“The Mummy’s Foot” by Théophile Gautier (1840)
“The Dream of Egypt was Eternity: her odors have the solidity of granite, and endure as long.”
Another quaint hearkening back to gothic tales of supernatural curiosity. It does have a particularly grotesque macguffin at the center of it and that gives it the spooky edge.
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“Kill Screen” by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly, Eva de la Cruz, Clem Robins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Rowena Yow, Shelly Bond (2015)
“This better not end up in a bathtub full of ice with missing kidneys.”
Some of the writing here is cringey, but the character setup is intriguing. I’ll stick with it and finish the series after October.
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Censor dir. Prano Bailey-Bond (2021)
“I’ve salvaged the tug of war with the intestines.”
The obsession with loss is terrifying. You think it’s under control and you’re fine, but it can swing so far in the other direction that the cedar breaks and you don’t even realize you’re split in two. So, yeah, this movie.