Benjamin Larned 🍉

@rotbacchus.bsky.social

1256 Followers 575 Following

A gay bog witch who writes fucked-up surreal fables. Shortlisted for Brave New Weird Vol. 4. Link to work below he/they ben.larned(at)gmail(dot)com www.curiousafflictions.com

Image from La Llorona - a Maya woman wears a traditional veil while giving her testimony
A group of masked cultists from Eyes Wide Shut
Rose Byrne looking horrified in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Cast and crew for IT ENDS at a SXSW promo shoot
Gump, a wide-eyed grinning elf boy, from Legend
A still from Pan's Labyrinth. In an underground cavern with a carven monolith, a tree-like faun stands across from a girl in a nightgown.
A trifecta image of a bearded man wearing beads, sequins, and jester makeup, carrying a sparkly staff
A bearded man screams beneath an ominous mountain ridge, surrounded by darkness
Me, a bearded white man, holding a copy of Absolute Pleasure
Still from Disappear Completely, showing a man in a leather jacket with a large digital camera obscuring his face
Still from Misericordia (2024)
Mink Stole in Desperate Living
Red X book cover
White is for Witching book cover
Divine makes a disgusted face in Female Trouble
still from "The Ugly Stepsister," a richly-dressed teenage girl ponders some kind of... pearl? ;)
Still from The Boxer's Omen: man with white hair in a grotesque pink-eyed mask, lit bright green
Black cat looking bewildered and derpy in a bright light
Title page of a script reading "I Lost Something in the Hills Written by Ben Larned"
Hazy grayscale image of a ghoulish thing, a small part of a famous painting
Grayscale illustration of an eye spotted with black ink
Deborah Kerr in The Innocents (1961)
Illustration of a man screaming as another man attacks him
A still from McCabe & Mrs. Miller, autumn leaves against a backdrop of rain and pine trees
A still from Stranger by the Lake: a man emerges from the water, silhouetted by sunlight, as another man watches from the beach.
A still from The Blair Witch Project, stick figures in the trees
Pencil storyboard art by me, showing a man in flannel and a beanie screaming inside a void
A clip from 1922 Nosferatu synced with Ethel Cain's Perverts
Mountains silhouetted against a rising full moon
Black cat in front of a bookshelf
Selfie of me (bearded white man) wearing a shiny silver cape/shirt and glowing red goggles
A still from Eye Wide Shut (1999)
Black cat rusting in the sun, big gold eyes open
A screenshot of my current follower count, 667
Demi Moore in The Substance
Thumbnail for Our Neighborhood, In Decline, published in Trembling with Fear
Justice Smith in I SAW THE TV GLOW
Goddess of Filth by V Castro, The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper, Come Closer by Sara Gran, Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova