Daniel Robichaud
@danielrobichaud.bsky.social
Reader, scientist, essay writer, fictioneer, poet, movie watcher, hubby, fadda.
A woman yearning for pregnancy learns to fear a few things about her husband’s behavior on a remote Washington State island. Or does she? Folk horror and feminism rub shoulders in #MaiaChance’s forthcoming thriller THE RAVINE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/r...
Sinister Secrets and Full Moon Frights: Maia Chance’s The Ravine
Harlow Sullivan is eager to get pregnant. Excited about it, in fact. However, she’s just learned from her expensive and exclusive doctor that she’s suffering a case of “unexplained infertility,” a …
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January 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
A woman yearning for pregnancy learns to fear a few things about her husband’s behavior on a remote Washington State island. Or does she? Folk horror and feminism rub shoulders in #MaiaChance’s forthcoming thriller THE RAVINE. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/r...
Missing memory, a crime with supernatural ripples, a detective on the trail of a girl who dies and returns, and a young woman whose life is coming apart around her. TOMIE is a slow burn oddity from the 1990s and enjoyably bizarre. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...
The Girl Who Dies and Comes Back: Tomie (1998)
Izumisawa Tsukiko (Nakamura Mami) is having troubles recalling events from three months dating about three years back. Something involving a bloody accident. Perhaps it was trauma that caused the a…
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December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Missing memory, a crime with supernatural ripples, a detective on the trail of a girl who dies and returns, and a young woman whose life is coming apart around her. TOMIE is a slow burn oddity from the 1990s and enjoyably bizarre. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/t...
Last book of 2025: Robert Bloch’s 1971 novel, IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND, is a screwball comedy story with touches of fantasy. A feckless college student gets the therapy he needs and grapples with unexpected & increasingly uncanny consequences. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
Screwball With a Side of Science Fiction: Robert Bloch’s It’s All in Your Mind
Take a good look at that cover. With Bloch’s name in tiny print over the bold title, with a graveyard and a gasping gal, and a concerned face that’s maybe one step this side or that of the line bet…
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December 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Last book of 2025: Robert Bloch’s 1971 novel, IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND, is a screwball comedy story with touches of fantasy. A feckless college student gets the therapy he needs and grapples with unexpected & increasingly uncanny consequences. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/b...
Benoit Blanc returns to weigh matters of faith and rationality, life and death in the clever, suspenseful, lightly comic, and well considered whodunit, WAKE UP DEAD MAN. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/w...
The Good Friday Murder: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives out Mystery (2025)
After he clocks an irritating deacon, Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) expects punishment for his actions. However, Bishop Langstrom (Jeffrey Wright) finds a better use for the man’s passion. …
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December 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Benoit Blanc returns to weigh matters of faith and rationality, life and death in the clever, suspenseful, lightly comic, and well considered whodunit, WAKE UP DEAD MAN. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/w...
Two women find romance, hijinks, and plenty of trouble on the way to Europe in Howard Hawks’ fabulously entertaining musical-comedy, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/g...
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls with a popular show. Their dance numbers are all the rage, and in fact has attracted the attention of Lorelei’s …
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December 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Two women find romance, hijinks, and plenty of trouble on the way to Europe in Howard Hawks’ fabulously entertaining musical-comedy, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/g...
When baddies target Brett Macklin’s friends and family, he must spread himself thin to save them. Can he save those he loves most, or has his actions doomed them all? Violence begets violence in GUILTY, #LeeGoldberg’s final entry in The Jury series. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/j...
No One Comes to the Game Weightless: Lee Goldberg’s The Jury: Guilty
When Brett Macklin took on the mantle of Mr. Jury to avenge his father, a cop that was burned to death by a gang of hoodlums, he never imagined the strange journey his decision to take the law into…
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December 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
When baddies target Brett Macklin’s friends and family, he must spread himself thin to save them. Can he save those he loves most, or has his actions doomed them all? Violence begets violence in GUILTY, #LeeGoldberg’s final entry in The Jury series. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/j...
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Three vloggers expect naughty fun when they break into a rundown Christmas theme park. Encountering Krampus and a very real (and depressed) Santa, they soon find themselves up to their necks in silly b-movie fun. SLAY BELLES consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/s...
Adventure Girls Save Christmas: Slay Belles (2018)
When the Adventure Girls decide to leave the city to do a little exploring of an abandoned, run down, doomed to be bulldozed Christmas themed amusement park, they go all out. Dahlia (Susan Slaughte…
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December 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Three vloggers expect naughty fun when they break into a rundown Christmas theme park. Encountering Krampus and a very real (and depressed) Santa, they soon find themselves up to their necks in silly b-movie fun. SLAY BELLES consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/s...
A desperate woman moves into a wealthy home as the maid, only to discover nothing in the Winchester House is as ideal or idyllic as it seems in #PaulFeig’s twisty thriller, THE HOUSEMAID. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/h...
