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Mike Martens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 17h

Day 5. Dungeon Cubist Carl.

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Time for another #hauntalong recommendation! Today I’m recommending Vincenzo Natali’s Cube (1997), a Canadian sci-fi horror movie about a group of strangers who wake up inside a giant maze of identical rooms. Some of the rooms are safe. Some of them are super not safe.

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Natalie Ash (she/her) @thenatalieash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I briefly looked at my game "What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting?" and I thought, "you know, there's some fun writing in here". As it's the spooky month when we talk about Vampires... and the hunting thereof... I've put it on sale for $.99 until the end of the month! Enjoy 🧛‍♀️ itch.io/s/203377/vam...

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What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting | Vampire Hunting in the Spooky Month by Ember and Ash

A sale by Ember and Ash, 67% off What's So Cool About Vampire Hunting

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 22h

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just putting it out there that if I ever do anything to harm you, the best way to move forward after is to take me out to lunch

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Mike Martens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 4. Well it would be nice, if you would watch this movie. I know not every movie is a movie you’ll like. And we gotta think twice, before we give the plot away, and we know all the films you play because we play them too …

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Ben // foresight studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The leaves are changing, the skies are gray, and that can only mean one thing: Haunt-Along! My first Haunt-Along pick is Saint Maud, a delightfully unsettling piece of religious horror from director Rose Glass. It's about loneliness, faith, guilt, and a little bit of murder.

A close-up shot of two women's faces close to one another. One woman is reclining, and the other stands over her, a hand on her face, dimly lit by a warm light from offscreen.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

House of the Dying Sun ($5.99) - you and your ship are pumped with the greatest fuel of them all: revenge. tactical space combat inspired by classics like TIE fighter and Wing Commander. FANTASTIC controls, you'll feel like a knife cutting through the stars. store.steampowered.com/app/283160/H...

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Still think it's weird that itch invites people to write reviews for stuff and then doesn't tell the creator (unless the creator happens to follow the reviewer AND clicks on their personal Feed in time). Right? There's no place on my dashboard for me as a creator to click and see reviews.

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Getting to play Step Right Up (a 1930s carnival theme CFB game) with @signalstation.bsky.social @iamatrex.com & some other great folks today! Fireball is dead, the key to the city is missing, and the local rubes are on us to figure it out. Remember, games are fun.

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Ryan Kelly @ryankelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today’s sketch: The Mummy (Boris Karloff) 1932 movie. Want a small 8x10 sketch? Follow these instructions: -Supply me with $50 plus shipping. -Be patient and wait.

Gray ink sketch depicting the mummy as depicted by actor Boris Karloff from the 1932 Universal Pictures produced film.

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Frankenstein to invisible man: “wait a second, you’re not the Invisible Man. You’re just three invisible kids in a trench coat.”

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had my email address tattooed on my chest so if I'm ever in an accident, witnesses and EMT folks can email me later about how brave I was and/or how good I looked during whatever crisis rendered me shirtless.

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Mike Martens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good responses here that might help folks navigate the language and actual terms. Everyone handles this a bit differently, and it generally shakes out about the same, but a bad deal and a great one can be an adjective and not a number.

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On a personal note: I picked Santet because my late wife and I shared a fascination with the films of Suzzanna. One of our last "couple projects" was working through a box set of Suzzanna movies from Severin Films. I miss watching films with her & trading reviews immediately afterward.

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A review of Pact with the Forces of Darkness (1991)

The downer of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies is, well, Freddy Krueger. He's the one causing all the entertaining havoc and having all the fun, so you kind of end up rooting for him, but then you r...

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Blaine Martin (he/they) @notalonehorror.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Haunt-Along to all who celebrate! I know it's been a tough year so I’m embracing Sadtober! Horror is often about trauma or grief in some way, but the movies I’m talking about this year wear it on their sleeve. I’ll include content warnings for them. So let’s start with Daniel Isn’t Real.

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there's all kindsa draculas these days. tall draculas, short draculas, sexy draculas. i even saw a dracula who drank blood

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tarot reader: so for your one card reading you drew the 1/1 signed holofoil reversed Tower. it's worth about $5000 graded me: so that's good? tarot reader: no, you're mega ultra fucked

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know how to party. Went to CVS and got three vaccinations: covid, flu, and "whatever else you got back there." Weekend plans: sorted.

