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S. Elizabeth | weird little guy Blog: unquietthings.com The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained is available now! ✨🛸🧚🔮🔭✨ geni.us/TheArtOfTheUnknown

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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 19h
31 Days of Horror, Day 15: Under A Fur Coat by Sonya Vatomsky, a book about the rituals we make to survive our worst moments, and the chosen families that hold us through our most monstrous transformations. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Fifteen: Under A Fur Coat by Sonya Vatomsky - Unquiet Things
I wrote this as a blurb for Under a Fur Coat by Sonya Vatomsky:
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Fourteen: Carrie. Believe it or not, I had not seen Carrie until two days ago. (Naturally, like many little Gen X weirdos, I read the book when I was but ten!) unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Fourteen: Carrie - Unquiet Things
I just got home from a trip to Asheville, where I watched Carrie with my sister and brother-in-law, and I can report that none of us were prepared for the
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Thirteen: AHS 13 I watched the first two episodes, and is it me, or is this just a pile of hot garbage? Listen, nobody knows how much time they have left. And this is not the thing I am gonna choose to do with it. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Twelve: Spooky Art From My New Book! Read more on the blog today 👻 unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Twelve: Spooky Art From My New Book! - Unquiet Things
"Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there.” I’ve loved those lines from Hughes Mearns’s little poem “Antigonish” for as long as I can remember,
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One day in October 🍂
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Days of Horror, Day Eleven: Summer of Fear. If you want to see an adorable Linda Blair, a baby Fran Drescher, and hear about some super-duper solid witch lore (just kidding, not really) it’s easily available on Tubi and you can read my thoughts on the blog today. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I know I have subjected you to every iteration of my sister’s guest room over the past decade and a half, but it just keeps getting better and better! It used to be the Fairy Wonderland room but I think at this point it’s more like Whimsigothlandia. 🌙
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Ten: Evil Cat This bonkers-bananas 80’s Hong Kong horror film is the best thing I’ve seen this month. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Ten: Evil Cat - Unquiet Things
Every fifty years the evil cat spirit returns, and every fifty years a man from the Cheung family destroys it. (Not sure of the "why" of it all, the movie
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scents of the night, a trio of perfumes from @bpal.bsky.social x bloodmilk jewels
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Nine: Audrey Rose. I read this book when I was 10-11 years old, and the book cover art (second photo) scared me so badly I couldn't stand to have it in the same room with me when I wasn't reading it. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Eight: The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler. Do you like stories about cursed media? Do like to watch people’s lives fall apart in spectacular ways? You may enjoy this book! unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Eight: The Ship of Death - Unquiet Things
Cole and Lorraine playtest board games for cash while they save for a house, and one day a strange indie tabletop RPG called The Ship of Death turns up on
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Seven: Send Help. I was really excited for this movie, but somehow it wasn't quite what I wanted? unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Seven: Send Help - Unquiet Things
I really like Rachel McAdams, and my favorite thing I've seen her do (tied with Eurovision) is the second season of True Detective. Most people didn't love
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If this being had a message for us from across that cosmic ocean of emptiness, it would surely reach us after its death. Such a transmission from that dread abyss is the scent of Aromatics Elixir
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like it’s been floating through the void of space in a cavernous non-Euclidean construct, the monstrous pressure and eerie whistle of the air ducts it's been hiding in slowly driving it mad as it drifts a silent path through the cold stars, utterly alone.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Verbena and geranium, jasmine and oakmoss, bergamot and patchouli–all of the familiar notes for a classic and yet it feels out of time, wholly strange and new, as if it contains a strain of alien DNA.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scent of the night: Aromatics Elixir is a bitter, balsamic, menacingly astringent blend of cool, otherworldly woods and sour alien herbs, abstract florals and austere resins.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not sure how this one in particular came across my radar, but I am pretty sure Mark Fisher mentions the book at some point in his writings on hauntology and such, so it’s all nebulously been on my list.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Five: The Midwich Cuckoos. I have never read the original source material by John Wyndham, nor have I seen any of the Village of the Damned film adaptations, but for some reason I decided to jump in with the miniseries. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Four: Clown In A Cornfield. True Fact...I love clowns! I kinda wish I had gone to clown school! unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Four: Clown In A Cornfield - Unquiet Things
I expected nothing from Clown in a Cornfield, and I was competently entertained, which is a perfectly okay thing for a movie to do. I read Adam Cesare's novel
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Three: Shelby Oaks. I really wanted something different from this and I had a tough time articulating why or how. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Super jazzed for this! Lots of incredible creators and artists and talent (and there's an interview with me!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/wil...
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Strange Tales
The premier in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
31 Days of Horror, Day Two: Obsession. I liked this one more than I thought I would, even though it is quite gross and upsetting! unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h....
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31 Days of Horror, Day Two: Obsession - Unquiet Things
I liked Obsession more than I thought I would, even though it's actually quite gross and upsetting.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The October Marinade is up over at Midnight Stinks! Ok, so there is a loose theme here, but it's more to be found in my impressions of these perfumes, rather than the perfumes themselves. If that makes any sense! Well, you read on and let me know 😉 www.patreon.com/midnightstin...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is October first, so you know what that means over on the blog: 31 Days of Horror! First up is Marrowbone, a film exactly like I Know What You Did Last Summer in zero ways. unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...
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31 Days Of Horror, Day One: Marrowbone - Unquiet Things
I went into Marrowbone knowing nothing about it except this poster: four pale, solemn young faces crammed together over the title, looking for all the world
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scent(s) of the night: This is an exceptional combination. Sharing it side by side with my review for this fragrance, if’n yr interested.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I engage in various little rituals throughout the month, and the final one is always putting together my newsletter...which should be hitting your inboxes right about now! unquietthings.myflodesk.com/unquietthings
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Image: Bartholomeus van der Helst, A young woman holding a sunflower
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the blog today, a gathering of thoughts on all the perfumes I have sniffed lately! Featuring feral prunes, a Hot Topic rose, foraging Hokkaido snow fairies, a rootin'-tootin' vanilla varmint, and the Jenna Maroney-est of musks. And other smells! unquietthings.com/september-pe...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Friends and readers, if you could find the time and energy and bandwidth to share a review for my new book on goodreads and/or Amazon, I’d be very appreciative!
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry to tax your eyeballs, I was just trying to quickly share something I thought was interesting before jumping into a day full of meetings!
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
…if you aren't at ease with metaphor, he said, you aren't safe in science or history either. (Not just picking on the babies; every era gets its smug alarmist know-it-alls, too.) Found in Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's The Edge of Space-Time.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My feed is overrun w/ people fretting re: baffled baby readers who can't tell depiction from endorsement, who read satire as sincere, who need every book to announce its moral. Fair! It's concerning! But Robert Frost was fretting about the same thing in 1930:
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I did not know that Daphne du Maurier had a sister who also wrote gothic tales!
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had not heard that!
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And there's Laurie in her sunny bedroom, with a painter who spent his life surrounded by masks hanging on the wall above her, while a blank white face waits behind the laundry flapping on the line next door.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wearing it is a boy who grew up on Laurie's street, walking around a neighborhood where every porch and hedge and sheet-draped trick-or-treater should feel safe.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This movie shares a bit of that feeling. Michael's mask started life as a cheap William Shatner mask, spray-painted white with the eyeholes cut wider: a famous face drained until it's nobody's face at all.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
His Self-Portrait with Masks, was in an early draft, a chapter on doubles, dolls, mirrors, masks, those moments when we feel betrayed by the familiar: when reflections misbehave, when a perfect copy makes us doubt the original, when the home of our own body insists it never invited us inside.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am watching Halloween for the gazillionth time, and I just noticed there's a James Ensor poster hanging over Laurie Strode's dresser. Ensor almost made it into The Art of the Unknown.
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a Saturday in September
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here are my four favorites....
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If there's a thread running through everything I read, it's people desperate to be seen, and the terrible things they'll do to get there. Also, at least three protagonists who should have called the police and pointedly did not. unquietthings.com/third-quarte...
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Third Quarter Stacked Book Reviews - Unquiet Things
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I couldn’t figure out that option, ha! Feel free to email me at mlleghoul AT gmail dot com and we can work it out (still thru Paypal and on the up and up, sorry if that sounded sus!)
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In celebration of my book, The Art of the Unknown, the fragrant fabulists & alchemical aesthetes at @bpal.bsky.social have gathered up a handful of the book’s visuals & distilled them drop by drop into perfumes as rich and curious as the artworks themselves blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Huzzah!!!
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey friends and future readers! Just a reminder, you can buy signed copies of my book directly from me! sarahelizabethauthor.com/books/
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Although I have been writing and journaling since roughly the womb, the creative practice of artsy-fartsifying the pages a page becomes an objet d’art, is fairly new to me. So I,I created a handful of fragrance-focused perfume journal prompts about it. www.patreon.com/midnightstin...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is once again time for one of my favorite seasonal rituals: How To Wear The Autumn Equinox. I have been crafting these for several years and if you follow the boog link, you will find equinox ensembles stretching all the way back to 2007 or so…! unquietthings.com/how-to-wear-...
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Art of the Unknown makes a mysterious appearance in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's ARS INSPIRATIO series!
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