key: themes & motifs
- haunted places
- ghosts
- vampires
- demons
- cannibalism
- slashers
- aliens & sci-fi
- gothic
- nature
- religion
- misc
& - lesbians
- personal faves
books
a guest in the house (2023, emily carroll)
dead silence (2022, s.a. barnes)
she is a haunting (2023, trang thanh tran)
the haunting of hill house (1959, shirley jackson)
how to sell a haunted house (2023, grady hendrix)
just like home (2022, sarah gailey)
white is for witching (2009, helen oyeyemi)
plain bad heroines (2020, emily m. danforth)
the only good indians (2020, stephen graham jones)
my best friend's exorcism (2016, grady hendrix)
the luminous dead (2019, caitlin starling)
carmilla (1872, j sheridan le fanu)
we have always lived in the castle (1962, shirley jackson)
annihilation (2014, jeff vandermeer)
her body & other parties (2017, carmen maria machado)
through the woods (2014, emily carroll)
podcasts
mabel (2016-present, maybell marten & becca de la rosa)
the magnus archives (2016-2021, rusty quill, don't listen to season 5 it is not good but the rest is pretty solid)
old gods of appalachia (2019-present, steve shell & cam collins)
wolf 359 (2014-2017, gabriel urbina)
friends at the table (2014-present; the season sangfielle (2021-2022) specifically is their gothic horror season, but the sci-fi seasons also have a good portion of horror content)
theatre
grey house (2023, levi holloway)
lizzie (2009, alan stevens hewitt, steven cheslik-demeyer, & tim maner)
sweeney todd (1979, stephen sondheim, not the movie version that one sucks)
films
his house (2020, dir. remi weekes)
the thing (1982, dir. john carpenter)
jaws (1975, dir. steven spielberg)
crimson peak (2015, dir. guillermo del toro)
raw (2016, julia ducournau)
the haunting (1963, dir. robert wise)
fear street trilogy (2021, dir. leigh janiak)
hush (2019, dir. mike flanagan)
jennifer's body (2009, dir. karyn kusama)
alien (1979, dir. ridley scott)
annihilation (2018, dir. alex garland)
the vigil (2019, dir. keith thomas)
saint maud (2019, dir. rose glass)