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the purpose of a movie is not to tell a story. the purpose of a movie is to show you something that blasts your tits clean off. sometimes that involves a story but not always

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Haunt-along season and I'm going to make a case for diversifying your horror diet by talking about SANTET, the first film I ever watched featuring Indonesia's Queen of Horror, Suzzanna. It's got an alligator witch, black magic...a groin-detonating frog... good stuff! Let's dig in!

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: only people whose tummies hurt are living life with clarity and understanding. All tummies hurt all the time, but our brains mute that signal. We're being lied to and it's an inside job. Food is a mistake.

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People just don’t write songs about ouija boards like they used to.

Sheet music for song Weegee Weegee (Ouija Ouija) Tell Me Do. The illustration shows a well-dressed young couple using a ouija board.

Sheet music for song called Ouija Mine. The illustration shows a spirit directing two people using a ouija board.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.

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Mike Martens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#hauntalong October 1 The Last Sacrifice Directed by Rupert Russell A vividly collaged documentary that spirals around Britain’s folk horror zeitgeist, examining the murder of Charles Walton, its connection to The Wicker Man, and the Droste-effect influence of folk horror.

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‘THE LAST SACRIFICE’ Official Trailer 2025 – The Truth Behind 1970s Folk Horror

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Mike Martens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haunt-Along 2026 An annual tradition collecting a thread about a horror movie each day through the month of October. Find 'em all here. 🐈‍⬛

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what a ghoul believes ☎️ @sayambular.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this fall I medically need to ride the zipper at a carnival in a small town and immediately throw up corn dogs. due to riding said zipper. if the bored teenagers operating the rides look like they have any sort of training I’m not GOING

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 01/10/2026

I love when they show something cute on the jumbo-tron at baseball games, like a tiny child getting a giant hotdog or two old dudes having a great time. That's way better then when they cut to a view of The Creature as it runs through the parking building searching for human spines to eat.

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She didn't do it often, but when AJ busted out the colored pencils, she got some amazing results.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

want to see something scary? here's a dracula

my dog: a small, caramel colored, mixed breed, with one of her fangs out

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October, or the month where someone writes about how Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the most underrated film in the franchise

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rescued from the bus stop: Some poor soul didn't have the money for actual Chick Tracts so they scanned and printed them on full-size paper, then stapled and stuffed it into a ziploc.

Photo of a ziploc bag, inside of which is a printout of THE CHOICE, a Jack Chick tract. A cartoon man on the left looks troubled.

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lady at snakerama @deadspiderhands.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s nice when cute people with regular jobs like dental hygienist find out i’m a horror person and ask me questions like, “have you seen the new crypt keeper design?” because you can tell they have been dying to talk about it with someone but their husbands just like tractors or whatever

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Karla Anthocyanin Zimonja @eternal.observer · 30/09/2026

- the state of happiness can only be achieved through the sense of taste (this may or may not have to do with food) - the only way to recognize happiness is by its taste - anything that tastes good must be making you happy - baby talk is how to communicate about emotions

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Vinegar Syndrome @vinsyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

31 DAYS OF SYNTOBER returns! Each day in October, a VS team member or collaborator has selected a favorite title from our catalog and explained what makes it special. Each title will be available for 50% off SRP for 1 day only, noon to noon (eastern) ... plus stay tuned for other surprises!

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PVincent (Table Cat Games) @tablecatgames.com · 30/09/2026

Last day of the "I Need a New Phone" sale! Monster Truckers is only five bucks! Play as a truck driving, hard (un)living, classic movie monster! Explore the post apocalyptic Worstlands, getting into and outta scrapes. (I broke my phone, need to pay for the replacement).

Banner of Monster Trucker background with text that reads Monster Truckers is 5 bucks. I need to pay for my phone.

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

at night, the horrors expand to fill the empty space how do they do that can they not, actually

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think renaming things is a smart strategy, the effectiveness of which is outlined in George Orwell's famous book An 80s Guide to Good Government.

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[youtube shock face thumbnail] Blind Gambler Cut My Loaded Dice IN HALF?!? -- For this premise, we imagine a world where the adventures of Zatoichi co-exist with a video content ecosystem where a crooked gambler might post about their experiences as a side hustle.

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