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Villimey Mist

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🇮🇸 Icelandic horror writer 📚 Author of the Nocturnal series 🧛‍♀️🩸 Co-host of the podcast Staring into the Abyss 🎙️She/her 🏳️‍🌈 Https://www.villimeymistauthor.com

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hæ, halló, verið velkomin 👋

I'm Villimey, an indie horror author from Iceland.

If you like vampires, then I've got a vampire horror series called Nocturnal

tinyurl.com/yc7vzxyd

If you're more into short stories, then you'll love my latest

Visceral Discoveries: tinyurl.com/4jm9kn7s

Say hello!

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 5h

Great questions as always, Eryn 😊

I want to give a shout out to one of my favorite authors, Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social

Her books are phenomenal, nail-biting and ugly crying good.
Highly recommend her novellas Below, Crossroads and Day of the Door.

Go read her stuff!!

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 6h

Despair is far more satisfying because you can utilize it anywhere at any time, especially when hope is kept out of a hand's reach.

Best example? Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 6h

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

Which is the easier route? Or the more satisfying?

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

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 6h

True but it was very clear on who did it 🤣 the abused got a chance to torture their abusers

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, especially if you get a chance to educate as well as terrify

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 6h

I'm a Eat The Rich girlie head to toe, so I will always write stories where the rich get their comeuppance.

Although, there's this one story I wrote where riches were used in order to exact vengeance on rapists and abusers in the form of a torture banquet 😇

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 6h

#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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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly, most of it comes from real life.

For example, one time I listened to a podcast talking about water depletion or Day Zero.

Living in Iceland, I'm lucky to have an abundance of fresh water but the thought terrified me and an idea for a short story leaked into my mind.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 6h

Q2. So many of you are diving in courageously. I salute you. Don't worry, now we go more abstract.
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Q2
How does scarcity or deprivation shape the worlds you build in your stories?

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 6h

Hæ, halló, veriði velkomin #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Villimey, an indie horror author from Iceland. I write all kinds of horror, though my series revolves around vampires.

Oof, such a loaded question. I'd say I'm allright financially but morally? Being a petty bitch who loves revenge, 50/50?

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 6h

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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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so sad that I have retire my favorite phone.

Not because it's faulty but because it won't support 5G & the phone provider has been saying if I don't get a new phone soon, I won't be able to call or receive calls.

Goodbye, LG Velvet. You were simply the best 😭

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 11h

Is it Wednesday? It's Wednesday. #HorrorWritersChat

Horror Writers Chat

Happening today... at the usual time 7pm BST, 2pm EST

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 4d

2 agent rejections in the house!

Woo!

Keep them coming (though a partial request or a full one would be great)

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

You'll have to find out 😉

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

I LOVE mushroom soup so you can imagine how hard it was to write that sentence 😭

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

#horrorwriterschat

if Icelandic folklore tickles your spooky fancy, then why not check out my short story collection Visceral Discoveries on the 'Zon 😉

www.amazon.com/Visceral-Dis...

Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror

Amazon.com: Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror eBook : Mist, Villimey: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

a man with a green mask is holding a trophy and saying thank you .

ALT: a man with a green mask is holding a trophy and saying thank you .

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

"Your arms twitch above your head, your legs swaying to an invisible beat of ghoulish symphony.

Now, you join us in dance. Dance Macabre."

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

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Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Four

There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

It's the viking in us, me thinks 😅

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

I prefer the spirits of the folkloric variety because you can learn so much history from them.

Fun fact: a ghost in Iceland is typically a draugr or afturganga, meaning walking again. They're more of the zombie variety but still have their minds intact and often seek revenge.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
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Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

It's the only place I'd visit if I were to go to Paris, honestly 😅

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

That would definitely be catacombs. What better way to be closer to the spirits than around their actual bones?

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

LEGENDS & LATTES x CRITICAL ROLE

After a heist gone wrong & forced to ally with the elf who stole her loot, Lore Talis embarks on a perilous journey across an Icelandic inspired continent, filled with dark mist, to exact vengeance on the mage who cursed her.

#DVPit #A #F #LGBTQ #folklore

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

Hæ, halló, komiði sæl!

I'm Villimey, a horror author from Iceland. I've written Nocturnal, an ongoing vampire horror series & 3 horror collections.

I just finished my 8th book, a fantasy with horror elements.

My ghastly visage for tonight is a spooky pumpkin cardigan.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 7d

Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

CRITICAL ROLE x THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF

🎻 a cursed bard out for vengeance
⚔️ an assassin elf with a craving for blood
🪓 a stoic fighter who likes to rage
💥a spiderfolk sorcerer with volatile magic

They're not mankind's choice for saving the world. Only they can do it, though

#DVPit #F #A #folklore

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

LEGENDS & LATTES x THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF x CRITICAL ROLE

What does a cursed bard with enchanted violin have to do get revenge on the mage she once trusted?

- ally with an enemy elf
- deceive a spiderfolk soldier for his volatile magic
- travel through a deadly mist

Easy!

#DVPit #A #F #LGBTQA+

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

It's so tasty 👅

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you 😊