Milestones in a writing life: Stories from Shadow Hill is now live! (It's ALIVE!) This is my first time acting as my own publisher, so the message was especially exciting!https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Shadow-Hill-Weird-Suburban-ebook/dp/B0FPPDV2DZ #newrelease #goindie #stories

My fig tree took longer than normal to revive this year but it is now massive, it fills my backyard and has been trying to eat neighbor's pets. Cultists have begun worshipping it as an elder god and leaving gems as offerings. The figs will be glorious.

I don't write poetry as often as I once did, but #smallpoemssunday is fun, so here's one I put up on my blog a while back: samanthadunawaybryant.blogspot.com/2013/07/sam-...

Groovy little plant? Or a life form from another world? Or ¿por qué no los dos?

The temperature dipped a little today and I'm singing along to this oldie but goodie.

Today’s moment of feeling famous: I read from the third of the menopausal superheroes novels, Face the Change, on Indie Reads Aloud. youtu.be/-q7NddBZa5M?...

Thanks again, @erynmccee.bsky.social! My collection Breaking the Devil's Bread is coming next month(?) from @nightmarepress.bsky.social. My novel Red Shoes and my collection Valhalla with a Twist of Lethe are available from booksellers in digital and hardcopy editions. #HorrorWritersChat

Cutting edge tech really has the unknown factor going for it and taps into our natural distrust but old things are really good for atmosphere. Honestly, I just like fresh ideas. If it appeals to me, I'll use it. #HorrorWritersChat

No new horror work to promote this week for #HorrorWritersChat, but I've got upcoming events in October at Moondog Meadery and Mystic Farms (both in the Triangle area of North Carolina, USA) and I'm super excited about that! www.moondogmeadery.com/events www.whatismystic.com/events-2

My robo-vac tried to kill me the other day, so I'm not sure any of it can be trusted. #HorrorWritersChat

I've had some fun playing with the horrors of current technology in my stories, but there is something about that once-top-of-the-line and now-forgotten stuff in your mother's basement isn't there? #HorrorWritersChat

I like my technology like I like my men: slick and morally gray. (LOL. Just kidding, that's just for fictional men. I like real ones to be upstanding, loyal and trustworthy.) But technology has definitely been both a force of good and evil in my writing, depending on my story. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi there #HorrorWritersChat I'm late today--too much day in my day. I'm a multigenre author whose short work runs dark. So far as tech, Scrivener software changed my life for long work and I love my MacBookPro, so light and fast.

Here's the rerelease (new cover!) of my folk horror thriller. Coming Oct. 1 Hello to #HorrorWritersChat -ers who are new follows. Thanks for everyone for the great convos! Thanks to @jacobmarsh.bsky.social for his dictation advice. Thanks to @erynmccee.bsky.social for hosting.

Okay, you beautiful spooklings of #HorrorWritersChat, thank you all for being so wonderful. I'll be sure to check more out after work. For now, I'm working on my #BookBazaar25 campaign and project for Fairy Seasons. It's an anthology of terror and delight powered by pixie dust and a dash of spite.

Thanks, Eryn :) Really enjoyed the questions My cosmic eco-horror does have quite a lot of analogue tech creepiness actually. There's the microfiche, some old audio tapes and the Museum of Sonic Death, which involves a lot of devices beeping out their last. #HorrorWritersChat payhip.com/b/58paC

I'm most unsettled about the depth and breadth of surveillance. (So I guess pretty much all of the above. Or the below.) I don't tackle it in my work, but it's fucking terrifying. #HorrorWritersChat

unfortunately we’ve already seen it, people being profiled by machines, the racism and other prejudice built into the algorithm people like to believe that a machine can hold no bias, but instead they hold all of our biases without advertising their fallibility #HorrorWritersChat

sorry #HorrorWritersChat q4 the real answers are bleak and not fun. Let's go with scissors. Ancient. Simple. Vicious.

hey #HorrorWritersChat I'm definitely leaning vintage. creepy home built guitar amp with a row of naked glowing vacuum tubes on top, f'rinstance. or a dirigible. or a pool ball shaped toy that answers questions... sometimes

#HorrorWritersChat Q4. AI definitely. We've already seen how that can be used for evil irl. And robots that look like the ones from I, Robot. I saw a video of a robot flipping out in a lab. It's moving too fast. And it's scary. (But some humans are scarier.)

#HorrorWritersChat Just yesterday I wrote microfiction where a landline phone emits strange noises, and the POV character has no idea who's speaking. So yes, when a tech is labeled as old, it can be a useful tool in creating an atmosphere of horror.

#HorrorWritersChat Autonomous cars, especially when they're marketed as safe and helpful when you have children.

Lovely and thorough review of Change for the Better, the series ender for the Menopausal Superheroes series out today: davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...

The people of Kernville knew October had come by the crunch of crisp autumn leaves under their shoes, the cheers from the football stadium every Friday night, and the baying of the wild dogs out behind the old K-Mart, their numbers growing every year. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another wonderful #HorrorWritersChat! While you're waiting for my short story collection (dropping October 1, G-d willing and creek the don't rise), check out this audio edition of my story "Poison." open.spotify.com/episode/4l7i...

