Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 2h#31NightsOfHalloween Night 4: SINISTER (2012). Blumhouse label watch. 000
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#31NightsOfHalloween Night 3: TERRIFIER (2018) ( tense, dramatic music ). 010
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#31NightsOfHalloween Night 2: THE LORDS OF SALEM (2012). Blumhouse label watch. 010
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#31NightsOfHalloween Night 1: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE (2013). This year’s going to be a mix of starting and completing series I’ve never seen (such as TERRIFIER), sprinkled through with “random old (-2000) and new scratches (2000+) I’ve yet to itch.” 010
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Holy moly, @sadiehartmann.bsky.social! Just received my Night Worms Bookmark Bundle (ordered at the same time as a new subscription) and it was very packed with many many needful things. Thank you! 162
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@404media.co Is your next post literally your 2500th?! 200
Reposted by Morbus IffDarker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026📢 Darker Times Book Club's September Pick 📢 Our next book club pick is... Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones! If you weren't able to be a part of August's book club, now is the time to get in on the fun! 1338
Reposted by Morbus IffDarker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hear that? Is that singing? Or screaming? Or both? In the case of horror musicals, it's both, & if you're curious about the duality of these lovely pieces of art, we've got you. Read The Unattainable Dreams We Kill For: The Narrative Spine of Horror Musicals: www.darkertimes.com/horror-music...darkertimes.comThe Unattainable Dreams We Kill For: The Narrative Spine of Horror MusicalsIsn’t it wrong to sing and dance while people are dying? 3124
Reposted by Morbus IffDarker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's the FINAL WEEK of the Darker Times Summer Subscriber Drive! And we're kicking things off with @jessicaesquire.bsky.social's examination of the 2024 film Heretic, specifically with a conversation between ex-Mormons. Read the piece here: www.darkertimes.com/ex-mormons-h...darkertimes.comJust Asking Questions: Ex-Mormons Talk About HereticA group of ex-Mormons talk about urban legends, religious representation, and more in the horror movie Heretic. 1176
Reposted by Morbus IffDarker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026We are still running The Darker Times Subscriber Drive, and there has never been a better time to become a paid subscriber! www.darkertimes.com/subscriber-d...darkertimes.comThe Summer 2026 Subscriber DriveHelp Darker Times get to 500 paid subscribers by August 14th so we can keep you up to your elbows in frights. 011
Reposted by Morbus IffDarker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Today marks day four of our Subscriber Drive, and we are IMMENSELY appreciative of every like, reshare, or kind word offered this week 🖤 Become a paid subscriber today to continue sharing the love! www.darkertimes.com/subscriber-d...darkertimes.comThe Summer 2026 Subscriber DriveHelp Darker Times get to 500 paid subscribers by August 14th so we can keep you up to your elbows in frights. 075
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025@singfisher.com Hrms, also looks like Daily Akari #120 has been deleted :( 200
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025@singfisher.com Hello! Daily Akari #86 seems to be broken? 100
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 19/10/2025@puzzmo.com Is there an archive of Play by Play anywhere? I want to read through your past issues. 110
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Dialogues of East Asia, a new apazine, has released its second issue! Inside, you’ll continue the journey through Chinese otome Mr Love, Queen’s Choice and reflect on the Unborn of Bankei Yōtaku. #China #Japan #Korea #EastAsia dialoguesofeastasia.com/2025/09/05/i...dialoguesofeastasia.comIssue 2 is now availableDownload issue 2 of Dialogues of East Asia. Inside, you’ll continue the journey through Chinese otome Mr Love, Queen’s Choice and reflect on the Unborn of Bankei Yōtaku. Issue #3 submis… 000
Reposted by Morbus IffRead Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 01/08/2025Shoen Nakajima (1861-1901; aka Kishida Toshiko), was an orator who spent eight days in jail for a “political speech without a permit” on the subject of women’s rights. She was also a teacher, poet, + writer before her untimely death from tuberculosis.apjjf.orgA Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion 山間の名花 - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus[…] 082
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Dialogues of East Asia, a new apazine, has released its first issue! Discover a new anime podcast, dip into films of Abe no Seimei, gush over Japanese children’s books, and ponder along with a Chinese otome’s preservation. #China #Japan #Korea #EastAsia dialoguesofeastasia.com/2025/08/01/i...dialoguesofeastasia.comIssue 1 is now availableDownload issue 1 of Dialogues of East Asia. Inside, you’ll discover a new anime podcast, dip into films of Abe no Seimei, gush over Japanese children’s books, and ponder along with a Ch… 110
Reposted by Morbus IffRead Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 30/07/2025Remember #JanuaryinJapan? We'll tune in on Friday, because RJL will have #WomeninTranslation month stories for you to read along with, too! 072
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 21/07/2025@tricyclemag.bsky.social Hi! As a subscriber, are PDF versions of the issue available? I don't want to read articles from a webpage. 000
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Welp, @readjapaneseliterature.com, the thing I've been working on with others is public now, and I'd love to have you (and any of our onlookers) take a peek, maybe become a reader, maybe a contributor, or maybe just nod curiously: Dialogues of East Asia, a monthly APAzine: dialoguesofeastasia.com 023
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@crossedpaths.co.uk It seems page references in the PDF might be wrong too... on p.24, it talks about DEPTHS being on p.24 (when it's on p.26). Similarly, Basic Rules on 8 says "ITEM reward (pg.26)" but I'm thinking it should be pg.28? Also, same page, Combat is p.30, not 29. Etc. 000
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@crossedpaths.co.uk Hello! In Brambletrek Core Rulebook, p.8, what does "Beating an opponent on the Red table" mean? I see no other mention of "Red table" (or, for that matter, "red"). Does it mean a Hearts event card? Thank you! (/me is planning a Discord-based group game.) 110
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Oh! @readjapaneselit.bsky.social, you might be interested in a forthcoming (candidate) book club in Signum's SPACE for June: "The Japanese Heartwarming Bookclub" of Michiko Aoyama’s iyashikei What you Are Looking for Is in the Library: blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/module.... 210
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025@readjapaneselit.bsky.social Question for ya! Looking for Japanese (or East Asian) equivalents to Finnegan's Wake or Infinite Jest that also happen to be translated into English. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, maybe? What else? 100
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025@robinbougie.bsky.social Heya, Bougie! What's the haps? 000
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025@samreich.bsky.social My gods, just watched Game Changer “The Official Cast Recording” (s4e5) and I have no words. What an amazing surprise. 100% giant grin the whole time. So so good. Wowzers! Someone needs to make this “for real”. 010
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 31 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Far Shore” by Yoko Tawada: "So I’ve got problems with my lungs. Why couldn’t I have seen that as a good thing?" An unhealthy mix of grins and grimaces with this one.wordswithoutborders.orgThe Far Shore by Yoko Tawada - Words Without BordersIn Yoko Tawada's dystopian tale, the entire Japanese archipelago is rendered uninhabitable by a contamination of a different kind when a fighter plane piloted by a teenager loses control and crashes i... 023
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 30/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 30 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Walker” by Izumi Suzuki: "when I was one step from oblivion, there in the middle of a field, in a place where the pale sunlight gathered and fell lightly like a scarf, I came upon a crummy little udon cart." Yep, sounds heavenly! (1/2)granta.comThe Walker | Izuki Suzumi | GrantaA newly translated story from the late Japanese writer. 111
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 29 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “One Hundred Years and a Day” by Tomoko Shibasaki: "For a long time he found it hard to accept that a line of letters strung together actually meant anything" and "they came to seem like hoards of noppera-bō, faceless spirits gliding by".granta.comOne Hundred Years and a Day | Tomoka Shibasaki | Granta‘After a while people’s faces began to fade, and they came to seem like hoards of noppera-bō, faceless spirits gliding by.’ Tomoka Shibasaki, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton. 021
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 28/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 28 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Old-Woman Skin” by Ao Omae: "In my new room, my kokeshi and the old-woman skin were waiting for me. The skin was from the woman I met outside Yakushi Kokeshi-Do as I was leaving Fukushima." (I want one too!)shortshorts.orgThe Old-Woman Skin by Ao Omae | Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia JAPAN CULTURAL EXPOGiven the opportunity of holding the United States Academy Award-recognized international short film festival 011
