AMEN! My automatic writing comes from A CREEPY TRANCE that I EVOKED with my SPIRIT that I put down in my own SINISTER HANDWRITING like GOD INTENDED

Read a bit of my Graveyards book on Public Domain Review! Just in time for Easter 🐣👇👇👇

IT’S HERE! Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities. 👉🏼 Pre-orders for The Green Issue are now open worldwide! helleborezine.com/products/the-green-issue

Are you a writer living in the DMV? Come to the Washington Writers Conference, May 1-2, Rockville MD. I'm on a panel on plotting secrets (sh!) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/page/the-202...

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Pink horror isn’t just about pain. It’s an encounter with power. My thoughts on pink horror, to close out a lovely Women in Horror Month: tiffanymorris.ca/2026/03/31/l...

1000 Women in Horror is a must-see. A group of talented women talking from a deep well of passion and knowledge about women in the genre, how they're portrayed in horror, etc, and it is a delight. Thrilled for @horrornonna.com and all those involved with this incredible achievement.

Time to take a break from doomscrolling and admire my brother’s corgi, Duncan, in his bow tie.

And I just got edits on this book and a consultation about cover artists and I am OVER THE MOON about it, keep your eyes open for my Gothic fever-dream RAVENFIELD HALL, early 2027...

We're still getting lovely reviews for 1000 Women in Horror! This by Loron Hays @reelreviews.com is a very nice surprise ❤️ www.reelreviews.com/home-video/1...

The Women in Horror Month Celebration & Mothra Summoning will continue as long as it needs to continue because what is time anyway, but I keep getting lost on whimsical journeys through people’s timelines & of course getting distracted chasing the occasional squirrel so I could use some help.

The Women in Horror Month Celebration & Mothra Summoning continues w the Queen of suspenseful horror set in the places that scared me witless as a child, like derelict Appalachian coal mines full of monsters. Few writers stress me out like @laurelhightower.bsky.social [complimentary].

Hey hey! I finally got my website updated thanks to the lovely @sonorataylor.bsky.social - highly recommend her services! I love the new look - check it out if you're so inclined! Laurelhightower.com

The Women in Horror Month Celebration & Mothra Summoning resumes with a 🎈for @stinasdemons.com whose illustrations are always a delight. They make great gifts tho I suggest you order 2 bc they’re hard to actually give away! Er, not bc they’re cursed, bc they’re delightful. Probably. No promises.

We are delightful, aren’t we? 🤣

Just under two weeks to go to book for the amazing line-up that is the Festival of Magical History. Online, via Zoom, with all 8 talks being recorded and made available for ticket holders who can't be there live all through Full details at bit.ly/flaevents A stellar line-up of witchcraft speakers

No kings just Things

Happy 96th birthday Jon Astin! Astin was born in Baltimore, grew up in Bethesda, & has done a bunch of acting stuff over his long life, as well as teaching drama at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, from 2001-2021.

It's been at least a few years since they killed a Washington Post journalist. Can't we move on and enjoy some leopards?

I fell behind on both the Mothra Summonings AND the Women in Horror Month posts again but there's still so much greatness to come! Like @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social! Who also has a kickass recent YA book out titled A Misfortune of Lake Monsters!

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

Lots of brick sidewalks for today’s final Sidewalk Palooza event in Ward 6, which netted 37 311 requests. Keep walking, rolling, and reporting pedestrian infrastructure and accessibility issues. www.sidewalkpalooza.org #SidewalkPalooza

Today today today!

we actually understand how quantum physics works pretty damn well.

Keep going.

The academic community depends upon the clear communication of ideas; if one person’s work is inaccessible, then we all suffer for it. This 2025 study highlights the importance of accessibility awareness, support and dedicated services, as well as some important recommendations. A valuable read:

If you are thinking of doing some traditional egg decorating this Easter, I’d love to see the results. Tag me in your egg posts! Here’s a hand guide I came across for natural ways to dye eggs

LICE protesters at #nokings DC

Well, it's a pleasure to announce that the National Park Service has installed another one of the waysides I researched, wrote, and designed. This one is about Tenleytown, and is located right on Wisconsin Avenue at historic Grant Road. 🗃️

In honor of women in horror month, I’m featuring new books from awesome women! Check out @authordonnataylor.bsky.social 😃 Her new book, Monsters in the Mountains, is available now! Taylor recommends you read @anastasiawrites.bsky.social 🖤

Ghosts aren't just for Christmas - they can still haunt us all year round, and SPECTRES OF SUMMER will be keeping things spooky this August! www.eventbrite.com/e/spectres-o... #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #writing #fiction #writers #authors #onlineevent #onlineevents

Pretty sure @fishinnards.bsky.social already regrets sending me this

Mallory is awesome & all but I’m now busy dedicating my life to building a whole religion around this incredible cat.

Today's schedule: 11am: Fight fascism 2pm: Fight Pikachu

exoplanet horror with coffee & academics in space, written by an Egyptologist?!? Happy women in horror month to me b/c I Am Intrigued. 🖤

Another brilliant woman in horror - looking forward to getting my grubby paws on this collection!

I've been falling behind on both the Mothra Summonings AND the Women in Horror Month posts but there's no time like the present & @edenroyce.bsky.social is fabulous so please celebrate accordingly:

I apologize for my crimes against language today - I clearly still have to much blood in my caffeine system. My bioanthropology colleagues who work w those gooey anatomical bits are always saying that’s not how coffee works, but the skeleton people, we know they’re wrong. Is it too early for a nap?

The implications for this policy go far beyond the Olympics. Shrugging off the impact bc only 1 trans athlete has ever competed in the Olympics misses the point & obscures much larger issues that reach beyond sports. I thought I shared this yesterday but don’t see it so just in case:

Friend peer reviewing sent me this: “Jackson constructs a haunting that understands that within the totalizing nature of patriarchy, Montague will observe the signs of a woman’s disintegrating identity and call it scientific progress.” I think it’s lovely! But I may be biased, since I wrote it. 1/2

Gonna be a rough April Fool’s on this site. People already waste so much time & energy on out of context rage-bait screenshots. Sigh. Search is a mess, but IMO trying to search & verify for a few minutes is still a better option than spending hours furious, upset, & spreading misinformation.

“I argue the science does not support this overly simplistic assertion. I should know, because I discovered the SRY gene on the human Y chromosome in 1990. For 35 years I have been researching it and other genes required for testis development.”

I'm finally allowed to reveal the cover for my book! This is Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies. It's coming from @beaconpress on September 29. Isn't it beautiful? Dan McCarthy is the artist and Louis Roe is the designer.

It's here!!!

I do indeed, and I've added more! Check out the round up below 👇 or on my website (see bio) as it's a pinned menu page.

For #WomenInHorrorMonth, treat yourself to a book written and edited by women, and the incredible cover art was by a woman. The 2000s are in again, look back at the influential horror of that decade. Paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook available. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1960...

Was just thinking about how the grove seemed ancient & eternal because citrus trees are kind of weird, & then it declined so fast.

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

Instead of a Women in Horror Month posting barrage, today you get a love letter to @katelaity.bsky.social a horror, media, & lit scholar who’s also a prolific fiction writer, musician, artist, recovering professor of medieval lit & history, & all-around excellent human. 🖤🖤🖤 linktr.ee/katelaity