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Everything is terrible
Here are 22 Horror films for the times we live in
 • L Binnie🩸
A Beautiful Death
Pretty Dead Girls: Romanticising tragedy and the aesthetics of death
 • L Binnie🩸
Sirens, Lamia, Black Widows: The Lure Archetype in Modern Horror
Under The Skin, Audition, Jennifers Body and The Autopsy of Jane Doe
 • L Binnie🩸
Anatomy of a Trend- Deathcore
Why baby teeth are only the beginning
 • L Binnie🩸
Monstrous Motherhood: Absurdity, Horror and the Abject
Mad Mothers in The Yellow Wallpaper, Nightbitch, Die, My Love, Possession and Rosemarys Baby
 • L Binnie🩸
Major Arcana, Major Terror: Archetypes of Horror in Tarot
Part four: The Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune and Justice
 • L Binnie🩸
Mothers, Martyrs and Witches: Women’s Divine Suffering in Horror
Exploring The Witch (2015), Martyrs (2008) and Saint Maud (2019) through the lens of my Catholic upbringing.
 • L Binnie🩸
When the Straw Men Knock: Ireland’s Weird Winter Folklore
Three strange Irish traditions that still survive
 • L Binnie🩸
Major Arcana, Major Terror: Archetypes of Horror in Tarot Part 3
This week I explore The Lovers, The Chariot and Strength
 • L Binnie🩸
The Saltwater Bride
Queer folklore about the ones that came before
 • L Binnie🩸
The God in the Copse
What hides by Holy wells in rural Ireland- a short story
 • L Binnie🩸
21 (More) Underrated Horror Films
I am not taking notes. This is not up for debate. Thank you.
 • L Binnie🩸

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Writer, illustrator and collector of old clothes. I weave folklore, horror and the uncanny into short fiction, personal essays and art.
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