The Working Dead

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Twin Peaks, horror, books, psychotronalia. He/him.

Japanese bluray cover for Goke. A man with a weird skeletal grin, a vampire biting a woman's neck, some women looking concerned.
Poster for Foes. A man seen from behind, in front of him the ocean and waves crashing on the beach. In the sky a shining flying saucer.
Alternate poster for the Empty Man. Image is a strangely proportioned skeleton, squatting with its knees out and hands kind of fused together in an odd way, like there’s too many fingers. Also some extra bones jutting out of the skeletons back.
Poster for Dark Sea. The title is Mar Negro, with a strange skeletal fish font. A lot of characters and zombies and guns on the cover.
Poster for Cam. A woman’s face that becomes stretched and distorted in the middle.
Newish poster for Beyond Dreams Door. A demonic figure is bursting out of a chained door, with bright white light shining from behind it.
DVD for the North American release of Bio Zombje. Two guys and a girl in the lower part of the image, looking scared. Behind them a bunch of characters and zombies.
Poster for the abominable Dr phibes A dessicated corpse looking person (Vincent price) embracing about about to kiss a lovely young woman. The tagline is ‘love means never having to say you’re ugly.’
Ad for Murder in Coweta County. The title, below that a black and white photo of Johnny cash and Andy Griffith.
Poster for They Came to a City. Expressionistic painting. A few structures that could be walls, an open sky instead of a ceiling, a figure resting on some stairs. A massive door, open to the sky with the sun shining through, and two figures walking through it.
Blu-ray cover for Uncle Sam. The image is a zombified Uncle Sam in the ‘I want you…’ pose famous from all those images.
A guy with light brown hair in a black suede jacket and white turtleneck. He has fluffy 1970s hair and beard.
Poster for the film Deafula. A black and white photo of a severe looking man with wild eyes and a pronounced underbite, with blood dripping from his mouth. Tagline: no one can hear you scream
The band Qbomb performing in a club against a brick wall with a neon sign that says Dragonfly.
VHS cover for Dr. Alien! on Phantom Video, from Paramount. A blonde woman in profile view, looking at the camera. She’s wearing a lab coat and holding a syringe full of green liquid. Behind this is the image of a classic Grey alien wearing red lipstick, with fin shaped ears and in a silver jumpsuit.
Ripley’s Believe it Or Not! True Ghost Stories graphic novel put out by Golden Press. ‘37 haunting stories of the supernatural’ Painted cover, a gaunt face in red behind various robed figures.
A wooden walkway, shiny with rain, winds through a forest with of green trees under a grey sky.
Poster for The Evil Dead. A woman being dragged underground with her hand stretching up to the sky.
A photo of a park on a partly cloudy day. A large rocket ship shaped play structure on the left side, partially obscured by bushes. A paved trail moving between said bushes.
A view of the Turnagain Arm inlet from through a car windshield. A rest area and a picnic table are visible before a small cliff. Beyond the cliff is an inlet surrounded by mountains. The sky is grey.
A green field with a grey log in the foreground. Trees and a mountain range in the background. The sun shining weakly through grey clouds.
A view from bed looking out a large window. Miles and miles of green trees and a mountain range in the distance. The sun is shining, white clouds in the sky.
A print of a Bev Doolittle painting, the kind that exists in every house I’ve ever been in in Alaska. It shows a Native American man riding a horse and leading a second horse behind him. He’s looking backwards. He’s riding through a forest of birch trees and there’s snow covering the ground.
A paragraph from The Peralta Grant (1960, University of Oklahoma Press) “Reavis saw no handicap in this state of affairs. Almost at once he moved to capitalize on his claim. “J. Addison Reavis, the gentleman who parts his name in the middle, is in Phoenix,” the Globe Arizona Silver Belt reported, “talking up his claim to 19,000,000 Cara’s of Arizona dirt, rock, and conglomerate. He is not making headway.””
A bunch of tall grass and fireweed and bushes, tbirxh trees and spruce trees and trees I can’t identify. A thesaurus of green. A mountain range in the distance.
A book out of focus held up in the foreground, behind it you can see a fire pit a chair and a porch railing. Beyond that tree. Lots of green trees. And in the distance a mountain range extends.
My letterboxd favorites. Disclosure Day (2026) Cash Calls Hell (1966) Radio On (1979) The Backrooms (2026)
The front entrance to Killer Fitness in Burbank. A neon design sign on a pink wall. Beneath it two glass doors.
A slim grey hard backed book, the cover is featureless the spine has some writing on it. Not visible from this picture.
