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Scott Dorward
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RPG writer/editor, horror mostly. Podcaster with The Good Friends of Jackson Elias, Ain't Slayed Nobody, How We Roll, Grizzly Peaks Radio, and Push the Roll With Ross Bryant. Posts the odd film review.

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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit).

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A split graphic. On the left the book cover for a horror anthology, Blood In The Bricks, depicts a sinister figure with a rat's head standing in a dirty lane with a spray can in his hand. The tones are yellow and brown with splashes of red. On the right, "Nineteen chilling tales of urban folk horror" and several glowing endorsement quotes.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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I wrote a review of the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album for @trebuchetmag.bsky.social

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The Mountain Goats ‘Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan' Review: A Bold Musical Experiment - Trebuchet
John Darnielle and company deliver their most ambitious album yet, a shipwreck musical that confronts mortality with surprising vitality
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November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Psssttttt...

...yes, you!

As of this evening I have completed the text for #HotWar 2nd edition. It's now off for editing, then layout, with the great team at @handiworkgames.bsky.social.

Just wait until your see it!
Hot War, 2nd edition Raw Text 1.1 Complete text for editing 04/11/25
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
sdorward.bsky.social
This was a fascinating discussion that went in unexpected directions. I did not anticipate learning how the LARP and BDSM communities share safety tools.

All this meant the episode went long, and I had to cut some interesting stuff. The unedited version on Patreon is 40 minutes longer.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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My book, Fulci's Inferno, is the first major new writing on Lucio Fulci in years, and the first to fully analyse the themes across his work. It analyses his entire career, and includes over 50 photos.

This book took 8 years to research and write. I hope you're gonna love it.

Link in bio.
November 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
sdorward.bsky.social
It feels weird not to be posting a horror film review today, like I've forgotten something important
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
sdorward.bsky.social
It's the end of another October Horror Movie Challenge!

Bring Her Back is everything I hoped it might be. It's refreshing to watch a horror film that actually horrifies. This is brutal, upsetting stuff, and it hurts in all the right ways.

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Bring Her Back (2025) - OHMC 2025 Day 31 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward watches some creepy old occult videos to learn how to Bring Her Back to conclude his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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God I love this job!

So proud of everyone we’ve ever worked with! On we go to more true stories!
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EPISODE 1000 🦑 🎉

“My name is Leicester”

Novel of the White Powder, by Arthur Machen

Narrators: Kat Day and Alasdair Stuart
Host: Alasdair Stuart, with interview from Shawn Garrett
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

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This story first appeared in The Three Impostors in 1895
PseudoPod 1000: Novel of the White Powder | PseudoPod
My name is Leicester; my father, Major-General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in the deadly climate of India.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
sdorward.bsky.social
I'm still writing my final review, but here's my OHMC wrap-up to keep you going until then. Once again, I have picked my three best, worst, and weirdest films of the month, along with some near misses.

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#ohmc #horror
October Horror Movie Challenge 2025 - A Post Mortem - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward performs a post mortem of his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge, picking the best, worst and weirdest films of the month
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October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Perewangan is a painfully average tale of demonic possession and a cursed mirror. Well made but terribly predictable.

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#ohmc #horror
Perewangan (2024) - OHMC 2025 Day 30 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward reflects on Perewangan and its cursed mirror as part of his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I became aware of @malcolmcraig.bsky.social’s Cold City/Hot War listening to an episode of the GFoJE several years ago where @sdorward.bsky.social was enthusing about them. Eventually I hunted down copies (a major challenge) and wasn’t disappointed! A majestic diptych of TTRPGs. Unparalleled!
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Just over six hours to go!
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Reminder: Thursday night the @tearthemapartpod.bsky.social rises from the dead for a Youtube livecast. Join @mryellovich.bsky.social, our return guest @sdorward.bsky.social and me at 8 pm EST for a spirited (ha ha, get it?) discussion of our Halloween horror watches:
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Image advertising this Thursday's Tear Them Apart livecast on Youtube. Paul Yellovich, guest Scott dorward and myself will be talking Halloween horror films starting at 8 pm EST.
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I'm in a Bundle of Holding! You can get Stealing Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark and Fairyland by @sdorward.bsky.social here, along with Lovecraftesque by @armadajosh.bsky.social and other stuff.

Please repost this and appease the nameless gods.

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Bundle of Tentacles 7
Investigator! This Bundle of Tentacles 7 is our seventh all-new library of Sanity-shattering tabletop roleplaying ebooks inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Illuminate your position in the cosmos with fiv...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sdorward.bsky.social
Creature From the Black Lagoon is one of the weaker Universal monster movies, but the creature itself is still something special. A tighter script might have made this a classic.

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Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) - OHMC 2025 Day 29 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward goes for a dip with the Creature From the Black Lagoon as part of his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
sdorward.bsky.social
I can't imagine Enys Men being a good fit for anyone's Halloween watch party, but it is the kind of eerie folk horror oddity you'll want to save for a rainy, introspective evening

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#ohmc #horror
Enys Men (2022) - OHMC 2025 Day 28 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward stops and smells the flowers with the Enys Men as part of his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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In the age of performative cruelty, #kindness is #punk as fuck, be punk as fuck.
Poster on a wooden pole saying: in the age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck, be punk as fuck.
May 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
sdorward.bsky.social
A Cat in the Brain isn't Fulci's worst film, but it is a mess, and nowhere near as shocking as it thinks it is. A little more imagination could have made this an unsettling piece of metafiction, but what we get is just frustrating and incoherent.

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#ohmc #horror
A Cat in the Brain (1990) - OHMC 2025 Day 27 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward gets a headache from Lucio Fulci's A Cat in the Brain as part of his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Kudos to the guy in my fantasy football league who chose the team name explicitly to set up this joke
October 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Best Wishes to All is a creepy allegory that got right under my skin. Its metaphor is as subtle as a brick to the face, but it's still uncanny and completely unsettling. Another strong contender for film of the month.

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Best Wishes to All (2022) - OHMC 2025 Day 26 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward puts on a happy smile as the weirdness of Best Wishes to All consumes him during his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I've got a whole bunch of sticker paper and access to a printer and I'm gonna make stickers that say "EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD, HOUSING, MEDICINE, AND RESPECT" and i'm gonna put the stickers places
October 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Infested is just the kind of fun, pacy monster movie I needed this late in the month. It's not the most original film you'll see, and it's definitely not for arachnophobes, but it is damn entertaining.

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Infested (2023) - OHMC 2025 Day 25 - Blasphemous Tomes
Scott Dorward feels spindly spider legs crawl across his skin as he watches Infested during his 2025 October Horror Movie Challenge
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October 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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THIS THURSDAY
Spend this Halloween Eve with Evan, Paul, and their special guest Scott Dorward LIVE on YouTube October 30th at 8pm eastern time.

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@sdorward.bsky.social

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Videocast #19 All Hallows' Eve Eve Extravaganza - special guest Scott Dorward
YouTube video by Tear Them Apart Podcast
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October 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM