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Probably the crossroads demon because this archetype shows up a lot in the blues and in the folklore of West Africa and the American South. The Cenobites are a modern example. I also like trickster figures who cause havoc to no discernible objective. #HorrorWritersChat

Stellar work @greethewriter.bsky.social & #HorrorWritersChat! Honest… Lies seep from my book “everything is under control”, as a cosmic entity creates a utopia and allays your fears. There is no need to panic. JOY love you. JOY won’t hurt you. amzn.eu/d/0f38SUgG

Gotta go with the "False Savior" archetype. Fits nicely into cosmic horror since you can have someone promising all kinds of things with unforeseen, dire consequences. 😈 #HorrorWritersChat #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

This mirror better be for slapping those who tried to gaslight me about the horror... #HorrorWritersChat My favorite way of deceiving characters is rarely on purpose but I tend to give them hope, it is an obvious lie to me but they keep falling for it and working ever harder to earn it.

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Thanks Gree - and that’s no lie! I don’t think we’ve touched in characters lying to *themselves*. The main character in my story ‘Cut Out and Keep’ is kind of going that - or is she? Decide for yourselves… open.substack.com/pub/conolly/...

White lies, black lies, lies to protect, and lies to hurt. You can find many lies in Trapped in Amber. Available for a promotional price at @smashwords.bsky.social as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my book at www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... all month! #HorrorWritersChat

Hallowed Deadly Seeds, Book 2 in my LWF trilogy, is now available, and Little White Flowers turns 1 today! Find both books at your favorite bookstore or request from your local library. Purchase link: books2read.com/HallowedDead... #HorrorWritersChat

Check out this entire thread to see what dark delights #HorrorWritersChat has for you this week.

The mirror's frame rotates on its handle. Your eyes widen at the glass separating you from him. It's you. Sunken eyes of deep red hollows. Papery skin marked with words of forgotten languages. It's you. And him. And you. Together. As one. The tomb smothers your screams. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q4: In horror, I love the "I'll tell you whatever I know you want to hear" liar. They can be sexy or manipulative or threatening or whatever! I love them all, because the opportunity to lay bare the unconscious desires of the opposing character is just delicious.

I enjoy those liars who cloak their lies in old-world charm or corporate professional gloss. Think Elias in TMA, Charles Grady in The Shining. #HorrorWritersChat

Courage flows into your heart. There's no room for fear anymore. You stare at his desiccated corpse. You raise the mirror to him. The weight, and allure, of lies are often intensified by the characters who tell them. What's your favourite liar archetype in horror? #HorrorWritersChat

The belief that there's only one possible "good" outcome. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Since my horror tends to go hand in hand with character drama, there's a lot of cracking open of the characters to untangle whatever the hell is going on with them

I'm not sure I've actually ever written a story based on the exposure of a deception. But 'Debunked' by Quincy Lee, which was in this week's episode of @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social is a nice inversion of this trope. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q3: in No Dream Like Forever, it's the lie that traditions will protect us, plus the lie that individuals have full control over their destiny. In my upcoming book No Sky Like Midnight, it's the lie that security can ever prevent bad things from happening to people.

I'm Shelly. Mostly writing long horror fiction based in settings around Maryland. As for lies, I love the one that begins "this won't hurt a bit"... which we immediately learn as children is entirely untrue. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat It’s the idea of safety, or that any powers that be are acting in your interests. Humanity is important, the centre of the universe, and must be kept safe from any horrors that exist beyond. Although… our idea of safety is very different from others beings idea of safety.

Usually in my stories, it's out of the frying pan and into the fireplace. Or, you're just continuing deeper into Hell. But you keep going, because at the end of it all, there's a chance you reach Heaven. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat: Hiya! I'm A.M. Castro. I write spec fic/horror with a Mesoamerican twist. My favorite lie: Despite serious harm inflicted during possession or exorcism, the human form will somehow just snap back into place once the demon retreats. Like, I threw my back out permanently for less.

Good afternoon, #HorrorWritersChat! It is wonderfully cool today, and a storm is raging outside! A perfect weather for tonight. I am EXTREMELY excited for tonight's topic, as it is one of my favourite choices. When a promise is false. When hope is but an illusion. Tonight, the horror of LIES.

Hi #HorrorWritersChat, I'm Iseult. I write dark horror, fantasy & Sci-Fi. I love writing about zombies, animals, & ghosts. I'm not sure about lies told in horror media. I agree with @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social. Horror is great for bringing life to unpleasant and uncomfortable truths.

Good eve #HorrorWritersChat. It’s me, ol’ Oli Jacobs, writer of cosmic horror and other assorted ills. Of course, I know there are no lies in horror. Any mistruths you may suspect are merely your brain playing tricks on you. After all, why would we lie to you about your safety and whatnot?

I always try to be fair to my characters. I let them deceive themselves. #HorrorWritersChat

Your heart beats faster at the entrance to his tomb. All you need to do is reflect the mirror at him, and he will be banished. It must. It will. Lies are also tools of a false hope/promise. What do your characters fall into before the lie is revealed? #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I like it when my characters tell the truth but leave out vital details - a white lie. In my story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR a tourist in the Lizzie Borden B&B meets a woman & doesn't know she's a ghost. When she asks the woman if the house is haunted, she smiles & says, "It is."

Honestly (hehheh), I'm kind of terrible at the unreliable narrator, which might be why I write 3rd person more often than 1st or 2nd. I'd prefer to filter subjective experience through something objective. Denial/self-deception, however, is my favorite. Hence, "I'm fine." #HorrorWritersChat

In Phengaris, it was the fact Mark couldn't be sure if his visions were drug-fuelled hallucinations, the result of grief and exhaustion, or based on some form of reality. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: My favorite way to deceive my characters is to have their habits & traditions be SO ingrained that they can't see the obvious solution to their problem. Breaking out of the box is hard, but it's always possible.

No-one believed in your determination to cease his hideous osmosis once and for all. They tried to chain you in fear. Doubt. In impossibility. Then, you found his mirror. Lies are tools of manipulation and deceit. What's your favourite way of deceiving your characters? #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Anna. I write cosmic and eco-horror. I do like the lies the narrator tells in The Tell-Tale Heart, to himself, to the reader. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello lovelies! I'm Nora Shear and I write spicy horrormance. My favorite lie told in horror media is the "we're all normal here" lie - not only because it can hide so much, but because NO ONE is normal. #HorrorWritersChat

Ever since you were born, his presence cast a morose pallor over your family. The icy susurrus raking the walls. The occult secrets warping the souls of his descendants. No more. Tell us who you are, what do you write, and what's your favourite lie told in horror media? #HorrorWritersChat

#WholesomeWednesday We're resetting the vibes. Share a wholesome story, some good news, some motivation, and/or a pet photo (please add alt text). #Hopecore #Prompt #GoodVibes #Positivity #Wholesome #BeKind

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

We have sold > 200 tickets for this fine absolutely not grudge-filled event in less than 3 hours AND that was before I sent out my newsletter.

Do you long for hand knit socks? Good news! I’m donating TWO pairs of bespoke hand-knit socks for @romancingthevote.com this year, and I’m even willing to do simple lace or cables this year! Here’s the first pair: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Here’s the listing for the second pair of hand knit socks I’m donating to the @romancingthevote.com auction. Favorite the auction to easily keep an eye on it when bidding starts later this morning! (Bidding runs July 1-5) www.32auctions.com/organization...

And finally, in my non-SFFH life, I’m a trained medieval (economic and material culture) historian and rare books librarian. Get an hour-long AMA and a custom bibliography with links to academic books and papers on your topic of choice as part of the @romancingthevote.com auction!

Hooray! It's @romancingthevote.com week, and I'm offering not 1 but 2 auction items...starting with one of my gorgeous author copies of the OwlCrate Enchanting the Fae Queen edition! Bid here: www.32auctions.com/organization... ...with free international shipping for the winner! #romancelandia

The Disability Pride Month Bundle curated by our very own @diannalgunn.bsky.social is LIVE!! From now until July 17th you can grab 33 scifi, fantasy, and horror books by disabled authors for just $33 - so you can celebrate disabled authors AND great deals! itch.io/b/3751/disab...

Another book trailer has hit the internet, madame president Thank you to the four people who watch this, i spent a lot of time learning davinci resolve & crying at my computer. At least i can still say "lesbian" here (Music is "Pain" by Astrophysics and Hatsune Miku, used under a CC 4.0 license.)

I rebuke the idea that they’re the “silent majority.” And I want them to know it too. They do not have consensus, they do not have a mandate, and I want them uncomfortable.

Hey everyone! Texas just rolled out it's age verification so if you're suddenly missing a bunch of TX friends, it's because their email verification is busted :) Currently using an adblock workaround for it until this also goes :)

For the tone of the party, we got: -chilled (from @aanpress.bsky.social ) -excited -obsessed (both from @jon-twr.bsky.social ) She noodled on it & decided the tone should be: AWESTRUCK. Now Viyana needs motifs or icons that will match. Follow this thread to play along! 1/ #booksky

It's 7 pm EDT, & in lieu of having an in-person book release party, I'm going to play a multiple-choice game! I'm going through the process of planning of a book release party as though the heroine of NO DREAM LIKE FOREVER, Viyana Sephri, had planned it. First, a note about Viyana: 1/