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June 2020

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It’s June 27th. Read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

No seriously--go read it. The New Yorker, in which the story was originally published in 1948, has the story up online. You can read it right here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery. Come back when you're done. It's amazing, right? I mean, when we say a story is "haunting," or that it "stays with you," we are talking about the feeling you get from almost every single Shirley Jackson story--and most definitely from "The Lottery." You just keep turning it over in your mind after you read it. "The morning of June 27th was clear and[...]

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The Return of NOS4A2

Last summer I watched the show NOS4A2 on AMC. AND WOW DID I ENJOY IT! Season two begins this weekend on Sunday, June 21st on AMC. I just wanted to let everyone know. OUT OF THE KINDNESS OF MY HEART. Poster from the AMC TV show NOS4A2 Vic McQueen has a gift. She's a strong creative and with her bike and a magic bridge, she's uncovered the sinister plot of dear Charlie Manx. Based on the book by Joe Hill, which I haven't read it but will, this show gives us another type of vampire. One who lives in Christmasland. Vic just wants to go to art school,[...]

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Midnight Society Movie Night: Terrified (Aterrados)

Live-tweeting last month didn't go well, as my wifi decided to...well, die. And I still haven't been able to watch The Room. But that will be fixed next week when the wifi people are coming to make everything better. So for this month, let's watch Terrified! A Shudder original, Terrified, written by Juan Pedro Ramos and directed by Demian Rugna, is a 2018 Spanish horror film. Shudder blurb: On an ordinary suburban street in Buenos Aires, voices are heard from kitchen sinks. Bodies are levitating. Evil is here. It is up to a doctor, her colleague,[...]