Fox, Esquire.

Today’s horror rec: “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” (2016). The lives of three women across the history of a house collapse into each other in a temporally complex haunting. Be prepared for a slow, Henry James style burn. 

Today’s rec: “Afterward” by Edith Wharton, which tells of a wealthy couple’s interaction with a legendary ghost who can only be recognized as such after the fact. In particular, I’d recommend this edition, which is gorgeously illustrated by Seth, a Canadian artist and illustrator.

Adopting a sophisticated macro photographic technique more commonly used in science than art, Without Water is a series of highly detailed botanical images reminiscent of the plates and sketches of the Georgian botanists. Sawa renders his subjects rich in texture and form, revealing an almost otherworldly beauty.” [via Black Eye Gallery]

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/sunbleached/

Hardly anyone will need this text recommended but today’s #shocktober reading was Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”. If you have not read this story, you owe it to yourself to drop everything and pick it up. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

#gothic #weird #weirdfiction #horror #horrorliterature #october #spooky #readinginbed #todaysreading

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