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ANNOUNCING: BABYLON CONFIDENTIAL 🎥🎬🎞️🩸 "...the toxic runoff of the dream factory..." w/ guest editor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece artwork by Robert Voyvodic Deadline: November 14 apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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Been reading a lot of these APCON Halloweens. Creepy things in here.
On the EIGHTH NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN, we awake in a field, the crypt a distant memory, or nightmare. All around us, pumpkins the color of dried blood grow, skulls carved into them, emitting a strange light. Jennifer Ostopovich picks one up and guides us through with THE LANTERN:
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Harkening back to my Celtic roots with this folk fable about betrayal, bean sídhe (banshees), and Jack-o’-lanterns. Check it out in @APCON_MAG!
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THE LANTERN - Jennifer Ostopovich (@jrostopovich) "I blew out the flame, and the world all around was plunged into an inky darkness. The Devil’s raucous laughter split the night, resounding through the forest like the braying of a rabid goat." apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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"The seer was renowned for her black arts and her ability to not only predict the future, but to also affect it. I had heard the warnings, whispers of magic gone bad, and still, I had approached her out of desperation." 🎃
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THE LANTERN - Jennifer Ostopovich (@jrostopovich) "I blew out the flame, and the world all around was plunged into an inky darkness. The Devil’s raucous laughter split the night, resounding through the forest like the braying of a rabid goat." apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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On the EIGHTH NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN, we awake in a field, the crypt a distant memory, or nightmare. All around us, pumpkins the color of dried blood grow, skulls carved into them, emitting a strange light. Jennifer Ostopovich picks one up and guides us through with THE LANTERN:
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THE LANTERN - Jennifer Ostopovich (@jrostopovich) "I blew out the flame, and the world all around was plunged into an inky darkness. The Devil’s raucous laughter split the night, resounding through the forest like the braying of a rabid goat." apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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Adventures in Caught Looking by @gwenergyreigns donotsubmit.net/adventures-i…
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Taken from behind the paywall, my GHOULTIDE LETTER FROM THE EDITOR last year, a short personal essay about Haunted Air, James Ensor, Halloween (1978), and my grandma dying at roughly the same time Takeoff was shot. Tonight, the EIGHTH NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN! apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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And Halloween is still here, and it will dissolve you in fear and horror. Read this poem and hide under the covers
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If you’ve ever wondered what UTTER GOODNESS is all about, the great minds at @APCON_MAG published the titular story: apocalypse-confidential.com/…
Some UTTER GOODNESS (@FarthestHeaven) from readers
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Poem for @APCON_MAG’s 7th Night of Halloween. Written within a crisis.
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Please enjoy some beautiful romance tonight, courtesy of @lgnbrry
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On this SEVENTH NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN, in the throes of our cellular derangement, we descend through visions of rapture, where a millennia of Eros and Thanatos disintegrate and re-coagulate. During our descent, we "DISSOLVE" with Logan Berry:
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legit riveting and unforgettable. very glad i read this before halloween
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SHADOWBOXLAND - Addison Zeller (@amhcrane87) "...another Ohio buried beneath the present one, the Ohio dead people had aspired to make. Unrealized though it was, traces existed—nodes on another map, places where life had gone cold." apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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Halloween continues, and this story will travel through the inside of your body. Want to see? You have to read. A great story for this Sunday
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PARALLAX CINEMA: FEAST OF ST. RAPHAEL - Ryan Bry (@syntheticsensei) "'Gark, we believe in cells. The drama of the little guy. These little plankton fucks build up our entire experience. It’s a privilege to have them. Without them, you’d be dead.'" apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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BABYLON CONFIDENTIAL
to capture the flood scene, director michael curtiz dumped 600,000 gallons of water on extras, resulting in the deaths of three people. the incident led hollywood to implement new safety measures.
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Like decomposition, derangement begins at the cellular level, but by the time we realized this, on the SIXTH NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN, the hour was far too late for us. In a last ditch effort to save our sanity, Ryan Bry led us in prayer with PARALLAX CINEMA: FEAST OF ST. RAPHAEL:
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PARALLAX CINEMA: FEAST OF ST. RAPHAEL - Ryan Bry (@syntheticsensei) "'Gark, we believe in cells. The drama of the little guy. These little plankton fucks build up our entire experience. It’s a privilege to have them. Without them, you’d be dead.'" apocalypse-confidential.com/…
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In the real tho, we have this fantastic lil book coming out in December!! 🤪♥️ It's going to be great! Preorder it!!!
"...a bead of green in a band of red." EARTHRISE and other stories, by Yasmeen Amro 12.8.26 Available for preorder now: apconshop.bigcartel.com/prod…
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