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Eryn McCee
@erynmccee.bsky.social
Writes dragons. Eats metaphor. Occasionally human.
British soul, German soil, haunted playlist.

#HorrorWritersChat co-host

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To the master of horror @realgdt.bsky.social , check out #HorrorWritersChat and make some dreams come true. If you fancy…
My writing dream would be for Guillermo del Toro to direct something of mine. Any book, short story, shopping list, he could elevate it all. #horrorwriterschat
#HorrorWritersChat Q3

This one is going to be hard.

One of the last things Matt asked us at Horror Writers Chat was to share a horror writing related dream.

This can be;
> an actual dream that inspired you.
> a dream you have for your writing career.

Interpret this any way you’d like.
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Horror is a place where I can explore my own anxieties & fears. A place where I can push & prod the uncertainty & the hard questions. It's a space of liberation & introspection.

#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat Q2
This is one of Matt’s favourite questions to ask us:

What does horror mean to you?
December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat

Writing ace horror itself feels like an act of rebellion, against the suffocations and injections of amatonormativity.

Writing asexual Gothic or aromantic Romantic pushes back against a culture of telling people sex and romance (repopulation and marriage) = THE human experience.
#HorrorWritersChat Q4
Now to The Horrors.

In his blog post
CREATING PERSONAL MEANING IN A DARK WORLD IS HOW WE TAKE A STAND,
Matt said “finding joy in being a creative person is an act of rebellion.”

Share a creative outlet that brings you joy and/or feels like an act of rebellion.
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Q1:

Hello, #horrorwriterschat!

I'm Steve and my published horror is a horror comedy. My next one (outside a sequel) is much more surreal, but I do plan to go back to influencer horror as I'm very drawn to the question of the gaze/parasocial relationships

Matt has always been exceptionally kind
#HorrorWritersChat Q1
Thanks for attending our gathering today.

First, introduce yourself & share the horror subgenres you write.

Then, please share a happy memory you have of Matt OR a happy memory of being part of this community he started.

If the feelings are too raw right now, post a candle 🕯️
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat

We know Matt liked to bake. So do I. But the act of sharing a recipe is even more special!

A couple years ago, around the holidays, he sent me a sticky gingerbread recipe. Even took the time to list the American ingredient substitutes!

thelegendarybrownie.com/2017/02/20/n...
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Not hard, tho maybe hard to achieve, but I dream of seeing my own book in Waterstones. In the meantime, I smile when I see names of folk I 'know' appear instead. A sign that it 'could' happen.

We have the time Matt didn't. What I have left, I'll try to make the most of.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat Q3

This one is going to be hard.

One of the last things Matt asked us at Horror Writers Chat was to share a horror writing related dream.

This can be;
> an actual dream that inspired you.
> a dream you have for your writing career.

Interpret this any way you’d like.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Thanks again to Matt who brought us all together in #HorrorWritersChat

My first indie horror in debuted in October, and I could use reviews. Check out my collection of weird suburban horror stories, all set in a neighborhood suspiciously similar to the one I live in: books2read.com/ShadowHill
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat Q4
Now to The Horrors.

In his blog post
CREATING PERSONAL MEANING IN A DARK WORLD IS HOW WE TAKE A STAND,
Matt said “finding joy in being a creative person is an act of rebellion.”

Share a creative outlet that brings you joy and/or feels like an act of rebellion.
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I used to dance, before. Arthritis carried it away early on, I was 16. I wrote plays, then, and poetry.
I wrote, till I started to publish, and ghost-write, and made it how I live and pay my rent.
Matt was right that finding joy is a rebellion. It's a kindness in a hard world.

#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat Q4
Now to The Horrors.

In his blog post
CREATING PERSONAL MEANING IN A DARK WORLD IS HOW WE TAKE A STAND,
Matt said “finding joy in being a creative person is an act of rebellion.”

Share a creative outlet that brings you joy and/or feels like an act of rebellion.
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#HorrorWritersChat

I'd love to be able to earn enough from writing that I could set up a writers retreat in the middle of nowhere. I would keep bees, and you can come tell them the news.
There would be a library for all your books.
And if anyone is in danger, they could come there and... disappear.
#HorrorWritersChat Q3

This one is going to be hard.

