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ARC's available for this MISS MARPLE meets THE SHINING eco-folk horror coming out Sept 2026. Contact me or get your copy from booksprout.co or booksirens.com and soon on NetGalley (publisher Independent Book Publishers Assoc). Thanks for your honest review! #folkhorror #bookreviews #horror #gothic

Looking for a psychological horror series that you can read in any order? Check Coming Up Short by Charles Welch! For fans of The Twilight Zone, the Coming Up Short series will be familiar, and twisted territory! #booksky #fyp #horror #scary #books #readersky #bookrecommendation #bookworm #bookish

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat! If anyone's interested, all this month I'm running a showcase for morbid art and fiction and their inspirations. There are daily prompts and weekly chat questions, and writers are very much encouraged to use both to self-promote.

Thanks, Eryn. LOVED this topic. Phengaris, takes its title from a very innocuous little blue butterfly, which parasitizes ants in a fiendishly inventive way. A great deal of the horror is about arthropods, but also the ways humans can parasitism each other. #HorrorWritersChat payhip.com/b/58pa

Thanks Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat I am beyond honored that my short story "The Static Man" will appear in the anthology dedicated to the memory of our friend Matt Mason, "The Shadows That We Carry." I cannot wait for you all to read it.

#HorrorWritersChat in the mood for something Gothic this spring? How about a story about a maid who goes to work for a mad scientist? Think Frankenstein and Crimson Peak had a baby together. Available in paperback, ebook and audio book. www.amazon.com/Pure-World-C... #HorrorSky #BookSky

Thank you for hosting another wonderful week, Eryn! Well, here it is! After returning to creative writing after 10 or so years of not doing so, Consequence, my short horror story, will be published in the upcoming community anthology! bsky.app/profile/that... #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you Eryn, another fun #HorrorWritersChat My stuff features in these new free promos Horrific Giveaways storyoriginapp.com/to/DJsrKbp ARC/Review Booster / Free Books Friday / March books.bookfunnel.com/arcbooster/5... SPINE CHILLING READS books.bookfunnel.com/spinechillin... 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚

#HorrorWritersChat, Very fun! Thank you! x My collection, my blood, sweat, and tears. Be a part of it. All my love, Viv. mybook.to/AllsWell

Thanks Eryn This is always fun Check out my books Any one of them Hell, all of them I need to know if I'm writing tripe or not They're thrilling They're funny And as my dear departed grandma would say They're proper filth! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W9KRT1... #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you for the cool questions! I would like to share my essay on cozy horror that I published with The Horror Tree this week! #HorrorWritersChat horrortree.com/what-is-cozy....

If you liked my whale answer to Q2, please check out my poem “Aqueous” in Mausoleums of the Eye and other poems. I channeled all of my fear of whales into that piece! #HorrorWritersChat books2read.com/u/b571jA

Nothing of my own to promote today, but I did quite like @erynmccee.bsky.social 's novel FORBIDDEN TEA. Charming, well mannered, but oh so deadly. Justice delivered with biscuits. #horrorwriterschat

This week, #HorrorWritersChat, I want to highlight a Kickstarter I’m doing for a bank robbery horror anthology! If we meet our funding goal, there will be some spots open for submissions as well! Appreciate any shares and support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks, Eryn. Cool questions. Is it ghosts haunting us, or are we haunting the dead? My collection CORPSE ROAD BLUES 👇 🩸📚 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FC...

Thanks for another #HorrorWritersChat If you like twisted creatures that eat people, long drives down dark roads that never end, and a doomed world covered by corrupted flesh, check out my stories. All of my work is free on my Ko-fi. Stay Spooky, everybody. ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks for the great questions, Eryn. Love a creature feature! With the theme in mind I'd like to showcase my short story The Ritual: www.patreon.com/posts/ritual... The image showcases the animal phobia in play, haha. This story is free to read and getting a sequel soon!

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat As always you can check out my horror on my website: dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/...

Seems like a perfect day for OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER, a short creature feature novel I would describe as The Very Hungry Caterpillar x National Geographic, but make it horror. #HorrorWritersChat www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit...

Thank you Eryn! I am also very excited to be included in the #HorrorWritersChat Anthology with my story "Car Crash." My writing has improved immensely in the last year because of this group. Thank you so much! 💙

Thank you! This was fun, even with the slugs 😅 Pre-order is up for my new gothic horror, A Fragile Thing. 1888. Whitechapel. A predatory hypnotist seeks to climb the social ladder. In doing so, he lets the monsters out ... www.watertowerhill.com/shop #booksky #horrorwriting #gothic #horror

Thanks Erin! Since we’re talking wildlife today, my collection Next Door has tentacled terrors and earwigs by the thousands, and Revolve includes many critters in those stories, like the lovely, meaty snails I mentioned. 🐌🐌🐌. #horrorwriterschat kimberlydavisbasso.bigcartel.com/product/next...

