Saw @calmtomb.bsky.social do this and thought it looked fun. 2 actual flexes: The Nightmare Before Christmas Galaxy Quest 2 almost flexes Mortal Kombat Annihilation Dungeons & Dragons 1 Pre-Flex Warriors of Virtue (it’s time is coming) #adhdwriters

Ya think you know kitchen sink horror. Then ya meet Jez Conolly. And with only a paragraph, he demonstrates how you don’t know shit about kitchen sink horror. This is fantastic. #adhdwriters #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity

I actually *do* feature a kitchen sink in Nuggets, although it’s not dishes that end up in it…

DAY ONE of brainstorming unconventional names for Rob Zombie cover bands: “STRANGLIN’ THE BREEZE - A tribute to Rob Zombie.” #adhdwriters #art #music #robzombie

Here's a free one for you today: "The Mind Plays Tricks" with Dark Recesses Press. darkrecessespress.com/2022/04/27/t... The story was reprinted as part of my Shadow Hill collection (lucky number 13), so if you like it, consider trying the rest: books2read.com/ShadowHill #HorrorWritersChat

Every night the scratching came from behind the wall. Now it was time to redecorate & remove the awful panels the previous owner had put up. She hacked away slowly, getting ready to jump back at a moment's notice. But there was nothing. Only a tiny window & a tree the other side. #HorrorWritersChat

His hand, a whip of flame over my tiny body. The hot, putrid breath over my ear, a gas of barbs on his tongue lathering my earlobe. I turn. I grip his throat. My fingers are steel. And there it was. Terror on his bulging, bloodshot eyes. *I* was the horror now. Vindication. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat, Eryn. As for what I have to promote, that would be my now public January featured story for The #ShadowBoxArchives. Given current events, I hope readers find it cathartic. If anyone likes my work, consider supporting us open.substack.com/pub/shadowbo...

It was the way light died inside it. Nothing came. No ghost. No revelation. No damnation prettier than the ordinary ruin he carried sealed in skin. He laughed once, a dry scrape like a match struck on bone. The sound died in the room without echo. The mirror had never lied. #HorrorWritersChat

For years, I couldn’t open my closet to confront the monster I knew would eat me alive. It took a court order to get the closet opened, where they found my sister’s body. I try and explain what happened, but they don’t think there ever was a monster… #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another great chat! I just wanted to let you all know that Little White Flowers is now available in ebook on Bookshop, and Hallowed Deadly Seeds is available for pre-order there. (Link is an affiliate link and has all formats.) bookshop.org/lists/books-... #HorrorWritersChat

She knew that which crept in the spaces between the walls, beneath the floors. She could hear its claws scraping, scraping, every night since her parents moved in. She avoided all the crevices its impossible claws could reach though to pluck the skin from her bones. (1/?) #HorrorwritersChat

My mother wrote a letter, slipped under my door. She never got better. I learned to never ask for more. She's been dead for years. Time to face her excuse. Holding back tears, I shake the letter loose. An unsigned birthday Hallmark card, day and month all wrong. Ma, so long. #HorrorWritersChat

Her parents reassured her, time and again, in the gentle voices of parents, there was nothing to be scared of. When she left for college, she never looked back. (2/4) #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm currently working on a Lovecraftian short story collection, set in America in various time periods, with an entity called the Sleepwalker involved in each. Here's my Cthulhu Mythos noir short story to tide you over till it's out: ko-fi.com/s/8cd164bf0a payhip.com/b/JP4Q0

She could hear it now, great bloody belly dragging over the ground, as she stood in the hall of the family home, long since hollowed out with the deaths of her parents. She sank, cross legged, to the floor. She listened, head cocked like a curious dog. (3/4) #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm currently working on #🩸⛪WIP, my religious horror that includes all these delicious tropes- 🩸Vampire x priest ⛪Arranged marriage 🩸Corruption arc ⛪Forbidden love (and lust) 🩸Trans vampire ⛪Chronic illness rep 🩸Lots of murder 😈

A soft voice rattled through the pipes, the vents. A low melody, like a breeze carrying birdsong. "I miss them, too." (4/4) #HorrorWritersChat

chey here, working on sapphic folk horror. the biggest thing than draws me to folklore is just the fact that there are so many mysteries in the world, and delving into a world of creatures and stories that people believed to be real just makes it all the more creepy #Horrorwriterschat

I don't actually promo much of late but I will this time. It's a domestic noir more than a horror: about menopausal ladies bumping off bad guys with poisoned tea. It's quite irreverent and rather funny, I think. But there's something about the Aunties. I really like them. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi everyone, I’m D. A. Jobe and I write horror and dark sci-fi. I’ve loved reading (and watching) horror and sci-fi all my life, so I think I just naturally fell into writing those kinds of stories. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Jess. I write dark fantasy and weird/gothic inflected stuff, often influenced by Welsh mythology and history because, well, that's where I'm from. My stuff tends to be very watery, which I'm sure also has something to do with growing up here. #HorrorWritersChat

anything that has to deal with deep bodies of water or wreckages/crashes. i love everything to do with how creepy it all is, but it’s something that genuinely terrifies me 😅 #Horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat One step was all it would take for me to reach the threshold. One step. I'd been standing in limbo for hours, nearly a day. My stomach was starting to eat itself. My heart was twisting into knots. The state of the world outside was chaos. Insurmountable horror. One step. 1/3

It was a lot of fun #HorrorWritersChat! This week, I’d like to share a book I have coming out called Hare-Raising Summer! It’s an interactive horror story where you’re sent away to spend the summer on your grandparents’ rabbit ranch and creepy stuff happens! www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...

