I'm not really the type to cast curses or hexes, but if I had to, they would definitely be the Uno reverse sort where evildoers would have to live through what they inflicted upon their victims. Righteous rage would be needed to cast them. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Amber, a horror and dark fiction writer from central Maine. I write all kinds of horror, most with cults or ghosts. All curses and hexes are frightening to me. If they didn't spell trouble, they wouldn't be curses or hexes 😂 #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat My name is Rosé Black. I write horror and horror comedy. I reside in the US South and the most frightening curse to me would be the Aztec treasure curse from Pirates Of The Caribbean. Immortality sounds great until you realize it puts you in perpetual hunger and thirst.

Greetings, for I lead this choir. I'm Gree, writer of body, religious, and psychological horror for my Bloodied Rose: Verses of Midnight setting! Hailing from the Czech Republic. As for the most frightening curse... the one where you destroy your body, without your control. #HorrorWritersChat

Rebecca Cantrell at a cauldron in Hawaii, bubbling up dark chants. The whole concept of curses and hexes is frightening--death and disaster out of the blue with no way to fight back and all control in the hands of your enemy. #horrorwriterschat

Hey, guys. It's me, Martin Shannon, your favorite rare book author concocting word-processor-to-shelf, non-gmo, artisanal, small batch, dark fantasy and horror imaginings. The best curses are the most annoying. You'll always file your taxes on time. They will never be right. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q1: Greetings to the Cabal, my name is Jacob Marsh, Head Research Librarian to the ARC Council and master of urban legends and the occult. I'm casting my devious webs from Victoria, BC. What I most fear are hexes that affect my tomes. Knowledge is power; damaging books is wicked.

Hey, #horrorwriterschat! It is I: Katherine Silva, "Kat" for short. Writer of the dark, depressing and bleak. I don't know enough about hexes and curses to know any specific ones but I think anything associated with slowly, painfully dying is horrific. Worse still: living forever in pain.

#HorrorWritersChat - I'm Trish Wilson, Media Director for The Horror Zine. I live on the northeast coast of Massachusetts. I cast a curse once on my elementary school bully. Found it in a book. The next day, she broke her leg. First curse that actually worked. Scared me silly but oh what a rush!

I write horror/dark fantasy as Mark Guyer and nonfiction as myself, Dustin Pinney. I like to write about pop culture and identity. I grew up in the same town as Rod Serling. The scariest curse is a cliche, but true: May you live in interesting times. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm Michelle Heller and my natural habitat is the gorges and forests of Upstate NY. Curses and hexes don't really do it for me and horror, oddly! But even though they don't scare me, I do love a good "be careful what you wish for" tale.

Hi #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Tashi and I cast witchy spells from Tucson, AZ. I’m about to query my YA supernatural horror novel soon. 🙈 Well, I’ve always found hinnagami unnerving. A doll may grant you wishes, but…it will keep demanding for more. Even in the afterlife. 💀

Amanda M. Blake, Texas horror writer, purveyor of dark fiction from quiet to extreme. I'm not sure if it counts, but I'm obsessed with 'be careful what you wish for' stories, which is a kind of curse. I pretty much wrote a whole series based on it. #HorrorWritersChat

Hoi! I'm J. Neira, a cozy horror author & slush reader for Graveside Press. & I'm from rural Minnesota but this week I'm in Mexico with my mom's family. A curse which changes my personality is way more disturbing to me than one which causes physical harm. 😱 #HorrorWritersChat

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💯 second this. It's because of how many acceptances I started getting in genre short story magazines & publishers that I realized this was where I thrived. I stopped trying to query my novels & embraced short fiction. & then... I actually DID get my YA horror novel accepted by an indie horror press.

It's Friday. This is the day I encourage you to submit one or more of your short fiction to a market. Do top down. This simply means submit each work to the top paying market and work your way down as you get rejected. You will need submission tracking spreadsheets. #writingcommunity #booksky

tbh I find that people are uncomfortable with the level of poverty I live at (I average 18k a year) which makes it also uncomfortable for me, too, tbh haha. and I'm not even close to being as at risk as many people (I am poor but I have a support network for crisis times and I have a home etc)

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#HorrorWritersChat Tech has been fairly neutral in my writing. Though, in Lemon Balm, Acanthus worries about tech being used to track them, and surveillance making it harder to sneak people out of bad situations. (They're also ~800 years old and technology terrifies them, so take that as you will)

#HorrorWritersChat When I began writing, technology was moving so fast that I couldn't come up with anything that didn't already exist or was being invented So I make up stuff that's more fantastical and aesthetically otherworldly Now, tech has ruined our world & minds so I want now to do with it

Threat! OMG, such a giant threat. Sure, it's useful and unavoidable, but it's a hulking mass of shambling horror working to turn every bit of electricity in our brains into a profit, leaving behind a creeping numbness and rage. #horrorwriterschat

I don't write tech a lot, most of my horror is historical. But in the notable exceptions it's either a thin veneer hiding the society's problems (The Forever City), or the cause of the problems (AInshittification). So I suppose for me tech is a tool. #HorrorWritersChat

I don’t write much about technology, unless it can propel the plot. The only technology I actively demonize is guns. Only villains and questionable sorts use guns in my work. If I were to focus more on tech it would be to illustrate how the rich weaponize it against the poor. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: I actually avoid tech in all of my stories. 😅 I am an ancient being at heart and it confounds me, so I do not mess with it in fiction. My stories often take place in low fantasy settings or well in the past.

