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Max D. Stanton
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Horror writer • Morbid oddball • Pocket full of 20-sided dice • Bloodstream and brain full of toxoplasmosis parasites • Proud Philadelphian • Author of A SEASON OF LOATHSOME MIRACLES and FRANKENSTEIN ENTERPRISES

www.frankenstein-enterprises.com
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I don't love the word "dehumanization" because I think we flatter our species by pretending that concepts like love and personality belong to us alone. But there are few things scarier than being thrown outside the boundaries of humanity and treated like a mindless thing.

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greethewriter.bsky.social Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 6h
[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]

[Ablative carapace. Installed. Cortex. Pried.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]

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Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs. Question 3: [Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.] [Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?] No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag! #HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hi, I'm Max, a morbid oddball from Philly. I write horror short stories, with cosmic horror, body horror, and dystopian horror being three of my favorite varieties of dread. And stories set in the past, present, and future can all be fun, it's all in the execution.

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greethewriter.bsky.social Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 6h
[Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.]

[Material responsive. Cranial activity. Under control.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]

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Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs. Question One [Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.] [Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?] #HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Defund ICE and use the money to make Del Toro's Mountains of Madness. Out with the bad ice populated by faceless monsters, in with the good ice populated by faceless monsters.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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You could argue creature design peaked at Dark Crystal.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Seriously, just one of the best onscreen presences to ever grace the silver screen. The definition of raw magnetism. RIP, Udo.
Udo Kier in SUSPIRIA. Udo Kier in BLADE. Udo Kier in BLOOD FOR DRACULA. Udo Kier in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Deserve's got nothing to do with, it, Charlie Brown.
samthielman.com CHOAM for the holidays @samthielman.com · 3d
He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite, Charlie Brown
samthielman.com CHOAM for the holidays @samthielman.com · 3d
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3d
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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All fine options.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Not sure if this is the "best" MST3K movie, but I have a lot of love for The Undead. It's got an interesting and ambitious plot, the whole cast is hamming it up like Easter dinner and having fun with it, and Corman knows how to maximize atmosphere::budget ratio.
Allison Hayes in The Undead.
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Planning a D&D pirate campaign set in a New World full of dinosaurs and the PCs are definitely going to meet this lovely beastie.
hannahorca.bsky.social Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 5d
The next dragon mutation is Ankylorhiza, an extinct species of dolphin!
Illustration of a creature bust. It has a long snout with large teeth. Below it is text “Ankylorhiza”
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Charles W Stewart
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Who's a good boy? Yes you are!
slimyswampghost.bsky.social Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 7d
Drew a Hound of Tindalos from a short story by Frank Belknap Long, released in a short story collection of his work in 1946.

The hounds are creatures that exist outside of time and space. They can emerge in the form of smoke from any angle of a certain sharpness, like the corner of a room.
a creature like a flayed hound, with a skull like a cow. it has two glazed blue-white eyes on the visible side of its head, suggesting two more on the opposite side. its drawn mid stride out of a bank of fog or mist, its back legs lost in the miasma, or forming out of it. it has four visible legs on the front end of its body.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I think a Deadwood-style TV show set at Mar-A-Lago (or some version with the trademarks sanded off) would rock. You've got grifters large and small rubbing elbows with hardworking staff and sex workers, each in their own way trying to carve out a slice of the American Dream.
yungdreyfusard.bsky.social teleri dockworkers union @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 12d
do you think the iranian saudi emirati chinese israeli german russian and french spies in mar a lago have a groupchat
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"I've been worse" and "endeavoring to persevere" are also solid options.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein leads a meeting from his personal autopsy room, his breath steaming out from beneath his surgical mask in thin white clouds. The only other people physically present in the room are an elderly dead man and myself. The old man donated his body to science, and now he rests in the hands of the 20th century’s greatest scientist.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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My story The God of Nothing is in the November issue of Cosmic Horror Magazine, and I'm losing my damn mind over this incredible cover art depicting it. This is so cool!
chmmagazine.bsky.social chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 16d
Our new issue is out now! Grab single issues here: https://bit.ly/484Awe6
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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“Salome” by Mark Nelson.
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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yo bro is it safe down there in the woods? yeah man it's cool by Tomislav Jagnjic
a painting in which a staff-wielding antlered traveler wizard maybe addresses a distant hulking edifice with blue glowing eyes who is giving a thumbs-up
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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@roryblank.bsky.social is the American Junji Ito. More and more people are saying it.
roryblank.bsky.social Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 21d
ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur
Big text at the top says "ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur" This is followed by four consecutive drawings that are exactly of that. Grover is a man in his underwear with no ears and large bulbous eyes. A textbox says "this is what you wanted" Cookie monster is a large man with a small head, also in his underwear, with his eyes erupting from the top of his head. An accompanying text box says "you asked for this." Grover is a slouched, pale man with a wide head and wideset eyes, and a nose like a snake, he may be nude but it's unclear, since his waist is off screen. "Your desire for knowledge led you to this point" Elmo is a thin man in underwear, with eyes jutting from the top of his head and a bulbous nose. He has another face coming out of his chest. "ask yourself if you really needed everything answered."
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Philip K. Dick gets it right again.

Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
From A Scanner Darkly: "Let's hear it for the vague blur!" the host said loudly, and there was mass clapping. In his scramble suit, Fred, who was also Robert Arctor, groaned and thought: This is terrible. Once a month an undercover narcotics agent of the county was assigned at random to speak before bubblehead gatherings such as this. Today was his turn. Looking at his audience, he realized how much he detested straights. They thought this was all great. They were smiling. They were being entertained. An Icegov tweet offering up a photo of new ICE training graduates--"American heroes" with their faces blurred out.
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This is very annoying because I hate AI but love unsettling, fever-dream surrealism.
danmynrd.bsky.social 𝔻𝕒𝕟 💀🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 28d
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM