Media Log /2023
Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (SF) = short film | (T) = television series | (P) = podcast series/audio drama | (S) = screenplay | (C) = comic book/graphic novel | (TH) = theater performance | (M) = musical performance |[R] = reread/rewatch/relisten
- January
- 1
- The Apartment (F) [R]
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover (F)
- 2
- Pontypool (F)
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes (F)
- The Reaping, Bernard Taylor (B)
- 3
- Ghostwatch (F)
- Diary of the Dead (F)
- 4
- The Menu (F)
- Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (F)
- 5
- Blue Sunshine (F)
- A Nest of Nightmares, Lisa Tuttle (B)
- 6
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow (F)
- The Visitor (F)
- 7
- The Woman on the Beach (F)
- Mythic Quest, Season 3 (T)
- 8
- TÁR (F)
- Barren (P)
- 12
- Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer, Roy Peter Clark (B)
- 14
- Mandrake (F)
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (F)
- The Collingswood Story (F)
- 15
- M3GAN (F)
- The Auctioneer, Joan Samson (B)
- 16
- Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies (SF)
- 21
- Footprints (F)
- 22
- The Woman in the Window (F) [R]
- Skinamarink (F)
- 23
- Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders (P)
- Harley Quinn, Season 1 (T)
- 27
- The Resort, Season 1 (T)
- Harley Quinn, Season 2 (T)
- 28
- Video Palace, Season 1 (P)
- 29
- Sunset Boulevard (F) [R]
- 30
- The Orgasm Cult, Season 1 (P)
- 31
- Run Bambi Run, Season 1 (P)
- February
- 1
- Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel, Lisa Cron (B)
- In Search of Darkness: Part III (F)
- The Sentinel (F)
- 3
- Killer Sally (F)
- Dark Tourist, Season 1 (T)
- 5
- The Suspect (1944) (F)
- Stage Fright, Garrett Boatman (B)
- 8
- The Invitation (F)
- This Is GWAR (F)
- 9
- White as Snow, Tanith Lee (B)
- 10
- Building Utopia (P)
- 11
- The Tarnished Angels (F)
- Wild Girl (F)
- The Pale Blue Eye (F)
- 12
- Last Girl Standing (F)
- Bloody Birthday (F)
- 13
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (B)
- 16
- Search Party, Season 1 (T)
- 17
- The Deep End, Season 1 (T)
- 19
- Orphan: First Kill (F)
- Nocturne (F)
- The Mafu Cage (F) [R]
- 20
- The Devil You Know, Season 1 (T)
- 22
- The Devil You Know, Season 2 (T)
- 25
- The Feast (F)
- Rent-A-Pal (F)
- 28
- The Inferno, Dante Alighieri (B)
- The Serpent Queen, Season 1 (T)
- March
- 4
- Andor, Season 1 (T)
- 6
- Progeny of the Adder, Leslie H. Whitten (B)
- 8
- Search Party, Season 2 (T)
- 10
- Tam Lin, Pamela Dean (B)
- Search Party, Season 3 (T)
- 11
- Poker Face, Season 1 (T)
- 12
- Stranger on the Third Floor (F)
- Search Party, Season 4 (T)
- 13
- Aggretsuko, Season 4 (T)
- 17
- The Fugitive (F) [R]
- 18
- Possessor (F)
- Spin Me Round (F)
- 19
- Carmen (M)
- 24
- The 12th Victim (T)
- 26
- Boston Strangler (F)
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (F)
- How to Sell a Haunted House , Grady Hendrix (B)
- April
- 2
- A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn (B)
- 6
- Slumber Party Massacre (2021) (F)
- Scream 2 (F) [R]
- 7
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (F)
- 8
- Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner (B)
- 9
- Party Down, Season 3 (T)
- 11
- Sorcerer (F)
- 12
- Daphne, Josh Malerman (B)
- 14
- Swarm, Season 1 (T)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (F) [R]
- 15
- Sisters (F) [R]
- 16
- Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung (B)
- Vagabond (F)
- Back to the Future (F) [R]
- 17
- BEEF, Season 1 (T)
- Final Exam (F)
- 20
- And Soon the Darkness (F)
- 21
- Martyrs Lane (F)
- Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (F)
- The White Vault, Season 4 (P)
- 22
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (F)
- Orlando (F) [R]
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (F)
- Sundial, Catriona Ward (B)
- 23
- Capturing the Friedmans (F)
- Scream 3 (F)
- 24
- Dead Ringers (T)
