WRITERS + DIRECTORS ON THE POWER OF HORROR

Solitude had made her secretive—self-manipulated. Years of haunting had dulled her in ways you wouldn't believe and sharpened her in ways you wouldn't believe either.

Toni Morrison, excerpt from Beloved

strawberries | raspberries | currants | cherries

— by Virginia Granberry (1831-1921)

“my mother & i” - lucy dacus // “eight bites” - carmen maria machado, her body & other parties

THE BATMAN (2022) dir. Matt Reeves THE PENGUIN (2024) 1x02 "Inside Man" dir. Craig Zobel

tiffany pollard you are so real ♡

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (2024) dir. Todd Phillips

CRIMINAL MINDS 2.08 'Empty Planet'

anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902), "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" (detail), 1866