Addams Family Values (1993) Directed By Barry Sonnenfeld

Gnarled tree root sculptures by UK-based artist, Tach Pollard.

Possibly the most famous of the Japanese toilet ghosts, Hanako is actually a relatively benign spirit. Basically, she's a scary thing Japanese kids dare each other to summon, by either knocking on the stall door or saying "Are you there, Hanako-san?"

A nice list of Japanese toilet ghosts to tighten your sphincter next time you go to the bathroom.

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– Harry Clarke

Spiders-Man, the best new Marvel character of 2018. From Spider-Geddon #3.

Forgive me.

Wikileaks rejected a State Department document and demanded that I destroy it.

My uncle worked for the State Department. He died a couple weeks ago. As per State Department policy, whenever one of their higher-ranking employees dies, the Department sends a small team to the home of the deceased to ensure they had no sensitive documents in their possession. It’s not that they distrust their dead colleague – they just don’t trust his family.

The Department team came to my uncle’s house one morning, spent a few hours rifling through his closets and drawers, and left with a small pile of papers. They expressed their condolences for my loss, then left. I never saw them again. Not even at the funeral.

On the night I visited and found him on the floor, dying of a heart attack, he told me something. It’s something I would’ve preferred to have never heard; something that made me wish I’d gotten to his house 20 minutes later to find him dead.

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