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 27/01/2025@readjapaneselit.bsky.social Funny, I was just about to ask you for imprints dedicated to translated Japanese literature, and then saw your FB post on Kurodahan Press. Are there others? (I ultimately only know about Stone Bridge Press.) 210
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 27/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 27 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: Pregnancy Diary by Yoko Ogawa: '“It’s like when they’re shampooing your hair at the salon,” she said. “The feeling that someone’s taking care of you—it’s wonderful.”' Interesting read. Is the ending real? Or suspicion? Hope? Munchausen BP?newyorker.comPregnancy Diary 001
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 27/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 26 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “When My Wife Was a Shiitake” by Kyoko Nakajima: "Shiitake... ? The dried ones reconstituted, simmered in sugar and soy sauce... ?" I'm sure it's nearly a mindless task, but I'm already panicking with him. (1/2)wordswithoutborders.orgWhen My Wife Was a Shiitake - Words Without BordersOmwet. No, no. Omelet. Omwet. Not omwet, omelet. Omwet. Omwet? What about this? Sweet. Sweet? And this? Green. Green, is it? Well, what about this? Clam. That’s right, clam. And this? Shiitako. Almost... 122
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 26/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 25 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “A Clean Marriage” by Sayaka Murata: "Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object ... you can choose to have a family by rational means, thinking with your head, not with your loins." This gen. is nearly there. Enjoyed inversion.granta.comA Clean Marriage | Sayaka Murata | Granta Magazine‘Frequency of sex since marriage: zero.’ Sayaka Murata on a sexless marriage and the ‘Clean Breeder’ technique for pleasureless reproduction. Granta: Japan. 022
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 24/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 24 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Last Picture Show” by Ryu Murakami: "Dry ’em, crush ’em, roll ’em" a... and... stick them in a stew? I thought this would end with the yakuza hurting our narrator for dabbling in his hydrangea weed racket in Akasaka and Roppongi.wordswithoutborders.org"The Last Picture Show" by Ryu Murakami - Words Without BordersIn 1970s-era Tokyo, Yazaki and his friends are trying to make it as a blues band . . . until Yazaki meets his upstairs neighbor. 032
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 23/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 23 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” by Haruki Murakami: "Honestly, it felt odd to be seated next to a monkey, sharing a beer, but I guess you get used to it." My first (!!) Murakami read (perpetually TBR'd). Swooned over it all. TBR resorted.newyorker.com“Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey”Fiction by Haruki Murakami: “Sharing a beer and chatting with a monkey was a pretty unusual experience in and of itself.” 132
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 22 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Lonesome Bodybuilder” by Yukiko Motoya: "How wrong I was. I always do that. I decide who I am, and never consider other possibilities." Another enjoyable read! (I didn't consider it "weird" though...)electricliterature.comAlexandra Kleeman recommends “The Lonesome Bodybuilder” by Yukiko Motoya - Electric Literature“The Lonesome Bodybuilder” by Yukiko Motoya, Translated by Asa Yoneda When I got home from the supermarket, my husband was watching a boxing match on TV. “I didn’t know you watched this kind of thing.... 061
Reposted by Morbus IffRead Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 17/11/2024Read Japanese Literature is a podcast and resource site about Japanese lit and some of its best works. Follow this account for updates about the podcast, booklists of translated lit, and updates on new English-languages releases. Remember to fill out your profile before you follow folks. ☺️ 46416
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 21 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “20th Century Hotel” by Tomihiko Morimi: "As he watched, captivated, from the tips of those fingers grew hands, and from the ends of those hands grew more hands." Is "yokai stole my textbook" like English's "dog ate my homework"? Loved this.samovar.strangehorizons.com20th Century Hotel | 廿世紀ホテルHeitaro was a rational young fellow who believed in the progress and harmony of mankind. He felt nothing but contempt for ghosts and yokai and didn’t hesitate to declare that anyone scared of such … 011
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Is there any goodreads/librarything-like for tracking short stories you’ve read? #booksky #booktok #books 010
