Jon@TheLitCritGuy

Author & researcher: horror film & literature, contemporary culture, and the ghosts of utopia. UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

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Jon@TheLitCritGuy
Aug 6
👻👻👻 I don't use this account all that much anymore but I have some NEWS. My next book -- on debt, haunted homes and the nightmares we all just have to live with -- is coming out with @haymarketbooks and I couldn't be more excited. 👻👻👻
Horror critic, essayist, and host of Horror Vanguard Jon Greenaway’s REPOSSESSED, a survey of the haunted house as a persistent image in American horror films and literature, arguing that beneath the floorboards of the American imagination are deep fears of debt, property, and a financial system built on flimsy speculation, incorporating films from the modern literary horror boom as well as stories as old as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” to John McDonald at Haymarket Books, for publication in 2028, by Erik Hane of Headwater Literary Management (World English).

ALT Horror critic, essayist, and host of Horror Vanguard Jon Greenaway’s REPOSSESSED, a survey of the haunted house as a persistent image in American horror films and literature, arguing that beneath the floorboards of the American imagination are deep fears of debt, property, and a financial system built on flimsy speculation, incorporating films from the modern literary horror boom as well as stories as old as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” to John McDonald at Haymarket Books, for publication in 2028, by Erik Hane of Headwater Literary Management (World English).

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The Devils renaissance yet another jewel in the crown of vindication of Gretchen Felker-Martin who is simply THE critic of our time
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The Haunted House on Film - The Little Stranger (2018) thehaunt.substack.com/p/the-…
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Hey Philly! If you are lucky enough to catch The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover on the big screen @phillyfilmsoc, listen to our recent ep of @tender_subject We talk about rot in French haute cuisine, Brecht, John Berger and more! With @TheLitCritGuy of Horror Vanguard!
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Nov 3
Hungry for cinema? Fill your plate up with film when FEAST kicks off THIS WEDNESDAY! From supper club confessionals to anarchic food fights, these films turn sharing a meal into a grand celebration where politics and religion are on the menu. Tickets: bit.ly/4yVTVIe
FEAST LIMITED SERIES AT PFS NOVEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER

ALT FEAST LIMITED SERIES AT PFS NOVEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER

This PFS smorgasbord that throws dining etiquette out the window. From supper club confessionals to anarchic food fights, these films turn sharing a meal into a grand celebration where politics and religion are on the menu. THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER 11-4 7:30 PM CENTER (G) 11-7 6:30 PM CENTER (M) 11-27 7:00 PM CENTER (G) 11-28 4:15 PM CENTER (M) JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH 11-7 2:30 PM CENTER (G) 11-8 4:00 PM CENTER (G) LE GRANDE BOUFFE 11-14 9:15 PM EAST 11-20 9:30 PM EAST THE CELEBRATION 11-17 4:00 PM EAST 11-17 7:00 PM EAST 11-20 4:00 PM EAST 11-22 6:00 PM EAST DAISIES 11-21 7:00 PM EAST 11-24 4:00 PM EAST 11-24 7:00 PM EAST

ALT This PFS smorgasbord that throws dining etiquette out the window. From supper club confessionals to anarchic food fights, these films turn sharing a meal into a grand celebration where politics and religion are on the menu. THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER 11-4 7:30 PM CENTER (G) 11-7 6:30 PM CENTER (M) 11-27 7:00 PM CENTER (G) 11-28 4:15 PM CENTER (M) JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH 11-7 2:30 PM CENTER (G) 11-8 4:00 PM CENTER (G) LE GRANDE BOUFFE 11-14 9:15 PM EAST 11-20 9:30 PM EAST THE CELEBRATION 11-17 4:00 PM EAST 11-17 7:00 PM EAST 11-20 4:00 PM EAST 11-22 6:00 PM EAST DAISIES 11-21 7:00 PM EAST 11-24 4:00 PM EAST 11-24 7:00 PM EAST

This PFS smorgasbord that throws dining etiquette out the window. From supper club confessionals to anarchic food fights, these films turn sharing a meal into a grand celebration where politics and religion are on the menu. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN 11-28 1:30 PM CENTER (M) 12-2 7:30 PM CENTER (G) RATATOUILLE 12-5 2:00 PM CENTER (M) 12-6 4:30 PM CENTER (G) JOY LUCK CLUB 12-6 2:00 PM CENTER (M) 12-9 7:00 PM CENTER (G) BABETTE’S FEAST 12-12 4:30 PM CENTER (M) 12-13 4:30 PM CENTER (G) BIG NIGHT 12-20 6:00 PM EAST 12-26 4:00 PM EAST

