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So, this happened last night! I was honored with the Robert Bloch award. Touched and humbled by all this kindness and generosity. I am so happy that my words and my work have made a positive impact in the world of weird. Flying my weird flag and wearing my weird crown proudly.

Lucille Bluth's Iconic 'Good For Her' - Arrested Development (static.klipy.com)

Today at #NecronomiConPVD, the feminine as monstrous, featuring witches, xenomorphs, slashers, mothers as “smothers,” and yūrei. The theme for this weekend seems to be…

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Panels I went to at #NecronomiconPVD: The Daphne du Maurier panel discussed The Birds as you'd expect, but I didn't realize that she also wrote Don't Look Now. Panelists also discussed a bunch of her stories that were weird fiction, such as The Blue Lenses (a woman regains sight after an eye […]

I had a blast on the "Parasites and Parasitism" panel at NecronomiCon! Here I am about to dramatically whip my glasses off while talking about parasitoid wasps!

Our traditional Korean dinner at NecronomiCon!

In non-tech news, I am now officially a published poet!

First day is NecronomiCon and I have sold@out of Missing in Miskatonic. I still have copies of Murder in the Monashee Mountains. So get over here and grab one before they run out.

I'm up! And ready to start the day here at NecronomiCon Providence . Lots of people to see, places to go and things to do. Good morning!

It's time for the In Mountains Older than Bones Appalachian Gothic panel with @shannagermain.bsky.social !

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The second film block last night was billed as showing the first filmed adaptation of Lovecraft, predating 1963's The Haunted Palace (produced by Roger Corman). It was 1961's La marca del muerto (dir.Fernando Cortés), a Mexican adaptation of the same original story, HPL's "Case of Charles […]

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Last night I went to Film Shorts block 1: Creature From The Deep (dir. Angus Reardon) is a lightly comic story about sacrificing the younger generation. I liked the restrained use of the monster, which is only seen through murky water or mostly out of frame. The Hound (dir. Mihajlo Dragaš) is […]

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I have a master schedule of #NecronomiconPVD built out this morning, for Friday onward. In case you're in town. I was going for a HackerTracker-kinda style, but just markdown. Maybe next time I'll think to submit this to HackerTracker proper so you can bookmark and share and such […]

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I'm in Providence, Rhode Island, for the Necronomicon weird fiction / horror convention. The bulk of the programming starts tomorrow, but there was some fun stuff today. My plane was delayed so I couldn't catch the live reading of The Call of Cthulhu. But I did catch Robert Lloyd Party's […]