Creator of horror drama podcast The Rue Papers and also author Michelle Birkby https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rue-papers/id1749765774 https://linktr.ee/EmmaButlerPodcastshttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mnmwn3ecdk27Horror afternoon at the cinema - Backrooms which I loved (do enjoy this era of the true horror are the brightly lit bland office type spaces like this and Severance) and Obsession which was really intriguing and clever06 Jun 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmwn3ecdk27https://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mlgvbjqufc2vWoo! Saturday! Time to party! *settles down with a big bowl of cereal to binge watch a twenty year old TV show* Softly whispering ‘I’m so wild*09 May 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgvbjqufc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mlda42dcys2eWake up Look at news Swear loudly and vociferously Retreat straight back into horror fiction because right now, compared to reality, horror is comforting08 May 2026 07:40 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlda42dcys2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mld7sf25222eSo my local library does a ‘blind date with a book’ thing - book wrapped in a paper with a description, you can’t open it until you’ve borrowed it. I got one described as body horror and its oddbody by Rose Keating and tucked inside was this note.08 May 2026 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld7sf25222ehttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mlbjm4f6t22eGave up on the bad disaster series because I suddenly cried out ‘why am I watching this when the entirety of ER is on Netflix?’ and have gone back to it. Funny thing is, watching it now, I really don’t care about Doug Ross at all07 May 2026 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbjm4f6t22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mlbh7joy3c2kI’m watching a not very good disaster serial (no I don’t know why I’m still watching it) and the uncrackable computer code even the star hacker can’t crack is clearly Wingdings07 May 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbh7joy3c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mlaogdavw22zWent to vote, gave my name as Michelle Birkby and the poll clerk said ‘the author?’ Now as my books were published about five years ago and I thought had disappeared entirely this made me very happy and slightly stunned. I’m still the author.07 May 2026 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaogdavw22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3ml6vsvlsxc25Went to see Hokum, not knowing anything about it. Mix of folk horror and ghost story - Adam Scott as a deeply unpleasant writer caught up in a mystery in an Irish hotel. Genuinely terrifying moments, very scary and really good characters06 May 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6vsvlsxc25https://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mkvi765y2s2yI’m not sure what studios think they’re doing when they advertise a film in the trailer as different from the what the film actually is. Leads viewers to be disappointed and people who might have watched the film as it is to miss it02 May 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvi765y2s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mkvi4u5g4k2yRoofman trailers made it look like a wacky comedy but it’s far more thoughtful and insightful and quiet than that. Fantastic performance by Channing Tatum who is really turning into one of the best screen actors02 May 2026 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvi4u5g4k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mkvaclnspk2fAlright, watching Roofman purely for Channing Tatum, who has surprised me in the last two movies I saw him in, he was very good02 May 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvaclnspk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mkv7z6vpz22fI’m quite peeved at the way certain horror movies hang around in the cinema for weeks and yet others are one week and gone (and I think the ones that are gone do tend to be the woman-led ones)02 May 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv7z6vpz22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mkv7wx7gzc2fWatched Dead of Winter, which I somehow managed to miss entirely in the cinema last year. Decent ‘terrible things happen in the wilderness’ movie, unusual that both hero and villain are older women (Emma Thompson and Judy Greer) and the protagonist is very capable02 May 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv7wx7gzc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mkv47e4dqs2fEvery time I watch a movie set in the countryside I am so relieved I live in a city… I mean, admittedly, nearly every movie I watch set in the country is a horror… https://media.tenor.com/3U_XTJcEY4AAAAAC/the-wicker-man-band.gif?hh=270&ww=48002 May 2026 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv47e4dqs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mksv2vmm5227Currently watching a Korean horror series - If Wishes Could Kill, about an app that grants wishes and then counts down to their death. It’s very bloody - ALL the trigger warnings - but very good. I am enjoying this new trend of movie style horrors being created as a series01 May 2026 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksv2vmm5227https://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mjraj76lk22pCatching up on recent @weirdinthewade.bsky.social episode and delighted to find a road ghost episode - I’m fascinated by road ghosts - constantly searching and wandering, only ever a brief interaction. One day I’m going to have a good explore of bluebell hill and the road ghosts there18 Apr 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjraj76lk22phttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mjr6mkqht22oWatched Akira in the cinema and wow - still just as good as I remember it, still incredibly iconic18 Apr 2026 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjr6mkqht22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mjowudqkns2pRevisiting the first ever anime I ever saw - (unless battle of the planets and that Godzilla cartoon series count?) by seeing Akira in the cinema17 Apr 2026 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjowudqkns2phttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3milnup6gxc2yAs far as anyone’s concerned, I did a 5k walk today for grown up health reasons but just between us it was a tour of all the Pokémon Go gyms in the area.:..03 Apr 2026 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3milnup6gxc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3milcs3g5ic2uWatched Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen which was very enjoyable. Slow start but got good - episode 5 especially creepy. Great ending. But as usual with these marriage as horror stories (like Ready or Not) I have to wonder why she ever fell for him at all03 Apr 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3milcs3g5ic2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mi73l24tgc2xI did not realise the clocks had gone forward and just thought I’d managed to sleep in for once29 Mar 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi73l24tgc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mi73gngwus2xInspired by @tartanmog.bsky.social been diving into sci-fi. Saw Project Hail Mary twice - that’s a fantastic move, loved it. Reading Three Body Problem - not an easy read but intriguing. Listening to audio dramatisation of Murderbot diaries - I love it. And now watching Interstellar - very intrigued29 Mar 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi73gngwus2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mhn7o7elmk2lI’m reading Andrew Miller The Land in Winter and it’s set in the sixties and there’s a woman in it who loves reading pulp sci-fi and when the doctor says she might prefer Virgina Woolf she has such scorn for him. I love her. I love Virginia Woolf but also yay for a woman who loves pulp sci-fi!22 Mar 2026 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhn7o7elmk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mhkvqfdvsc2pNo spoilers so I can’t say what the line is but there is a line on page 287 of Itch that I absolutely love and adore21 Mar 2026 11:15 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhkvqfdvsc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mhkqqi5l2k2aI am reading Itch by Gemma Amor, a feminist folk horror and I am loving it. Very intriguing and - well - it makes my skin crawl.21 Mar 2026 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhkqqi5l2k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/emmabutler.bsky.social/post/3mh4si4oc3k2rIt’s so perfect having Lucy Briers play Mrs Hill in The Other Bennet Sister, supporting and encouraging this new Mary15 Mar 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:dlhegprdp7ghm4n226we7njm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh4si4oc3k2r