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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4h

Closer, closer

The letters weillakainofheeder with red, black, and grey scribbles.

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Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social · 21h

The Nowhere Series Book 2

WITHIN THE BLACK

is out in a month!

MG horror from @undertakerbooks.bsky.social

📚🩸

BEWARE THE BLACK

a silhouette of a person standing in the dark with a hood on .

ALT: a silhouette of a person standing in the dark with a hood on .

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Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social · 22h

Why not scare everyone?
That's more fun.
#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 22h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3.

Who do you scare? As a writer, it's our chance to bite back, perhaps.

Q3
Do you write horror that scares the poor, the wealthy or everyone equally?

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Paul M(icheals). Feeney @paulmfeeney.bsky.social · 21h

Mainly pulpy horror with the occasional foray into more contemplative stuff. Lately there's a real sense of anger at social injustice creeping into everything.

As for poor... I'm probably better off than many, but treading water month to month. Things definitely could be better.

#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 22h

Oh right then here we go, if it glitches I'll wait till it's back up then fire the next.
Can't say fairer than that. Hi #HorrorWritersChat, let's talk riches. Or poverty. Moral or cash, I don't mind which.
Horror is one of the more egalitarian genres I think. More room for poor...

No links please.

Question One
Assemble, horror bods!
Tell me what kind of horror you write, and how poor are you - financially or morally? You choose....

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E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister @sinister42.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks Eryn! #horrorwriterschat

You can find all my stuff at writesinister.substack.com. My current project is an interactive horror story about a mysterious cult, currently set in Lovecraft's Dreamlands. Each chapter ends with a poll where you get to decide what happens next!

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, Eryn. Very thought-provoking questions.
All the love to Matt.

Phengaris does touch on deprivation, but I suppose deprivation of love and understanding, particularly from a parent.

#HorrorWritersChat

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Phengaris

There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Birds sing in ...

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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦 @jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for the chat, Eryn. It was fun trying to keep up while dodging meetings!

I have loads going on, but the centerpiece is my new Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/arcdirect...

There is a ton of free content, and I'm always writing more.

#HorrorWritersChat

The ARC Directive | Patreon

Only knowledge can save you.

www.patreon.com

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 21h

Working on the sequel to horror comedy WENDIGOGO. When an ancient Northwoods curse turns nerdy bookseller Morty's tastes to long pork, he finds bigots are the other white meat! Bloody, snarky, & oh so tasty reading: books2read.com/u/mv5BzX or graythornpub.com #HorrorWritersChat

Image: cover for WENDIGOGO by KA Silva, illustration by Sally Jackson. Morty, an average white guy with brown hair, wearing a blue sweater and jeans, looks warily over his shoulder at the monster looming behind him. It has the skull of an elk with huge sharp antlers, glowing red eyesockets, and fangs dripping ichor. Its long arms end in wicked claws, and its ribs show through ragged holes in its pelt. A blizzard swirls in the night behind them. The E in the title is formed by a red slash of claws.

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Halfbloodlycan (Christine Cunningham) @halfbloodlycan.bsky.social · 21h

www.gofundme.com/f/making-up-... please help or spread the word if you are able ❤️ #horrorwriterschat

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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat, this Spooky Pickle has some things to pimp!

I've got some poetry books. One is even spooky & Halloween themed! Called The Shadow on the Wall.

I'm also trying to get enough followers on Fairy Seasons to get a top hat!

linktr.ee/spookypickle

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 20h

Ruth Anna Evans, Cat Voleur, MG Mason, Daniel Lorn, William Beck, JE Erickson...
Or me :D
Or better still, go fly through the #HorrorWritersChat chat today and there's tons of indie horror writers today!

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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Hmmmm…so far my characters have been largely middle class or poorer, which makes sense because so have I! I am writing a spoiled rich dude in my upcoming Gothic romance though, which I think will be fun! #HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 22h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3.

Who do you scare? As a writer, it's our chance to bite back, perhaps.

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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat

Once again, plugging my wiki. So long as you aren't a big company and give credit to me for what is taken, it's pretty much free to use. I'll link to one of the world pages, the one most linked to my horror work:

illusoria.cat/dokuwiki/dok...

worlds:clockwork [Illusoria RP Wiki]

illusoria.cat

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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks @erynmccee.bsky.social ! I've got THREE things happening in my writing life this October. A new collection: books2read.com/ShadowHill. A new story in an anthology: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... And a Kickstarter project: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fal... #HorrorWritersChat

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 19h

Desperation and with no one to turn to. The worst.

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kaia 🫖 @tigermolk.bsky.social · 20h

As a writer, I'd like to scare everyone because that's me an you playing around and sharing parts of me I can't normally.

As a person, I want to scare the wealthy and the bootlickers. We should all be allowed to be loud and ugly to people who want us dead. Become a bother.

#horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 22h

#HorrorWritersChat Q3.

Who do you scare? As a writer, it's our chance to bite back, perhaps.

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Rosé Black @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 19h

#HorrorWritersChat #Writing I completely forgot to promote the #Tumblr community for The #ShadowBoxArchives. It functions pretty much like a subreddit. All you have to do is join and you can post there, but make sure to read the rules first.

www.tumblr.com/communities/...

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 20h

Will d back in to check on other #HorrorWritersChat posts but defecting for an hour because Celebrity Traitors 😁

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 21h

Desperation wrought by instability of any kind, particularly in finances or human rights, is far more horrifying than any ghost. The ghouls are the ones wrecking lives currently.
#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 22h

Q4.
Do hang around for the outro, in around 10 minutes.

Which is the easier route? Or the more satisfying?

#HorrorWritersChat

Q4
In your stories: is desperation scarier than the supernatural?

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 21h

Okay, playing catch up since I got behind. Now I'm diving into the hashtag. Here's info about all my books. Thanks everyone for checking them out and sharing. It means the world. #HorrorWritersChat

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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 21h

#HorrorWritersChat

Sorry for the late responses!

I've got a 21 page PDF preview of my horror/fantasy #TheWorldsBetweenUs free for download;

onegemini.com/digitalprevi...

My 1st non-self-pub story, Lucia, a 6pg horror comic is in this upcoming anthology #WitchingSeason;

kck.st/4najgsd

Thanks!

The Worlds Between Us. Follow the link in text, or scan the QR code.

A page from Witching Season's "Lucia," written and illustrated by me, colored by Timothy C. Brown.

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 21h

Oops forgot the tag. #HorrorWritersChat

Anyway, you can read a bunch of my stories on my register, but this is my first Palestinian gothic horror piece: www.seizethepress.com/2022/10/12/s...

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 21h

I got pulled away to work but thank you, Eryn, for the scary and thoughtful questions this week.

Where The Soul Goes has been out for over a month. What would you do if you knew you were dying? What would Death herself make you do? Find out.

#horrorwriterschat

mybook.to/where-the-so...

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Bert Piedmont's FAT MONSTER now available! @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 21h

How about some love for FAT MONSTER, wherein fat people are preyed on by society & monsters, featuring body horror, multi level marketing schemes, fungus/mushroom creatures, pyramids...
If you're fat, love someone fat, or don't understand fat people, READ THIS
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#horrorwriterschat

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for the fantastic questions!

Since it is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein opening weekend, AND there’s going to be an Ace Week soon in October, here’s more on my Gothic thesis + WIP “Aromantic Frankenstein.” 🖤🤍💚

#HorrorWritersChat

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