Actions Have Consequences: The Housemaid (2025)
Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is in need of a job, any job. She’s got a great resume (a lie), she’s got a record, she’s sleeping in her car, and she’s bathing in public restroom sinks. When she …
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December 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A desperate woman moves into a wealthy home as the maid, only to discover nothing in the Winchester House is as ideal or idyllic as it seems in #PaulFeig’s twisty thriller, THE HOUSEMAID. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/h...
The road to opening night of a stage show has never been crazier than in Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF. The film adaptation is a treat, and it’s our Friday comedy this week. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/n...
Now I Know How God Felt Sitting Out There in the Dark … Very Pleased He Had Taken His Valium: Noises Off (1992)
When a stage production does its dress rehearsal less than 24 hours before its premier, and the cast still don’t know their lines, still have questions about motivation, still can’t seem to get it …
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December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The road to opening night of a stage show has never been crazier than in Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF. The film adaptation is a treat, and it’s our Friday comedy this week. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/n...
Brett Macklin returns for a third dose of pain and suffering, this time tackling a copycat killer working a racist agenda. #LeeGoldberg’s thriller PAYBACK is a wild ride into 1980s era action/adventure. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/j...
You Vicious, Sadistic Bastard: Lee Goldberg’s The Jury: Payback
Brett Macklin is enjoying a brief respite from his tours of duty as Mr. Jury. According to official reports following the destruction of a kiddie porn ring, his vigilante identity is dead. So, when…
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December 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Brett Macklin returns for a third dose of pain and suffering, this time tackling a copycat killer working a racist agenda. #LeeGoldberg’s thriller PAYBACK is a wild ride into 1980s era action/adventure. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/j...
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A town of goblins lures a hapless family in with promises of farm living and free veggie meals. Will the family escape before they become the main dish? TROLL 2 is deeply silly but fun if taken in the proper spirit. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/t...
You Can’t Piss on Hospitality: Troll 2 (1990)
The Waits family is about to embark on a new adventure, swapping houses with a family in the half abandoned town of Nilbog for a month. The Waits will live like farmers, and the Present family will…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A town of goblins lures a hapless family in with promises of farm living and free veggie meals. Will the family escape before they become the main dish? TROLL 2 is deeply silly but fun if taken in the proper spirit. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/t...
The end of the world arrives in the form of a darkness erasing pieces of the world in #AlexWoodroe’s cool, 1980s-set #horrornovel, THE NIGHT SHIP. #FlameTreePress consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? Alex Woodroe’s The Night Ship
Rosi is accompanying her forced marriage fiancé Gigi on one of his runs, transporting lumber across 1980s Romania and using his truck as a delivery system for the contraband she’s looking to unload…
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December 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The end of the world arrives in the form of a darkness erasing pieces of the world in #AlexWoodroe’s cool, 1980s-set #horrornovel, THE NIGHT SHIP. #FlameTreePress consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
CW and Madison return, stalking and out-manuevering one another in the engaging and beautifully shot satiric suspense sequel, INFLUENCERS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/n...
Now You’re Thinking Like a Psychopath: Influencers (2024)
CW (Cassandra Naud) is living in southern France with her lover Diane (Lisa Delamar), taking a lovely holiday across the countryside when her old life comes a’calling. The room she’d paid for at a …
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December 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
CW and Madison return, stalking and out-manuevering one another in the engaging and beautifully shot satiric suspense sequel, INFLUENCERS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/n...
A photographer and a working-man butt heads, share hijinks, and eventually fall in love in the delightful screwball comedy, NO TIME FOR LOVE. #ClaudetteColbert #FredMacMurray consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/n...
A Common-Sense Institution: No Time For Love (1943)
Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) is a modern woman, a photographer with an eye for telling details that her editor doesn’t quite understand but her publisher/fiancé is indulging. Her latest job …
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December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A photographer and a working-man butt heads, share hijinks, and eventually fall in love in the delightful screwball comedy, NO TIME FOR LOVE. #ClaudetteColbert #FredMacMurray consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/n...
The Jury (Brett Macklin) returns to deal out more vigilante justice in thriller writer #LeeGoldberg’s action/adventure epic. ADJOURNED pits Macklin against some truly wicked baddies who deserve every gruesome end they meet. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/j...
Make Them Pay: Lee Goldberg’s Adjourned
Following the personally motivated war against the punks who killed his dad, Brett Macklin has been trying to get back to normal, laying low and enjoying a relationship with his girlfriend, Cheshir…
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December 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Jury (Brett Macklin) returns to deal out more vigilante justice in thriller writer #LeeGoldberg’s action/adventure epic. ADJOURNED pits Macklin against some truly wicked baddies who deserve every gruesome end they meet. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/j...
WEIRD WATCH WEDNEDAY: A newly broke child of privilege (Walter Matthau) decides to wed someone rich … and maybe murder her for her money in #ElaineMay’s quirky 1971 comedy, A NEW LEAF. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/p...
