Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction)
@markguyer.bsky.social
Writing’s what I do. Being an adult is a hobby.
Neurodivergent
Doctor Who Fan
Fiction pseudonym for non-fiction writer Dustin Pinney.
Neurodivergent
Doctor Who Fan
Fiction pseudonym for non-fiction writer Dustin Pinney.
Pinned
Phantom Delivery (Nostalgiamares Book 1)
At the age of 38, Harper needs a break. She is desperate for an escape from her judgmental mother, her aimless boyfriend, her soul-sucking job, and the disappointment of adulthood in general.
Seeking...
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“My name is Harper Sumner, and I am trapped in a horror novel!”
NOSTALGIAMARES: PHANTOM DELIVERY by Mark Guyer
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NOSTALGIAMARES: PHANTOM DELIVERY by Mark Guyer
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Saw @calmtomb.bsky.social do this and thought it looked fun.
2 actual flexes:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Galaxy Quest
2 almost flexes
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dungeons & Dragons
1 Pre-Flex
Warriors of Virtue
(it’s time is coming)
#adhdwriters
2 actual flexes:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Galaxy Quest
2 almost flexes
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dungeons & Dragons
1 Pre-Flex
Warriors of Virtue
(it’s time is coming)
#adhdwriters
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Saw @calmtomb.bsky.social do this and thought it looked fun.
2 actual flexes:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Galaxy Quest
2 almost flexes
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dungeons & Dragons
1 Pre-Flex
Warriors of Virtue
(it’s time is coming)
#adhdwriters
2 actual flexes:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Galaxy Quest
2 almost flexes
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dungeons & Dragons
1 Pre-Flex
Warriors of Virtue
(it’s time is coming)
#adhdwriters
Ya think you know kitchen sink horror. Then ya meet Jez Conolly.
And with only a paragraph, he demonstrates how you don’t know shit about kitchen sink horror.
This is fantastic.
#adhdwriters #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity
And with only a paragraph, he demonstrates how you don’t know shit about kitchen sink horror.
This is fantastic.
#adhdwriters #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity
I actually *do* feature a kitchen sink in Nuggets, although it’s not dishes that end up in it…
February 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Ya think you know kitchen sink horror. Then ya meet Jez Conolly.
And with only a paragraph, he demonstrates how you don’t know shit about kitchen sink horror.
This is fantastic.
#adhdwriters #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity
And with only a paragraph, he demonstrates how you don’t know shit about kitchen sink horror.
This is fantastic.
#adhdwriters #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity
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I actually *do* feature a kitchen sink in Nuggets, although it’s not dishes that end up in it…
February 11, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I actually *do* feature a kitchen sink in Nuggets, although it’s not dishes that end up in it…
DAY ONE of brainstorming unconventional names for Rob Zombie cover bands:
“STRANGLIN’ THE BREEZE - A tribute to Rob Zombie.”
#adhdwriters #art #music #robzombie
“STRANGLIN’ THE BREEZE - A tribute to Rob Zombie.”
#adhdwriters #art #music #robzombie
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
DAY ONE of brainstorming unconventional names for Rob Zombie cover bands:
“STRANGLIN’ THE BREEZE - A tribute to Rob Zombie.”
#adhdwriters #art #music #robzombie
“STRANGLIN’ THE BREEZE - A tribute to Rob Zombie.”
#adhdwriters #art #music #robzombie
Reposted by Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction)
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
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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
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Every night the scratching came from behind the wall. Now it was time to redecorate & remove the awful panels the previous owner had put up. She hacked away slowly, getting ready to jump back at a moment's notice. But there was nothing. Only a tiny window & a tree the other side.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Every night the scratching came from behind the wall. Now it was time to redecorate & remove the awful panels the previous owner had put up. She hacked away slowly, getting ready to jump back at a moment's notice. But there was nothing. Only a tiny window & a tree the other side.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
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His hand, a whip of flame over my tiny body. The hot, putrid breath over my ear, a gas of barbs on his tongue lathering my earlobe.
I turn. I grip his throat. My fingers are steel.
And there it was. Terror on his bulging, bloodshot eyes.
*I* was the horror now. Vindication.
#HorrorWritersChat
I turn. I grip his throat. My fingers are steel.
And there it was. Terror on his bulging, bloodshot eyes.
*I* was the horror now. Vindication.
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
His hand, a whip of flame over my tiny body. The hot, putrid breath over my ear, a gas of barbs on his tongue lathering my earlobe.
I turn. I grip his throat. My fingers are steel.
And there it was. Terror on his bulging, bloodshot eyes.
