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Brian Fanelli
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Writer. Associate Professor of English. #HWA member. Co-founder and Co-EIC of The Horror Lounge


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Just a thought, but before everyone starts drawing battle lines about who should be the Democratic nominee for President in 2028, maybe concentrate on the midterms that make sure we have an election in 2028.
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84. www.reuters.com/world/us/jes...
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful, dies at 84
Jesse Jackson was an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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The 2026 edition of "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia" is up. Five free thesis ideas from PG-13 scares to fad diets to cringe horror, with hand-selected inspo pieces ready to read from @aaronrodriguezs.bsky.social @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social + more.
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February 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Robert Duvall, the legendary character actor who specialized in playing rugged, complicated men, has died. He was 95. 🕊️

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February 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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I've read a few Valentine's Day movie recommendations lists, and I'm surprised by the lack of Strange Darling. I <3 this one.
Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner in strange Darling
February 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Looking for some horror movies to watch this Valentine's Day weekend? Our contributing writer Jonathan has some recommendations!

#horror #horrorsky #moviesky

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The best horror movies to watch this Valentine's Day
An unranked list of horror movies to celebrate February 14th with.This weekend is Valentine’s Day—a holiday we’ve come to associate with roses, candy hearts, and mass-produced greeting cards. A holida...
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February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Site update is in! Now you can find late 2025/early 2026 sources. Search new keywords "Lloyd Kaufman" "Shirley Jackson" and "desktop films." And welcome to 25 new journals and pubs like @maifeminism.bsky.social @jlpopculture.bsky.social @digest-journal.bsky.social @mesonpress.bsky.social . Awooo!
A cartoon drawing of a wolf dressed like a university professor in a tweed jacket and glasses, using a pointer at a chalkboard in academic fashion.
February 13, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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This is neat. Regal Theatre is screening Friday the 13th movies for every F13 in 2026. The original and Part 2 are playing this weekend.

#Fridaythe13th #horror #horrorsky

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Friday the 13th movies will return to Regal Theatres this year, beginning this weekend
For years, Friday the 13th fans were left in the wilderness, namely due to lawsuits that prevented new content. Well, this year, those of us who love the franchise have a lot to celebrate. There's the...
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February 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Our Online Semester Passes are still available!
But only until Monday...
Get them while you can!
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February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Honey Bunch is so different from the directors' debut film, Violation, especially in tone and subject matter. It makes for a good Valentine's Day watch if you want something REALLY weird. Streams on Shudder tomorrow.

#horrorsky #horror #filmsky #moviesky

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Honey Bunch is a strange and immersive relationship odyssey
Though Honey Bunch hits some narrative snags, it's a creative and compelling look at a relationship, through sickness and in health.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:

“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”

The ad aged. The internet remembers.
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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NEON revealed a new billboard for PARK CHAN WOOK'S 'NO OTHER CHOICE' following its Oscars snub. Genius. 👏STANDING OVATION👏
#neon #ParkChanWook #OscarsSnub
"F your consideration" cheeky billboard unveiled by Neon in light of Park Chan Wook's Oscars snub. Blue poster featuring a man holding an urn against a blue sky. Billboard sits above a road with cars speeding by
February 12, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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That new Joyce Manor album is really good. All these years later, they still craft pop-punk bangers. That is all.
February 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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James Van Der Beek (1977-2026) 🤍
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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It's really important right now to contact your House Rep. and Senators and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act.
nickknudsenus.bsky.social Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 7d
The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote.

Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.

#StopTheSaveAct
Contact Your MOC
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February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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A Head Full of Ghosts is FINALLY moving out of development hell. I'm excited that the writers/directors of Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge are writing and directing this adaptation.

#horrorsky #horror

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A Head Full of Ghosts adaptation moves forward; David Harbor, Rebecca Hall, Esmé Creed-Miles in final talks to star
For years, the adaptation of Paul Tremblay's 2015 possession novel A Head Full of Ghosts remained in limbo. The project simply never got off the ground, despite the book's critical acclaim. Well, ther...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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LISTEN: There are a lot of folks out here working tirelessly to get the truth out there. Replying to us that nothing matters because there'll be no consequences is not only incorrect, but it belittles the work we do. It's insulting and shortsighted. Stop following us if you don't want the info.
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Here's an easy tell that some students are using AI. They turn in an analysis of a short film describing scenes that absolutely do not exist in the film, and boy, have there been some doozies!
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Pretty much!
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
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February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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Should my cat ever finish her novel, I just took the perfect author photo.
My cat looking very stately. Sitting on the top of her cat tree with one arm draped over the edge. Looking at the camera and seems to have a slight smirk. Terrific posture.
February 8, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Being Sunday, maybe folks have some time to read some writing by people they’re not as familiar with. Everything on my Patreon is free. I do that, and keep subscriptions cheap, because of the effect paywalls have on our information environment right now.

www.patreon.com/alexapagliuca
Alex Pagliuca | Patreon
Examinations of storytelling, film, writing, media and culture
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February 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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I wrote about the challenge of reinventing The Strangers and why the first film was so effective.

#horrorsky #moviesky #horror #TheStrangers

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Why The Strangers trilogy was doomed from the get-go
The Strangers is one of those franchises that simply can't top the first movie. It probably should have been left alone, or, at the very least, the trilogy should have been confined one movie instead ...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Yet another reason to consider physical media. 😉

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DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM