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Today's #HellonEarthHorrors for #MyHorrorfest202526 I finished off what I have for the #theOmenFranchise with the Omen 4: the Awakening 1991 & the Omen 2006. I could not find the Omen 3 this time around but I did find the 1st Omen 2024 on demand. #Horror #ReligiousHorror #AntiChristMovies

Today's #HellonEarthHorrors for #MyHorrorfest202526 I continued with #theExorcistFrancise I have the Exorcist: the Beginning 2004 & I found Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist 2005 on demand that I watched this morning & this evening I've moved onto #theOmenFrancise I have the Omen 1976 & on demand I found Damien: Omen 2 1978. #Horror #DemonFilms #ReligiousHorror #ExorcistMovies #ExorcismFilms #PossessionFilms #SatanicFilms #AntiChristMovies

Top ten posts in October 2025

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Evening Wafrn, as my first post here I shall post one of my fav art pieces theat i made:3

This is Carolina, by me.

#art #horror #horrorart #cult #religion #religioushorror

Author Spotlight: Andromeda Ruins

Andromeda (he/him) is a queer, disabled, and neurodivergent author from a small town in the Midwest. He sits comfortably in the ‘I don’t know what’s going on’ category in just about everything, leading to him writing a lot about queer, disabled, and neurodivergent characters. He recently graduated his undergrad program with a Classics major and loves to take the themes and stories he learns about and adapt them to the modern day.

Author Links:

Website: andromedaruins.com

Book Links: ΔΆΙΟΣ | Incorrect Eyes

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You have 2 books out at the moment, ΔΆΙΟΣ and Incorrect Eyes, which are quite different to each other! Can you tell us a bit about each of these, and especially shifting from ΔΆΙΟΣ to Incorrect Eyes in terms of your themes, genre and writing focus?

Of course I can! ΔΆΙΟΣ (pronounced die-ohs) is the first book in the Call Me Icarus series, an anti-establishment retelling of the fall of Icarus. It is a grimdark story following Icarus as he accidentally becomes the face of the rebellion after spending ten years hiding under the nose of ATLAS Corp. It is dark and gritty, toeing the line of grimdark, but not quite horror.

I started writing ΔΆΙΟΣ while I was in my undergrad program. I have a bachelor’s degree in Classics (with a concentration in Classical Civilization and minors in Latin and Attic Greek), meaning that all day every day I was surrounded by stories far older than I could ever imagine.

At the same time, I am a very politically active person. I wouldn’t say I’m an activist by any means, but I do what I can.

Those two aspects of my life came crashing together during the pandemic, and what came out of that is the story of a disabled trans man who hasn’t yet come to terms with his disability. One who harbors a hatred and resentment towards the world around him that puts him in the position of having to fight for things he never even considered because of the propaganda he was raised in.

I guess all of this to say that I really like taking the stories of our ancient past and molding it to fit the world we live in today, which is also where Incorrect Eyes comes in.

Incorrect Eyes is a psychological horror novella following an unnamed transmasc MC as he deals with severe paranoia and an Angel with too many eyes. This was a hard shift from my established Greco-Roman retellings to Catholic based horror, but it really comes from the same place of taking the old and molding it to the new.

This time, though, instead of the story being an overtly political novel about overthrowing a fascist government, it’s a cautionary tale about the dangers of bottling up emotions and stress. I think, if both stories are read next to each other, that you can see a lot of the same through lines. There’s just more of an emphasis on horror and mental illness in Incorrect Eyes than in ΔΆΙΟΣ (for now).

Let’s focus on Incorrect Eyes, your psychological religious horror novella. How did your own Catholic background weave into the novella, and how did this shape it?

Incorrect Eyes is a bit of a unique case for me. The initial idea for the story was the title, something that was thrown around in a group chat with my closest writing friends. I was granted the use of it by Cryptic, the friend who came up with the name, and I knew I wanted to do something paranoia-related with it, but I wasn’t quite sure what that would look like.