One of the last things Matt asked us at Horror Writers Chat was to share a horror writing related dream.

This can be;
> an actual dream that inspired you.
> a dream you have for your writing career.

Interpret this any way you’d like.
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Horror is a safe place to explore the fears of life and to take control of them, to destroy the monsters that lurk in the shadows.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat Q2
This is one of Matt’s favourite questions to ask us:

What does horror mean to you?
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#HorrorWritersChat

Goodness it was the crafty fox that he was. I'll say the same thing I always do.
Horror is about exposing the monsters, and showing they're not always the one with monstrous faces.
#HorrorWritersChat Q2
This is one of Matt’s favourite questions to ask us:

What does horror mean to you?
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Hey #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Eryn, I write mainly psychological and supernatural horror, and I'm a co-host for this most marvellous chat.
I can't even tell you how long I've known Matt for. Like others here, it's been since Twatter days.
We bonded over horror, books and both being ace. And he was.
#HorrorWritersChat Q1
Thanks for attending our gathering today.

First, introduce yourself & share the horror subgenres you write.

Then, please share a happy memory you have of Matt OR a happy memory of being part of this community he started.

If the feelings are too raw right now, post a candle 🕯️
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I just stared at this image for far too long trying to work out what I was looking at.
Apparently it's a foot in a slipper. It took me even longer to realise it is, actually, a foot in a slipper.
December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I don't have the notes from @chaoticauthor.online 's wife so I can finish the series: but I worked out how I end Karl's story just as it should be.
And just at the point I did, Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye (from the Lord of the Rings) came on Youtube randomly.
I guess we're doing it that way then.
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The news we were all dreading. I really hoped he would make it to Christmas but that was clearly not to be.
We will keep up #HorrorWritersChat while we all have breath in our bodies.
Rest well Matt, you wonderful human.
I'm very sad to share the news that our lovely @chaoticauthor.online has passed away. His ending was peaceful and surrounded with love but came far too quickly after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
IT IS HOPELESS. MY SKIN IS FUSED TO THE COLD, METAL SLAB. INSTRUMENTS OF SILVER AND RED GLARE AT ME.

I know what they want. I know they will say I chose this. I did.
I open my eyes at the last and let them learn. Nothing that hunts me survives unscathed.

#HorrorWritersChat
[Cranium. Reconfigured. Brain tissue. Remodelled. Nerve system. Accelerated. Prepared for Dictum.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: “IT IS HOPELESS. MY SKIN IS FUSED TO THE COLD, METAL SLAB. INSTRUMENTS OF SILVER AND RED GLARE AT ME.” FINISH IT.]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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[Cranium. Reconfigured. Brain tissue. Remodelled. Nerve system. Accelerated. Prepared for Dictum.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: “IT IS HOPELESS. MY SKIN IS FUSED TO THE COLD, METAL SLAB. INSTRUMENTS OF SILVER AND RED GLARE AT ME.” FINISH IT.]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat

"IT IS HOPELESS. MY SKIN IS FUSED TO THE COLD, METAL SLAB. INSTRUMENTS OF SILVER AND RED GLARE AT ME. AND WORSE STILL. MUST. PISS!"😮
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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To dehumanise is to lose sense of humanity. Humanity is not in your skin, or your fingernails. It's choosing to be human. So either loss of will, or an alien that takes over. But hey they might do things better. Or so they think, anyway.
Can you imagine being trapped there?
[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]

[Ablative carapace. Installed. Cortex. Pried.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]

[Ablative carapace. Installed. Cortex. Pried.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Greeeetings #HorrorWritersChat!

I be Eryn, I write psychological and supernatural horror, often historical based: and I think industrial horror of the future is scarier.
And you can just fight me on that because you know I'm right.
[Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.]

[Material responsive. Cranial activity. Under control.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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[Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.]

[Material responsive. Cranial activity. Under control.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I wrote this ages ago. Or it could be that this week has been lonnnnnnnngggg!
Anyway it took me this long to decide if I wanted to post it.
Now I am, at last.
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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They fear realising they are just an average, awkward bloke

Also, that they may not only live life never being loved, but had an opportunity to be loved unconditionally, and either ignored it or shunned it for something they felt entitled to

Reveals they be dumbasses
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM