A few members of my horror writer group. @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social @jeswrites.bsky.social and @ryanvanellswrites.bsky.social you are all the best!

365 short stories in 365 days 21/365 The Crowd by Ray Bradbury A master at the conceptual and sentence level. Love this story more the more I read it #booksky #horror

Thanks for the fun chat! Find me and updates for my upcoming novella, No Future to Be Had, on my website. This if for everyone with fears of religious traditions and especially Catholicism. Releasing March 2027! ryanvanellsauthor.wordpress.com

#horrorwriterschat A few come to mind. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones is great for the importance of not losing touch with traditions. Slewfoot by Brom for the patriarchal damage of certain traditions

Communities all adhering to some obscure, arcane, but very IMPORTANT ritual traditions are terrifying. Especially for outsiders. And it could be as simple as travelling as a trans person and being in a town with a strict adherence to gender roles. Horror is everywhere. #HorrorWritersChat

#horrorwriterschat It's the way the traditions are treated that is the most fruitful ground for terror. Traditions established to inform how life should be lived, followed blindly, and enforced with the strength of people who attach their life's worth to them.

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: I think the true horror of traditions is how people don't question them. It's the normalization of illogical and at time harmful practices that can make good people do terrible things. That creates such a playground for authors and a great space to talk about indoctrination.

#horrorwriterschat Not the traditions themselves so much as the ramifications of traditions on my individual characters as they're forced to face where they depart from the traditions of the world they live in. How do you choose between duty and desire? That sort of thing

Hello all. I'm Ryan, I write myriad forms of horror and sometimes dark fantasy. I love the idea of tradition in general being made nightmarish, the old guard being forced to reckon with the thoughtlessness with which they've lived and the new guard facing the consequences of it #horrorwriterschat

365 Short Stories in 365 Days 20/365 Mr. Justice Harbottle by J. Sheridan Le Fanu What a tale of supernatural, Gothic justice that you wish was true #booksky #horror

365 Short Stories in 365 Days 19/365 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne #booksky #horror

365 Short Stories in 365 Days 18/365 The Whimper of Whipped Dogs by Harlan Ellison The new dogs of decay and apathy. Ellison was at his best writing horror #booksky #horror

365 Short Stories in 365 Days 17/365 The Summer People by Shirley Jackson Subtle, ominous, social horror. Jackson at her best #booksky #horror

365 Short Stories in 365 Days Day 16/365 The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft It's one of Lovecraft's better stories, though not his best. And it suffers from everything else that plagues his fiction #booksky #horror

365 short stories in 365 days Day 15/365 Dog, Cat, and Baby by Joe R. Lansdale Good, silly, and short fun. #booksky #horror

365 short stories in 365 days Day 14/365 Not from Detroit by Joe R. Lansdale Felt like a Twilight Zone or Night Gallery episode. Could've seen Rod Serling introducing it #booksky #horror

365 short stories in 365 days Day 13/365 The Bleeding Shadow by Joe R. Lansdale (1991) Haunted blues music is cool #horror #booksky

365 short stories in 365 days Day 12/365 The Weed-Eater by Joe R. Lansdale (1993) Felt more like awkward comedy than horror to me. Though, as always, Lansdale comes with a strong voice. #booksky #horror #books

365 short stories in 365 days day 11/365 Love Doll: A Fable by Joe R. Lansdale (1991) Nice to see something in a different voice from him. Enjoyable and short. #booksky #horror

365 short stories Day 10/365 On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks by Joe R. Lansdale (1989) Mickey mouse zombies and sex mins #booksky #horror #books

365 short stories Day 9/365 By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale (1988) Reminded me of Flannery O'Connor if she had the subtlety of a frying pan to the face. Still good. #booksky #horror #books

365 Short Stories Day 8/365 Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back by Joe R. Lansdale #booksky #horror

365 short stories Day 7/365 My Dead Dog Bobby by Joe R. Lansdale (1987) Short and gross and dark #booksky #horror #books

Book mail! My weird western story, The Red West is in this massive collection of pulp from @pestocomics.bsky.social

365 short stories Day 6/365 God of the Razor by Joe R. Lansdale (1987) #booksky #horror #books

This one took a while to write. Put out an essay about the links between fandom and consumerism, and its effect on how we interpret fiction. Hope y'all enjoy!

365 Short Stories Day 5/365 The Hoodoo Man and the Midnight Train by Joe R. Lansdale (2020) I'm a sucker for a weird western and Lansdale has long been one of the best at them. #booksky #horror #books

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365 Short Stories Day 4/365 The Folding Man by Joe R. Lansdale (2010) One word: anti-nuns #booksky #horror #books

365 Short Stories Day 3/365 The Wedding Party by Paul M. Sammon (1995) from Peter Straub's Ghosts Great story. Had a wonderful Twilight Zone-esque ending and concept. #booksky #horror #books

365 Short Stories Day 2/365 Late for May 15: Present in Spirit by Don D'Ammassa (1995) from Peter Straub's Ghosts Fun little modernish take on A Christmas Carol with a more cathartic result

Turned 31 recently and decided to hold myself accountable to a short story a day for my 31st year with posts here. True to fashion, I'm already behind 365 Short Stories (1/365) For May 14: Looking for Mr. Flip by Thomas F. Monteleone (1995) from Peter Straub's Ghosts

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

I have a short story in this week's episode of the NoSleep Podcast! www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s24...

What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Publishers and money: a short guide for new authors gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/publishers...

An absolutely deserved win. Read this book, you'll love it

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Five books everyone should read once in their lives In no particular order: 1. Beloved by Toni Morrison 2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 5. Pet Sematary by Stephen King

In a world where "AI" submissions are a plague, human-written stories are the cure for an editor's breaking heart. Don't let the flood discourage you from sending your work out there. You are better, no what the hype of the moment says. We want your stories. Not the slop-infested noise.

I’ve been working on getting this campaign going for months, but writing this first social media post about launching my run for Wisconsin Congressional District 4 feels like a whole new level of “I’m doing this for real.” Here we go!

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"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail" "About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"

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Buying ebooks with DRM isn't actually buying books, it's renting them. If you buy a print book, it's yours forever. Books don't go "obsolete". Ebooks should be the same. Don't buy ebooks with DRM. @libreture.com has a huge list of DRM-free e-booksellers. Weightless is among them

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

Here's preview of the end of the current US administration

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Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

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