Jez Conolly
@jezconolly
Discomfort blanket Books: The Thing | Dead of Night | Seconds Essays: Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | Horrifying Children | Scarred for Life vol 3 Memoir: Capture Spiral Miniplay: Adam and Yves Horror fiction writer He/Him
This is an Aberdeen-based bouncy castle hire company. I see the name and I think ‘kid shaven’ 🤷
Had a dream the night before last about sitting in a cafe with my chimpanzee friend Terry Onions. We had fruit cake.
Very sad to learn of the passing of Sam Neil. Just about my favourite film of his is the underrated ‘Dean Spanley’. It’s a strange and wonderful film, and Neil is terrific in it.
Today's note to self: 'write something testicular'. *sniff* shouldn't be too difficult...
“Yeah, can I book a ride for early Monday morning please? Can you do 4am UK time?It’s from outside the main entrance at the Azteca Stadium. It’s ‘Thomas’. Oh, just anywhere in Bavaria will do. Okay, cheers mate, thanks, bye.”
Long before Backrooms, there was the Burlington Bunker. Google it. This would make the perfect location for Liminal Horror. #HorrorSky
#HorrorWritersChat Oh they’d be utterly ordinary. Mundane even. Apart from the wings. And being six inches tall. Other than that, totally normal.
Lots yesterday about ‘ten years since the Brexit vote’. For me, it was this day ten years ago, once the result was known, when the yawning chasm of despair opened up before us.
Two new WIPs begun during this cat-sit. The first concerns two ‘lifers’ who spend a pleasant afternoon in each other’s company behind bars. The other has something to do with astronomy and a putting green. #Caturday #amwriting
Lots to like about Backrooms, but I’m afraid, when I saw the Cap’n Clark entity, I couldn’t stop thinking about It’s a Knockout.
#HorrorWritersChat Hello! It’s Jez, retired book monkey, writer of kitchen sink horror (which you might want to call ‘domestic liminal horror’) I got a copy of Denis Gifford’s Pictorial History of Horror Movies when I was nine. It changed my life.