Thank you for the cool questions! I would like to share my essay on cozy horror that I published with The Horror Tree this week! @horrortree.com horrortree.com/what-is-cozy....

A butterfly landed on her shoulder. Right blue and beautiful. It's proboscis tickled her neck as it went searching for the floral scent upon her skin. Then deeper and deeper until it hit the vein and there was nothing left of her. #horrorwriterschat

Spiders are helpful, so I left them alone. Their cobweb forests above my bed fascinated me. I counted them like sheep. Until the morning I woke wrapped like a mummy. I saw them then, dark shadows swarming through the silken mist. The helpful sheep have come to feast. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q4 They say that a mountain lion can sound like a woman screaming. That a fox can sound like a baby. That the hoots and howls from a forest can be uncomfortable and make you feel unsettled. What they don't tell you is that when the goats start speaking to you, you are truly alone.

The ants built their trail around the bed. Perfect circle. They didn’t stop when we sprayed them. They didn’t stop when we moved the bed. They are still there. The circle is smaller now. #HorrorWritersChat​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

#HorrorWritersChat Q4: I know it's there. Waiting in the shadows behind me. I have to keep walking as if I don't know, though. That would give away the game. And if I try to run, I won't reach the nearest house in one piece. I just have to play along. The cat wants me to notice it.

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

#HorrorWritersChat The humming bird flit about in the warm, late spring air. Its small wings buzzed, its head tilted in consideration. It dipped its long beak, its clever little tongue, into the bloody wound of the deer beside the road.

At the foot of my bed, tilting its head left and right, ears twitching it watched me with eyes too aware. I put up a hand, it put up a paw. I shook my head, it shook its head. What a smart cat. But I didn't have a cat. I laughed, for nerves or absurdity. And it laughed. #HorrorWritersChat

Joey loved how three-banded armadillos were so perfectly honed by evolution. But instead of curling into a ball, this one was curling OUT, opening up like a serpent's jaw, the flesh of its tender belly splitting open. Its plates cracked horribly as they ground against each other. #HorrorWritersChat

White mycelial hair. Black pin mould eyes. You burst like a puffball when I touch you, fill the damp autumn air with spores. I inhale you. Become food. Nourish you as you slowly grow inside my lungs. #HorrorWritersChat

Chrissy, too tired to flush Mr. Gibbons—who was floating at the top of the tank the night before—was ecstatic to see him alive this morning. She reached in her hand to right the fallen, bubbling diver figurine. Mr. Gibbons, milk eyed and sloughing scales, took a bite. 🐟 #HorrorWritersChat

Any giant insect or arachnid would be horrifying. They have the craziest defense mechanisms and eating habits. You’ll either have all your blood sucked out, your head bitten off, or acid sprayed into your eyes and mouth. No, thank you! #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I stopped reading a recent novel because I learnt there were them things known as spiders creeping around the pages. And maybe an ape. There's a scene in a Planet of the Apes movie where an ape beats a human to death, his relentless fists shattering the man's chest. Shocking.

I think any pet that’s “turned” - whatever the cause. That bond between human and animal that forms is so deep. So whether the animal is infected / taken over by instinct / possessed… it adds layers. #HorrorWritersChat

Spiders of a certain size. Bears. Dogs. Big cats. Wolves. Honestly, I think any animal would be frightening under the right circumstances. #HorrorWritersChat

Oh it’s such a trope but I think the slow death of being made a meal of, no matter the critter… Q3 #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat Bugs, Arachnids, Insects. Creepy crawlies, especially if they can also fly at your face! Have you seen how quickly thousands of ants can cover a jam jar? Or beetles fly around a room? Blech!

#HorrorWritersChat Fire ants. Hands down. I've had the misfortune of stepping on one of their massive colonies in flipflops. It doesn't make much to make bugs horrific.

Arachnids would be at the top of the list. The fact that they tend to bind their prey so as to be able to liquefy it in order to digest it puts it way ahead other predators. Also endoparasitoids, animals whose eggs are put inside the host, then the young eat their way out... #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

...orcas, #HorrorWritersChat. I have a spider problem but I encounter those in real life enough that a story about them won't bother much. But you write a horror tale with orcas, specifically the ones that play with their food and eat other orcas, and I will throw that across the room in terror.

#HorrorWritersChat Q3 The bigger and meaner, the worse it would be. Spiders are creepy. Bears are a threat. Something massive and menacing that poses a legitimate danger to my life is worse than something crawling and gross. I can deal with unsettled. I can't deal with a wolf ripping my throat out.

Not sure if its the animal that would scare me the most but have you seen the size of wild boars can get

Honestly, being in the same room as a chimp. #HorrorWritersChat

The ones that got me the worst were always the ones where an animal you love turns on you, like Cujo or Pet Semetary. #HorrorWritersChat