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The next 10 films are here - films 21-30 of the challenge!

Cambodian Horror

• The Hand (2025) dir. Mak Pichjuli. Watched on YouTube.

Filipino Horror

• Posthouse (2025) dir. Nikolas Red

Turkish Horror [all on YouTube]

• Siccîn 5 (2018) dir. Alper Mestçi
• Siccîn 6 (2019) dir. Alper Mestçi
• Siccîn 7 (2024) dir. Alper Mestçi
• Siccîn 8 (2025) dir. Alper Mestçi
• Ölü Kontesin Laneti/Curse of the Dead Countess (2025) dir. Ahmet Arpacı

Nigerian Horror

• Haunted (1998) dir. Chico Ejiro

USA Horror

• They Will Kill You (2026) dir. Kirill Sokolov

Vietnamese Horror

• Đoạt Hồn/Hollow (2014) dir. Ham Tran

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The next 10 films of the challenge are as follows:

Australian Horror

• The Pack (2015) dir. Nick Robertson

Canadian Horror

• Rituals (1977) dir. Peter Carter

Chinese Horror

• 三更客栈/Midnight Inn (2024) dir. Chen Jiaolong
• 白雲齋怪話 /Baiyun Ghost House/Weird Stories of Baiyun Zhai (2025) dir. Li Zhiwen

Filipino Horror

• Nightshift (2020) dir. Yam Laranas

Italian Horror

• La notte dei diavoli/The Night of the Devils (1972) dir. Giorgio Ferroni

Uruguayan Horror

• Plenilunio/Fullmoon (1993) dir. Ricardo Islas. Watched on YouTube

USA Horror

• Never Let Go (2024) dir. Alexandre Aja,
• Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) dirs. PlayRead Transcript

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The first 10 films for the challenge! They are as follows:

Chilean Horror

• Wekufe: El origen del mal/Wekufe: The Origin of Evil (2016) dir. Javier Attridge

• La casa lobo/Wolf House (2018) dirs. Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

Indian Horror

• भूत बंगला / Bhooth Bangla (2026) dir. Priyadarshan

• Junglemahal: The Awakening (2023) dir. Arunava Chowdhury

Italian Horror

• La settima tomba/The Seventh Grave (1965) dir. Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo
• Il mostro dell'opera/The Monster of the Opera (1964) dir. Renato Polselli

• Demonia (1990) dir. Lucio Fulci.

Nigerian Horror

• Clout (2021) dir. Bobby Emmanuel Okoye, Watched on YouTube.

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As this is a media-focused season, I thought I'd do some podcast versions of the media round-ups I post monthly on my website, of all the media I've been reading, listening to, and watching.

These are all genres, and if you fancy getting to know me and my media tastes, or get some recs for your own media consumption, then check these bonus episodes out.

[If you do want to skip spoilers for Val Kilmer film The Traveler, please skip to around 01:04:01.420 where you then just pick up my overall thoughts on the film, without plot specific points.]

Book Recs:

All of Us Murderers by K.J. Charles

What The Fog Conceals by R.A. Marno

Linghun by Ai Jiang

25 Gifts of Terror by Boris Bacic

We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

HorrorBabble’s Diary Horror (Audiobook)

Algernon Blackwood BBC Radio Drama Collection (Audiobook/Audio Drama)

TV Show / Limited Series Recs:

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Yaratilan/Creature (8-part series)

Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence (complete 3-part adaptation)

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (complete 3-part adaptation)

Midwinter of the Spirit (complete 3-part adaptation)

Crooked House (3-part complete series)

Queen Mantis (8-part complete series)

La Révolution (8-part series, cancelled, ends with set-up to S02)

Ghosts (UK) - complete and now finished series with several seasons.

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Season 06 of Eldritch Girl is a Horror Film focused season! I've been doing the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge for 4 years now, but this time I want to share my challenge progress on the podcast.

Here's my look back at the last 4 years, with a few Top 10 lists (plus runners up). I'm looking forward to starting this season but the episodes may be a challenge in themselves to get up! We'll see how often I can post, as all the films will be new to me, and I can't get a head start to record them!

For now, enjoy my look back at the 467 films I've watched over the last 4 years specifically for the challenge count.

Read this in its original post format on cmrosens.com.

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The final two days - and my top 5 from the whole list!

You can find all the list and links on romancingthegothic.com and individual daily posts on my Ko-Fi and at cmrosens.com.

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My top 5 #AScareADay stories:

October 27th – Helen Stubbs – ‘Uncontainable’ (2016) – Read it here

October 28th – Nibedita Sen – ‘Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnibar Island’ (2019) – Read it here

October 15th – Conrad Aiken – ‘The Vampire’ (1916) – Read it here or listen here

October 18th – Everill Worrell – ‘The Canal’ (1927) – Read and listen to it here

October 8th – Rhoda Broughton – ‘The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth’ (1868) – Read it here

League of its own: October 24th – Lisa L Hannett – ‘Sweet Subtleties’ (2012) – Read it here

There are so many from this year's list that I loved.

I also go into my top 10 films for the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge, which I've now completed!

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Only 2 days to catch up with now, so this is a shorter episode! I tried my hand at fragment writing, and also a web comic style story with photos I took, and stock photos I found in Canva. So these two days are both a bit experimental! You can find them on cmrosens.com and all the challenge stories listed on romancingthegothic.com if you want to find them.

CW for body horror

Intro/Outro Credits:

"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I loved these stories/poems, and highly recommend them. Get ahead or do the challenge day by day: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the-scare-a-day-challenge-october-2025/

My creative responses vary from Changelings to Beverley Wend & Eglantine Pritchard, and more...

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Have a read of the stories for these days and join in with your own thoughts - here are mine, along with media recs, and creative responses! Go over to cmrosens.com for all my #AScareADay posts, and to find all the links mentioned in this episode.

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Today we've got more vampire fiction, sapphic fiction, and domestic horror. Let's dive in!

Follow the challenge list: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the-scare-a-day-challenge-october-2025/

Read the posts on my website and on my Ko-Fi.

Intro/Outro Credits:

"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/