The first few drafts actually had Incorrect Eyes staying in my Greek Mythology lane, with it revolving around the Hekatonkheires. It was something more archeology based, with the main character uncovering just so many eyes in a dig site before his spiral. But that didn’t feel right, and when I was talking with my best friend she pointed out that it sounded like I was trying to create a “biblically accurate angel” that wasn’t an angel. So I took that and ran with it.

Only, I do have a degree in classics. And I was raised in a very strictly Roman Catholic family. So I chose to take the more academic route and draw from the Book of Isaiah and refrained from calling it a “biblically accurate angel” because all angels are biblically accurate, they’re just different tiers of angels. Once I had that piece in place, the rest of the story really fell in place. I am really happy with how it turned out, though I still think the archeological Hekatonkheires would have been fun.

What is the context of the Biblical passages your MC is studying, and why did you choose to build the novella’s focus around them?

The passage that the main character is studying in Incorrect Eyes is Isaiah 6:1-7. This is a passage in which King Uzziah enters heaven and is greeted by the Holy Host, only to have a Seraph put a coal in his mouth in an act of atonement.

Even the simple description of that passage sounds like the set up to a horror novel to me, the premise of being greeted by the Divine (something that I personally view as terrifying after being raised in the Church as I was) only to have them mutilate you in the name of the Lord… it sends shivers up my spine, truly.

I built the novella around a different passage, originally; a combination of Isaiah 6:2-3 and Ezekiel 1:5-28.

However, I had a hard time keeping the tone of the story when drawing it out to incorporate the entirety of those passages, so I cut it down to just Isaiah. As for why… well, that ties into my area of comfort. I am a scholar, one who studies and translates ancient texts. This is a realm I am comfortable with! I love taking an existing tale and creating a narrative around someone interacting with it, though academic means or through living the story themselves!

What draws you to psychological horror, and how did you develop the sense of dread and mental deterioration of the main character?

Honestly, my life experiences draw me to psychological horror. I have been very open about the use of hallucinations in Incorrect Eyes and that they are modelled of my own hallucinations, though they are much worse than anything I’ve experienced.

It took me a long time to come into myself, but with that came a love for horror. Particularly, a love for body horror and mental fuckery. With that came an appreciation for the unwanted and the discarded. I grew to see the art in the way humans cope with things, with the way the mind will do whatever it needs to do to survive. That’s what I wanted to instill in the story of Incorrect Eyes. I wanted it to feel like no matter how bad things were getting, the main character was still functioning on a base level and trying to survive. He experiences hallucinations that grow worse as time goes on, and all he wants to do is make it through the night. That desperation to make it home mixed with the general “God, why me?” vibe created a mental spiral that drags the reader down with it. The only reprieve is realizing that you’ve reached the end, really.

In the novella, your MC is unnamed. Was this a deliberate choice, and if so, why? If this happened organically, why did you choose to stick with not naming him?

Yes, this is an intentional choice! He actually does have a name in my notes, however that does not come up on page. This was a deliberate choice I made while I was writing, one driven entirely by the narrative. I had always intended for the story to be told in the first person. I personally feel that horror stories thrive when told in the first person because it forces you to face the horrors as the characters do!

So when it came to writing Incorrect Eyes, I didn’t even think about how I could incorporate information about him. This extended to more than just his name!

He is a college kid, one that’s so deep into his degree that he’s counting down the days to graduation. That man does not care at all about how he looks or how he presents to the world. He is there to do a job, and that is it. The only interaction he has with people are with strangers on the street and through texts with his close friends and family.

The strangers don’t care who he is and while his name could have been mentioned in the texts, I can’t remember the last time I used someone’s name in that setting. It felt unnatural to me. Once the story was done and I could read it all as one piece, I found that the lack of a name for the main character added to the narrative significance. This man is spiraling into psychosis and seeing the Messengers of the Lord and yet he is not significant enough to have his name remembered as his story is told. He is merely a vessel for the horror of the Angels, not much different from the role of a prophet.