*I* was the horror now. Vindication.
#HorrorWritersChat
I turn. I grip his throat. My fingers are steel.
And there it was. Terror on his bulging, bloodshot eyes.
*I* was the horror now. Vindication.
#HorrorWritersChat
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Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat, Eryn. As for what I have to promote, that would be my now public January featured story for The #ShadowBoxArchives. Given current events, I hope readers find it cathartic. If anyone likes my work, consider supporting us
open.substack.com/pub/shadowbo...
open.substack.com/pub/shadowbo...
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat, Eryn. As for what I have to promote, that would be my now public January featured story for The #ShadowBoxArchives. Given current events, I hope readers find it cathartic. If anyone likes my work, consider supporting us
open.substack.com/pub/shadowbo...
open.substack.com/pub/shadowbo...
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It was the way light died inside it.
Nothing came.
No ghost. No revelation. No damnation prettier than the ordinary ruin he carried sealed in skin.
He laughed once, a dry scrape like a match struck on bone. The sound died in the room without echo.
The mirror had never lied.
#HorrorWritersChat
Nothing came.
No ghost. No revelation. No damnation prettier than the ordinary ruin he carried sealed in skin.
He laughed once, a dry scrape like a match struck on bone. The sound died in the room without echo.
The mirror had never lied.
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
It was the way light died inside it.
Nothing came.
No ghost. No revelation. No damnation prettier than the ordinary ruin he carried sealed in skin.
He laughed once, a dry scrape like a match struck on bone. The sound died in the room without echo.
The mirror had never lied.
#HorrorWritersChat
Nothing came.
No ghost. No revelation. No damnation prettier than the ordinary ruin he carried sealed in skin.
He laughed once, a dry scrape like a match struck on bone. The sound died in the room without echo.
The mirror had never lied.
#HorrorWritersChat
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For years, I couldn’t open my closet to confront the monster I knew would eat me alive.
It took a court order to get the closet opened, where they found my sister’s body.
I try and explain what happened, but they don’t think there ever was a monster…
#HorrorWritersChat
It took a court order to get the closet opened, where they found my sister’s body.
I try and explain what happened, but they don’t think there ever was a monster…
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
For years, I couldn’t open my closet to confront the monster I knew would eat me alive.
It took a court order to get the closet opened, where they found my sister’s body.
I try and explain what happened, but they don’t think there ever was a monster…
#HorrorWritersChat
It took a court order to get the closet opened, where they found my sister’s body.
I try and explain what happened, but they don’t think there ever was a monster…
#HorrorWritersChat
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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
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
#HorrorWritersChat
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She knew that which crept in the spaces between the walls, beneath the floors. She could hear its claws scraping, scraping, every night since her parents moved in. She avoided all the crevices its impossible claws could reach though to pluck the skin from her bones. (1/?)
#HorrorwritersChat
#HorrorwritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
She knew that which crept in the spaces between the walls, beneath the floors. She could hear its claws scraping, scraping, every night since her parents moved in. She avoided all the crevices its impossible claws could reach though to pluck the skin from her bones. (1/?)
#HorrorwritersChat
#HorrorwritersChat
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My mother wrote a letter,
slipped under my door.
She never got better.
I learned to never ask for more.
She's been dead for years.
Time to face her excuse.
Holding back tears,
I shake the letter loose.
An unsigned birthday Hallmark card,
day and month all wrong.
Ma, so long.
#HorrorWritersChat
slipped under my door.
She never got better.
I learned to never ask for more.
She's been dead for years.
Time to face her excuse.
Holding back tears,
I shake the letter loose.
An unsigned birthday Hallmark card,
day and month all wrong.
Ma, so long.
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
My mother wrote a letter,
slipped under my door.
She never got better.
I learned to never ask for more.
She's been dead for years.
Time to face her excuse.
Holding back tears,
I shake the letter loose.
An unsigned birthday Hallmark card,
day and month all wrong.
Ma, so long.
#HorrorWritersChat
slipped under my door.
She never got better.
I learned to never ask for more.
She's been dead for years.
Time to face her excuse.
Holding back tears,
I shake the letter loose.
An unsigned birthday Hallmark card,
day and month all wrong.
Ma, so long.
