all consuming dread!

alison. butch. i wrote the novels TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS and BRAINWYRMS. WIP: Hyenas, a novel about mothers and art. 18 plus.

[horrorfixxx]

Universal Monsters: Dracula (2023, #2)

[sandsvendor100]

I Always Smiled Darkly When I Saw The Thieves Attack The Palace

[alysmond]

SHEILA ATIM as AKASHA INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | Season 3, Episode 5, "New York"

[charnel-grounds]

Paula Rego (1935–2022), “Him”

from the ‘Pendle Witches’ series

etching & aquatint on wove paper, 1996

[bratprincedyke]

Myself, my loved ones, the London Leatherdykes at the London Dyke March ⛓️💜

[cupidsncheerios]

actually the real risk with being companionless/covenless as a vampire isn't soul-crushing loneliness it's the fact that isolated vampires just start doing anything. four grown ass men got divorced last season and the second they live alone lestat starts a middling soundcloud career, louis starts stalking some poor waitress, daniel becomes a bowling fanatic, and armand is in fucking ohio

[charnel-grounds]

Paula Rego (1935–2022), “Little Miss Muffet III”

from ‘Nursery Rhymes’ series

etching & aquatint on Arches wove paper, 1989

[stupidestasshole]

what if it was called magic the slathering and it was about lotions and ointments

[kficc]

[kficc]

[sillyseacreature]

He is indeed a guy

[tallahasseemp3]

At the beginning, at the end, where the house stands perpetual.

I enjoyed this so much. Gorgeously written and a pleasure to read at the line level with all the twisty, horrifyingly complex ways a haunted house burrows in one's mind interspersed through the book until it all comes to a head. One of the best contemporary successors to House of Leaves I have read so far, I think, and I don't say that lightly because House of Leaves is my favorite book of all time. Also reminded me of Lost in the Garden in the way it takes the cloying never-ending weight of English summer and winds it around the narrative like a shimmering rope. Just a real delight all around.

If you love haunted houses, you will love Solace House. It is hungry, awake, and ever-lasting.

Thanks very much to Grove Atlantic for the ARC in exchange for this review.

[mrsdewinter]

i made this joke on letterboxd as well but it really isnt a joke its just a fact: backrooms is about how small business owners are evil monsters

[eatmorebikes]

[mrsdewinter]

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026, dir. Jane Schoebrun)

[sheisraging]

amazing

[mumintroll]

[propalahramota]