A blue t-shirt with a warning sign on it that reads Warning This person will talk about guns whether you like it or not!
Patrick Hood conducting a Q&A with Tibor Tacaks in front of a screen with the Contra Celluloid logo projected.
Poster for The Corpse Grinders. Drawing of a woman being shoved into a box full of grinding teeth. The title in green with blood dripping.
Ash, Ripley, Dallas, and Lambert from Alien (1979) in a dimly lit room looking at a bright computer monitor.
A view of Santa Monica beach from pier. A clear sunny day. The beach is crowded as far as the eye can see.
A small plastic tub holding broken pieces of a small mug. Chinese characters which translate to ‘coffee’ are repeated across it three times.
Cd copy of Suede: Autofiction. It’s signed by all members of the band and sitting atop a small Sony cd player.
The interior of a blue case. Several pockets labeled ‘adult’ ‘child’ ‘infant’ and ‘gushed.’ A collection of straps with Velcro.
A rectangular blue hunk of plastic that looks a little like a calculator, with several white and grey buttons on it and a small screen. A scattered pile of cartridges labeled with various ailments or diseases. A pair of electrodes meant to be attached to skin.
An assortment of old tools and knives. An old fashioned flashlight (made in British Hong Kong in the 60s, most likely), a hand saw, a whetstone, a wooden hammer, a straight razor, a butcher knife, a fish knife.
Poster for Exit 8. Yellow background, the image is a Subway hallway in the form of an Escher-style 8 with people walking along its surfaces.
Very dark black and white image. A man hands holding a stack of cassettes. Visible are Trans Europe Express and Radio Activity by Kraftwerk.
Poster for Radio On. Below the title is a view from the front seat of a car, out the window. A cityscape in black and white and an airplane in the sky.
Poster for The Way Back (2020) Four heads (Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Colin Farrell), above an image of men in a line walking into a valley. The man closest to the camera has his arms outspread.
Poster for Primate. An angry looking chimpanzee behind a glass door. The title in red written across the image.
Last four watched on Letterboxd Return to silent hill (2.5 out of 5 stars) Cash Calls Hell (3.5 out of 5) Dead Girl Walking (3 out of 5) Disclosure day (4 out of 5)
Poster for Return to Silent Hill. A man seen from behind, walking into a misty town. He’s passing a sign that says ‘welcome to silent hill.’
Cover for a small pamphlet titled ‘English-Swahili phrase book’ by RJ Ratcliffe & sir Howard elphinstone, bart.
A list of the states abbreviations, seemingly meaningless squiggles next to each one.
A group of cowboys. The title of the show, Outlaws, is emblazoned near the bottom of the image.
A scene from Attack the Block. John Boyega in a hallways running from sharp toothed aliens.
Title card for the television show On The Air. The image is a skyscraper topped with an antenna shooting off sparks. The title is above this in neon lights. Also ‘created by mark frost and David lynch’
Title screen for Asylum. A building and a foggy yard, an overcast day, a wrought iron fence and a car parked in front of it. The title is an orange font. It’s super fuckin sexy.
Poster for Disclosure Day. Emily Blunt behind what looks like a pane of frosted glass, with a clear spot the shape of a bird through which you can see one of her eyes.
DVD cover for Hideshi Hino’s Theatre of Horror: Dead Girl Walking. A woman from the shoulders up, scraggly hair, several facial scars, white eyes. She’s smiling.
Last four watched on Letterboxd Lizard baby (3 out of 5) The Shining (1997) (2 out of 5) Heart of Glass (4 out of 5) The amazing digital circus: the last act (4 out of 5)
Three small paintings of children with morose faces and tears on their cheeks.
Four stained and weathered newspapers from 1937
Four comic panels stacked atop each other. Panel one, a woman with orange hair, wearing a trenchcoat, in mid-flight with one hand pointing in front of her. Out of her finger is an explosion like a muzzle blast. There’s a caption that says ‘Tabby Smith is here with what was the Nextwave Squad to make the giant monster go away. Panel 2: a wide shot of Tabby flying towards a giant kaiju’s head, a trail of flame arcing behind her she’s firing at the dragons head and it looks to be bellowing in pain. Panel 3: the flaming trail of Tabby’s flight leads into the grasping fist of the dragon/kaiju. Panel 4: the dragon kaiju holding Tabby in one hand, grabbing his pants with the other. His word balloon reads ‘Fin Fang Foom put you in his pants.’
Comic panel of Fin Fang Foom (a giant green dragon kaiju in purple pants) towering over a city. In one hand he holds a person, the other hand is grabbing his shorts. The word balloon says ‘Fin Fang Foom put you in his pants.’
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