ALT This PFS smorgasbord that throws dining etiquette out the window. From supper club confessionals to anarchic food fights, these films turn sharing a meal into a grand celebration where politics and religion are on the menu. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN 11-28 1:30 PM CENTER (M) 12-2 7:30 PM CENTER (G) RATATOUILLE 12-5 2:00 PM CENTER (M) 12-6 4:30 PM CENTER (G) JOY LUCK CLUB 12-6 2:00 PM CENTER (M) 12-9 7:00 PM CENTER (G) BABETTE’S FEAST 12-12 4:30 PM CENTER (M) 12-13 4:30 PM CENTER (G) BIG NIGHT 12-20 6:00 PM EAST 12-26 4:00 PM EAST

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Mike Davis sums up my thoughts on this day
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Truly the best issue yet of @curaffairs. With: @KyleKulinski @NaomiAKlein @astradisastra @JulianAndreone @JessicaLBurbank @jamie_elizabeth @mollycrabapple @eternallyRaq @TheLitCritGuy & @nikasoonshiong. + Beautiful handmade art! Get your PRINT copy today! currentaffairs.org/subscribe
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If you want horror, religion, politics or some combination of all three, then I'm your guy.
Jon@TheLitCritGuy
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Four books in five years!
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The Haunted House on Film, an ongoing series.
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The Haunted House on Film Part Six

After suburbia, in the last part of the series I was interested in a more traditional haunted house film for this week’s installment. I was looking through lists for some underrated haunted house f…

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The Haunted House on Film Part Seven

It’s been a while, but I thought it’s time to get back to writing about haunting houses in cinema. For a while, I’ve been meaning to write about The Little Stranger from 2018, a stylish, albe…

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Happy Halloween 🎃👻 For this festive day, we at Emerge put together a list of Gothic Marxist texts! Check the thread below to learn more.
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"Most of the talk of “freeing up time” is best understood as a managerial euphemism, a kind of authoritarian vision-quest for burning through the hard-limits of time and labor which are posited as the ultimate drag on the accumulation of profit." thehaunt.blog/2026/10/17/it-…

it is always too late to talk about time

“The Horse in Motion” a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge from 1878 Okay, confession time. I’ve been wasting too much time on social media again, getting lost in the f…

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Spent six months reading sixty novels with some friends all for the sake of a very special podcast: theleftpage.libsyn.com/warha…

The Left Page: Warhammer 40K - Literally All of the Horus Heresy w/...

An episode on our favourite part of 40K... 30K! Enough for a very special Halloween episode, with our dear friends of the Horror Vanguard, going into what the Horus Heresy is, does, and... how we can...

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Also forgive me but this chance may never come again. "Oh hey China Mieville, what do you think about the literary geneology of Gothic Marxism?"
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I wrote about China Miéville’s The Rouse for Jacobin. I liked it a lot and have things to say.
Jacobin
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“The Rouse” follows a secret British effort to weaponize ghosts amid the Cold War and decolonization. A supernatural spy thriller, a Marxist meditation on history, and a stylistic triumph, China Miéville’s novel is a masterwork two decades in the making. jacobin.com/2026/10/china-mi…
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lmao this entire Mieville interview is great
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China Miéville on @blowbackpod: “Great podcast” gothamguillotine.com/2026/10…
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Also forgive me but this chance may never come again. "Oh hey China Mieville, what do you think about the literary geneology of Gothic Marxism?"
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Issue 3 is out now! Thank you to all the contributors: @drynwetice , @hangsawoman , @TheLitCritGuy , and everyone else who made this issue gothic and great. Link in bio!
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The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
Christoffer Jonsson
@kurrejonsson
Oct 17
Jag vill inte längre höra folk säga att det rör sig om ”vanliga” skolprotester. Bilderna och filmerna från Frankrike visar på ren och skär ondska.
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Freeing time is a utopian demand! As such, it is ungraspable by the capitalist drive for optimisation. 💫
Jon@TheLitCritGuy
Oct 17
"Most of the talk of “freeing up time” is best understood as a managerial euphemism, a kind of authoritarian vision-quest for burning through the hard-limits of time and labor which are posited as the ultimate drag on the accumulation of profit." thehaunt.blog/2026/10/17/it-…
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