- 29
- A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins (B)
- Daisies (F)
- Hatching (F)
- 30
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (F) [R]
- May
- 1
- Perry Mason, Season 2 (T)
- 2
- Simone Barbès or Virtue (F)
- The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 5
- What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher (B)
- 7
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (F)
- 9
- Waltz with Bashir (F)
- 13
- The French Connection (F)
- Animal Control, Season 1 (T)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay (B)
- 16
- Mayfair Watchers Society, Season 1 (P)
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (F)
- 18
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (T)
- 19
- Willard (F)
- Single White Female (F)
- 20
- Bluebeard (SF)
- Madame Perrault’s Bluebeard (SF)
- 21
- Embrace of the Serpent (F)
- 22
- The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (B)
- 23
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (B)
- 25
- Love and Death (T)
- 27
- Yellowjackets, Season 2 (T)
- 28
- Munger Road (F)
- 29
- Succession, Season 4 (T)
- Barry, Season 4 (T)
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe (F)
- Cameraperson (F)
- June
- 2
- Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 3
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) (F)
- The Mist (F)
- 4
- Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America, Greg King and Penny Wilson (B)
- 5
- Influencer (F)
- 7
- House on Haunted Hill (F) [R]
- 11
- Mary: An Awakening of Terror, Nat Cassidy (B)
- The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World, Lewis Hyde (B)
- 12
- An American Werewolf in London (F)
- Brooklyn 45 (F)
- Renfield (F)
- 13
- Secret Beyond the Door (F)
- Girly (F)
- Superhost (F)
- 15
- Lynch/Oz (F)
- 16
- The Virgin Suicides (F)
- Lick the Star (SF)
- Beware the Woman, Megan Abbott (B)
- 17
- 3 Women (F)
- 18
- Black Mirror, Season 6 (T)
- 19
- The Boogeyman (F)
- 22
- Emily Climbs, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 23
- Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself, Chuck Wendig (B)
- Scream 4 (F)
- 24
- What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story, P.L. Travers (B)
- The Great, Season 3 (T)
- 25
- Carrie (1976) (F) [R]
- Carrie (2013) (F)
- 30
- The Rage: Carrie 2 (F)
- July
- 1
- Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (F)
- Carrie (2002) (F)
- 2
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (F)
- Emily's Quest, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 3
- You've Lost a Lot of Blood, Eric LaRocca (B)
- Dark Star (F)
- Code of the Freaks (F)
- 7
- The Curious Case of Natalia Grace (T)
- Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (F)
- 8
- Crime Wave (F)
- Decoy (F)
- Infinity Pool (F)
- The Shoemaker's Magician, Cynthia Pelayo (B)
- 11
- Scamanda (P)
- 12
- Alligator (F)
- 13
- Chameleon: Dr. Dante (P)
- 15
- Boogie Nights (F) [R]
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind (B)
- 16
- Swoon (F)
- He Knows You’re Alone (F)
- 17
- Sister, Sister (F)
- 19
- Tom Brown's Body (P)
- 20
- The Story Girl, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 21
- Transformations, Anne Sexton (B)
- Oppenheimer (F)
- 23
- Barbie (F)
- 24
- A Short Stay in Hell, Steven L. Peck (B)
- 26
- Glass Onion (F) [R]
- 28
- Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés (B)
- 29
- The Final Terror (F)
- The Bear, Season 1 (T) [R]
- 30
- The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar (B)
- August
- 3
- House of Hunger, Alexis Henderson (B)
- 4
- House of Usher (F) [R]
- The Pit and the Pendulum (F)
- 5
- The Premature Burial (F)
- The Golden Road, L.M. Montgomery (B) [R]
- 6
- Daily Rituals: Women at Work, Mason Currey (B)
- Haunted Mansion (F)
- 9
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (M)
- 11
- Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (F) [R]
- 12
- The Haunted Palace (F) [R]
- The 'Burbs (F) [R]
