I think that all of the horror stories I love are strange. Strangeness is what makes horror interesting to me. I'll name "The Same Dog" by Robert Aickman. Aickman's genius was evocation over description; the story is emotionally devastating, but it isn't immediately obvious why. #HorrorWritersChat

youtu.be/uH10IyS2FOc?... #HorrorWritersChat

A dude I knew once told me how one weekend he had a yard sale and people coming by kept telling him they were so sorry for his loss. Confused, he asked what they meant, and found out he spelled "Mourning Yard Sale" instead of Morning. It inspired a tale in my collection. :) #HorrorWritersChat

Hallo, lovelies of #HorrorWritersChat I'm Justine and I'm here to say...I write weird shit almost every day... Q1: I think it was Dalí who would nap in a chair holding an object and when it fell, it'd wake him up and he'd run and write down whatever vision came to him from his hypnagogic state...

My story "The Confession of Jackson M—" was inspired by prolonged staring at a stapler. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I'm Travis and I write strange stories. I have no idea if my tip would work for anybody but me, but I sleep with an audio recorder by my pillow so that I can pick up any weird nocturnal mumblings. I also sometimes fall asleep to audio of police interrogations. #HorrorWritersChat

Grab your snacks and find yourself a cosy spot. It's almost time for #HorrorWritersChat #AmWriting #HorrorSky 🩸📚

argalirecordsnetlabel.com/2026/04/11/1... Hello all. We are still accepting trax for this, deadline is MAY 30TH. We currently have trax from: @an-eel23.bsky.social , el_masmore, Jabe Ledoux, RDKPL, and...me! (in the form of a fantastic remix by datewithdeath [ @frolicpress.bsky.social ] ).

This electroacoustic composition is the sixth in a series of singles that will comprise the audio companion CD to The Frolic Press Anthology of New Strange Fiction #1. frolicpress.ink/The-Frolic-Press-Anthology-of-New-Strange-Fiction-1/

Big news! Frolic Press will be issuing audiobooks! Dr. Ergo Phizmiz will be narrating his own forthcoming novel, as well as Fritz Leiber's classic 'Conjure Wife'. @ergophizmiz.bsky.social frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/conjur...

Fresh but still dirty -

i made a remix for @frolicpress.bsky.social to be part of a companion cd for an upcoming anthology of strange fiction. check it out! the original track is pure electric chaos from yapping portal (angel / @fire-toolz.bsky.social), carl kruger, & datewithdeath #musicsky #music #electronicmusic

I just backed Goblins & Galaxies Magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/crt...

A new novel and soundtrack album by Aidan Baker ( @nadjaluv.bsky.social ) #weirdfiction #experimentalmusic #bookswithsoundtracks #aidanbaker #frolicpress

Honestly, I haven't felt lonely since I started sharing my work. The community has been wonderful. I was an extremely lonely youth, and the memory of that time informs what I write, but I find myself now surrounded by lovely people. I also have a big garden full of wildlife. #HorrorWritersChat

Repetition, both on the narrative and syntactic level. I didn't really notice until rereading, but of the eight tales in my new book, half deal with entrapment and isolation by routine. I took this to extremes in one story in which I deliberately pushed all the way into tedium. #HorrorWritersChat

Social/psychological/moral. An excellent example is Cormac McCarthy's work, particularly 'Child of God' and 'Outer Dark'. Another is Poe's "The Man of the Crowd". Merely physical isolation is something that I enjoy, though of course it leads to the other kinds if too prolonged. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello, folks! I'm Travis, founder/editor of Frolic Press, and I write strange stories. The first favorite work about isolation that comes to mind is the film adaptation of 'Rosemary's Baby'. Isolation so gradual and eventually so total, even in the midst of others. Terrifying. #HorrorWritersChat

Write horror and want to chat about it? Join #HorrorWritersChat a weekly meet-up with four horror questions/prompts, chat, and a promo opportunity. Next meetup on BlueSky: Wednesday 8 April at 2 pm (EDT - USA) / 7 pm (BST - UK) All time zones welcome! #AmWriting #HorrorSky

#horrorlit and #fantasylit lovers, do you have yours? frolicpress.ink/Conjure-Wife/

SURPRISE RELEASE! THE CORPSE PRIEST is out today! This is a strange beast of a novella, a bloody cocktail of sword & sorcery, Ligottian pessimism, and cosmic horror. I’m going to talk a little about how this release came to be, inspirations, and more—SO PREPARE FOR A THREAD!!!

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