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: When tech comes up in my stories, it's more a point of intrigue. It could be alien or anomalous, but it's always a mystery. Sometimes that makes it antagonistic, but in other cases it's exactly what our protagonist need...one way or another.

I'd best do mine. It varies, I do both. I have written sci-fi horror where tech is embedded, a threat, for good or bad, biotech, etc, and as a tool. My characters have used phones, I've written microfiction about AI going wrong, about children made to order, and returned: if it fits the story ...

Tech plays a role (or doesn't) in my writing depending on the worlds I'm scribbling about. Been busy lately digging my own burrow down in the folk horror hole, so tech not that prevalent there (except for the shovels). #horrorwriterschat

Tech is a tool. I like some tech gone murdered, but my brain doesn't think up those stories. #HorrorWritersChat

Ooh! So for my YA novel, Emi is a filmmaker, but now that the nightmare demon is on the loose, she stumbles upon creepy videos on her phone or laptop. #HorrorWritersChat

Both! In one #WIP a husband uses VR to manipulate his senile wife's brain & wipe his own consciousness clean. In another, blueprints drafted by the devil with a stubby pencil while he explores a career change end up having an impact that reverberates through the ages. #horrorwriterschat

I think our growing desire to be dependent on AI for our needs, including social and creative, is going to ultimately cause us a whole heap of trouble. #HorrorWritersChat

Aww it's too bad I missed this one due to being on an airplane. My cozy horror tends to have horrible AI robots causing chaos for our protagonists. This is due to both my dread of AI & also because it's satisfying to smash a 🤖! #HorrorWritersChat

I second Frieren!

This was fun to listen to.

one of the most interesting facts about russ vought’s life, to me, is that NIH research is the reason his daughter had access to life changing drug to treat her cystic fibrosis. vought, of course, is the architect of the administration’s war on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Just look at that beautiful cover! 😍 I'm so pleased my story is included in it.

🌑 Tomorrow, the wait ends. The Into the Dark Kickstarter goes live! 34 tales of dark fantasy & fantastical horror await. Step into the shadows with us. www.kickstarter.com/projects/all... Subscribe to our newsletter for more allworldswayfarer.eo.page/j557f #IntoTheDark #Kickstarter #SpecFic

Happy 1 year to my novella, Countess. Thank you to everyone who has spent even a moment with my rebellious Virika. You all have given this book a life beyond what I expected. It is a book about this very moment we are living through, and if art is an act of resistance, it is the rock I have thrown🖤💜

A wonderful writer I know gave some good advice on this and said I could share it. This person said about the SF/F genre, "If the nicest person you know is avoiding a specific creator, there’s probably a reason." This advice applies to all communities. 2/

Huge announcement! 📣 🐺 If you like werewolves and have always wondered why Charlotte Hornets gear was so popular in the 90s, I have the book for you! Summer Camp for Werewolves by Damien Casey is nostalgic and fun. We can’t wait to share it with you next summer! Buy your pink cowboy boots now, okay?

Thank you! Fun times! My collection is up for pre-order, out on Halloween. A lot of variety, something for everyone, me thinks. Body horror, pulpy horror, quiet horror, cosmic horror, LOTS OF CAAAAMP! Ya know, barf stew. Thank you! xx mybook.to/AllsWell

Thanks for another #HorrorWritersChat, Matt. Currently, I have a new WIP for The #ShadowBoxArchives. As for new releases, I just posted a list article for #HorrorFacts. Y'all might see some familiar faces, so be sure to support them. If you want to support me, check horrorfacts.com/another-list...

Crisp autumn leaves Crunch beneath unseen feet A child? A mother? Clandestine lovers? It all sounds the same From the darkness of my tomb #HorrorWritersChat

Crisp autumn leaves Fall off the trees Noisy harbingers of what's to come. Of sleep like death and long nights And terrible creatures bringing frights These leaves are their approaching drums. #HorrorWritersChat

There once was a man called Jeeves Who wiped his ass with his sleeves When out and about He would scream and would shout At the mess he made using crisp autumn leaves 🤷 Bum stuff funny 🥴 #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Autumn leaves so crisp, showing when the border between the living and the dead blurs, but also the beauty of Fall, crunching beneath our shoes. DON'T FUCKING RAKE THEM! BUGS NEED THAT SHIT! A sinkhole isn't going to swallow your home if you don't get rid of them, Sharon!

Crisp autumn leaves. Settling in silence where no footstep dares to tread. Soon, they cover everything in the forest. They fall until the touch of death is complete and no open ground remains. Then, something stirs beneath its canopy. A great mist and the thing awakens anew. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat It was November. I built a bonfire and deliberately burned my family to a crisp. Autumn leaves a mark on my reputation. I will scrub at it. My wife and children can no longer help me. Who will cleanse me now? My only option is to kill the world. Starting with you. Come here…

#HorrorWritersChat The smoke drifted from the incinerator. The bones and mushrooms from the harrowing ritual converting to pot ash for the fields. The crisp autumn leaves crackled under the wheels of the carts. We mark the changing of the seasons. Life from decay.