My new book "Summer in Horseheads" is available now! 🐴🦴
A creeptastic summery story that follows Negasi Zane as he moves to America with his mother and her new husband to a small town named Horseheads, New York. There, Negasi discovers that all residents flee the town when the neighborhood 'freaks' return from their peculiar boarding schools abroad. With an entire summer in a strange, foreign place ahead of him, Negasi has little choice but to befriend the same murder of teens whose mere presence is enough to scare away an entire town...
Steve From “Blue’s Clues” Just Checked In On “The Kids He Raised” And Gave Them A Safe Space To Offload After Donald Trump’s Election Victory.
Interestingly, Steve doesn’t even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and “offers them” a hot drink.
And many of the comments thanked Steve for offering them this safe space, with one person writing: “As a trans man, I felt this to my core. I took the breath with you then started bawling. Thank you.”
“The man who is a staple of my childhood didn’t say a single word and it brought me to tears. Steve, thank you. I don’t know where we go from here,” somebody else wrote.
Another popular comment reads: “He didn’t say A WORD and said everything at the same time. This man should be guarded at all costs.”
“Neither of my dads checked in on me today. But you did Steve. Thank you,” one more acknowledged.
“So much responsibility on Steve’s hands to make sure we are okay. We need to make sure he’s doing okay too. I mean I’m not doing great, but he’s still looking after the kids he raised,” somebody else added.
While another concluded: “I bet you didn’t think you’d still be raising us all these years later, Steve, but thank you for still being here.”
For those who are not on TikTok or have never had Steve show up on their FYP, there is some very important context missing here...
Steve's whole page is just him asking the viewer how they are doing and then remaining silent while "listening" very intently. The comments are then filled with people updating him on how they are.
This is why the post-election post hit so hard for folks.
He didn't ask how we are doing.
He didn't need to.
He just gives us a mug of our favorite hot beverage and a thoughtful nod, then stands with you for a minute, listening, just to let you know that none of us are alone.
I compiled a list of 20+ of my favorite spooky reads, the creepiest, darkest paranormal stories and novels that are perfect to read when October comes around. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments or reblogs!
-Gwen🦇
The Banshee's Warning by Charlotte Riddell (haunting banshee)
The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe (black cats, supernatural)
The Case of the Leannabh Sidhe by Margery Lawrence (changelings, evil fairies)
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (classic ghost tropes; considered to be the very first gothic novel)
Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu (lesbian vampyres...need I say more?)
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family by Sheridan le Fanu (haunted, eroding castle, jilted wife)
A Dead Man of Varley Grange by Anonymous (cursed cottage)
The Dead Sexton by Sheridan le Fanu (mysterious corpse thief)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (THEE vampyre, superstitions)
Dobrev (young clairvoyants, succubus, written by yours truly!)
The Family of a Vourdalak by Aleksey Tolstoy (vampyre, recently adapted into a fantastically weird French film)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (creation, horrors of life)
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (supernatural, erotic)
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (paranormal, curses)
Hugues, the Wer-wolf by Sutherland Menzies (OG werewolf story)
In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett (ghosts, mysterious closed door)
Laura Silver Bell by Sheridan le Fanu (evil fairies, witchcraft)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (ghosts, autumn vibes)
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis (cruel and dark, such an insane read!)
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs (supernatural, death)
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (gothic romance, castles, supernatural)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (ghost, romance)
The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann (dark fairy tale elements, obsession)
The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood (haunted portrait)
The Story of Medhans Lea by E. and H. Heron (haunted house, men getting scared, lol)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (murder, good vs. evil)
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley (underrated horror author!)
Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth by Christ Priestley (eerie and disturbing short stories)
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (guilt, murder)
The Tomb of Sarah by Frederick Loring (cursed tomb)
The Trod by Algernon Blackwood (evil fairies)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (ghosts)
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley (first of a great ghostly, gruesome trilogy)
The Vampyre by John Polidori (one of the OG vamp tales; seductive, evil vampyre torments a young man and his sister)
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (even creepier than the movie)