#HorrorWritersChat If you want to read FOG OVER MONS, my WWI cosmic horror story about the Angels of Mons, here's the link. It appears in WICKED TALES: THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND HORROR WRITERS VOL. 3 (2015). Enjoy! www.amazon.com/Wicked-Tales...

#HorrorWritersChat Come visit Shreckland! They might even let you leave! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

There was something wrong with his face, he could feel it. His mouth felt off, misaligned. He his nose had grown, invading his vision. His eyebrows felt sharp and long. Finally, he had to face the monster he had become. He peaked into the mirror, and saw nothing. Nothing at all. #HorrorWritersChat

Mediterranean Gothic, mostly. Coastal villages with too much silence. Saints carved from wood that seem to watch you leave the church. The kind of horror that doesn’t need the dark; it festers under a white sky. I write from the Valencian Country, and the material was always there #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you for hosting! As usual, I have nothing new to promote, so I’ll just post my old stuff until I can finally get my analogue horror story out into the wild (It may take a while since it might be turning into a novella now 😂) Liminal/Backrooms horror: #HorrorWritersChat books2read.com/u/b6KEEZ

#HorrorWritersChat Cheers Eryn! My aforementioned story Vinegar and Brown Paper will be appearing very soon in the next volume in the BHF Book of Horror Stories series. Here’s the draft cover. Oh, and here’s me according to Chat PG Tips.

I’m doing a small campaign for my eco-horror “Monoculture” for the Locus Awards! Check out the links in the alt text of the image. :) Also, try the #QueerWritersChat on Friday! Not horror, but I have my fantasy novel Mage By Blood on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453 #HorrorWritersChat

Those were some lovely questions, #HorrorWritersChat and I'm glad I made it this time! I'll share the things, as requested. >.> My first novel is out, it is a horror fantasy about hungry shadows, monsters, trauma and monsters with trauma. You can find it many places: books2read.com/b/WealdandWen

#HorrorWritersChat I've a story in Tales From The Moonlit Path ezine. And I have a book out, CORPSE ROAD BLUES. A ghastly collection of ghost stories. (link in my bio) talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/wh...

Thanks, Eryn! I'll promo this interview I conducted with the terrific @ivygrimes.bsky.social : frolicpress.substack.com/p/in-convers... I also have a new collection. Kindle is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM9FDSKW Paperback is out April 21. (It's better in print!) #HorrorWritersChat

There’s a scene in my novel where a character enters a church during a flood and finds the saints floating face-down. I’ve rewritten it five times. I think the problem is I keep trying to make it symbolic when the image itself is already enough. I don’t trust the silence yet. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat If you'd like to read my story about the akaname in my bathroom, it's called MUD LICKER, based on Japanese folklore. It appears in the anthology LIKE A MYTH (2009). It's erotic horror & I published it as Elizabeth Black. The book is erotica. www.amazon.com/Like-Myth-Fo...

I'm working on the last book in the dark supernatural urban fantasy Meridian series under my other name. Angels, gargoyles, demons, witches, vampires, werewolves... All standalones (so you can read whichever), and all a fun, super spicy time. www.totallybound.com/index.php?ro... #HorrorWritersChat

i seem to keep putting off certain things in the prologue because i keep hitting walls and have to move past them. i seem to be struggling a bit with it as i have very specific ideas for it #Horrorwriterschat

Oops, here's the correct link: bookshop.org/lists/books-... #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Do you like Lovecraft or creepy or gross or people writing letters? Do you like me? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, you can get The Boddicker Letters right here, right now! www.amazon.com/Boddicker-Le...

I write about grief a lot (no surprise, I write a lot of ghost stories) and when I've lost people in real life, I've often felt that I'm not grieving "correctly" because I need to stay active. That fear of judgement definitely helps draw me back to the subject. #HorrorWritersChat

For some reason this post was weirdly hard for me to find. Anyway, An area I’ve never written in, and may never, is sexuality as horror, especially dubious/non-consensually. It’s an intense subject that I do think about, but it’s sensitive and I wouldn’t want to mess it up. #HorrorWritersChat

I’m James Ryan, whose horror writing ranges so far and wide that it might make more sense to ask why I write, full stop… #HorrorWritersChat

There's a story concept I've been kicking around in my head for almost a decade now. A creature formed through the trauma of others, seeking out murderers, abusers, rapists to bring them to justice. But it has sections from the POV of one of those abusers. Some pretty graphic. #HorrorWritersChat

There are scenes that are very clear in my head, that I'm very excited about. The problem is that there are a bunch of other scenes, and sometimes whole stories, that need to be written first for it to make any sense. I put these scenes off because I'm still building up to them. #HorrorWritersChat

Q1: Sorry I'm so late! I'm Thea. As a kid, I saw weird things no one else could see, and I hoped there was some cool paranormal explanation. Turns out I have a contrast sensitivity and was probably having seizures... And now I write supernatural horror for some reason #HorrorWritersChat

I'm cheating a little…I didn't write this today. But it does seem to fit. #HorrorWritersChat

For me, the times where visceral violence is often hard to write. Not just someone being killed, but assaulted in a dehumanizing manner, what would be considered crimes against humanity. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat "You can't escape it anymore!" No, please! I'll do anything! "It's too late!" I have to run! "Damn it, Steve, you put off cleaning your closet for months, and look what happened! There's a fucking junk monster terrorizing the neighborhood all because you hate doing chores!