- 13
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Mason Currey (B)
- Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie (B)
- 15
- Graduation Day (F)
- 16
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (F) [R]
- 17
- House on Straw Hill (F)
- 18
- The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie (B)
- 19
- The Masque of the Red Death (F) [R]
- The Tomb of Ligeia (F)
- 20
- Death Game (F)
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (F)
- 21
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer (B)
- Burn the Negative, Josh Winning (B)
- 22
- The Tenant (F)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (F)
- 23
- The Amazing Mr. X (F)
- 25
- Curtains (F)
- Star 80 (F)
- 26
- Talk to Me (F)
- The Moving Finger, Agatha Christie (B)
- 27
- Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (F)
- 30
- The Haunted Castle (1896) (SF)
- Frankenstein (1910) (SF)
- 31
- Goblin Market and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti (B)
- September
- 1
- The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin (B)
- 2
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (F)
- 3
- Sleep, My Love (F)
- Perpetrator (F)
- Ladies in Retirement (F)
- 4
- Dragonwyck (F)
- 6
- Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975, Karen Wilkin (B)
- 7
- Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (B)
- 9
- Lyle (F)
- 10
- Experiment Perilous (F)
- 11
- Scream (2022) (F)
- 12
- Shiny Happy People, Season 1 (T)
- Burnt Offerings, Robert Marasco (B)
- 14
- Scream VI (F)
- A Murder Is Announced, Agatha Christie (B)
- 17
- Streets of Fire (F) [R]
- Shotguns and Six Strings: Making a Rock N Roll Fable (F)
- Wrinkles the Clown (F)
- Haunters (F)
- The American Scream (F)
- 18
- Friday the 13th (F) [R]
- They Do It with Mirrors, Agatha Christie (B)
- 21
- See How They Run (F)
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (F) [R]
- Friday the 13th Part III (F)
- 22
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (F)
- 23
- Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems, John Keats (B)
- Ivy (F)
- 24
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (F)
- 25
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (F)
- 26
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (F)
- Elevator Game (F)
- No One Will Save You (F)
- 27
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (F)
- 29
- Nick Cave (M)
- 30
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) (F)
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (F)
- Unwelcome (F)
- A Glitch in the Matrix (F)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (F) [R]
- The Body in the Garden, Katharine Schellman (B)
- October
- 1
- The Flying Dutchman (M)
- 2
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (F)
- 6
- Halloween Season, Lucy A. Snyder (B)
- 7
- A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie (B)
- 15
- The Grey Woman and other Tales, Elizabeth Gaskell (B)
- 4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie (B)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (F)
- 17
- Trick ’r Treat (F)
- 18
- The Fall of the House of Usher (T)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (F)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (F)
- 19
- Monster Inside: America’s Most Extreme Haunted House (F)
- Shadow of the Vampire (F) [R]
- 20
- Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (F)
- V/H/S/85 (F)
- 21
- From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Marina Warner (B)
- Werewolves Within (F)
- You’re Next (F)
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Agatha Christie (B)
- 22
- Frankenstein (TH)
- The Bear, Season 2 (T)
- 23
- You Must Remember This: Erotic 90s (P)
- 24
- A Caribbean Mystery, Agatha Christie (B)
- 25
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (F)
- 28
- Five Nights at Freddy’s (F)
- 31
- The Chilling Podcast, Season 1 (P)
- Ginger Snaps (F) [R]
- November
- 1
- Freddy vs. Jason (F)
