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Doris V. Sutherland
@dorisvsutherland.com
Author of Midnight Widows comic, horror fiction, and enough Doctor Who stuff to get me a TARDIS wiki article.
Books editor at womenwriteaboutcomics.com.
All opinions are my own.

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OUT NOW! Trash Tales, an anthology of ultra-lowbrow crime, horror, western, sci-fi and bizarro fiction!

Featuring my story LiCKETY'S GOT THE TOUCH, in which earth's machines begin morphing into robots with ravenous sexual appetites...
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OUT NOW: Trash Tales, Featuring “Lickety’s got the Touch”
It’s here! Trash Tales, a short fiction anthology celebrating the weird and the lowbrow, is available to buy in both paperback and ebook editions. Go here for a list of outlets. Presented by …
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People keep trotting out that CS Lewis quotation when they could just post this
It also includes this famous scene from the film, with the ... clown?
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Here's an absolutely deranged marketing campaign for the 1949 rerelease of The Wizard of Oz
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wooooooww my feed's basically all James Bond now. I thought I was reading a single, very long Bond thread, but no, it's my feed.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Whaaaaaaa?
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Watching an episode of a 1940s Superman serial, which begins with the amazing line "Lois is captured by the Spider Lady Men"
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Back in 2003, Coca-Cola hired Aleksandr Petrov, one of the most accomplished animators alive, to make a Christmas advert using oil paints. Just saying.
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Coca-Cola - Santa Sundblom (2003, USA)
YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising
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November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
More than once, I've stumbled into a transphobe who seems to have sincerely expected us, and our allies, to all fade away over the course of 2025.
It warms the cockles of my heart to see them spluttering "b-b-but Trump 2! But UK Supreme Court! WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE!?!?"
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
All of them tbh
I asked this before over at The Old Place and the answers delighted me. So again:

Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?

I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This remains the greatest comment my blog has ever received.
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
On this week's #WerewolfWednesday, I'm meeting the werewolves of Preston!
(Which turn out to be the result of a Facebook joke getting into national news)
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Werewolf Wednesday: Werewolves of Preston (2025)
This Halloween, Metro ran an article headlined “‘Werewolves’ spotted roaming streets of UK town in spooky ‘Howloween’ goings on”. The town in question is Preston…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Go me, I suppose

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Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"My kids...
...
...
know me as this ape."
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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the information crisis: as 'information about what's going on' has become essentially free, previously somewhat sober newspapers now sell themselves increasingly as penny dreadfuls filled with the thrills and spills of terror, drama and salacious details of crimes.
It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.

I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I'd be genuinely interested to see hard stats on how many people *say* they'll leave their city/state/country if a contentious candidate comes to power, vs how many people actually do it.
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I see that the BBC Archive YouTube channel sneaked this out a couple of days ago:
1968: Whicker's World of Horror | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.

These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”

#historyofillustration
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
He's stickin' it to the man
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November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#31daysofhorror day 31
Read Mai Doon Izahn by Gary A. Braunbeck
Watched Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 AM
From the 1924 Bogie Book
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#31daysofhorror day 30
Read Our Bones Shall Rise Again by Nuzo Onoh
Watched The Signalman (1976)
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM