Neuro… No Neuro :: Were we really there? EP (Self Released) igloomag.com/reviews/neur...

Thank you, Eryn! Once again, I will be promoting the work of @ivygrimes.bsky.social , who has a free book launch event in less than four hours. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cellar... Also, a new edition of Leiber's Conjure Wife is just become available from Frolic (links in bio). #HorrorWritersChat

No, still slowly working on the novel I started back in winter, which I'll probably be writing for a few years. But I'm editing several books that will be out this year, as well as writing and recording new music. #HorrorWritersChat

She understood, with the particular clarity that attends irreversible things, that answering would constitute a consent she could not afterward withdraw. She did not go out. The window, however, faced the garden. The garden, she gradually realized, was aware of this. #HorrorWritersChat

Very much fog, because it's beautiful and, here in Florida, only seen in spring. It's also horrible in a way here, because it portends the brutal, oppressive humidity that will arrive by May. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I'm Travis and I write strange stories that are often horrible. I suppose my brand is post-surrealism, or irrealism, or fabulism. Or call it dark fantasy, that's fine with me. What I like most about it is that I can write it. I couldn't write anything else. #HorrorWritersChat

Is it? Yes, it is. Maybe a slightly different time for you lot over the pond. We're in the in between threshold of time changes. But it's coming, anyway. #HorrorWritersChat bods assemble"

happy bookday ivy!! if anyone wants to read Ivy's thoughts on the writing and pbulishing of the book, do give this a read! fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/03/inte... then go buy it!!

frolicpress.substack.com/p/introducti... #bookannouncement #releaseday #weirdfiction #fritzleiber #frolicpress #horrorliterature #fantasybooks #ramseycampbell #Booksky #ConjureWife

Frolic Press and Frolic Press Recordings are thrilled to announce that Aidan Baker's soundtrack to his novella is now available for pre-order, with the CD arriving April 10 and the novella November 3. frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/songs-... @aidanbaker.bsky.social #soundtrackstobooks

C. L. Moore, Roberta Findlay, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lisa Tuttle, Elizabeth Engstrom, Joan Aiken, Doris Lessing, Octavia Butler, Emily Brontë, Shirley Jackson, Kathe Koja, Dorothea Tanning, Toni Morrison, Margaret Brundage, @ivygrimes.bsky.social again... #HorrorWritersChat

I have ambitions to write a novel about Boudica, Queen of the Iceni tribe of Britain who fought the Roman invaders in AD 60 or 61. This will be as much a heroic historical fantasy as a horror novel, but the horrific elements will be strong. She endured quite horrific things. #HorrorWritersChat

The protagonist of several of my stories and my novel in progress is June Moore, a caul-born hunter in frontier Florida circa 1906-1912. Her flaw is a preternatural proficiency at violence and a lack of mature discernment as to when the use of it is justified. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Travis and I write strange stories. My favorite recent (this year) horror read by a woman is my favorite recent read of any kind by anybody: 'The Cellar Below the Cellar' by Ivy Grimes. @ivygrimes.bsky.social #HorrorWritersChat

Write horror and want to chat about it? Join #HorrorWritersChat a Wednesday meet-up on BlueSky. All time zones welcome! Questions/Prompts will stay up and shareable for up to 24 hours, so you can still join in "late". We start today at 7 pm (GMT/UK) / 3 pm (ET/USA) #AmWriting #HorrorSky #WiHM

Two new digital singles featuring the talents of @neondoom.bsky.social , @fire-toolz.bsky.social , Dead Voices on Air, and @charibdys.bsky.social These are audio companions to The Frolic Press Anthology of New Strange Fiction #1, coming 2027. #weirdfiction #weirdmusic

New music with my good friend @frolicpress.bsky.social celebrating an upcoming collection of strange new fiction! Check it out. frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/extrac...

This electroacoustic composition is the first in a series of singles that will comprise the audio companion CD to The Frolic Press Anthology of New Strange Fiction #1. feat. contributions from Dead Voices on Air and @charibdys.bsky.social #WEIRD frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/dread-...

One week until the release of Frolic Press's special edition of Fritz Leiber's CONJURE WIFE, a foundational work of horror/fantasy (often cited as the earliest example of "urban fantasy") Apparatus by Ramsey Campbell, the world's most-awarded living fantasy writer March 20 wherever books are sold

Thanks, Gree! Frolic Press's special edition of Fritz Leiber's horror classic Conjure Wife—with apparatus by the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social—is out just 9 days! info and purchase links are here: frolicpress.ink/Conjure-Wife/ —and here: travisdjohnson.net/books/conjur... #HorrorWritersChat

The monster trips on its own intestines. It apologizes. You realize, mid-swing, that you are also stitched together—have always been. The cigarette falls. #HorrorWritersChat

Homicidal humans, I suppose. Generally, I think that things that move very slowly are more frightening. I don't think I've ever written about a fast monster. #HorrorWritersChat

I wouldn't say I have a favorite. The protagonist of my novel in progress has aspects of the gunslinger and swordswoman archetypes, which are more known from western and fantasy genres (of course there's a lot of overlap between those genres and horror). #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! Travis again. I write strange stories. I'm going to go with the very predictable choice of the original Evil Dead. #HorrorWritersChat

Good day, #HorrorWritersChat! Spring is just around the corner, and at this time, I'm happy to be hosting tonight's event once again! I hope you won't mind that this is going to be a self-indulgent one tonight! Because it involves a subject I specialise in and love. The catharsis of Action Horror.

2027 J.R. Andrews, Zak Cowell, Suzy Eynon, Ivy Grimes, Rebecca Harrison, Travis D. Johnson, Cliff Jones Jr., Massimo Magee, T.J. Price, Rhiannon Rasmussen @jrobertandrews.bsky.social @reprobvte.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @cliffjones.bsky.social @eerieyore.bsky.social @charibdys.bsky.social

There's a listening party for the new EP by Sheffield composer David Newman aka Autistici, which includes a collaboration with datewithdeath aka me! It's free, and I'll be there if anybody wants to chat and listen! autistici.bandcamp.com/merch/famili... Love, Travis #ElectroacousticMusic #Listen

Thank you, Eryn! I have lots to shout about. My collection of strange stories is out next month, my new album of strange music is out now, the edition of Frtitz Leiber's 'Conjure Wife' that I edited is out on the 20th. Much more! Links for the curious: linktr.ee/travisdjohns... #HorrorWritersChat

It played dead, as they do. But when I kneeled close, I saw its eyes were open. Watching. And its lips moved in something almost like counting. It had been there, I realized, every morning. Waiting for me to kneel. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm from rural Florida and was a keen outdoorsman in my younger days, so the only non-human animals that frighten me are feral Eurasian swine. I've been treed by a pack of them. Terrifying. Could make for a good story. Henry Kuttner's "The Graveyard Rats" is very scary. #HorrorWritersChat

Best really depends on the story, I think. A mule is a major character in my novel in progress. My new book of short stories uses snails as an image—but the snails are also the stars. I always loved the talking severed dog's head in @kkoja.bsky.social 's "Impermanent Mercies". #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I'm Travis. I have been told that my brand is Southern Gothic fabulism and Gothic ecology. Most of what I write is set in set forests. #HorrorWritersChat

A curated list of 55 books spanning the 12th to 21st centuries. Including works by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social Buying from @bookshop.org supports independent bookstores! #WomenInHorror #WomensHistoryMonth bookshop.org/lists/women-...

Working on this big painting as 2024 wraps up!

proof copy of BLOOD GARLANDS Tremendous thanks to @ivygrimes.bsky.social for the blurb! The book will be available April 21, wherever books are sold! #WeirdFiction #FrolicPress #HorrorAuthor #Booksky #SmallPress

The Song in the Well Another gorgeous tiny piece of fiction by Rebecca Harrison! You can read it in just a couple of minutes, but you’ll read it again! #StrangeStories #FlashFiction #Fables

Thank you, Mary! Last time I shared the interview I conducted with the great @ivygrimes.bsky.social This time I'll share her interview of me: ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-... #HorrorWritersChat

I won't claim to have subverted character tropes in any terribly meaningful way. My main character is a small, mixed-raced woman in what's essentially a fantasy-horror-western set in the Deep South. I think what I'm doing is unique, but I can point to clear antecedents. #HorrorWritersChat

The horrors of ecological destruction, poverty, and labor exploitation, because I grew up poor and rural. Also the horrors of racism, which intersect with the above. I'm white, and have not directly experienced racism. But I have borne witness. #HorrorWritersChat

The protagonist of my novel in progress is of Black and Florida Cracker ancestry. She's a hunter in post-Civil War frontier Florida. She kills a lot of people. Helps other people. Her progress is an odyssey from cow country to the city and also a sort of philosophical progress. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello. I'm Travis. I write strange stories. Favourite LGBT character: I'm going to say Basil Hallward from 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'; this is controversial, but I read his relationship with Dorian as implicitly homosexual. Black? I'll go with Ben from NotLD. Tough choices! #HorrorWritersChat

I actually slept a full 7 hours last night! Will I make it through #HorrorWritersChat?

And now the playlist itself: tidal.com/playlist/bb3...

Free tickets for the virtual book launch of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR are LIVE 🌟🌌🎉 Join author @ivygrimes.bsky.social, guests @eerieyore.bsky.social, @christinogle.bsky.social, @sashabrown.bsky.social, and host @authorplm.bsky.social March 25 for a Q&A, live reading, and giveaways! See you there 💜

announcing: The Frolic Anthology of New Strange Fiction #1 a collection of contemporary weird stories including new work by @ivygrimes.bsky.social @jrobertandrews.bsky.social @jolietoomajan.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and more TBA Cover art reveal soon!

Less than 1 month—Conjure Wife arrives. Fritz Leiber's classic novel of witchcraft and academia with apparatus by @ramseycampbell.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/conj... Cover illustration by the brilliant James Hutton. #WeirdFiction #FritzLeiber #ConjureWife

For the second time now, I have fallen asleep during #HorrorWritersChat — not because it's dull, but because it's relaxingly enjoyable and I am often exhausted. I answered only 2 of four 4 questions, so no promotion for me this week. But thanks to Gree, and I'll be reading through answers today!

All of my stories are dreamscapes. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Travis and I write strange stories. My most frightening dream I had when I was 8 years old. In this dream I was making prank phone calls, choosing random numbers from the phone book. One who I called I spoke nonsense syllables to. She screamed horribly. I can still hear it. #HorrorWritersChat

Greetings, #HorrorWritersChat! The skies are leaden and heavy with rain over my home - quite suitable for tonight's session! What better atmosphere for tonight's topic; the horror - and power - of dreams, and dreamscapes.