Kathleen Towers, still haunted

@towerskt.bsky.social

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Inveterate bookworm & inquisitive engineer Interests: horror fiction & film, detective fiction, speculative fiction, romance novels, IndyCar, F1, NCAA Football, Gators, Bearcats, Ohio, hiking, handicrafts #uglydogs FOREVER She/her

Movie poster for Cold Storage, showing an older man, a young woman, and a young man watching something grow up a ladder towards them.
Movie Poster for Amityville II: The Possession
Movie poster for Amityville II: The Possession, showing the house with its eye-windows lit. A profile bearing some sort of weapon is in the righthand window.
Movie poster for What Keeps You Alive showing a woman’s profile against woods under a pink sky. Below her profile, a person runs in the opposite direction.
Movie poster for Aterrados showing Screaming human figure cracked down the middle.
Movie poster for M3GAN (2022) showing a humanoid robotic doll with blonde hair.
Poster for The Hatching (2014). Shows a blonde woman swimming within the open jaws of a crocodile.
Poster for Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror—has small drawings: of the sun over Stone Henge, the burning Wicker Man, a witchfinder general, some mushrooms, an undead creature gazing at you from a grave, and a black goat.
Poster for The Amityville Horror, showing a large suburban house backlit in red with two glowing attic windows that almost look like eyes.
Movie poster for Obsession, shows Bear in his car holding the One Wish Willow & Nikki’s outline against the lit doorway.
Poster for Child’s Play (1988) with Chucky threatening to stab onlookers w a knife.
Movie poster for Boys From County Hell showing the main characters armed with vampire hunting weapons at a construction site where a hand reaches up from a grave all within the silhouette of a fanged vampire
Movie poster for Renfield (2023) shows Dracula looming over Renfield
Movie poster for Troll Hunter showing the bottom half of a troll towering over a truck on a road through a snowy Norwegian countryside at twilight.
Cover for Álvaro Enrigue’s novel You Dreamed of Empires (translated by Natasha Wimmer) illustrated with a horse rearing amidst fluorescent green chevrons against a blue background.
Neil Adamson painting—some beachside grass-topped dunes on the Gulf of Mexico under a cloudy but blue sky. Sea gulls fly overhead & a sailboat can be seen in the distance.
Map of air pollution from Michigan (where it is bad) to Kentucky. AQI is 78 in Indy & 479 in Columbus.
Necklace w/ two small silver pendants: a fleur de lis (newer—replaced a Celtic cross I used to wear in 2014) & a *vintage* turtle (1996). (the boxchain has been replaced at least 3x 😆)
Silver ring on my pinky with two onyx stones, arranged vertically with silver leaves between. Other ring is my college class ring.
My Pantone birth chart: Virgo Sun, Libra Moon, Capricorn Rising, & Virgo Venus
Cover for a reprint of Anthony Berkeley’s novel, Jumping Jenny, depicting a stone cottage.
Swarm of honeybees next to a swarm trap.
BlueSky license as generated by https://kojira.github.io/bluesky-license/
Cover for the British Library’s reprinting of Anthony Berkley’s novel, The Poisoned Chocolates Case illustrated with people sitting down at a dinner club in England during the interwar period.
My Ursula K Le Guin Collection behind a Where the Wild Things Are ornament, a stained glass kaleidoscope my mother made, and a Mothman plushie (photo taken before I moved, so these books live on another shelf now).
Cover for Melissa Albert’s novel The Children with an illustration of a crescent moon containing an NYC cityscape in the foreground of a 3-story house in the woods with two children standing in front of it.
Great Blue Heron in a still pool under a rock in the middle of an otherwise rushing Little Miami River.
Me, a middle-aged bespectacled white woman with glasses, in my moon-full-of-snakes tee, jeans, a sweater, and some sneakers w fluorescent laces standing next to the HAZARDOUS CLIFFS—Stay On Designated Trails sign.
Cover for British Library Crime Classics reprinting of John Dickson Carr’s The Ten Teacups illustrated w an image of a London greenspace featuring a fountain.
A right hand with three rings: a cameo against carnelian (w black and sparkly stones sort of swirling around it) on the middle finger, a titanium Olin College class ring on the ring finger, and a garnet set in silver on the pinky.
Spencer Hall’s bearded face, showing my charge for 20.53 (20$ + processing fees) went through. PTKU forever & it’s also really cool to help refugees.
Cover for Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Parable of the Sower, depicting a black woman in a long-sleeved red dress and red head scarf.
Co-Star Your Day At A Glance: You have zero self-control right now.
Cover for M. M. Olivas’s novel Sundown in San Ojuela, featuring the front paws of a predatory creature with bright green fur and scarlet claws next to a flowering cactus.
Cover for Lee Mandelo’s novel The Woods All Black, picturing a grove of slender white-barked trees by night with hand-drawn eyes staring throughout.
Cover for Alison Rumfitt’s novel, Brainwyrms, which depicts an alarmed white woman sinking into a mass of worms.
Cover for Ry Herman’s novel This Princess Kills Monster, featuring a castle on a hill menaced by purple monsters.
A paperback copy of shola von reinhold’s novel, LOTE, sitting on my sea turtle print bedsheets. Cover depicts part of a miniature ‘from the illuminated manuscript, Splendor Solis, 1532-1535, representing “the peacock stage” of alchemy when the oily black contents of the alembic flare iridescent’
Mary: She know what’s cool 🥁 Me: For the record, Ike asked me how I wasn’t ‘the cool aunt,’ and I was honest. Me: ‘I only play two instruments.’ (both of my comments were laughed at)
Overhead picture of the National Museum of the USAF in Fairborn, OH—essentially a series of hangers filled with planes.
Co-Star Your Day At A Glance: “You are the dream, the nightmare, and the dream within the nightmare that becomes a dream.”
Text chat: My sister, Mary: “Tonight aspen said he loves me, mama, grandma, grandpa, KT, and cookies….etc. I can’t believe we all rank higher than cookies! 🤣🤣🤣” Me, in response: “Awwwww. I love Aspen more than cookies too.”
Kathleen’s purple brachiosaur & @spherewolf.bsky.social’s pink brachiosaur.
A less-than-perfect brachiosaur.
Cover for John Dickson Carr’s novel Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery. It has a tower bridge on the cover, which seems incorrect b/c they always had to row or take the launch across?
Step 23!
Step #9 of #30—we are perhaps struggling?
Cover for reprinting of John Bude’s novel The Cornish Coast Murder showing some people on a rocky beach near some cliffs.
Brat with kraut & mustard.
Cover for ECR Lorac’s Crook O’ Lune, which shows a small village in the hilly English countryside & sheep.
Raccoon with a book that says READ BOOKS STAY FERAL
Set of ten quick drying, smear resistant, vivid color LePen pens.
Cover for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights , with a stone horse hitching post surrounded by thistle.
Red yarn set on top of a ‘Melt the Ice Toque’ knitting pattern.
Black & white checkerboard flag that has an N in its left hand corner and ‘NO (NEGATIVE)’ below
Two painted frogs—one says, ‘Self-hate is over.’ And the other says, ‘We are all sexy now.’
Screenshot from a weather app reading: IMPACTS…The cold wind chills as low as 10 below zero could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken. Wind chill values can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.
Jack-o-lantern carved into a turnip bearing rather realistic teeth in a grim, haggard expression.
Cover for Matthew Gavin Frank’s book Submersed, showing a picture of a man’s profile with a puddle’s surface obscuring its details.
Finished puzzle