What is next for you and your writing? What can readers look out for in the future?

I’m currently working on my next novel, Desecrate! It’s (hopefully) going to be out next year, it’s a Dark Academia novel about a Seminary-dropout-turned-Classics-student as he begins to experience prophetic dreams about God chained in the basement of his local church. I’m really looking forward to getting this behemoth of a story out into the world. It’s been a time trying to write and re-write and re-write this story as my tastes have changed!

As soon as that’s out, I will be returning to the Call Me Icarus series! ΔΆΙΟΣ was book one in a trilogy, the other two books are zero drafted and waiting to be polished.

I had to take a break from the Call Me Icarus universe for a moment due to the nature of the story and the state of the US Government, but I’m ready to dive back in with a vengeance! I’m hoping book two will be ready for publishing in late 2026 or early 2027.

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#AuthorInterview #AuthorSpotlight #greekMythology #Horror #horrorAuthor #horrorBooks #queerAuthor #queerBooks #religiousHorror

Author Interviews graphic - the text is above an open book, pages fanning out with sparkles

ΔΆΙΟΣ cover, red with a character illustration. The character is falling, with red streaks like feathers coming from their back and spiralling around his body upwards into the air.

An angel sculpture on a grey stone building - the cover of Incorrect Eyes.

When Jesus is Aryan, the Wandering Jew is a Catholic priest, and Revelation is rewritten like a Chick tract... you know you're watching The Seventh Sign (1988).
#TheSeventhSign #FilmCriticism #BiblicalCinema #ReligiousHorror #DemiMoore #Revelation #ApocalypseNowWhat #CinemaSins #BadTheology #MLAstyle #JewishMysticism #EndTimesCinema #KJVvsHollywood #MovieReview #CultCinema
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/the-seventh-sign/

Bella Thorne goes full Joan of Arc in Saint Clare (2024), a holy mess of Catholic cosplay, misunderstood martyrdom, and weaponized schizophrenia. Joan didn’t kill for God, and Clare shouldn’t either.
🔥 Saint or psycho? The movie can’t decide.
#SaintClare #BellaThorne #JoanOfArc #FilmCriticism #MentalHealthInMedia #CatholicAesthetic #ReligiousHorror #WomenInFilm #Schizophrenia #CultCinema #MovieReview #ClareOfAssisi #FaithAndViolence
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/saint-clare-and-the-case-of-the-sanctified-serial-killer/

I watched the 1995 Spanish-Italian horror movie The Day of the Beast tonight. I'd never heard of this before, and I was missing out! Fantastic Antichrist horror / dark comedy. A priest, a death metal fan, and a hokey tv psychic team up to stop the apocalypse. #HorrorMovies #horror #movies #antichrist #ReligiousHorror

One of my favourite subgenres of horror is religious horror. Gimme all the antichrists and possessions and evil nuns. But there's gotta be religious horror out there that doesn't draw upon Christianity. Got any examples? If they're campy or funny, even better. #horror #ReligiousHorror #exorcism #antichrist #christianity

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 -

Shelley's classic novel still towers over any film versions, a potently-wound tangle of compassion, regret, and penance.

#halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #frankenstein #themodernprometheus #prometheus #maryshelley #britishhorror #classichorror #religioushorror

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I finished the audiobook of Camp Damascus by @chucktingle today. I enjoyed it. As a queer neurodivergent person raised in a fundamentalist religion which believes in literal demons, I found it very relatable. #queerBooks #ChuckTingle #horror #ReligiousHorror #bookstodon Oh yeah, and the narrator is Mara Wilson, the star of the Matilda movie.

Pretty huge having a book I wrote shot in front of me. Looking forward to going goblin mode again on the next one. #indieauthors #horror #religioushorror #books