If I have learnt one thing from many years of talking to the cunning folk of Hookland it is of the importance of knowing from which direction evil travels. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme talk, 1936 #FolkloreAgainstFascism

No word works harder in the English language than ghost. This is why I delight in more intimate, complex words for the spectral, for spirits we may encounter. I am especially fond of the Hookland dialect word 'prigest' – the spirit that stands beside as a friend. – #CLNolan #WOTD

Some ride the twilight roads chasing after the last solar alchemy of the day. A last fix of gilding light. Some rush along them trying to outrun the coming dark, full of need to be behind their doors before it settles upon the land. Before the Pale Folk walk. – #DAKilroy, 1982

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Haven't had a new review in a while, and then two come along in one day! So pleased with this 5 star review of The Thing in Christmas Town. 🥰 📢📚 #Horrorsky

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How do you stay cool in Hookland? You visit a parish church and become part of its congregation of shades. You climb into a portal tomb and lie you back against its cooling stone as you listen to the heatless whispers of the ancestral dead.

A haunted house… But it’s a boat on the Norfolk Broads where she wakes to find a dead girl grabbing her face and screaming… “RUN!” mybook.to/Ruins FREE on #kindleunlimited #Horror #HorrorAuthor #thriller #suspense #booksky #horrorsky #occult #ghosts #readerswanted 🩸📚💙📚👀📢📚😱📚📖💙💀✨

The Oathsworn Trilogy is an Alternate History following the aftermath of a war with the Fae! A new chapter gets posted to Patreon every Sunday, and you can sign up for just £1 a month! Disaster sapphics, body horror, and Eldritch Fae abound! patreon.com/fenwintersta... #HorrorWritersChat

Well now I have to turn a story I had going into something else, because clearly faeries would fit better. This was fun, #HorrorWritersChat! Lovely questions <3 I share horror fantasy novel, what has faeries that aren't called that in it and is free right now: dyrewrites.itch.io/weald-and-wen

Thank you, Eryn. I loved the fairy themed questions! For anyone interested in my books, most of them are available on my Ko-Fi (including some great price bundles). I’ve also set up a new goal, so any help with that would be much appreciated. ko-fi.com/iseultmurphy #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you @erynmccee.bsky.social and #HorrorWritersChat You always leave me inspired! You can find my short horror work on my website dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/... or better yet, come to Quail Ridge next week (July 1, 6:30p.m.) to hear me read with my HWA friends!

Thanks Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat, wish the Christmas season would come a little early? "The Wild Hunt" is a short horror story set on Christmas Eve. It's sure to fill you with the spirit of the season. www.amazon.com/Wild-Hunt-Ch... #HorrorSky #BookSky

Thanks Eryn, as ever! As it's a Fey week, all my faerie stories are in my zine! The first 40 illustrated issues(!) are pay what you feel for Pride - Issues 1-5 below, featuring A Pet for a Prince, my first faerie story (but tw for animal harm - it is horror, after all 😞) #HorrorWritersChat

Spent 2 hours writing a short story. I captured my work in a screencast. Then sped it up... condensed down to 5 minutes. youtu.be/rlGU05C2UTk?... It's called The Taste Tester. The draft of what's in the video (mistakes and all) is over here: shellyblakeplock.com/experiments #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you Eryn for an enchanted #HorrorWritersChat In my short story *Porcelain Soul*, my doll might have been bewitched. Was it a fairy?--because fairies like that sort of thing--of was it something more sinister? You can get it for free in this promo books.bookfunnel.com/terrifyingta...

Thanks Eryn, Apologies to those suffering the UK heatwave, because these books are FIRE 🔥 Check em out, they good 😉 NO HEROICS, ONLY HORRORS NO REASON, ONLY RECKONING NO SAVIOURS, ONLY SYSTEMS WELCOME TO THE COLONIES OF THE TWAINEARTH #HorrorWritersChat www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W9KRT1...

Thanks for the Chat this week, Eryn! Got me thinking about a story I thought was way on the back burner. For this week's promo: my new novella, Funny Taste, is now available for preorder: a.co/d/0aMyXiEa You can read a teaser for it here: www.patreon.com/arcdirective... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks, Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat Only 6 days left to back Aloe, the 2nd book in my contemporary dark fantasy series, Tales From The Night Garden! This is the only way to pre-order, and the book doesn't drop until late October. Vampires, werewolves, and witches! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

Thanks for another awesome #HorrorWritersChat, Eryn! Great questions! Cruel Tides, the gripping finale to my Dark England series is now available for pre-order! Part slasher tale, part ghost story, part thriller, dive back into the dark side of Cornwall for only 99p mybook.to/CruelTides 🩸📚💙📚⚡️📚📢

The Mother screamed, the unrecognisable thing staining her flat's hearth crimson. The Coroner's report later puzzled at the implausibility of savage crocodile bites in Bloomsbury. A world away, Peter shrugged. Neverland? Children? Not a good mix... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat My stories aren't about fairies, but they're still pretty scary. And they're free! You don't have to give me your name or surrender something you cherish to enter my world of horror. Come meet my monsters Stay Spooky, everybody ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...

#HorrorWritersChat It's not horror but it is intense: Island of the Baboon God is half off for the Itchio Summer Sale! vincentlore.itch.io/freyjrulf-1

#HorrorWritersChat we're in the middle of hurricane season. Perfect time to check out "Agoraphobia," the story of a man too afraid to leave his home despite the danger... until the outside gets in, that is. www.amazon.com/Agoraphobia-... #HorrorSky #BookSky

#HorrorWritersChat Want to know > how to promote a book without social media? > resources for self-publishing? > eight design top tips for your book promo graphics? You’ll find these subjects and more on my helpful blog. Check it out! Let me know if you find any of them useful.

Thanks for running this, Eryn! Marrow for Mallow; a short story about a fae, free: nightterrornovels.wordpress.com/2022/06/24/t... Hawthorne House; 1926 gothic horror novella, in which 9yr old Rosalyn tries to become 'Queen' in a play-pretend game: bookshop.org/p/books/what... 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you so much, Eryn. I have enjoyed contemplating fairies and their wiles at the end of this very hot day. Since it is Pride month, I'd like to boost this video made by @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, to promote their lovely queer wares. bsky.app/profile/nefa... #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks, Eryn, for looking after the little things... Right before the Chat dropped, I posted on Substack with words and pics which should make a good intro to my work offered there weekly: jamesryanfiction.substack.com/p/going-on-t...

Thank you, Eryn for the fun fae questions. I wish I could join in more often but Wednesdays are my office days at work now. That being said: I have paperback books on sale in my shop this week. 25% off! www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop #horrorwriterschat

Thank you Eryn and all - I'm excited to learn more about the new friends I just made here! My brand new release is the fairy tale pirate adventure novel THIEFTESS. It's technically YA, but there's a LOT of blood in it. Like, a lot a lot. aletheakontis.com/2026/06/thie... #HorrorWritersChat

As The Wheel Turns - More Tales from the Weald has been reissued, with new stories & cover & a very pretty hardback version. It's also in KU for a while. Standalone stories of folk horror blended with dark fantasy set in the Five Turns universe. www.amazon.co.uk/As-Wheel-Tur... #HorrorWritersChat

I quite like the idea of gifts, whether physical or a 'power' of some kind. They only last as long as the person does as they agreed to. If not, the gift changes into an affliction. This would be great for a dark comedy ... #HorrorWritersChat

The fairies returned to the child exactly as promised. "You took all my teeth!" the girl cried in distress. "Yes little one, but we have brought you sharp replacements. Now Carmilla, you can drink your food like a straw & it will be crimson." #HorrorWritersChat Q3

#horrorwriterschat The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. And then the fairy returned the same child again, exactly as promised. And again. And again. And again. The pack of children howled for food as the fairy brought another, exactly as promised.

#HorrorWritersChat They'd not touched the child. Not fed her, not given her water. Or if they did, her little body couldn't process it. The mother stood by, numb. The father drank. The teenage son played dice with a tiny shadow. Warm fairy poison circled inside them all. Waiting, waiting, to unite.

#HorrorWritersChat "Thank you for returning my daughter. But why is she not speaking or walking?" Asked the woman. "You did not specify. That's extra." "What? What do you mean extra?" "I've returned her exactly how she left." "But she was only a year old then! Now she's five!" The fairy shrugs.

The doctor agreed, as did the therapist and the parish priest. The things young Willard claimed to have seen, the Hobbled Men, the cities under the earth, the King of 6,000 Sons…were just signs of an active imagination. #HorrorWritersChat

Yet condition wasn't discussed. So while its mother could have it, hold it, its senses remained forever in lands of rusted skies, starving grass and keening trees. It would scream, yes, but never age, never die, never want for food or drink. A boon, truly, so why was she so angry? #HorrorWritersChat

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. The mother looked at the decaying toddler swaddled in the blanket and felt her heart break all over again. "But you said you'd bring him back," she cried. "He is back," the green man said. "You buried him, and now he's back." #HorrorWritersChat

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. She said his own mother wouldn't recognise him. And she couldn't. In place of a newborn infant with soft skin, plump cheeks and a charming disposition lay something which resembled a nightmare incarnate. #HorrorWritersChat

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. The mother checked for any injuries or illnesses, and she could find none. She sighed with relief and took her baby home, sleeping well that night. She awoke the next morning to see her dog dead, the baby’s face smeared with blood. #HorrorWritersChat

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. A promise of return, not condition. She watched the girl, adorable in pixie outfit, held up a purse to her mother. “Look, Mummy, magic!” The mother played along. “Go on then, cast your spell.” "Dust to dust," murmured the fairy. #HorrorWritersChat

Paul Jessup, I write creepy unsettling terrifying surreal horror and dark fantasy. And you should fear them because they are the root of the word eldritch #HorrorWriterschat

This has been my quiet re-release, ie the book has been available but I kept quiet while I made sure things were ok. Today, I know it all came good! Yay!

She already has a dark side, though it's hidden well. I'd probably do something with that fairy dust she's always shaking everywhere. The glitter is a mere coating for things like fleas, fire ants, lice ... #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Steph, writer of folk horror, gothic, postapocalyptic etc etc. Fairies. They've always appeared too 'glittery' & saccharine for me. Perhaps that's why we should be afraid of them. You think they're all innocent, then they suck you in, & before you know it you're a toad. #HorrorWritersChat

Yes, I am stupidly proud of this book. Thought I'd wave it around a bit, partly to back up @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social's reminder that self-pub quality can be good. I took a huge amount of care in the production of this book, as with anything I'm involved in. PS: my cover, no AI anywhere

This is brilliant. It will haunt you.