Hello! I'm from the west coast of Canada where the mountains meet the sea. I think I most resemble Angela Carter in feature blended with Clive Barker in style. #HorrorWritersChat

The old summer roads are open again. #willerby

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

A good man did a bad thing for the right reasons. Mostly. Okay, it was murder. But it was to ease someone's pain. Okay, maybe a teeny bit of vengeance too. But it was to keep them from hurting anyone else. Okay, it might have been mostly vengeance. For a good cause! #HorrorWritersChat

The house. I can't control that. If it was something inside me, I cling to the notion that it's still me, even if it's me+entity. I think about all the times they appeal to the person, urging them to fight the whatever, and I, perhaps foolishly, believe I could. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I have a villain whose best quality (my favourite, anyhow) is that she has no dark arc. There is nothing which put her on this path, and she's very good at what she does. Unfortunately she died for a while so she's become quite unhinged. There are no guardrails anymore.

Hallo #HorrorWritersChat! It's been a while. I am Trish, and I write creepy weird silly eldritch-y ghost-y stuff a lot of the time. My villain origin story would be pretty boring, I think. I'm terrible at being bad. I might be an inadvertent villain though. Perhaps I sow mayhem without knowing it?

Hello my horrible harpies of #HorrorWatch! What shall the first movie be for our Gothic month of April? 1️⃣ Vampire Circus 2️⃣ Curse of the Crimson Altar 3️⃣ Willard 4️⃣ The Lodgers 📊 Show results

Happy April, I made a thing. Photo is by Mi Min from Unsplash Prompts are random quotes from Shakespeare

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

Trans Day of Visibility. Protect trans folks today and every fuckin day. All the love to our trans fam, we see you, we love you. We will cut a bitch for you. 💚

They want you to feel scared and small. It's the first hex to break.

Gasping and throttled, its voice made my skin crawl. I wanted to hide, to bury myself in the bedclothes, but fear kept me immobile. The words uttered in a whispery slither weren't a warning, but a reminder of a half-forgotten promise made without any consideration of consequence. #HorrorWritersChat

This is tough because unrepentant monsters are my favourite. I do have a character in the current trilogy who was a real dick and has regrets now that he's dead. Shortsightedness is never an excuse, but there may be a slim chance for a half-assed redemption. #HorrorWritersChat

The scariest hardest thing I've ever written is the stuff that gets closest to personal and to true. Vulnerability is terrifying and necessary. Though the first time I murdered a character I really cared about was really difficult and I had to go for a walk afterwards. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! My name is Trish and I write horror that doesn't always feel like horror, but when it does, it does. I like it weird, dark, and fun, with a bit of sizzle on the side. I am definitely a pantser to the extent that I often have no idea what's happening until it does.

It's today, people! My turn this week to host the #HorrorWritersChat. Four questions about you and your horror work. 7pm UK time every Wednesday, that's 2pm Eastern for those in North America.

I've written some delightfully steamy stuff, but within the current book, there's a scene with an earthquake where he pulls her into a doorway and braces his arms on either side, and it took them both a minute to notice the shaking stopped.... #HorrorWritersChat

Oooh, this one is tough. While I tend to love my characters, even the bad ones, I'm going to have to say Doggo, aka the Ancient Entity's Hellhound companion who likes to cosplay as a terrier for lolz. #HorrorWritersChat

Mature, well-read, mid-level Entity seeks rag-tag group of amateur sleuths of good character, living or dead, for possibly apocalyptic once-in-a-potentially-short lifetime adventure. VGSOH mandatory. Vampires or fast zombies need not apply. Safety not guaranteed. #HorrorWritersChat

Hallo, I'm Trish and I write whatever shows up though I lean heavy into weird, spooky, sexy, dark, and funny stories. I love it when I unconsciously add elements which become fully realized later in the story. I rarely know where I'm going so the constant surprise is fun too. #HorrorWritersChat

A Spell 📚to Keep Libraries Open 📖

When asked, how is it possible to thrive within *waves arms* all this? She responded, "Create art and community." So if you need me, that's where I'll be.

Midnight came. Everyone missed it because Herb drank too much and burned the sauce. Alex was livid. "Why are you cooking right now?" "I was trying to get a head start on things!" "How'd that work out?" "NOT GREAT!" "New year sounds like the old one," Tommy whispered to Doris. #HorrorWritersChat

Tommy is the life and soul of the party. She connects with anyone and makes them feel at ease, while looking like an extra in a Jane Fonda workout video. Herb will get a few glasses of bourbon in him and wax philosophical for sure. And everyone thought Sam left early but nope... #HorrorWritersChat

She is definitely going to keep on stopping people from inadvertently sacrificing themselves to elder gods but I'm not sure she's going to follow through on her intention to trust that people aren't stupid enough to inadvertently sacrifice themselves to elder gods. #HorrorWritersChat

Happy Wednesday #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Trish and I write fun, weird, dark, sometimes sexy, often silly poems, stories and books. This year I'll finish the 3rd volume of Tales from the Busmeat Café and publish it, along with the first two. There are other projects (of course) but this is my focus.

Imploring all boutique horror distributors to invite more women of color to write essays for you in 2025. Myself and 159 of my colleagues are available to do so.

Art today ART DAMNIT

How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search. Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here. Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.

Clive Barker doesn't need anyone shouting about him, but he was my first foray into horror and has my (hellbound) heart. That said, I read a short story by @raebolt.bsky.social the other day that kept me in a state of being unable to look away and really wanting to. So so good. #HorrorWritersChat

She would be fine. Her brother would be not. He might be, but it would be Buster Keaton standing in exactly the right place when a house fell around him level of safety. Incidental. Whereas my MC would react to what was happening with a level of sense that I wish I had. #HorrorWritersChat

Everything from Folk Tales and the Cthulhu Mythos to Cabin in the Woods by way of The Haunting via Something Wicked this Way Comes to Tremors and more. A lifetime of ingesting scenes and tropes spilling onto the page in a torrent of chaotic splendor and weirdness. #HorrorWritersChat

Paranormal with an emphasis more on gothic haunted house than possession and mythological/folk horror. A touch of history and ritual? Heck yeah. I also love the "did we imagine it" possibility mixed up with "no, you did not" reality, leaving room for both to be true. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! My name is Trish. Currently I'm writing the 3rd volume of Tales from the Busmeat Café which started as a typical slasher but has morphed to include ghosts, eldritch horrors, and maybe a kaiju? My favourite horror franchise is a tossup between Hellraiser and Evil Dead.

Throwback to that time I worked in a 2nd hand bookstore with resident cat who took her role of testing the quality of every single box in the store very seriously. And yes, she has her own staff picks shelf.

"This is what it feels like to watch America in 2024. A fading star, a bittersweet song, every day feeling like a farewell tour. You are the audience but you are also Elvis: tired of performing for the benefit of people who hurt you, trying to remind yourself that the music still matters."

This seems like a good idea and a great time.

There are different kinds of murder ballads: the earliest I know were “a murder happened and here’s the news about it.” Like local news reporting on crime. Then there’s the “I did violence and it’s bad” Folsom prison style. And the “I did violence and they had it coming” /1

"Your ideas are radical" Bro, I just want everyone to have food, water, shelter and healthcare

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

True.

nancy drew and the mystery of why I keep refreshing bluesky instead of reading a book

I must not be the only one who feels this way

Every response to this thread is true.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

It's a tossup between Never on Sunday and Pepe le Moko, which I saw before I turned 10. Breathless and Rififi were also around the same time.