Chris Benton

Short story writer, faithful husband, dizzy with tragedy, I dig intelligence and Gothic Art, Film infected...

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

I return to Expat with another sibling dirge, my intention was gentle poignancy, but shit turned kinda lunatic, thanks again to @manwellperkins for launching another wound into the ether...

[Expat Press @ExpatLitJ]

“True South” - @DeadGeographies https://t.co/XNfmLICOT2

[DAILY HORROR STUFF | Michael Sellars | Author @HorrorPaperback]

Rick Lieder's cover art for the 1993 Borderlands Press edition of Poppy Z. Brite's Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories.

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

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@ATRightMovies At Eternity's Gate (2018) is sublime. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out not only on a great piece of cinema but Dafoe's greatest performance by a country mile.

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

A Seattleite is renting our guesthouse and is very cool, she contains wild noir history, I think Seattle is the greatest city in America, lived there briefly light years ago...

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@dawsferatu Brad Pitt is a psycho, and I'm a dog lover, win-win

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@_motherslug Great novel, the heat-seeking southeast coasts and seas will always be the ends and beginnings

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[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

I realized this when I watched the film "Leaving Los Vegas" very late one night after my husband had died--suddenly, I totally understood this film & Cage's performance.
before, I'd had no interest in seeing it at all, as I had thought it glorified alcoholism. but--the contrary. it was a revelation how my own experience had transformed my experience of the film & others like it exploring the roots of addiction.

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

Masters of the Universe actually cured my venomous sobriety for a couple of hours, great goofball fun, that end scene with the heroes laughing maniacally into the sky was sheer alchemy...

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Dry day 15, physically feel amazing, but remember, alcohol reduces the body's temperature, so the infinite fevers of hatred for my fellow man are completely unleashed...

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https://t.co/EfGkWsActb

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Love The Executioners and both adaptations and also really digging the new Cape Fear thus far written by the brilliant Nick Antosca, it's a serpentine, howlingly hilarious psychodrama, pure cathode decadence...

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

@HorrorPaperback Brandon has pathology to burn, Infinity Pool was pure Ballardian depravity!

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

@HorrorPaperback The Blackcoat's Daughter is oppressive, misanthropic, despairing, profoundly unsettling shit...

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

@matthewbdexter 13 days dry, and physically feel fantastic, I'm going to drink inevitably, but at 50, drying out is an absolutely essential ritual now...

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

@HorrorPaperback My all-time favorite King adaptation, always on the Halloween Playlist

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@dharlanwilson @antioedipusp @routledgebooks @tandfonline @Dickheadspod Fearsome, congrats man

[D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson]

Today I submitted the final proofs of this 125k-word monster to the publisher. The official release date is early September.

https://t.co/5he9EpTNk9

@routledgebooks @tandfonline @Dickheadspod (2026)

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@cwik_greg Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien

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Crimes of the Future
Naked Lunch
Crash
eXistenZ
The Shrouds

[Max Lawton @maxdaniellawton]

Videodrome
Crash
Dead Ringers
eXistenZ
The Dead Zone

[Chris Benton @DeadGeographies]

He's embracing this because of the speed of the technology, he's been mentioning his mortality constantly in interviews, and a man's mortal terror can sometimes murder his creative integrity...

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Martin Scorsese has joined a generative AI startup as a partner and advisor.

He adds that he has used AI during pre-production to help with storyboarding — “with this tool, I can share what I’m visualizing more clearly & efficiently to my creative team — the production designer, art designer and cinematographer.”

(Source: https://t.co/LJlx5ylxvr)

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@HorrorPaperback A VHS copy is mandatory for any serious collector