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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 5h

Most of my stories deal with people struggling with poverty, the worries about groceries or the electric bill are the background radiation for every terror they face. Life is like that, after all.

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 5h

Q2. So many of you are diving in courageously. I salute you. Don't worry, now we go more abstract.
#HorrorWritersChat

Q2
How does scarcity or deprivation shape the worlds you build in your stories?

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 9h

Weird and spooky horrors, with ebooks you can buy directly from Infested, no need to give Amazon your dollars! Get a copy or two, you deserve it:

Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 16h

@elfordalley.bsky.social and @adamhulse.bsky.social bringing more affordable horror for your spooky needs 🐁🎃🐀
#Booksky #horrorcommunity

The cover of The Growth by Adam Hulse features ominous, green slime while Elfored Alley's Never Leaving features a skull with a chainsaw going through it. Buy direct from www.infestedpublishing.com

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 10h

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Day 15

Andy Davidson's IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN bled new life into a time worn trope, bringing a fresh spurt of blood into the vampire mythos by embracing everything about the bloodsuckers that scare the hell out of us.

One of the best damn vampires novels I've ever read.

cover for Andy Davidson's IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 16h

@elfordalley.bsky.social and @adamhulse.bsky.social bringing more affordable horror for your spooky needs 🐁🎃🐀
#Booksky #horrorcommunity

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta bring some horror to the waiting room. Heading back to Blackhawk, @tjtranchell.bsky.social! Plus: vintage @damienrulz.bsky.social bookmark.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

It seems to be #PortfolioDay, so why not? I've illustrated two children's books and a collection of horror stories.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #portfolioday

I'm Jeremy. I thought I'd share some of the creatures I've made in the past 12 months or so. I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered all of them.

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's a photo of four fabric art creations with a black background and a dark red ground. There are two homunculi, one smaller than the other. The large one is gray with big twinkly red eyes and a little frown. The smaller homunculus is green with twinkly red eyes and a little frown. She's holding a rainbow-colored staff with a green stone on the top. The stone appears to be glowing a bit. The other two creatures are white ghosts with gray faces. They have twinkly black eyes and little frowns. They each have two twirly hair wisps coming out of their heads. They're wearing cone-shaped party hats. The hats are black and they're covered with red eyes and there's a red poof on the top. One hat is large and one hat is extremely small.

Here's a photo of fabric art creatures with a white fabric background. There's a cute and creepy mothman with a black body and a gray face with twinkly red eyes and sharp teeth. There's a green Kentucky goblin with a lighter green face and large pointy ears. He has twinkly yellow eyes and he's wearing a black party hat covered with red googly eyes and a big red poof at the top. There's also a red death worm with nine cream-colored eyes and sharp teeth. The tiny homunculus witch is sitting on the worm's head. She's very small, with large twinkly red eyes and a green body. She's wearing a small version of the party hat the goblin's wearing.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the picture.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

So proud of this Halloween horror collection. 42 illustrations and 38 stories! From cosmic horror and gothic terrors to slashers and more. Available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook for only $1.99!

Amazon bit.ly/4lZImtq

Bookshop bit.ly/41USpIQ

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 2d

What did @emmaemurray.bsky.social say about Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces? "An excellent collection that I highly recommend to anyone who loves weird horror [...] Beautifully written prose meets disturbing imagery in this collection." #weirdhorror
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to master the art of annihilation. A girl on the verge of a transformation seeks out a new member for her isolated, inhuman family. A glitching brai...

www.cursedmorselspress.com

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween children’s book! On Halloween night, Hazel crosses a cemetery and makes new friends along the way! Then one winter evening, she trades ghost stories with an unexpected guest…

A Cemetery Stroll

t.co/WOrEsBThDf

A Haunted Holiday

a.co/d/78HLN7G

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

This collection was made for Halloween! Enjoy illustrated horror for only a $1.99!

Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq

Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

I love Beau’s books, but for now I’m encouraging you not to buy them until this is sorted:

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Retweet this tweet and tell us what you want retweeted. Me, I’ve found out my publisher is not who they said they were. Please do not buy my books. I will receive no portion of the funds. #BookSky #PayYourAuthors

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

lol! Perfect.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

As I always suspected…

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 3d

Katy found this on a vintage handkerchief, is it the origin of the Cool S?!

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 3d

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4d

Holy shit, Fr Dowling.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 4d

Still the best Batman movie there is.

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 4d

Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales.

When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. And now Midsummer approaches ...

mybook.to/Harrowfield

Front cover of Harrowfield novel
Lower half, dark green almost black with title and author name.
Above is a solitary tree sheltering two small standing stones.
The sky is a sludgy green.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 4d

This is what I wrote to SF Gate's advertising contact after seeing ICE ads on sfgate.com. His email is at [email protected], if you're curious.

This morning I was reading your article about San Luis Obispo and I got bombarded with ICE ads. That's the right verb because there are twelve ad placements in that article. And every single one was for ICE.

Since you work in the media, you aren't new to the reality of ICE kidnapping an autistic boy and keeping him in custody for a week, even as his parents put up Missing posters for him. Or going to a family's home and shooting their dog. Or leaving a teenager abandoned in the middle of a traffic median after taking his father in front of him. (All stories from this very week, by the way.) You don't have to allow Google Ads to advertise for the agency that is carrying out these atrocities. You're choosing to allow them.

Stop.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 4d

Its the first thing I thought of! lol!

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 8d

Image by @cutfingers.bsky.social #writingcommunity

$Poster features a fractured skull and a chain link border. Micro publisher of weird fiction aiming to amplify working class voices in the face of corruption. www.infestedpublishing.com$

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