I don't normally do this, but I've been burning the candle at both ends. Other half had a major op earlier this year and now I'm in hospital for an investigation. Regardless of what's wrong, I need rest, but I've had little work this year. I'd appreciate if anyone is able to help out.

Reptar throwing it back 😂

This week's Martin finale goes out to @chaoticauthor.online. The man needs your help. He's bored, in a hospital, and low on the green. Send him messages and use this link to brighten his day. Without Matt, you'd never get to read my corny jokes. HORROR! ko-fi.com/onechaoticau... #HorrorWritersChat

I don't have lots of experience writing either, because my horror often has sci-fi origins: rogue AI, cosmic parasite, etc. With an occasional human slasher. I DID publish a short fantasy story featuring the fairy Yallery Brown (in The Fables Next Door) so there are exceptions! #HorrorWritersChat

I'm not going to get into the business of ranking ghosts. That's how you call down an eldritch haunting that crosses generations. I love them all equally, like a good mom. #horrorwriterschat

Big, historic houses and haunted prisons are my favorite places to haunt! And hunt. I do a lot of ghost hunting in those sorts of locations. #HorrorWritersChat

Well, I’m always cheering for the vengeful ghost ladies who unleash their wrath upon their slimy husbands/lovers. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat My favorite ghosts are the tragic figures from both folklore and made up for stories. The ones that can't move on because they're longing for something that stops them from finding closure. The ones that pine, and yearn, and weep upon the crumbling stones of their own pasts.

I adore ghosts of all kinds and all traditions. I find the rich and complex phantasmal eco-system of Japan especially alluring. #HorrorWritersChat

I feel like the best ghost locations are the ones with the most emotional energy. In no particular order: The DMV, day care, and anywhere offering free samples at lunch time. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Knowing a few people that are not well at the moment, Hospitals can be weird places, especially at night when you hear nurses walking up and down the corridors creating shadows under the door, stopping outside your room to read your chart, (At least I hope that's who it is).

It depends on the ghost. Just a spooky thing that makes you nervous: house, preferably a spare room. A lonely spirit with depression: abandoned places that should bring joy — theater, cinema, an empty town. Scary ghosts: Marching down Main Street, big as a house and hungry. #horrorwriterschat

#horrorwriterschat Alleys behind fast food places.

Q2: I use a lot of villages, so I often wonder if my strain would be considered folk horror. There’s a lot of cosmic comeuppance and justice debuted themes thinking back on it. #HorrorWritersChat

That would definitely be catacombs. What better way to be closer to the spirits than around their actual bones? #HorrorWritersChat

Helloooooo I'm Kathy and I write MG horror from NE Indiana. I'm that strange shadow that isn't really a shadow in the corner of your room. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat is seriously underway now, eh? Q2. I mean, I don't want to see any ghosts, thank you. I'm allergic. But when it comes to writing, it's always places I know intimately. You'll find ghosts in prisons, in theatres, asylums, abandoned buildings. Wherever the story echoes.

I love old houses, restored and maintained, you can practically smell the history. There's also a mansion that was burned hollow during construction on the way to my brother's place that feels like a great place to haunt or possess. Wish I had a picture. Also love cemeteries. #HorrorWritersChat

My own home, which isn't exactly lavish, but was pretty crumbly around the edges a few years ago... and where, at the risk of being lurid, someone may have met their end in a large fish tank some years ago. #HorrorWritersChat

Restaurants. 😋 i real life & in my cozy horror stories. I think good descriptions of food can give cozy vibes to a horror story. My MC Rose Marie is a 🍕 delivery girl! There's also Grillman's, an evil fast-food chain run by animatronics that turns humans into meat. #HorrorWritersChat

Big old houses. There's many secrets to protect. Trauma. Abuse. Sadness. Control. #HorrorWritersChat

I'd have to go with the movie that scared me the most out of every movie ever. The best place for a ghost is in a creepy old well beneath a cabin. Or coming out of a television. #horrormoviechat

Ghosts & haints exist wherever they're imprinted. It could be a graveyard or a lake or an abandoned house. Although my favorite haunting are the foresty ones & the unexpected ones, I do have a soft spot for orphanages. Perhaps because my grandmother was raised in one... #HorrorWritersChat

I’m a simple creature. I’m a sucker for Gothic castles and mansions. Or even the big house in Practical Magic. #HorrorWritersChat

Places of stone, whether henge or longbarrow, prehistoric and lost in mist, the most ghostly and atmospheric of places. Also castle ruins, especially those which still have stairs leading down to dungeons or up winding towers. #HorrorWritersChat

I like forest ghosts, animals that died and continue to roam in the woods. Long-dead does looking after generations of fawns. Fat translucent bullfrogs swimming beside tadpoles. A murder of crows that fills an entire tree without weighing it down. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: An old manor, preferably owned by a family that should have run out of resources generations ago. The key to this haunt is the secret passage leading to the catacombs. Are they endless or flooded by the nearby watershed? It doesn't matter; what matters is they aren't empty.

Hmm, that’s hard to pick honestly! But lately I’ve been researching haunted hotels for a story idea. I can’t stop thinking about those souls who checked in but never checked out. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I have been writing some Palestinian gothic stuff lately, so I’m going to say that my visage is an ‘Arus, this sort of dryad/vampire critter from it folklore. I’ve been meaning to write something about her.

I love big houses, whether luxurious or not. Houses with lots of rooms. Strange architecture. Not enough windows. Walls that knock. Boards that groan. A house that complains of its age just as much as its past residents do. #horrorwriterschat

I like the idea of a haunting that just starts. It's what makes Poltergeist so effective. It's not a family moving into a dream home. It's a cluttered, lived-in suburban house that suddenly has ghosts. #HorrorWritersChat

I am quite typical here. Strangely deserted mountain villages and mining towns. Secluded shrines. Half-sunken castles. They often protect revelations about who the living were as they summoned the ghosts as spirits, what were their sins, and what led them to their doom. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm thinking about this if I were a ghost. For me, the best places would have to be luxury hotels or anywhere with a lot of animals.

Ghosts are like cats and haunt wherever they please. I prefer to find them in ancient ruins, gloomy streets and hidden alleys. Or anywhere good chocolate is sold. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat 🤔 The containment unit in the Ghostbusters' basement That, or in a theatre Somewhere full of history A place that thousands of people have occupied all at once through the crossroads of time

Noswaith dda, Stephanie Ellis, writer of folk horror, gothic, post-apocalyptic and dark poetry. Residing in Dragon-shrouded Wrexham, beneath a thankfully fading covid fog. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I am Christine who doth write horror and fantasy nonsense in my corner of the midwest. I come in my finest sweatpants, a cozy oversized sweater, and the remains of a well-used cloak. #Horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm DJW and I'm working on my book called 'Descendant'. I can't participate today...for reasons. So my form? A pissed off, depressed haunt fading into the walls.

I am Anna, I write cosmic and eco-horror from the anonymous suburbs of Croydon in London. My wraithful visage is that face you may spy at the corner of a polaroid, a little apart from the cheerful group, the eyes obscured by... what, a clumsy finger? A flash of light? #HorrorWritersChat

Hello, JD Buffington here, author of horror and scifi, coming at you from Tulsa, OK, in the shape of a cloaked and hooded figure, a faded yellow, but shrouded in shadow. When I speak, I may answer you, but I seem to be talking to someone else out of view…

Hi all!! I write goofy cartoon horror from the arcade in the corner of that dying mall you used to go to when you were a teen. I think my wraithful visage for tonight would probably be that Green Goblin truck from Maximum Overdrive, or maybe that brain thing from Psycho Goreman. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi. I'm Blair. Currently in VT hunkering down from the storm that is the current USA. I write comic books, and as of late, mostly horror comics. Hm. I wear a half-mask like the Phantom of the Opera, not to hide scarring, but to hide the darker nature of myself. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat It’s Jez, soon to be 60 😳 writing ‘kitchen sink horror’ from a grotto in Aberdeen, Scotland. I’m afraid I don’t know what a ‘wraithful visage’ is, sorry. It sounds painful.

#HorrorWritersChat Hi I'm HD Beird . . . still here I guess Current research suggests HD stands for Hazey Days, cause time is one long collage of grey mush 😶‍🌫️ I write science fiction themed horror that explores spirituality and smut! My visage tonight? Check this out 👇

Hello, #HorrorWritersChat ! Thanks for hosting, @greethewriter.bsky.social I'm Artemis Quinn, and I write dark fantasy and horror. Most of my work is done in my dark and cozy bat cave. I've come to the ruined music hall in the form of a shadowy mist. Hopefully the cold isn't too off-putting...

Hi, I'm Vivian, from a place where truck nuts come to die--Florida. I write a variety of horror, a little of everything. Um, ghostly visage? I arrive as that one ghost that likes to sit in your fridge and eat all your shit before turning into a demon dog looking for my keymaster. #HorrorWriterschat

I write fiction as Mark Guyer and nonfiction as Dustin Pinney. I will soon be living in Corning, NY. I like horror with depth and lots of jokes. I arrive here in a tattered Goonies shirt and black jeans that I keep forgetting about. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat Q1: Hello all, I'm Jacob Marsh and I write horror and supernatural thrillers. My wraith would take the form of a creeping fog. Spilling under the door and seeping through the cracks. Walls may slow me, but nothing will stop my terrible advance.

#horrorwriterschat Please, ask me no questions of the blanched and twisted visage that grins & beckons nightly at the windows of my third floor bedchamber... I am but a humble Gabby, writing queer horror & strange fiction from Leeds, from whence I can hear a violent howl over the Yorkshire Moors...

Hello all. Tom Coombe here, horror writer who is starting to wish he'd lived in more places than Pennsylvania in his life. My wraithful visage would probably be more disappointed. #HorrorWritersChat