The Gen X urge to load up on guns and bring your friends.

I may have been playing Hollow Knight too much.

I'd watch the audience watch Psycho for the first time.

"Royal Arrest" would be a good album title.

All meetings with Trump will now begin with the assembled room listening to "November Rain" in its entirety.

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A very cool idea but I can’t imagine sitting through most of Twister to get to The Shining.

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

The maddest I've ever been has been because of someone in the audience, whether it was the high school couple that needed to have a Very Serious Discussion About Their Relationship during Zodiac or the guy who muttered "This movie makes no sense" throughout Rushmore of all things.

Glad to be back for #HorrorWritersChat and ta to @greethewriter.bsky.social for an eloquent adventure. Help me continue my streak by grabbing one of my horrific titles. Flesh masses, strange holes, and seaside cults are just some of the terrors included… www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Oli-J...

Good #horrorwriterschat. I have a 1.5th edition of The Woods coming out soon but no link to share yet, so watch this space. I also have a list of horror authors I follow, many of whom are HWC people, here: bsky.app/profile/did:... And a discord server here: discord.gg/gc5rYvjXhu

#HorrorWritersChat Thank you so much for such fun questions! The only thing I'd like to promote is my current WIP, #🩸⛪WIP! This is what you can expect from it~ 🩸Vampire x priest ⛪Arranged marriage 🩸Corruption arc ⛪Forbidden love (and lust) 🩸Trans vampire ⛪Chronic illness rep 🩸Lots of murder 😈

My first novel, NOCTURNE (YA supernatural horror), is about a girl who dreams the world's nightmares. She's led to the subterranean darklands, where they live and love her, while she becomes less and less suited to live in the real world. www.amazon.com/Nocturne-Ama... #HorrorWritersChat

"...but I can still see the vines. The run deep, so very deep and yanking them out would hurt more than the thorns." #HorrorWritersChat

It's not horror -- at least not in the traditional sense -- but nothing has ever surpassed "The Test Dream" from the fifth season of The Sopranos. All of the show's dream sequences FELT like dreams, but this one was their Sistine Chapel. #HorrorWritersChat

I've written a few stories with dreams. They're usually there as a warning to the characters. #HorrorWritersChat

Tom Coombe, writer of short horror fiction. Nothing has topped this dream from when I was 5. In my bedroom. 4 versions of the witch from the Little Golden Books Hansel & Gretel come cackling down the hall. I run to my parents room for help, and a fifth witch is in their bed. #HorrorWritersChat

Cancelling therapy because I'm forced to work late at the soul-sucking job that was a key reason for me to go into therapy. Maybe I'll just find a bag of money in the street.

i included this in my syllabi this year

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

For some reason I didn't take driver's ed. I learned from various relatives, which was a horrible system. My grandfather would have me practice steering at 5 mph in empty parking lots. My uncle would put me behind the wheel of his Mustang and have me drive on the windiest country roads possible.

Stop. Stop pushing this sickening anti human garbage on us.

Fetterman/Guy Who Watched The Video From The Ring

Last name rhymes with "room," not "Rome."

I love discovering someone making this kind of “discovery” on social media.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

Put on Netflix’s “The Investigation of Lucy Letby” without knowing they used AI to “digitally anonymize” two interviewees. Vile stuff. Just black out faces like a normal person.

A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler

The guy who bagged my groceries last week was a wizard at it. It got me thinking about how people can find ways to bring artistry to "simple" jobs, and how the reason AI goblins see most jobs as replaceable because they think most jobs are easy.

Iggy Pop voice: Night blogging, we're night blogging, oh isn't it wild...

Time for another episode of Full Volume Detective, in which I try to guess what my neighbors are watching on their ridiculously loud TV. This week: The use of Stone Temple Pilots "Vaseline" and IMBD lead me to conclude it is likely the 2012 Judd Apatow dramedy "This is 40."

Americans love nothing more than celebrating our "Scotch-Irish-English" heritage. It's not uncommon to have haggis and corned beef for dinner before settling in to watch "the telly," as most Scotch-Irish-English households call it.

Every time Feb. 14 comes around, I think of the woman I saw in the grocery 10 years ago who kept correcting people who were saying "Valentine's Day." "SAINT Valentine. He was a SAINT."

Please help Hammam and his family chuffed.org/project/1580...

A car dealership so low-rent that they can only afford a Herbert Hoover re-enactor for their Presidents’ Day sale commercial.

There is “meeting the moment” and there is “careening past the moment slamming headfirst into the side of an abandoned Sears.”

Feed My Frankenstein! Buy my Southern Gothic Horror Novel, Portraits of Decay, @ruadanbooks.bsky.social or anywhere else books are sold. #horrorbooks #indiebooks #horror #bookworms #buymybook

Yeah, man, rap isn't REAL music. Real music is when you and your band dress like demons to play the most tepid rock imaginable.

The Big Lebowski Boogie Nights Rushmore

Thank you, Erin. Another fun chat. Finally, I have good news. My ghost story is finished, #HorrorWritersChat 🥳If you're interested in reading a ghostly one, I have Advanced Reader Copies available before the April 1 release date. storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies...

Here's a free one for you today: "The Mind Plays Tricks" with Dark Recesses Press. darkrecessespress.com/2022/04/27/t... The story was reprinted as part of my Shadow Hill collection (lucky number 13), so if you like it, consider trying the rest: books2read.com/ShadowHill #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another great chat! I just wanted to let you all know that Little White Flowers is now available in ebook on Bookshop, and Hallowed Deadly Seeds is available for pre-order there. (Link is an affiliate link and has all formats.) bookshop.org/lists/books-... #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm currently working on a Lovecraftian short story collection, set in America in various time periods, with an entity called the Sleepwalker involved in each. Here's my Cthulhu Mythos noir short story to tide you over till it's out: ko-fi.com/s/8cd164bf0a payhip.com/b/JP4Q0

#HorrorWritersChat I'm currently working on #🩸⛪WIP, my religious horror that includes all these delicious tropes- 🩸Vampire x priest ⛪Arranged marriage 🩸Corruption arc ⛪Forbidden love (and lust) 🩸Trans vampire ⛪Chronic illness rep 🩸Lots of murder 😈

#HorrorWriterChat Thanks Eryn I'll a link to my second book It's pretty good, even if I found some grammatical errors Difficult to get friends to proof read a bit of smut you've written, know what I mean? GOD IS LOVE LOVE IS WITNESS MUST BE SLEEPING www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

I don't actually promo much of late but I will this time. It's a domestic noir more than a horror: about menopausal ladies bumping off bad guys with poisoned tea. It's quite irreverent and rather funny, I think. But there's something about the Aunties. I really like them. #HorrorWritersChat

I'm working on a couple of ghost stories, plus my queer historical Fen rebels novel. There's a flavour of it in this story: northerngravy.com/the-lantern-... Thanks Eryn for hosting! #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for the fun questions, Eryn! For any #horror fans out there, you can find an amazing compilation of authors and creatives in the chat below! 💕 #amreading