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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is a good article about how pseudoarchaeological & pseudohistorical content can soften & spread extremist viewpoints. Extremists know how to weaponize & exploit this point: "Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck."

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The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

TOP is thrilled to announce 2026’s Hitpoints & History, a virtual conference all about archaeogaming! Join us Jan 31st to hear from scholars & industry insiders about the connection between developer intent, player agency & historical authenticity. Tickets and info can be found at hitpointscon.com

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Play your way through the ancient world.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 15/01/2026

Few things have been as influential on the emergence of the racist “just asking questions” pseudoscience that proliferated in the wake of this Nazi-helmed (see thread) publication.

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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Calling the discovery the 'clearest proof yet' of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., may have once been used for legislating." 🏺

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 14/01/2026

Here’s the publisher’s announcement.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 14/01/2026

🖤 I’m so excited about this I remembered to log into this account. 🤣

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 16/10/2025

This is a terrific online conference

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 16/10/2025

Maybe it does! I need to find someone to ask, I guess lol

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

I remain obsessed with some of the titles by the prolific author Mrs. Meekes bsky.app/profile/romg...

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

The early Gothic has so much to show us about the social conditions which inspired tremendous numbers of women to read & write about moldering ruins, cursed heirlooms, predatory men manipulating & stealing inheritances & property rights & autonomy. This talk was inspiring.

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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This month on Fabulous Folklore Presents, I'm chatting to @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social about their new book Folklore: A Journey through the Past and Present. There's even a mention of ice cream van folklore! youtu.be/xuX87Hcp53U?...

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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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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's October! Hurrah! I've specially curated 5 of our spookier titles, and discounted the eBooks to just $2. Grab a couple, or all 5 for $10. It's your choice. @seanbirnie.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social undertowpublications.com/ebooks

5 book covers: Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8 (Michael Kelly, ed.) - Finalist for the World Fantasy; Shirley Jackson; and British Fantasy Awards. Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Featuring Kay Chronister, Krisit DeMeester; Brian Evenson, M. Rickert, and more.

Aickman's Heirs (Simon Strantzas, ed.) - Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Finalist for the World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. Reprints in 5 'Best Ofs'. Featuring Nadia Bulkin, Brian Evenson, John Langan, Lynda E. Rucker, and more.

The Ghost Sequences, by A.C. Wise - Finalist for the World Fantasy; Locus; Bram Stoker; and British Fantasy Awards.

To Drown in Dark Water, by Steve Toase - Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Praise from Booklist, and Rue Morgue.

I Would Haunt You if I Could, by Seán Padraic Birnie - Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Praise from The Toronto Star, and Library Journal.

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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨: Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight? Please get in touch! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 06/09/2025

In “Modern Espionage” the ineffectual Dean’s ineffectual efforts to stop a high stakes underground paintball game results in this delightful elevator fight homage, complete with some of the same stuntmen.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 06/09/2025

I probably should have just included this in the original post. Captain America: the First Avenger includes the obligatory “Nazis hunting for occult artifacts” trope. The Winter Soldier has something cooler: this glass elevator fight scene.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

D&D actually received an early 1980s sales bump thanks to the Satanic Panic. The free advertising from Christian organizations allowed teenagers to feel like total, edgy rebels for buying D&D.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 06/09/2025

Also just realized I’m in the wrong account. Tho tbh I’m sort of letting what gets posted in which sort itself out & pretending that somehow is a process that comes from somewhere other than me 🤣

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 06/09/2025

I think you were sending me your bonkers dreams. I woke up sitting bolt upright in bed but I have no idea why 😂😂😂

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 06/09/2025

Who’s going to sort out the issues with all the edited collections of non-fiction essays? Sigh.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 06/09/2025

How have I Britta’d this so badly? Back to Remedial Hashtags for me. #6SeasonsAndAMovie

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Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @katelaity.eurosky.social · 27/08/2025

'This archaeology is often a dramatic, action-packed endeavor in which the fate of the world rests in the hands of a plucky group of scholars who can’t remember where they parked their car but can translate a dead language and navigate a series of complex traps and devious puzzles.' 🤣

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 27/08/2025

Yes, they’re gorgeous! And ridiculously clever.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 27/08/2025

Haven’t give this a listen yet but I’m a big @baladria.bsky.social fan & you better believe I snapped up a deck of her ancient Egyptian-inspired OFMD tarot cards!

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 25/08/2025

Just informed the phrase “hold on to your butts” isn’t scholarly. Which is delightful! Not bc I’m gonna change my blogging style, but bc it’s always nice to know someone read the footnotes. Anyway, here’s a bit of chatter about the Gothic mode & a book recommendation, if you like that sort of thing.

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Keeping up with The Scholarly Literature is a wild academic fantasy, even for those with a neatly bounded subject area. When I was a kid I thought the expression “trying to shovel a waterfall…

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 24/08/2025

A joke here, not during the performance. Which should be obvious, but around this place you can never be too careful it seems.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 24/08/2025

So good I was able to resist a joke about how this is a chilling tale about the consequences of digging without a permit. Almost.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The end of day 1 of the #WarningToTheCurious conference and what a day! A great keynote from Darryl Jones! 13 fascinating papers! A workshop on haunted objects that has me writing a VERY weird little story and, of course, the cocktail/mocktail hour! Love that for us!

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

As you may have guessed, I’m looking forward to this conference!

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B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com · 22/08/2025

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomorrow! And Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

I feel I should clarify that what made this all super-creepy was that I opened @stevetoase.bsky.social ‘s book to that page THE SAME DAY I got the field school question. Does it matter? No, not really, except to me & maybe the ghost in the Total station.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

More to the point, this is exciting and I’m definitely looking forward to reading this collection in the future!

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

He replied (with great warmth & humor), “Have you met yourselves? You’re ridiculous & hilarious!” It’s a very fair point & we had a nice laugh.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

I don’t have a smart analysis but we were eating ice cream sandwiches by the pool at an annual conference, as was our way, & one year I finally got up the nerve to ask why he picked Anthropology for his department of squabbling theorists in Ghost Story.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

I got a message yesterday that In the Blink of an Eye was recently added to Kindle Unlimited. I don’t know for how long or what regions outside the US, but I hope that brings lots of new readers.

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Excavating Horror @excavatinghorror.com · 22/08/2025

And it’s a marvelous movie. Definitely check out In the Blink of an Eye (in the US, anyway), if you haven’t. Someone messaged me yesterday that it’s just been added to kindle unlimited so I hope that will give it an even broader audience.

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

In case you’re here for actual archaeology & not worried about the thing that’s definitely probably not slithering around in your storage closet, Dr. Daniel Sayers published The Archaeology of the Homed & the Unhomed w UP of Florida in 2023 & also Justin Uehlein recently defended his dissertation 👇

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

Right? So young! Heartbreaking on every level.

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

@stevetoase.bsky.social collection, to bring it back to where I started is about the mundanity of CRM & the daily life of archaeologists trying to get home each day w both the TOTAL station & their sanity intact, mindful of those locations where the walls between worlds are a bit thin. 10/10

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

The story collection In the Blink of an Eye extends the storyworld & concludes w a compelling, fascinating essay by Erik Meyers about the genesis of the project. I’d use Meyers’ essay & the film in a heartbeat if I ever teach anthro & media or urban legends again. /9

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

But again, I’m losing the plot. Butterfly Kisses is a fun, creepy exploration of space, place, folklore & fakelore, obsession, the elasticity of mockumentary storytelling techniques, & the perils of dry eyes. /8. youtu.be/wBK1zH6XvRc?...

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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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