Hell(o) I’m Ell! I write dark fairytales and ace horror. My current WIP is “Aromantic Frankenstein,” a aroace reimagining in which Victor raises his Creature as his own in an obsessive platonic Creator-Creation relationship—unprepared for when his Creature begs for a sibling. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, #Horrorwriterschat! I'm Steve, academic expert on monsters and author of SFFH. (: My WIP, Breadcrumbs on a Forest Floor is about gender transition by fairy

Hellloooooo #HorrorWritersChat! I am a little late, but I am sure I can catch up! I be Eryn, I write supernatural and psychological horror. A current WIP... Well, it's about a real life cocktail bar, and it's kinda like the Shining, but not, and there's this guy who doesn't have a husband anymore.

Crisp, autumn leaves traces of rot That squirm in the litter under the trees Like snapping mouths full of black teeth. #horrorwriterschat

Returned Part Two (& One) is currently funding on Kickstarter! PDF's are available worldwide & books within the US (sorry for...us). Medieval horror family drama available here! kck.st/3JHMYGU #horrorwriterschat

Crisp autumn leaves crunch, but you still can't see me even when you look right at me. Can you hear me breathing? I can hear your heart racing. You smell delicious. #HorrorWritersChat

Ugh. The worst ones are the realistic ones, like losing your kid in a crowd or a confrontation at work. When my imagination serves up the fun kind of monsters, I'm all here for it! #HorrorWritersChat

AITA for drinking my date? I, a youngish 300 years old, male have a--I dunno, maybe 20-year-old human woman? It's hard to tell with their kind--who definitely said that she was into vampires when she invited me in. Now she's screaming that she didn't mean "for real." #HorrorWriterChat

Hi there! I'm Samantha, a multi-genre writer (I like to play in ALL the sandboxes). My current WIP (badly--and not a horror story) is the story of a dog and the hapless humans he's trying to get together so he can have couch cuddles every night. #HorrorWritersChat

Oh look, it's that day again! And it's my turn to set you some mind-stretching questions. Four questions about you and your horror work, coming at you 7pm UK time. That's 2pm Eastern for North America. #HorrorWritersChat

A few weeks ago the local herd of deer ate all the flowers off of my impatiens. But this lovely little lady decided to give me one more bloom before we’re done for the season. Isn’t she beautiful?

Took a chance on a new event (their first time holding it) yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by relatively brisk sales. For me, 11 books sold in a 4 hour event is pretty good. I was especially happy to sell two hardbacks of my first-in-series. Good day with nice people. 10/10 would recommend.

I'm back on Indie Reads with today, reading from Change of Life, book 2 of the Menopausal Superheroes series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwTU...

Guys! I just ordered my first print proof copy from Ingram for my first indie release! Assuming I'm happy with how it looks, this baby will be up for sale in October--only five years later than I intended. LOL. #writing #writinghorror

Thank you, Eryn! (History is my 1st love!) The goodreads link is up for my new folk horror, Harrowfield, if people would like to add it to their 'want to reads'! Pre-order is here mybook.to/Harrowfield www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks, Eryn! I had a blast as always. My Bruce Campbell (yes, THAT Bruce Campbell!) interview is live at The Horror Zine. Interview with John Russo, co-writer of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD coming soon. Also coming soon: some short stories including one based on the Lizzie Borden ax murders.

Thank you, Eryn! Y'all do an AMAZING job every week! My latest is CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE, queer Appalachian cosmic horror about a prickly queen, his (awful and dead) mother's haunted house, and his budding relationship with the porn star next door. www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat ! I'm excited to announce that it's looking good for my collection of weird suburban tales to make it out into the world on October 1st! Watch this space for a link for purchase soon!

I would have such a blast writing a gothic drama with Mary Shelley. As an absolute queen of the genre she would probably do most of the work though, I'd be too busy writing down tips and just generally being in awe 🤣 #HorrorWritersChat

Emily Dickinson and I would write an epistolary novel together, so we could both still be hermits. We'd each take a character and just send one another letters. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'll get in on this one fast. I've already written about WW2 and Victorian England, and would probably go back to the Industrial Revolution: but for the purpose of this one I'd probably do the Salem Witch Trials for a good bit of mass psychosis, greed, betrayal and death.

I'm Amber, a horror and dark fiction writer from central Maine. I write all kinds of horror, most with cults or ghosts. I'm Shirley Jackson's quiet horror love letters to New England mixed with Thoreau's obstinacy and convictions with a touch of Poe for good measure. #HorrorWritersChat

In 1979, a girl vanishes. In 2025, her body is found—untouched, as if she died yesterday. For her now-middle-aged brother, forced to identify her, the horror isn’t just her death—it’s the impossible collapse of time itself. #HorrorWritersChat

I can see it--attempting to fix a mistake by time travel correction and making it worse and worse and worse. Or having to defend yourself as time travelers come seeking to eliminate you for something you haven't even thought of yet? Could be fun! #HorrorWritersChat