My brother gifted me a book I had requested from @cateyepress.bsky.social - very happy I received Hare-Raising Summer today! It's been awhile since I played a choice book, looking forward to it.

#HorrorWritersChat I'm kinda doing two promos in one. I need emails for my upcoming backerkit campaign, but also, I'm open for commissions if anyone is looking for a character artist or book cover. This post I made earlier has one of my drawings, and a link to the backerkit teaser. :)

if anyone wants to access that, I will link it below. It also includes ways you can support me. #Horror #Writing roseblack2222.blogspot.com?m=1 (2/2)

Thanks Mary! #HorrorWritersChat, to help promote "The Shadows That We Carry," I filmed a video of me reading the first part of my story "The Static Man." I hope you'll give it a watch and check out the anthology, too. youtu.be/B-1aZTYdBFk #HorrorSky #BookSky

Ta #HorrorWritersChat and @marywyrd.bsky.social for another good time! Mentions this week included: The Shadows That We Carry (HWC charity anthology): amzn.eu/d/009NWmOG Wrath of the Land (my fatberg horror): amzn.eu/d/02PKowHB Ruddles (a tale based on a dream): olijbooks.wordpress.com/ruddles/

Because being lost is part of life. Middle grade horror The Nowhere Series Book 1: INTO THE GRAY Book 2: WITHIN THE BLACK Book 3: OUT OF THE NOTHING (coming this August!) #HorrorWritersChat www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Nowh...

Thanks for a fun chat! I wanted to share this review excerpt from fellow #HorrorWritersChat member @mhurban.bsky.social. The full review is up on Goodreads and is awesome. (Although if you haven't read Book 1 yet, there may be very mild spoilers.) www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Thanks for the questions this week Mary, some real posers! I'm going to continue plugging The Shadows That We Carry in memory of Matt. Enjoying my copy so far! #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Mary I'll leave my latest book this week, the Horror Comedy KILLER KAGAMI Funny stuff, but hitting too close to home these days AN ADULT FILM STAR IS FOUND UNALIVED ON A SPACE STATION. HILARITY ENSUES!!! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... #HorrorWritersChat #SelfPromo

Thanks, Mary! My collection Blood Garlands is out now: travisdjohnson.net/books/blood-... I've also edited a volume of Manly Wade Wellman classics which be available next month! #HorrorWritersChat

I'm boosting The Shadows We Carry. One of my cozy horror stories is in it & it's one of my dearest. bsky.app/profile/mary...

The first book from #HorrorWritersChat members is in the wild.

Not strictly horror but horror adjacent, but I just finished reading "River Of Teeth" by @sarahgailey.bsky.social and thoroughly enjoyed it. I do wish the hippo scenes were a little more gory though, just because I'm a gorewhore myself. I'll do a full Goodreads review of it later. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’ It speaks for itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_I

Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Share the name of a strange or unusual horror story that you love. There's so many, but I'll go with Channel 58. Not all analog horror is the same and Channel 58 is quite a bit ahead of the rest. I also love Borrasca, The Russian Sleep Experiment...a lot of /nosleep.

The Judge's House by Bram Stoker It was read to us in primary school Was a bit much to hear as a young Beirdling but it's stuck with me The Judge's appearence reminds me of a Night Terror I had once, although the Judge didn't turn into a packet of Jaffa Cakes #HorrorWritersChat

I think I'll have to shout out the movie Hokum, which I've seen recently. What I love about its strangeness is how candid it is. Some of the characters and places are both utterly strange, yet also very sincere in that strangeness, like they're a natural part of this world. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q4: It's pretty popular, but still a strange title; the game Little Nightmares really crept into the back of my brain. I still think about the ending at least once a week.

A horror comic about a couple - hippies, via industrial sci-fi - who were on the run in their ship, powered by their blood. A cop stows away and bleeds them to death. But then the couple's unborn child takes over the ship and flies it (and the rozzer) into the nearest star. #HorrorWritersChat

REAP, SOW by @pippinacious.bsky.social A novella that gives you hallways and doors and a feeling of being lost and confused. A story that unfolds with images, with pieces of reality. I just loved it the creepiness, the mystery, the darkness. It plays on one of my deepest fears. #HorrorWritersChat

I love Claire Legrand’s Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls. This book is so strange and creepy. I love how it starts off like any normal day and then you see the strange details escalating. The atmosphere is pure perfection. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat The scariest post on NoSleep I have ever seen is one called, "I Saw Something On The Evening News I Can't Explain". The way it transitions from a relatively mundane setting to "What the actual fuck territory?" is something to behold.

