You'd better watch out... for our latest Substack post on Christmas ghost stories. @romgothsam.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/artemisw...

On stage fright, the mind/body distinction and disobedient hands. ‘Will these hands ever be able to play again?’ open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

And now my wall of horror is complete

Part 2 of my story about the horrors of teaching in the UK education system is available to read now on my Substack. Missed part 1? There's a link at the top of the post. 🦡 open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

Part 1 of a short story about teacher stress and the horrors of the English education system. It's very close to my heart. I'd love it if you gave it a gander (or badger) and let me know your thoughts! open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

Pickin' up good vibrations from the Sound and Vision issue of @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social. My article in here covers sensory deprivation tanks, medieval musical visions and the harmony of the spheres, and I absolutely can't wait to read the rest of this sublime content.

This week's Substack post just dropped (or slithered): open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

We hope your pumpkins are full of treatsies 🦝🎃 Here are some strange tales from our archive for the season... 1/5

4/5 Wixton Fen by Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/

A triptych of Venetian films, perfect for spooky season open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

Thank you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social, for nominating my weird little flash fiction story for the Genrepunk Awards! This is my first award nomination, and I am truly humbled. Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/

The third and final part of my spooky cultural history of Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole: open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

Part 2 of my history of Eldon Hole, featuring dastardly deeds under cover of darkness open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

This month, two cavers became trapped down the deepest chasm in Derbyshire. But they were far from the first to descend into a living nightmare... open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

First rain of August Dog paws splash down the pavement Towards windfall pears

The real-life setting of my folk horror novel is causing real-life mischief! Glad everyone was okay in the end. @romgothsam.bsky.social you might (not) appreciate this: www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

Is #TogetherMovie a horror comedy? Which other horror films have made you laugh recently? substack.com/home/post/p-...

I discovered this fishy fella on my recent trip to Italy. Here's what I found out about his species: open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

I sometimes have nightmares that I’ve got a real job. Always wake up relieved, safe in the knowledge that I’m contributing nothing to society.

Did your parents ever try and terrify you into good behaviour? substack.com/@sophiaadamo...

From our latest issue 🦝 We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions! 🧵1/2 In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully. trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/

2/2 Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine. Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/

The Brink was highly commended in the I Am Writing Horror competition! It pleaseth me well.

Would read! #BluePit

Slewfoot X The Lamb Derbyshire, 1642. A young woman, tasked with securing human sacrifices for a guzzling mouth of hell, falls in love with the ideal victim—putting her family and the entire village at risk. #BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #ND #H

Tried to resist jumping on the Salt Path bandwagon. Failed. sophiaadamowicz.substack.com/p/nature-mos...

Me, calling you donate item to the British Heart Foundation: it’s a lamp with three prongs tendrilling out of it Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*

My two pence on the Salt Path scandal: the passages on the natural world were often beautiful, but I was disturbed by the anti-medical bias running through the narrative. As someone who's struggled with depression and anxiety, I've heard plenty of bullshit on the miraculous healing powers of nature.

Delighted to have not one, but two pieces in this summer's volume of @trashcatlit.bsky.social! 'Wixton Fen' is inspired by a very real place nearby, where I ran with some buddies last summer. It was vast, beautiful and lonely... trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/

Now I’m not allowed to say which of these titles is mine (if you know, you know), but I’ve been shortlisted for the I Am Writing horror comp!

Thrilled to be three-times a trash cat 🐈‍⬛ 🐀🦡

Munching on handfuls of dry granola straight from the box like some kind of bourgeois horse is one of life’s greatest pleasures

Thrilled that @wishbonewords.bsky.social has accepted my flash fiction piece, 'Trial by Water'. It comes from a deep place. I can't wait to share it with the world.

Note to self: don’t store demon Halloween decoration in the attic and then forget you’ve put it there

Very excited to have both a flash fiction and a short story in this anniversary issue! 🐀

Hey everyone, I’m Sophia. I write folk and gothic horror, as well as black comedy and dark women’s fiction. Horror is, for me, something of a safe space in which to explore trauma and anxiety. It’s also escapism and nostalgia. #horrorwriterschat

Come to a hellhole with us! An excellent and really interesting talk on the history and legends of the hole including, but not limited to, murderers chucking their victims in (or not), aristocrats dangling peasants in, and some beautiful illustrations from cave explorers youtu.be/vMPeOarW-VI

Delve into an infernal pit with me! Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole, Eldon Hole, has a fascinating history and lore. Writers including Thomas Hobbes and Daniel Defoe stared into its fathomless depths, while locals told tales of murder and madness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPe...

Thanks to everyone who came to my Romancing the Gothic talk. Just been reading up on the infernal nature of cats. According to William Caxton: “the devyl playeth ofte with the synnar, lyke as the catte doth with the mous.” www.medievalists.net/2023/05/cats...

This 'form obscene,' this 'obscure vacuity,' this 'dire haitus' is wide open and waiting. Delve inside with me this Saturday for my Romancing the Gothic talk on Derbyshire's very own hell pit, Eldon Hole. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-hellhole... @romgothsam.bsky.social

My Romancing the Gothic topic this week is a gift that keeps on giving. As long as what you’re after are double entendres or straight-up comparisons between potholes and a certain part of the female anatomy. @romgothsam.bsky.social

Prepping for my Romancing the Gothic talk on a hell hole in Derbyshire this weekend. Want to get my claws on this Book of the Damned: boydellandbrewer.com/978184384609... @romgothsam.bsky.social

I’m looking for a birthday present for my father-in-law that has to fit in with the theme, ‘Whipped.’ Any sensible suggestions beyond feta, cream, a session with the local dominatrix or the sea, as handled by Xerxes?

Did the phrase ‘dog tired’ come about because you have to walk the cute little fuckers at 5:45am every day?

Met a dude in a queue today: goth wearing a Tarot t-shirt with a while bunch of cat, book and LGBTQIA+ badges on his bag. He’s my reader. How do I get him?!

Happy Pride Month to my latest f'ed-up bisexual protagonist. 🏳️‍🌈 💓💜💙

New PRIDE Horror @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @raewilde.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Was doodling a bat and it came out looking like Nicholas Cage. Why am I so shit at drawing?

I’m first up on the itinerary of tonight’s poetry reading! I’m bringing a big, fluffy puppy to a) calm my nerves and b) socialise the dog to beret-wearing beatniks. Any other advice?