Hello #HorrorWritersChat The funeral of our community originator, Matt Mason @chaoticauthor.online, is on Friday. As not everyone can make the funeral, we're inviting people to share their memories of Matt or a review of his books here on Bluesky between Friday and Sunday using #MGMasonRocked 🤍🕯️

I don't usually participate in #Caturday, not owning a cat and all, but my sister's cat is dying to meet you all. Here she is showing the true purpose of the Christmas treats hamper box I sent. Food optional. #catsofbluesky #Christmas #amnotwriting

Botanical rainbow in December. Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿

The witch is a threshold creature. Wood's tangled border, shore's salt-line blur. For at the feral edges of the land her magic is mighty. The fluid boundary of the marsh offers reflected nephomantic glimpses, a rush of whispered wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

This is as close as I'll get to forest bathing and I'll take it 💚🌲 #trees #forestbathing #christmas

There's a Hookland dialect word - greenhole – used to describe the powerful attraction of a dark way into the woods. 'Going down the greenhole' is usually reserved for that moment when the path ahead intensifies into a tunnel-like pitch and yet you know won't turn back. – #MattAdams, 1982 #WOTD

YES THIS also FOMO goes right out the window, as in, sure, I could go out to all the hot spots OR I could lie here in bed with my iPad watching @dropout.tv with at least one cat dozing alongside, hmmmm, I guess the cool kids will just have to have fun without me

Never forget: Art matters.

At the moment, I’m regrettably not reading Edgar Allan Poe whilst having cappuccinos and croissants in a dimly-lit quaint café on a cobblestone street in Prague during a snowstorm, so no, I’m afraid your email did not “find me well.”

Who will wear the 👑?

A huge bookstore with a tiny/nonexistent horror section is a shitty, incomplete bookstore. I said what I said.

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

You can buy my out-of-print portal fantasy, Pseudotooth, directly from me, all signed and doodled in. This book made at least two readers miss their stops on the train. ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671

Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter

So can anyone recommend the right lit mag for a satirical dystopian fairy tale told in the form of legislation? No? Oh. Well, it seems I wrote it anyway 🙄 #WritingCommunity #writersky #litmags @chillsubs.bsky.social

She is still here.

Stop what you're doing and watch these sleepy chaps.

November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan

Our forthcoming #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft hits Forbidden Planet for pre-order. Link below 🧙 forbiddenplanet.com/476966-beyon...

Here’s some (more, I shared her work back in May) Dead Seagull art to make your Saturday a little better.

My staff picks are up on the website!! The northern weird Project by @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social and @jodierobins.bsky.social was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social Play Nice is in my top five of the year!

While being ill this past year, I listened to Florence's entire back catalogue, two songs at a time, which frankly was the best possible use of my very limited energy #florenceandthemachine #fatm #pwme #everybodyscream

The blackbird sings to him, 'Brother, brother, If this be the last song you shall sing, Sing well, for you may not sing another; Brother, sing.' -Julian Grenfell @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat.

'A Bram Stoker Award winning novel, The Fisherman is a masterpiece of cosmic horror that contains elements of Lovecraft, Moby Dick and the ghost stories of M.R. James.' #JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far buff.ly/C4B49ZM

There's still time to participate in this month's #WriteCBC 🙂

Hmmm... which book to read next? #booksky #horror #gothic #writers

For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

I'm Shona Ray, and I write weird stories inspired by anthropology. My Terrible Truth? Great horror doesn't always need the supernatural. Humanity has plenty of its own. #horrorwriterschat #horror #booksky

Currently DEVOURING The Lamb @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social! Delicious 😋

Tonight! Come chat it up with me as a chair a discussion between @jodierobins.bsky.social, Gemma Fairclough and Katherine Clements as part of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project: houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 430: Read. Read widely. Read what you love, and what you don't. Read what you know, and what you don't yet know. The wider your reading, the better your chance of avoiding the limitations of being influenced by only one author, one genre, one culture, one time.

Watching workplaces during the pandemic quickly adapt to the remote working solutions disabled people have been pleading for for years, and then watching those same workplaces whip those accommodations away now abled people no longer need them has been... suboptimal.

A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is

So I'm now reeling from the final scene of this book (all that freaky staring!) when next door's cat appears from nowhere at the window in the dusk and I have NEVER felt so Halloween #booksky #horror #halloween

Julia Armfield's Private Rites feels so realistic to me that I keep looking up expecting the house to be flooded and everyone to be hanging out on roofs and suspended walkways

ADCI and the SoA worked together to create the Access Form (known in some cases as an Access Rider) and designed it to provide a simple, easy to complete form to share with your publishing team to communicate your needs. You can download the form here… bit.ly/3WfXMiM /5

For all who didn't make it through the darkness, and for all who are still in it somewhere. 🖤

Dipping my toe into this melting pot once again! I'm not better by any stretch, but those butterfly wings are starting to show...

@clairerwade.bsky.social, thank you SO much for dedicating such energy to your @jerichowriters.bsky.social webinar on writing in hard times - totally what I need right now! Loads of fantastic tips from hard-won experience. I wish you every success with your current novel.

Sorry for the silence lately. I'm taking a break from socials for a while, due to illness. I am taking my chrysalis form. I'll be back stronger. #writingcommunity #writersky #horrorwriters

#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.

True luxury is found in the simplest moments.

Taking a break from my novel edits to critique a friend's work. This is the bit I love. Somehow problem-solving and cheerleading is much more fun when it's for someone else 😊 #WritingCommunity #writing

FORGOTTEN SISTERS with an Honorable Mention in The Best Horror Books of 2024 from @pastemagazine.bsky.social Thank you! 🧜‍♀️

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

My Atlantic… The winter solstice is approaching. Bring on the light! #newweek #MondayMood #winter #weather #StormHour #GoodVibesOnly #jefinuist #Scotland #OuterHebrides

This channel is now officially my favourite. I challenge you to decorate a tree to this soundtrack and not feel Christmassy! 🎄🔔 www.youtube.com/live/-qOs1Y9...