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🎬 NOW STREAMING: #FirstWordOnHorror
🎬 NOW STREAMING: #FirstWordOnHorror
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@etchfilm.bsky.social
· Feb 7
The wait is over. Darkness is calling. 🔪📖
FIRST WORD ON HORROR is NOW STREAMING on Substack.
Five of horror's most chilling voices share their confessions and stories that will haunt you long after the last word is spoken.
@sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @elizabethhand.bsky.social
FIRST WORD ON HORROR is NOW STREAMING on Substack.
Five of horror's most chilling voices share their confessions and stories that will haunt you long after the last word is spoken.
@sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @elizabethhand.bsky.social
Guilty pleasures? We’ve got ’em.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Guilty pleasures? We’ve got ’em.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
Comfort watches? We probably shouldn’t admit them in public.
The latest Etch Cast reveals one unshakable law: if someone hasn’t seen Nothing But Trouble, you STOP EVERYTHING and make them watch it. No explanation.
Cheers to International Witches Day — a celebration of the powerful, the peculiar, and the ones who look great under moody lighting.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Cheers to International Witches Day — a celebration of the powerful, the peculiar, and the ones who look great under moody lighting.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
A perfect excuse to share a little behind-the-scenes moment from CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF, where curses, craft, and comedy all bubble in the same cauldron.
Dexter. The Godfather. A soundtrack of Volare and the faint hum of a meat slicer. Death is in the air. So is the smell of prosciutto and poor decisions.
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Dexter. The Godfather. A soundtrack of Volare and the faint hum of a meat slicer. Death is in the air. So is the smell of prosciutto and poor decisions.
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
🎧 Listen to the chaos unfold in the latest episode of ETCH CAST 👉 Bad Ideas Only. Links below!
Europa Report doesn’t ask if we should explore — only what it’ll cost.
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Europa Report doesn’t ask if we should explore — only what it’ll cost.
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
@reactorsff.bsky.social breaks down why the film (written by Etch’s own Philip Gelatt) treats discovery as devotion — not spectacle. Link below!
📷: Start Motion Pictures
Mariana Enriquez didn’t just write intense stories… she lived them. 😈
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Mariana Enriquez didn’t just write intense stories… she lived them. 😈
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
From schoolyard ultra-violence to global bestseller — her first episode of FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now on YouTube.
#etch #etchfilm #FirstWordOnHorror #marianaenriquez #horror #horrorfiction #indiehorror #youtube
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@etchfilm.bsky.social gave horror readers an incredible gift with their series FIRST WORD ON HORROR. Watch free the 1st episodes of each featured author: Mariana Enriquez, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, @paultremblay.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social & @elizabethhand.bsky.social!
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youtu.be/pT43IWNHEVU?...
Mariana Enriquez | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 1
YouTube video by Etch
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October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@etchfilm.bsky.social gave horror readers an incredible gift with their series FIRST WORD ON HORROR. Watch free the 1st episodes of each featured author: Mariana Enriquez, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, @paultremblay.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social & @elizabethhand.bsky.social!
youtu.be/pT43IWNHEVU?...
youtu.be/pT43IWNHEVU?...
He’s back from the dead.
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
He’s back from the dead.
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
Not for vengeance.
For merch.
Happy Halloween from ETCH. 🧟♂️🧢
#happyhalloween #zombie #etch #etchfilm #horror #zombielife
Smart horror > dumb decisions.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Smart horror > dumb decisions.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
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Now streaming on YouTube! Follow @etchfilm.bsky.social for more information.
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Now streaming on YouTube! Follow @etchfilm.bsky.social for more information.
There’s something out there — waiting for the bus, watching the road, screaming back. 😱
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There’s something out there — waiting for the bus, watching the road, screaming back. 😱
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
Part One of Laird Barron’s FIRST WORD ON HORROR episodes is now streaming free on YouTube.
Ancient sorcery. Blood-soaked myth. Handcrafted rotoscope madness.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ancient sorcery. Blood-soaked myth. Handcrafted rotoscope madness.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT rises again in Toronto — 4K theatrical premiere at The Revue Cinema, with Co-Director @swordcandlebell.bsky.social appearing live.
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My family used to watch The Wizard of Oz. I think it was Thanksgiving. It scared the hell out of me. When I was a kid I would dream about looking out the window where The Wicked Witch riding a bike. It was horrible.
Every horror origin story has teeth.
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
October 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My family used to watch The Wizard of Oz. I think it was Thanksgiving. It scared the hell out of me. When I was a kid I would dream about looking out the window where The Wicked Witch riding a bike. It was horrible.
Every horror origin story has teeth.
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
October 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Every horror origin story has teeth.
