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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 15/10/2025

Marvelous new @helleborezine.bsky.social! Looking forward to digging in to this article to find out what’s going on here & if there’s any chance I’m ever going to get my lipstick just right ever again

An ornate mirror with only the room behind it in the reflection

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 21/08/2025

Then I searched my email & realized I’d spoken with the director, tho I was in Florida & missed the screening. Sadly, director Erik Kristopher Myers passed away a few years ago. Most importantly, a huge loss to his family & friends, but also a loss to the film world. /7

A test screening of the film "Butterfly Kisses" will take place at Artomatic Frederick on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 6 pm. The evening will consist of a screening of the current version of the film along with an opportunity after the screening to provide feedback that will be utilized by the filmmakers to further refine the

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 21/08/2025

Steve told me the story was originally written for & appeared in “In the Blink of an Eye” which was an authorized collection of stories inspired by the Ellicott City-set found footage film Butterfly Kisses (2018). 4/

In the Blink of an Eye contains stories inspired by the film Butterfly Kisses. Contributors include:
William Couper, Jacob Le Doux, K Patrick Glover,
Seth Adam Kallick, Matt Lake, Megan Morgan,
Erik Kristopher Myers, Josef Richardson, Paul R. Sieber
Patrick Storck, Steve Toase, Shelley Davies Wygant

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 21/08/2025

Later, I pulled @stevetoase.bsky.social’s fiction collection Dirt Upon My Skin (2024) back off the shelf & it opened on the story “Traverse.” *pause to say that in reality our field school didn’t mysteriously disappear, the project ended. And that it was actually west of Ellicott City* 3/

Note:
K. Patrick Glover mentioned this project to me because of my interest in Forteana. A couple of weeks later I met with an old friend from my archaeology degree who now works for a university archive. While we were having a beer the Ilchester Tunnel came up in conversation.
Once they realised it was the one in Maryland not Somerset they told me about a research project studying 19th century temporary worker camps across Western Europe and the United States. It seems that the project stalled after a training excavation in Ellicot City went wrong. Although she couldn't get me the project

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