weapon, two stakes, the VAMPYR book from the pilot, and a grassy cemetery knoll to stand on. There’s an inset close-up of his face - the detail’s pretty good. There’s also a logo for We-R-Toys, from whom I borrowed the pic.
A black heart-shaped pin lined in silver with RUPERT GILES printed in block letters, on a whitewashed wooden surface
Anthony Head as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror
Anthony Head as a horned demon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with a blanket around his shoulders
A stern-faced Marilla Cuthbert of Green Gables
Me and Scott, in sunglasses and looking happy.
A POV photo from above of two cuties in a yard, at night, chatting upwards.
MB: I get it. What was important to you––editorially, or in the design––when relaunching the magazine? For me, I was most excited to build my own style guide for FANGORIA Volume 2. It was the first time I got to create my own style guide from scratch. PN: Nerd. MB: I know, I know. Did you have a vision that you knew you absolutely wanted to bring to the second volume of the magazine? PN: Gayer. MB: You did it, man. PN: I did it.
My mom and me on the roof of Galeries Lafayette on a cloudy day, Paris rooftops and the Eiffel Tower behind us. Mom’s smiling dreamily while looking off-camera; I’m grinning at the camera.
A black and white book cover showing a landscape of river and trees at night. In blue text: The Keeper, Tana French.
Four people (my husband Matt, my friends Erica and Rachel, and me) in coats, smiling in front of a gorgeous high-up view of Salzburg, mountains behind us.
My desk, on which you’ll find a laptop, a notepad and pen, a small floral mug, a teal MoMA tea flask, a hedgehog desk calendar and crystal figurine, a Jane Austen Lego set and a ten pound note with Jane on it.
A TV with a credit from 1000 Women in Horror “based on the book by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas”
A patio table covered in a sunflower table cloth with platters of salad, white asparagus, grilled chicken and the focaccia garden
A loaf of toasty focaccia bread covered in herbs, radishes, carrots, lemon peel and red onion to resemble grass, flowers and the sun.
book cover: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Me grinning in front of a Project Hail Mary poster, except I’m in Germany so it reads “Der Astronaut.”
Framed prints by Brianna Ashby of David Lynch and Dale Cooper next to a cork board with lots of pop culture puns and stickers
The complete Twin Peaks Gazette mini-mag Fango creative director Jason Kauzlarich and I made as a Fango subscribers’ special
A Twin Peaks Sheriff Dept coffee cup, two small donuts and a copy of the Twin Peaks Gazette on a wooden table
James Van Der Beek in ep 1.02 of Dawson’s Creek
The closing scene from Starman, with Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges, and the Escape Hatch, Haitch Industries and Tape Deck logos on top of it
My hand, holding a four-leaf clover a friendly German woman handed me when I was taking a walk last spring
A page for my planner tallying 2025’s media with stickers, washi tape and different color markers. 163 movies. Top 3: Superman, Sinners, The Ugly Stepsister 45 TV shows. Top 3: Severance, A Man on the Inside, The Summer I Turned Pretty 81 books. Top 3: King Sorrow, The Bright Sword, The Bewitching
Sitting on a swing during a visit to the Museum of Broadway, surrounded by ‘60s designs for the HAIR exhibit
A colorful array of glass-blown ornaments at the Vienna Christmas market.
A screencap of the podcast page for Certified Forgotten’s episode “The Peanut Butter Solution with Meredith Borders”
A screencap from our First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium Kickstarter campaign. It reads: 6,543 backers / 24 hours to go / Back this project
A screencap of a recent Escape Hatch episode video chat. I'm in the top window, white curtain behind me, looking DEEPLY skeptical for reasons that will be revealed if you listen to the ep. Matt Herrero is in the middle, a nice kitchen behind him, looking patient. Jason Goldman's in the bottom window, bookshelves behind him, with a shit-eating grin on his face. We're all wearing glasses.
My husband and I on Bratislava Castle’s watch tower with the night-lit Bratislava skyline behind us
Cress Williams as Ornette Howard, Scott Porter as Jason Street and Michael B. Jordan as Vince Howard on Friday Night Lights
My husband on a plane, wearing a face mask and eyes widened in a “wtf?!” expression
Claire Higgins as my very good bitch Julia Cotton in Hellraiser
Slack screencap of Phil and me both separately bemoaning not getting the Frankenstein mag into Piggly Wiggly
The cover of Fangoria Presents: Frankenstein
An action figure of Werewolf Superman and a note that says “I pretended there was a ‘dumbest gift for Meredith contest’ and then I tried to win the contest.”
A carousel of pics of my and my husband’s Halloween costumes: werewolf Superman and vampire Lois Lane
An "about the author" graphic with my photo and bio
A foxy mutt and a husky mutt on a porch. The fox (Zelda) is standing and smiling at the camera. The husky (Miri) is reclined, eyes closed, face peacefully turned upwards. I miss them and this is exactly how I remember them both.
Meredith Borders and Bryan Fuller on stage at Telluride Horror Show
A man wearing a “We’re not going back” shirt and holding a “Dump Trump” sign
Three people (Fango digital editor Angel Melanson, Fango senior editor Meredith Borders and Fango co-owner Abhi Goel) standing in front of a Variety Hollywood & Horror step-and-repeat.
A group of people at night smiling outside around a firepit, hanging lights around them. I’m in the middle! I’m happy.
Me, standing in a cemetery with golden mountains behind me.
Bryan Fuller and Meredith Borders on stage at Telluride Horror Show
A scene from a walk in Telluride yesterday: golden leaves on a beautiful clear creek with a bridge running across it, golden trees in the background, mountains behind that, a lovely blue sky
Me, my husband and my dad standing arm in arm outside the Augustiner tent at Munich’s Oktoberfest. My husband and I are wearing traditional Bavarian trachten and my dad’s wearing an alpine hat
The poster for 2017’s Jane
A promo card for the podcast - a poster of Talisman (with two faces looking at a necklace talisman with the title and the tagline "evil never dies"), the Fangoria logo, the Puppet Masters / Castle Freaks logo, and a picture of me in a tie-dyed Fango t-shirt and green glasses
lyrics from "Tears": I get wet at the thought of you Being a responsible guy Treating me like you're supposed to do Tears run down my thighs A little initiative can go a very long, long way Baby just do the dishes, I'll give you what you want A little communication, yes, that's my ideal foreplay Assemble a chair from IKEA, I'm like "Uhhh"