Ryan Van Ells
@ryanvanellswrites
(He/Him) 🏳️🌈 NO FUTURE TO BE HAD out March 2027 from Laughing Man House Author of dark fiction based in Milwaukee, WI. Words in Anomaly, October Screams, and on Creepy. *Opinions are my own*
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 67/365 A Little Something for Us Tempunauts by Philip K. Dick What a conceptually horrifying vision for a time loop #booksky #horrorbooks #nowreading
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 62/365 The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce #booksky #nowreading #horrorbooks
Just finished The Children by Melissa Albert. My favorite 2026 book so far this year. An intriguing page turner that had some poetic passages that could have been straight out of Ray Bradbury. Highly recommend and I hope we get more adult horror books from her #booksky #nowreading
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 59/365 The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions #booksky #nowreading #horrorbooks
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 50/365 The Jolly Corner by Henry James Even as someone who loves Woolf, I find James' prose to be impenetrable at times #booksky #nowreading #horrorbooks
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 41/365 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner One of the greatest American authors also wrote some horror, including this great use of collective POV. I don't think we get Southern Gothic horror like we have without Faulkner #booksky #nowreading #horrorbooks
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 40/365 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman I've read this story several times and it's obviously a feminist horror classic. But it's also a great example of strong voice and POV on par with The Tell Tale Heart #nowreading #booksky #horrorbooks
Pride book recommendation: The Deviants War by Eric Cervini A great look at one of the fathers of gay liberation, Franklin Kameny, and the decades of liberation work pre-stonewall that so often gets forgotten in pride discussions. Extremely detailed but accessible. #nowreading #booksky #pride
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 38/365 The Rats in the Walls by HP Lovecraft What is there to say about this story that hasn't already been said? #booksky #nowreading #horrorbooks
365 short stories in 365 days 36/365 The Monkey by Stephen King Less insanely comical than the movie but more moving reflection on fathers and sons #booksky #nowreading
365 Short Stories in 365 Days 35/365 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe The one thing I noticed on this read through that I previously missed is the ever presence of fungus. Lots of decay imagery present #booksky #horror #nowreading
365 short stories in 365 days 28/365 The Clover Cafe by Amanda Cecelia Lang My commute is made infinitely better thanks to podcasts like @talestoterrify.bsky.social This is a thoughtful meta story touching on final girls. #booksky #horror
Book mail! My weird western story, The Red West is in this massive collection of pulp from @pestocomics.bsky.social
Excited to scratch the first 2026 book off my TBR by one of my absolute favorite modern short story authors!
New release day! How to Survive Being Brought to Church by Your Grandparents is out now in podcast form from Midwest Weird. Check it out on Spotify or their website below! www.midwestweird.com/post/how-to-...
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 39/?? An American Werewolf in London (1981) Figured I'd continue the werewolf-oween with one of my all-time favorite movies. Great horror-comedy balance. Fun soundtrack. The transformation scene of course, but the subway was the scene that made me fall in love
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 38/?? Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Continuing the universal monsters mostly because it was on the same disc as The Wolf Man. Pretty fun. Creepy opening in the crypt as well
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 37/?? The Wolf Man (1941) Lon Chaney, Jr. brings the anguish of the curse to exquisitely painful levels in the werewolf movie that started them all.
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 36/?? Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost The most Halloween of the Scooby Doo movies: New England Autumn setting, Tim Curry being Tim Curry, and the Hex Girls.
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 35/?? Scooby Doo on Zombie Island This era of Scooby-Doo movies really hits that cozy Halloween vibe.
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 34/?? Halloween (1978) Saved the iconic movie to kick off the Halloween day marathon.
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 33/?? Satan's Little Helper (2004) I genuinely can't tell if I like this movie or not. Feels like a hyper-evil Disney original.
🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 32/?? Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) A made for TV movie that has no business being this good. One of my favorite watches for the Halloween season.