JGC - Come under my bridge

27, she/her, horror author and Big Queer, eternally damned

[random-brushstrokes]

Thomas Edwin Mostyn (British, 1864–1930) - The Green Gown

[lyraeon]

not to be mistaken for toxic positivity again but my god you need to learn to love the oppressed more than you hate their oppressors or else you are just delighting in feeling righteous while leaving those in need out in the cold

[basilikum7]

BEA Pitcher plants grow on the shores of the lake. I watched the insects tiptoe inside. I didn’t warn them. I am the fly, I am the newt—did you know that plants can eat newts? I step inside. I fall. I dissolve.

[lilliankillthisman]

have we considered all killing ourselves

[tortol]

merricat and constance and apricot jam on toast

[random-brushstrokes]

Otto Bache - A centaur playing with his son (1867)

[themonstrousother-moved]

The Twisted Mirror in The Green Room: Abjection in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Enikő Kovács

[postcard-from-the-past]

French vintage postcard

[03fates]

Like these books, movies, albums? Give You are the Ghost in This House a listen! Drop a comment with your favorites from our list.

You are the Ghost in This House is an audience-driven fiction podcast following two young women as they explore a haunted house and the generations who have called it home. Can they figure out the truth of the House’s past — or will they be forced to replay its horrors forever?

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

A Knights Dress by Frieda Lepold

[coyoteralyn]

Lady Maria

[batrachised]

I think Shirley Jackson delves so well into the horror of self-consciousness. To be so aware of yourself, whether due to loneliness or not belonging or abuse, can be a monstrous experience that reduces your experience of the world to a series of mechanical processes. I will get up. I will cross the room in front of everyone. I will get a cup of water. I must drink the cup of water before I return in case it is odd to have it on the couch. They must not think I'm odd. Instead of swinging into the kitchen for a drink while laughing with friends. Mechanical processes are based on cause and effect, and if you are so used to thinking in terms of cause and effect, you can start applying that framework nonsensically out of a self-defensive need for control--which begs the question of what happens when defense becomes offense

[ouevreofmaite]

♱ Claudia & The Lamb ♱ illustrated by me

[ouevreofmaite]

♱ Carmilla & Laura ♱ illustrated by me

[redzombie]

a bottomless curse, a bottomless sea

[fictionfrequency1]

Wooden Overcoats ‘Rudyard Ruins Everything’ Review

Rudyard Funn (Felix Trench) runs a funeral home on the island of Piffling. It used to be the only one. It isn’t anymore. Rudyard is a horrib

Have you heard the Wooden Overcoats ten year anniversary live show yet? The recording is available until the 14th, and the review is right here. Want to know more about what happens? 👀

[geee13]