No idea what time #HorrorWritersChat starts today or who's hosting, but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless.

Thanks for hosting, Eryn! Thanks to all! The only thing I have this week is this (possibly pretentious) founding statement that I wrote for my new small press: frolicpress.substack.com/p/an-invitat... #HorrorWritersChat

I'm going with the ghosts of megafauna, or megafauna survivals, although I'm not the first or even second with this answer—so maybe they aren't so forgotten after all. The mammoth, the saber-toothed cat, the terror bird, and the titanboa all live in the novel I'm working on. #HorrorWritersChat

The old things of the darkness are still here, and the more our electric lights and cities force them into the interstices of this world, the more hostile toward us I reckon them. #HorrorWritersChat

My home is the Deep South, and folk belief is so alive here. The joining of Indigenous, European, and African traditions here, and the brutal history that shaped that process—that's one well from which my work springs. It's hard to answer with more specificity in 300 characters. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello again, folks! I'm Travis and I write horror/fantasy/weird/supernatural/whatever fiction. Things that scared me as a child include: my father's snoring, space aliens, the knowledge of mortality, and this one particular street lamp I could tell you about. #HorrorWritersChat

There are 37 donors funding the $300 million build of the new White House ballroom. Unsurprisingly, Amazon is on that list. But you know who isn’t? Independent bookstores. And this is why it will *always* be bookstores over billionaires. ✊

Frolic Press Newsletter frolicpress.substack.com?r=fjlee&utm_... Sign up for free for major news and announcements, and the occasional tale. We won't just send inbox clutter, I promise.

I made a list of my 301 favorite horror films that have fewer than 50,000 watches on @letterboxd.social letterboxd.com/6travisjohns... #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

Full cover reveal in November! Frolic Press debuts with CONJURE WIFE by Fritz Leiber 80th Anniversary Edition Introduction by the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social Releases Winter 2026! To be available wherever books are sold. #weirdfiction #horrorliterature #smallpress #booksky

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

Thank you, Mary! You've been a wonderful host. I want to shout about Frolic, my new small press. We're launching next year with an 80th Anniversary Edition of Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife including an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. working on the website now: frolicpress.ink #HorrorWritersChat

June Moore, protagonist. A young hunter searching the haunted landscapes of Florida/Georgia circa 1910, on a quest of vengeance against timber barons. She's my favorite because I've known her forever. She's probably here to ask me when I'll finally finish writing her story. #HorrorWritersChat

Book: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Film: True Grit (1969) Music: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music Painting and printmaking: the works of Odilon Redon #HorrorWritersChat

2B pencil, notebook (I always write notes and first drafts by hand), etymological dictionary. I recommend all of these. I also recommend a good mattress; images and ideas so often come in dreams. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Hello, I'm Travis. I write supernatural horror set in the US South with touches of sadness and sinister whimsy. My dream writing room would be in a tree house in a vast old growth forest, with nice cabinets to display my collection of animal skulls and odd miscellanea.

I've been away, but I've been busy. I started a small press! frolicpress.ink If you're reading this, I hope you've been well!

The first passion flower of spring has opened. #nativeplants #naturalfarming #gardensky

Mushrooms in my gardens, making soil. #fungifriends #naturalfarming

Mustard and radish in bloom. #gardensky #naturalfarming

I've read Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Emily Bronte, Herman Melville, Gene Wolfe, and Virginia Wolfe, so I know there are no rules. Unpopular horror opinion? 'Evil Dead' is better than 'Evil Dead 2'?

Some things must be mysterious, but I go very deep into back story. A lot of that back story may be excised in revisions, but I have to write it at least for myself, to know my characters and settings as deeply as I can. #HorrorWritersChat

I don't think that horror requires moral themes, necessarily, but my own stories do. A lot of my favorite literature is very didactic.

Hello, I'm Travis. I write supernatural horror informed by Southern American literature & folklore, heroic fantasy, westerns, and much else. I have only 1 WIP; it's an historical epic and has required a lot of research. #HorrorWritersChat

Happy release day to @sgj.bsky.social ! I'm very excited about reading this one.

It's always a great day to spend at the Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum. When you come to St. Augustine, FL, please stop in, meet Gigi and Skip, and support them in their important work. #booksky #museumsky

I picked up the new books by @ericlarocca.bsky.social and @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social, which look very handsome together. #booksky #horrorsky

He really was one of the greatest.

I completed my Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser collection. Also, I really like finding ex-library books. #booksky #fritzleiber #weirdfiction

True, but I'm still boycotting Amazon.

I've yet to finish anything that I'd consider major. I hope to (first novel) by year's end. I don't expect I'll pause before the next thing. I'm too much a creature of habit, and for almost a year I've been up at 4am every morning and writing until dawn. I like this rhythm. #HorrorWritersChat

Like Fritz Leiber's "The Black Gondolier" if it were stupidly and ineptly written and the characters were children. (This is referring to a story I wrote a very long time ago. Quite bad, but I think it's neat that I came up with the premise before having read Leiber's story.) #HorrorWritersChat

Moultrie Church & Wildwood Cemetery in St. Augustine, FL. There's a big wood behind it. Inside (it's always open) is an ancient and beautifully out-of-tune piano. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello, I'm Travis. I write HORROR. Or call it weird fiction or dark fantasy or whatever you please. Current WIP in six words: Okra bairn blue pistol; nihthræfn, forsooth. #HorrorWritersChat

I have not read an ARC, but I am about to pre-order the novel from @bookshop-org.bsky.social : bookshop.org/a/110901/978... Moreno-Garcia's books to date have been stunning, one might even say bewitching.

Found this today. 1951 printing with cover illustration by Rodney Matthew. When can we make book covers wild again? #booksky #weirdfiction #fantasy #illustration #vintagepaperbacks

Consistent with my earlier entreaty to seek alternatives to the Bezos empire, I finally switched from Goodreads to StoryGraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/trav... Admittedly, it needs a lot of improvement. The database is full of errors. Fortunately, I enjoy librarian duties.

I wasn't a popular kid.

Mulberry and fig breaking dormancy as Spring arrives in North Florida. Also, a mushroom.

I've been arguing against both uregulated generative AI and against the use of existing copyright law to fight it for well over a year and haven't been able to put it so pithily and eloquently.

If you're a paper purist like myself, bookshop.org operates on a similar model. I have an affiliate link in my profile, benefitting the Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum in St. Augustin, FL. De-Bezos your life.

I love my cosmic snail bookmark by @saffronstitched.bsky.social

About to start 'Midnight Rooms' by Donyae Coles (as soon as I've made tea). @okokno.bsky.social #booksky #horrorsky #weirdfiction

A smaller book haul today, but with some amazing cover art such as they just don't make anymore. #booksky #weirdfiction #vintagepaperbacks

The American South, its history, folklore, topologies, and ecologies. I always wanted to be a Southern writer as much as a horror and fantasy writer. The South is very haunted, and I love it and wouldn't live anywhere else, even if I'm a political misfit here.

Clark Ashton Smith because he had a fascinating life and I'd like talk with him about domestic chickens. #HorrorWritersChat

I've been writing since age 4, so over 40 years. My first story, "The Meanest Crab in the World", is about a crab who battles a skeleton monster. I've had some poetry and film criticism published, but only realized after becoming disabled at 40 that I wanted to write full-time. #HorrorWritersChat

I ever tell you how much I love #lichen ? #NorthFlorida

Another day, another load of books. I finally have a proper library, a whole room, bookshelves ceiling-to-floor. Almost all I ever wanted in this life. @datlow.bsky.social @ramseycampbell.bsky.social @joerlansdale.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social #booksky #fantasy #horror #weirdfiction etc.