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INTERVIEWER: People usually use [the term “elevated horror”] to refer to A24’s movies, horror that’s very heavy on the metaphorical. Hereditary, Midsommar, movies like that.

JOHN CARPENTER: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
— From the AV Club’s interview with legendary horror film director, John Carpenter.

Honey? We need to talk.

I wanted 15 Thornhill Road to be perfect for us. We’ve put so much into this move, and I think that we wanted it to work so badly that we’re pretending nothing’s wrong. But the signs are all there.

The howls from the basement. The bloody child’s handprints on the bedsheets. The face that appears for a split second in the bathroom mirror and makes a deafening sound whenever we look up from washing our faces.

Honey. I don’t think our haunting is elevated.

Contradiction and fear at America’s only physical museum of disability

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Pennhurst State School and Hospital, Paranormal Investigations, Autism, Eugenics, Dr. Henry H. Goddard, Suffer the Little Children, Roland Johnson, Demon-Auctioneer, Limerick, Speaking for Ourselves, The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Nathaniel Guest, The Halderman Verdict, A Moldy Baby Doll, The US Haunt Industry, Randy Bates, Bloody Straitjackets, Lost in a Desert World, A Doghouse

On Wednesday, Nigel Farage stood up in Parliament to try and pass legislation which, if successful, would have removed the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights. Thankfully, he was defeated. In a typically bellicose, faux-patriotic, and inaccurate speech, Farage put rhetoric over reason. He made a number of claims about the EU, which […]

I get to The Garlic Not, and the place is packed with regulars. I decide to sit at the bar, and an old man with the fewest teeth I’ve ever seen hands me a menu.

“For a virgin as pure as you—on the house,” he says and passes me a goblet of something neon green. I take a sip, and it’s not half bad. I order the lamb alfredo and decide not to correct him on the weird virgin thing.

I’ve only been in Coffins Crest, Transylvania, for three days, and the omnipresent fog, eerie wind chimes, and sinking feeling that something horrible is about to happen is starting to feel normal.

I take a sip of my goblet cocktail and wonder how I’ll tell Historic Castles Magazine that someone else is also here to cover the famous castle.

Aristotle created the blueprint for the bravery we need to resist injustice and do the right thing, even at our own risk

- by Andrew Culbreth

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Jonah Valdez and Matt Sledge discuss the latest on the Gaza “ceasefire,” an eyebrow-raising crypto pardon, and more published on The Intercept this week.

The post From Trump, With Impunity appeared first on The Intercept.

There’s a way to recall past encounters with your fears that could help you feel more confident facing them in future

- by Christian Jarrett

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As struggles over the human body escalate, we should return to the work of cinema’s greatest anatomist: David Cronenberg

- by Travis Alexander

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To understand the rise of Catherine Connolly — the recently elected left-wing president of Ireland — it’s important to grasp how profoundly Irish politics has shifted over the last two decades.  Prior to this point, for nearly a century, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael dominated the southern Irish state. One governed while the other prepared […]

Grace Dess describes the Victoria Police rampage against anti-racist protesters in Melbourne on 19 October.

The post ‘It looks like a grenade was thrown at me deliberately’ first appeared on Solidarity Online.

The Statewide Treaty Bill passed the Victorian parliament on 30 October. But it returns no land, pays no compensation for dispossession and creates no rights that can be enforced against the state.

The post Treaty in Victoria—Labor must be fought to win real change first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagree.

The post We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality” appeared first on The Intercept.