#scifi horror

[elsa707]

Watching Event Horizon for the first time with my dad! So far I’m enjoying it, but he’s got surround speakers at his house that made it so a breathing sound played right next to my ear, so that was fun 😅

[horygory]

Alien 3 (1992)

[horvival]

DOOM (2016)

[hallwayhag]

Hear me out for a moment.

What if the popular idea that robots and AI will decide humans are the problem and need to be eradicated because we are *insert all the notions about us making things worse everywhere for everything*, is close but not quite right.

I'd imagine the all knowing tech with its super Sci fi intelligence would successfully identify that its not ALL humans... its like a handful of really awful ones. And a handful of preventable situations in which otherwise unproblomatic humans become corrupted by too much power money etc.

Its not a new idea; company develops ai to maximize efficiency and the tech correctly pin points the problem being in the upper office with inflated salary and poor decision making. But like to the entire species...

[bozemane]

[rockislandadultreads]

Genre Fiction: Summer Scares 👻

Enjoy a good scare this summer with these frighteningly good reads!

A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants - lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.

Appeals: LGBTQIA+, mad scientist, & creepy

Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote

A haunted house story for the 21st century, this horror comic collection follows an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities fueled by xenophobia.

Appeals: Graphic novels, demons, & disturbing

Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend’s brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. 

Appeals: Misanthropy, twisted characters, & gritty

Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

Determined to follow in the scientific footsteps of her great uncle Victor Frankenstein, Mary Saville and her husband, desperate to be accepted into the scientific community, construct their Creature and Mary finds herself contemplating disturbing questions and unexpected feelings for the hideous progeny she’s grown to love.

Appeals: Women scientists, strong sense of place, & sympathetic characters

[darktripz]