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Mold: Halloween Edition

a photo of an ominous hallway with a lovecraftian blob drawn over it. a spotify playlist code and text saying scan to listen to my playlist digital ghosts
photos of dark, ominous passageways and rooms. A drawing of a frightened face with a needle aiming toward the eye. Text for an essay called The Architecture of a Haunting: How the Internet's Backrooms Illuminate Classic Haunted House Narratives
essay text
essay text and a photo of buildings
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essay text and a photo of a suburban home's exterior
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essay text, photo of concrete stairs, and photo of the exterior of a church
list of sources for the essay set against photos of an abandoned schoolroom, tree bark, and a tower silhouetted against a large moon
photo of a woman kissing a man, with faces painted over so that it looks like she is a vampire that is feeding on him
a photo of trees reflected on water with a list of short stories for all hallow's season written over it. The list says The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Skeleton by Ray Bradbury, The Scythe by Ray Bradbury, The House on El Estero by Fernanda Melchor, Toward Happy Civilization by Samanta Schweblin, The Tiger's Bride by Angela Carter, The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, and The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce
ink and graphite drawing of two twisted trees and a bloodhound, with the title The Hound and the Heron set against them
short story text
short story text
short story text and ink drawing of the back of a woman's head with a kerchief tied over her hair
short story text
short story text and ink drawing of a wildflower
short story text and ink drawing of a girl turning into a bird
photo of ice with an ink drawing of a monster pasted over it. an excerpt from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf which reads the other, warped in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale, bigger than any man, an unnatural birth called Grendel by the country people in former days. They are fatherless creatures, and their whole ancestry is hidden in a past of demons and ghosts. They dwell apart among wolves on the hills, on windswept crags and treacherous keshes, where cold streams pour down the mountain and disappear under mist and moorland.
review of the film Skinamarink
review of the film Skinamarink and a graphite drawing of a little boy sitting on the floor at the end of a hallway, facing a door that is barely ajar, with the caption Can we watch something happy now?
photo collage of a woman's body with a flower for a head set against a juxtaposed coastline and cottage with an owl in the foreground
photo of willow tree branches with a collage poem overlaid, which reads he says his grandmother used to warn the children / of bestial transgression, eating flowers / consuming forests elemental forces / showing signs of being evil / the snow that buries you alive with their elegant parasols / fortune-tellers, conjurers / storytellers, snake charmers / the sun set. / bind his calves, or twist his head / up and present it to the moon goddess / this is my face. now it's my face
the title 5 and a half haunting book recs. An ink drawing of a woman's torso and legs in a simple dress, a decaying pool ladder, and a bumble bee. The recommended books are The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
ink drawing of a bloody hand with sharp nails and a pilgrim-type buckled shoe. Recommendations for the books Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt, and Jawbone by Monica Ojeda
a poem titled Worm and an ink drawing of a worm. The poem reads alone in the dark / flesh sluices from your bones / peeling paint strips of skin hair nail / leave it behind / worship the newly red- / veined pale soft / membrane you now tremble in / curled infant you are / crying to be let back into the womb / into that beat beat beating / darkness / but you remain / swelling bulging bloating mass / you are / turning inside out / splitting / re-assembling
text that reads Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this issue of mold, even though it's a bit dense. Let me know if you enjoyed the essay I included or if I should keep that academic shit away from mold. Have a spooky halloween! heart, Marley
table of contents which reads 2 - the architecture of a haunting, 12 - short story recommendations, 13 - the hound and the heron, 21 - skinamarink review, 24 - untitled found poem, 25 - book recommendations, 27 - worm, and the note, I promise the next one will be shorter
photo of a dark, shadowy hallway with a ghost, candles, and a star surrounded by eyes drawn onto it

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