Weekly Update

This week, we’re getting back to the regular grind. A couple of those life things we mentioned in our last update have let up, but the big one — the raging corporate monster force-feeding us garbage — has not. So we got some breathing room to put more energy back into our favorite horror blog, but not enough to do anything big and ambitious like setting up a whole-ass store called the Cabinet of Desire, full of mugs and tote bags with Eric’s weird artwork — which might be a red flag that he’s a crazy person…

Anyway, if you like what we do and want us to be able to do more of it with a faster turnaround, consider supporting our dark arts on Patreon. An Occult Curious donation of $1 a month gets you early access to everything we publish and 10% off at the Cabinet. At our Believer tier ($5), you also get a Fables for the Dying bookmark and a Directed Head mug. And at our Heretic ($10), Blasphemer ($15), and Dark Disciple ($20), you get more and fancier grotesquery.

Credit: Universal Pictures

Horror Movie Sunday & an Upcoming Judgment

It's Horror Movie Sunday, and we just got back from Jordan Peele's Nope. We had high expectations going in. Peele cowrote and helped breathe new and exciting life into The Candyman (2021), introduced a whole underground network of neglected-people-turned-monsters in Us (2019), and gave us one of our favorite films, 2017’s Get Out (which we wrote about last year). Dude did not disappoint. Expect a Judgment in the next week or two.

Credit: Nepenthe Films

New Dissection: Watership Down (Finally)

After a long and arduous journey, we have finished our Dissection of Watership Down. It's all about how humans, especially in the Richard Adams novel on which the film is based, are depicted as incomprehensible beings of godlike power who bring death, destruction, and corruption upon the animals and environments we touch. Fun for the whole family! (Actually, Eric wrote about that whole kid-appropriate thing a few weeks back in a short Judgment.)

Coming Soon(ish): A Dissection & a Fable

With Watership out of the way, we're getting to work on the last entry in our series on animated horror. If you haven't already read them, take a look at the other two: Ghost in the Shell and The House. This last one will return to the world of Japanese anime — because no one does animated horror like Japan. More teasing to come closer to publication date 😉.

We also put out a small call for submissions recently, and you guys did not disappoint! Huge thank you to everyone who sent their weird little prose things to us. We’re continuing to work through the batch, but you can expect at least one new Fable sometime in the next couple months! In the meantime, our archives are starting to look nice and full. Check them out.

Also, send us more! Take a look at our submission guidelines and tell all your weird horror-writing friends that we want to publish their creepy work. We want the Other Folk to be the place you go when you're looking for smart horror — or dumb horror that's really fun. The more high-quality work we get to publish, the closer we get to that goal.

That's all for now, weirdos! Talk to you soon!