My favorite book is Wilder Girls by Rory Power. I cried for the characters & shuddered for their twisting bodies. I also really liked @calmtomb.bsky.social story in Saturday Mourning Television by @sliceduppress.bsky.social - it's a chilling mystery written in a fun way. #HorrorWritersChat Q4

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Use a GIF, emojis, or a piece of music to describe the mental state of your main character in the middle of their story. My MC be like,

I reject the lead singer, but Turncoat by Anti-Flag is perfect to describe Sonia's seething rage at getting betrayed like she just was in the middle of her story. 😠 "With you or against you? I am against you because you're a Turncoat, killer, liar!" #HorrorWritersChat Q3 youtu.be/Yu6tk1P2sHM?...

Contemporary Cosmic Horror City Coven WIP Circle of Fear - HIM Enjoy the tune #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat youtu.be/FAgRDScygic?...

Strange & Unusual? Way ahead of you there Mary Or given I'm a middle aged 90's kid, I could just be overly emotional and awkward Anyways, I'll give you a song I listened to a lot while writing my debut AMNION For main character, The Dweller www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVkH... #HorrorWritersChat

MC for "The Shape of Evil," which I'm doing a new edit of. They feel this way after a certain event in the story. #HorrorWritersChat

>.> As it's been on my mind lately, #HorrorWritersChat, we'll use 'In Fog' (which introduced me to horror romance as a genre) and this bit of music that was absolutely the narrator's mental state around the midpoint (maybe even sooner). www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsOf...

For basically all my stories, the halfway point is the descent into madness, so I'm gonna throw out "The Trial" by Pink Floyd

I just love the trolley problem for moral quandaries 😂 #HorrorWritersChat

youtu.be/uH10IyS2FOc?... #HorrorWritersChat

Little White Flowers (inside Alice's head):

Lucius, in the middle of Land of Gold, my upcoming book: youtu.be/gXtnGhsgFeg?... #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Oh, easily this:

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Use a GIF, emojis, or a piece of music to describe the mental state of your main character in the middle of their story. The Boddicker Letters, for sure.

The Nowhere Series book 3: Out of the Nothing #HorrorWritersChat

If we’re going with The Nightmare That Devours, I feel like this would be Emi right now.

#HorrorWritersChat My current project, The Worlds Between Us, has music entwined in the plot and in the reality of the book (it'll have a playlist for each act). So... Sara in the middle when she finds out about [REDACTED] www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNZZ...

#HorrorWritersChat Q3: open.spotify.com/track/3FZlUm...

This is fairly accurate for The Bricked Up Archway, but it's not quite as cute, lol. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm currently writing a sword and sorcery story, and I think Heilung works beautifully for the soundtrack. My protagonist is a disabled, elderly shaman who communicates with spirits through trees and earth. youtu.be/h1BsKIP4uYM

I reject the lead singer, but Turncoat by Anti-Flag is perfect to describe Sonia's seething rage at getting betrayed like she just was in the middle of her story. 😠 "With you or against you? I am against you because you're a Turncoat, killer, liar!" #HorrorWritersChat Q3 youtu.be/Yu6tk1P2sHM?...

The strange origin story of my Contemporary Cosmic Horror City Coven WIP #HorrorwritersChat - I wanted to improve my book cover design skills and book blurb writing, so I threw silhouettes, tentacles, and city scapes onto a cover template, experimented, let the ideas perculate…and the story grew!

When my daughter was 8, she came downstairs upset because she lost something. I told her to keep looking. It has to be somewhere, it can't be nowhere. She came back down to tell me it was nowhere... And I decided that Nowhere was a real place...THE NOWHERE SERIES WAS BORN. #HorrorWritersChat

My short story recently published in My Friends in Hell came from a very innocuous dream that involved me going to a costume party and literally bumping into a guy also in costume on the way there. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat The true story of a woman whose husband died, who had a lifesize cardboard cutout of him made to prop next to his coffin at his funeral, which she subsequently kept and carried on living with. This inspired my story ‘Cut Out and Keep’.

#HorrorWritersChat To reveal the current project's full origin would be a spoiler. But one of my first horror tales was during high school. Unrequited love the catalyst. Pretty much starred me. Not as a hero. Nothing bad happened to her. Lotsa bad stuff happened to me though.