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
For @paultremblay.bsky.social, they belonged to a 25-foot great white. JAWS didn’t just terrify him — it marked him. Bit down hard. Never let go. 🦈🩸
Two writers. One ferris wheel turning over the Atlantic.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Two writers. One ferris wheel turning over the Atlantic.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
📍 Atlantic City, NJ — Philip Gelatt and co-writer Peter Hassan scouting possible locations for what comes next. It always starts this way: a horizon, a question, and the first shadow of a new story.
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@etchfilm.bsky.social just made the episode #1 of FIRST WORD IN HORROR available for free on Youtube and it's @sgj.bsky.social talking about the evolutionary origins of our love of horror! Watch this first ep, then subscribe to Etch to see the whole series because it's excellent!
Stephen Graham Jones | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 1
YouTube video by Etch
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October 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@etchfilm.bsky.social just made the episode #1 of FIRST WORD IN HORROR available for free on Youtube and it's @sgj.bsky.social talking about the evolutionary origins of our love of horror! Watch this first ep, then subscribe to Etch to see the whole series because it's excellent!
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Whoah, cool. Such an honor:
Book Club: Read ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,’ by Stephen Graham Jones, with the Book Review
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Whoah, cool. Such an honor:
“He’s kept all of the rejection letters he’s received from publishers and he has them in a folder on his shelf.” 📚
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“He’s kept all of the rejection letters he’s received from publishers and he has them in a folder on his shelf.” 📚
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
ICYMI! In Episode 2 of ETCH CAST, Will shares a behind-the-camera moment with @sgj.bsky.social — a reminder that even legends start with a stack of nos.
A shelf of nightmares, bound in paper and ink. 📚
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
September 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A shelf of nightmares, bound in paper and ink. 📚
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
Paul Tremblay. Mariana Enriquez. Stephen Graham Jones. Laird Barron. Elizabeth Hand.
The writers who haunt these spines are the same voices haunting FIRST WORD ON HORROR.
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Every fantasy head should watch SPINE OF NIGHT. It's really an incredible accomplishment.
Before the rotoscope, before the blood — there was cardboard armor, yoga mats, and a warehouse full of nerds armed with nothing but imagination.
Part IV of The Making of The Spine of Night takes you inside the live-action shoot that became the bones of our fantasy epic.
Part IV of The Making of The Spine of Night takes you inside the live-action shoot that became the bones of our fantasy epic.
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Every fantasy head should watch SPINE OF NIGHT. It's really an incredible accomplishment.
Imagine buying a house in New Jersey and finding out it’s Bobby Bacala’s from THE SOPRANOS.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Imagine buying a house in New Jersey and finding out it’s Bobby Bacala’s from THE SOPRANOS.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
Tour buses. Scandinavian superfans. Murdered-on-this-block lore.
Will Battersby doesn’t have to imagine — he lives it.
ETCH CAST is LIVE! @swordcandlebell.bsky.social recalls how Gremlins delivered his first cinematic terror. We dig into the films and books that scarred us young — and why genre isn’t a cage but a toolkit.
🎧 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6fo7...
#etchcast #gremlins #horror #podcast
🎧 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6fo7...
#etchcast #gremlins #horror #podcast
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September 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
ETCH CAST is LIVE! @swordcandlebell.bsky.social recalls how Gremlins delivered his first cinematic terror. We dig into the films and books that scarred us young — and why genre isn’t a cage but a toolkit.
🎧 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6fo7...
#etchcast #gremlins #horror #podcast
🎧 Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6fo7...
#etchcast #gremlins #horror #podcast
The shadows have a new frequency. Our podcast, ETCH CAST, premieres this week. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos of independent filmmaking: childhood nightmares (Gremlins, Large Marge), decades of Stephen King (yes, even Maximum Overdrive), and why we think genre isn’t a cage — it’s a toolkit.
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The shadows have a new frequency. Our podcast, ETCH CAST, premieres this week. It pulls back the curtain on the chaos of independent filmmaking: childhood nightmares (Gremlins, Large Marge), decades of Stephen King (yes, even Maximum Overdrive), and why we think genre isn’t a cage — it’s a toolkit.
ICYMI! This is the final chapter.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
September 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ICYMI! This is the final chapter.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
Fourteen weeks. Chaos, myth, and memory.
Spine Summer ends here — with @swordcandlebell.bsky.social reflecting on The Spine of Night and the worlds still waiting in shadow.
Think of this as your reading break.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Think of this as your reading break.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
@lairdbarron.bsky.social’s words linger in the silence, echoing long after the page turns.
@heavymetalofficial.bsky.social just called our own Philip Gelatt “one of the leading names in working adult animation and speculative entertainment.”
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@heavymetalofficial.bsky.social just called our own Philip Gelatt “one of the leading names in working adult animation and speculative entertainment.”
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.
We couldn’t agree more. From THE SPINE OF NIGHT to FIRST WORD ON HORROR, Philip continues to shape the future of genre storytelling with ETCH.