Paddle Like Hell for Shore: A New Leaf (1971)
When Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) discovers he has frittered away his inheritance, he faces an unfortunate dilemma about his continued existence. Had he any useful skills, he could get a job; he d…
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December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNEDAY: A newly broke child of privilege (Walter Matthau) decides to wed someone rich … and maybe murder her for her money in #ElaineMay’s quirky 1971 comedy, A NEW LEAF. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/p...
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Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
A signal boost would be a colossal help.
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A signal boost would be a colossal help.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
A signal boost would be a colossal help.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
A signal boost would be a colossal help.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
A man heads to the sticks for a chance at some big money in #BrandonMassey’s tale of spectral rural horror. He will not like what he finds in the BACKWOODS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/b...
Be Out by Dark: Brandon Massey’s Backwoods
Nick is in a bind. His business partner, Omar, made a deal with a shady guy called Shango who is jealous of the business’s successes (and Omar’s showy spending). Shango has decided to up his vig ro…
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December 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A man heads to the sticks for a chance at some big money in #BrandonMassey’s tale of spectral rural horror. He will not like what he finds in the BACKWOODS. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/b...
A new evil rises to plague the survivors of #EmmaTammi’s adaptation of the first flick in the famed franchise. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 is creepy, surreal horror with a good sense for fright. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/5...
Fixer Upper: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
Once upon a time, there was a crazy man named William Afton (Matthew Lillard) who kidnapped kids and butchered them, hiding the remains in the animatronics of his family restaurant. The spirits of …
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A new evil rises to plague the survivors of #EmmaTammi’s adaptation of the first flick in the famed franchise. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 is creepy, surreal horror with a good sense for fright. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/5...
My ghostly short story, “I’ll Hear You, My Dear, at Twilight Time,” has just been published. It appears in the December 2025 issue of parABnormal Magazine. #Hiraeth www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page...
PARABNORMAL MAGAZINE December2025 | Hiraeth Publishing
parABnormal Magazine features stories that focus on the paranormal, including ghosts, spectres, witchcraft, the afterlife, and the occasional bit of dark magic. This issue also include three articles ...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My ghostly short story, “I’ll Hear You, My Dear, at Twilight Time,” has just been published. It appears in the December 2025 issue of parABnormal Magazine. #Hiraeth www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page...
Three young women move into an apartment together with a mission in this golden era rom com pitting #LaurenBacall, #MarilynMonroe, and #BettyGrable against wealthy mankind. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/m...
Setting the Bear Trap: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall) not only knows what she wants but how to get it. Rent a high class apartment with three like minded friends, and then use the address as a kind of lure for a certain ki…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Three young women move into an apartment together with a mission in this golden era rom com pitting #LaurenBacall, #MarilynMonroe, and #BettyGrable against wealthy mankind. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/m...
When a man is pushed to the edge by the brutal murder of his father and the inability of the System to punish the guilty, he will take up his dad's .357 and pay the wicked back with bullets in JUDGMENT, #LeeGoldberg’s first entry in THE JURY SERIES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/g...
Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Lee Goldberg’s Judgment
Brett Macklin is more than a car enthusiast; he is the sort of mechanic who sees an issue and brings out the best a car can be with his keen eye and deft talent. His own car, a 1959 Cadillac, is lo…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When a man is pushed to the edge by the brutal murder of his father and the inability of the System to punish the guilty, he will take up his dad's .357 and pay the wicked back with bullets in JUDGMENT, #LeeGoldberg’s first entry in THE JURY SERIES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/g...
Reposted by Daniel Robichaud
The Trembling With Fear drabble cupboard is looking bare, which means we're all in danger and need more 100 word stories!
Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions
#amwriting
Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions
#amwriting
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Trembling With Fear drabble cupboard is looking bare, which means we're all in danger and need more 100 word stories!
Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions
#amwriting
Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions
#amwriting
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A former gangster moll and her drive-in operated by reformed gangster hoods is visited by the evil spirit of a dead gangster hellbent for revenge in the wonderfully odd, RUBY. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/r...
They’re All Dead; They Just Don’t Know It: Ruby (1977)
In 1935, gangster moll Ruby Claire (Piper Laurie) agrees to accompany young, sexy, dangerous mobster Nicky Rocco (Sal Vecchio) on a romantic evening by the lake. However, their time together is int…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A former gangster moll and her drive-in operated by reformed gangster hoods is visited by the evil spirit of a dead gangster hellbent for revenge in the wonderfully odd, RUBY. @vinsyn.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/r...
Meka discovers dark dreams lead to a darker destiny than she ever imagined in #KalynnBayron’s Mary Shelley and Poe influenced YA horror novel, MAKE ME A MONSTER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/m...
Alive! Alive! Alive! Kalynn Bayron’s Make Me A Monster
Meka Redwood has a pretty good life. Sure, her family owns the funeral home, and, at only seventeen years old, she’s Ithaca, New York’s youngest certified mortician’s assistant, able to officially …
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December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Meka discovers dark dreams lead to a darker destiny than she ever imagined in #KalynnBayron’s Mary Shelley and Poe influenced YA horror novel, MAKE ME A MONSTER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/m...