- At Bertram's Hotel, Agatha Christie (B)
- 2
- Jason X (F)
- 4
- A Philosophy of Walking, Frédéric Gros (B)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (F)
- 5
- The Mirror Crack’d (F)
- A Haunting in Venice (F)
- 6
- The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler (B)
- 7
- Sanctuary (F)
- Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (F)
- 8
- Lost in Panama (P)
- Anatomy of a Fall (F)
- 9
- Body Snatchers (F)
- The Rapture (F)
- The Tuesday Club Murders, Agatha Christie (B)
- 11
- Frankenhooker (F)
- Angelica (F)
- 12
- The Vanishing Hitch-hiker, Jan Harold Brunvand (B)
- A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (B)
- Dante 360 (TH)
- So Evil My Love (F)
- 13
- Ghost Story (P)
- Final Prayer (F)
- Sleeping Beauty (2011) (F)
- 14
- Bloom, Delilah S. Dawson (B)
- From Beyond (F)
- Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (F)
- 15
- Cobweb (F)
- When a Stranger Calls Back (F)
- The Curse of Morton Abbey, Clarissa Harwood (B)
- 16
- Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (F)
- Black Christmas (2006) (F)
- Crone Wood (F)
- 17
- The Strangler (1970) (F)
- 18
- Fascination (F)
- Birth (F)
- Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (F)
- Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (F)
- Robin Redbreast (F)
- Sleeping Murder, Agatha Christie (B)
- 19
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Saint John's Night on Bare Mountain, Mussorgsky, Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61, Szymanowski (Leonidas Kavakos), The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky (M)
- 20
- Enys Men (F)
- Ravenous (F)
- 21
- Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography, Roger Shattuck (B)
- Afire (F)
- Passages (F)
- 22
- Happy Death Day (F)
- Happy Death Day 2U (F)
- Episode Thirteen, Craig DiLouie (B)
- 23
- Knives Out (F) [R]
- Glass Onion (F) [R]
- 25
- Priscilla (F)
- Beautiful Darling (F)
- 26
- The Last Haunt, Max Booth III (B)
- Black Christmas (1974) (F) [R]
- 28
- Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God (T)
- The Initiation (F)
- 29
- Portrait of Jason (F)
- 30
- So Long at the Fair (F)
- December
- 2
- It’s a Wonderful Knife (F)
- 3
- Fallen Leaves (F)
- May December (F)
- 6
- Totally Killer (F)
- Suitable Flesh (F)
- Consecration (F)
- I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (SF)
- Bitch (F)
- Evil Dead Rise (F)
- 7
- Black Mold (F)
- Bad Things (F)
- 8
- The Sacrifice Game (F)
- Lady in the Lake (F)
- Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories, ed. Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias (B)
- 9
- White Trash Girl (SF)
- Law of Desire (SF)
- The Offering (F)
- Run Rabbit Run (F)
- 10
- Butterfly Kiss (F)
- Don’t Open Till Christmas (F)
- 11
- Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (F)
- The Outwaters (F)
- 12
- The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie (B)
- 14
- Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (B)
- 16
- Savageland (F)
- 17
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley, Charlotte Gordon (B)
- Landlocked (F)
- Spoonful of Sugar (F)
- Master Gardener (F)
- White Horse, Erika T. Wurth (B)
- 18
- Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (F) [R]
- 19
- Eileen (F)
- 20
- The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (F)
- 21
- Birth/Rebirth (F)
- 22
- Gremlins (F) [R]
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (F) [R]
- 23
- The Boy and the Heron (F)
- 24
- The Nutcracker (M)
- 25
- The Crime Is Mine (F)
- 27
- Dark Harvest (F)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie (B)
- 28
- The Conference (F)
- 31
- It Lives Inside (F)
- Repeat Performance (F)
- Multiple Months
- 2023
- Ongoing podcasts without finite series: American Hysteria, Creepy, Digital Folklore, The Flop House, My Brother, My Brother and Me, Morbid, Normal Gossip, The NoSleep Podcast, The Other Stories, Scam Goddess, Spooked, Talking Scared, You're Wrong About.