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 20/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 20 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Restaurant of Many Orders” by Kenji Miyazawa: "Please come in. No one need have a moment’s hesitation." TIME TO HESITATE. "Plump parties and young parties especially welcome." Ha Ha Hansel! Not a brine amongst the two of 'em.granta.comKenji Miyazawa | The Restaurant of Many Orders | GrantaA tale of false promises from Japanese poet and fabulist Kenji Miyazawa, from his forthcoming short story collection, out with NYRB. 084
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 20/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 19 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “From the Wilderness” by Yukio Mishima: "I am not so starved for popularity that I must welcome adulation from a psychopath." It really seems like such a good idea to just have multiple swords lyin' around. Another good one: sold drunkenness.newyorker.com“From the Wilderness,” by Yukio MishimaWhen I saw the youth trembling in the dimness of my study, I had the feeling that I was looking at my own shadow. 021
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 19/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 18 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “Hope” by Shun Medoruma: "What Okinawa needs now is not demonstrations by thousands of people or rallies by tens of thousands, but the death of one American child." Yeowtch.apjjf.orgHope - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus[…] 041
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 17/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 17 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “Smartening Up” by Aoko Matsuda: "I am a beautiful, intelligent, sexy, kind-hearted woman with ... ‘Lordy, what’s happened to you? You look dreadful.’" Hah! And: Huh! Is kabuki like opera to young kids (i.e., unintelligible)? Loved this one!granta.comSmartening Up | Aoko Matsuda | Granta‘‘Let’s become monsters together,’ she said, looking straight into my eyes.’ A surreal story by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton. 022
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 16 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “Sunrise” by Erika Kobayashi: "Her wish came true at last: every day, her hands were filled with 10,000-yen notes. They were the bank’s, not hers, of course, but she nonetheless lost herself in their count." Short but not so sweet.asymptotejournal.comSunrise - AsymptoteShe slowly opens her eyes. She looks into the light of the sun. The sun is 1,400,000 kilometers in diameter. The energy from the nuclear fusion at its center takes over a million years to reach the su... 032
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 15/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 15 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social:“About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her” by Mieko Kawakami: "...the act had shed itself of the levity of play and became tinged with an air of secrecy that we couldn’t even speak of between ourselves, let alone to others." Good too!granta.comAbout Her and the Memories That Belong to Her | Mieko Kawakami | Granta Magazine'About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her,' by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Hitomi Yoshio. 142
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 14/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 14 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “God Bless You, 2011” by Hiromi Kawakami: "As a gesture of good will, [the bear] had treated the three of us who remained in the building to ‘moving-in noodles’"... Best bear ever, or bestest bear ever? ALL OF THE ABOVE. Good read!granta.comGod Bless You, 2011 | Hiromi Kawakami | Granta Magazine‘Allow me to give you this fish. As a memento of our day together.’ Fiction by Hiromi Kawakami. 020
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 13 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “The Memory” by Mitsuyo Kakuta: "She thinks, if I’m surrounded by people who aren’t my friends, I won’t have to tell anyone my secret." I liked this one a lot (though: less secrets would lead the world to a better place.)wordswithoutborders.orgThe Memory by Mitsuyo Kakuta - Words Without BordersThis contemporary short story by Mitsuyo Kakuta touches on the haunting themes of beauty and memory. 073
Morbus Iff @morbusiff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025#JanuaryInJapan day 12 with @readjapaneselit.bsky.social: “Ito Returns to Japan and Finds Herself in a Real Pinch” by Hiromi Ito: "They waited with such quiet, single-minded devotion that I wondered if they had forgotten who they were and what they were waiting for." Natto for school lunch?!! Ew.wordswithoutborders.orgIto Returns to Japan and Finds Herself in a Real Pinch - Words Without BordersA poet arrives in Japan with her daughter for a family visit, only to find that her mother's health issues are more pressing than she thought. 010