#HorrorWritersChat
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Her parents reassured her, time and again, in the gentle voices of parents, there was nothing to be scared of. When she left for college, she never looked back. (2/4)
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Her parents reassured her, time and again, in the gentle voices of parents, there was nothing to be scared of. When she left for college, she never looked back. (2/4)
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
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#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
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
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM
#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
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
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She could hear it now, great bloody belly dragging over the ground, as she stood in the hall of the family home, long since hollowed out with the deaths of her parents. She sank, cross legged, to the floor. She listened, head cocked like a curious dog. (3/4)
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
She could hear it now, great bloody belly dragging over the ground, as she stood in the hall of the family home, long since hollowed out with the deaths of her parents. She sank, cross legged, to the floor. She listened, head cocked like a curious dog. (3/4)
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
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#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 😈
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 😈
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
#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 😈
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 😈
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A soft voice rattled through the pipes, the vents. A low melody, like a breeze carrying birdsong. "I miss them, too." (4/4)
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
A soft voice rattled through the pipes, the vents. A low melody, like a breeze carrying birdsong. "I miss them, too." (4/4)
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
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chey here, working on sapphic folk horror.
the biggest thing than draws me to folklore is just the fact that there are so many mysteries in the world, and delving into a world of creatures and stories that people believed to be real just makes it all the more creepy
#Horrorwriterschat
the biggest thing than draws me to folklore is just the fact that there are so many mysteries in the world, and delving into a world of creatures and stories that people believed to be real just makes it all the more creepy
#Horrorwriterschat
OK, so here we go, #HorrorWritersChat bods.
You know the drill. Four questions, repost as many as you like, no links: promo at the end.
First I want to know.
What makes you write the kind of horror that you write?
You know the drill. Four questions, repost as many as you like, no links: promo at the end.
First I want to know.
What makes you write the kind of horror that you write?
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
chey here, working on sapphic folk horror.
the biggest thing than draws me to folklore is just the fact that there are so many mysteries in the world, and delving into a world of creatures and stories that people believed to be real just makes it all the more creepy
#Horrorwriterschat
the biggest thing than draws me to folklore is just the fact that there are so many mysteries in the world, and delving into a world of creatures and stories that people believed to be real just makes it all the more creepy
#Horrorwriterschat
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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
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
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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
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
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Hi everyone, I’m D. A. Jobe and I write horror and dark sci-fi.
I’ve loved reading (and watching) horror and sci-fi all my life, so I think I just naturally fell into writing those kinds of stories.
#HorrorWritersChat
I’ve loved reading (and watching) horror and sci-fi all my life, so I think I just naturally fell into writing those kinds of stories.
#HorrorWritersChat
OK, so here we go, #HorrorWritersChat bods.
You know the drill. Four questions, repost as many as you like, no links: promo at the end.
First I want to know.
What makes you write the kind of horror that you write?
You know the drill. Four questions, repost as many as you like, no links: promo at the end.
First I want to know.
What makes you write the kind of horror that you write?
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Hi everyone, I’m D. A. Jobe and I write horror and dark sci-fi.
I’ve loved reading (and watching) horror and sci-fi all my life, so I think I just naturally fell into writing those kinds of stories.
#HorrorWritersChat
I’ve loved reading (and watching) horror and sci-fi all my life, so I think I just naturally fell into writing those kinds of stories.
#HorrorWritersChat
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I'm Jess. I write dark fantasy and weird/gothic inflected stuff, often influenced by Welsh mythology and history because, well, that's where I'm from. My stuff tends to be very watery, which I'm sure also has something to do with growing up here.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
OK, so here we go, #HorrorWritersChat bods.
You know the drill. Four questions, repost as many as you like, no links: promo at the end.
First I want to know.
What makes you write the kind of horror that you write?
You know the drill. Four questions, repost as many as you like, no links: promo at the end.
First I want to know.
What makes you write the kind of horror that you write?
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I'm Jess. I write dark fantasy and weird/gothic inflected stuff, often influenced by Welsh mythology and history because, well, that's where I'm from. My stuff tends to be very watery, which I'm sure also has something to do with growing up here.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
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anything that has to deal with deep bodies of water or wreckages/crashes. i love everything to do with how creepy it all is, but it’s something that genuinely terrifies me 😅
#Horrorwriterschat
#Horrorwriterschat
Q2.
This question is not about the comfortable places that we go with horror. But the uncomfortable ones. The ones that turn us inside out even as we write them. The ones that make us wonder who we are, at the end. #HorrorWritersChat
This question is not about the comfortable places that we go with horror. But the uncomfortable ones. The ones that turn us inside out even as we write them. The ones that make us wonder who we are, at the end. #HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
anything that has to deal with deep bodies of water or wreckages/crashes. i love everything to do with how creepy it all is, but it’s something that genuinely terrifies me 😅
#Horrorwriterschat
#Horrorwriterschat
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#HorrorWritersChat One step was all it would take for me to reach the threshold. One step. I'd been standing in limbo for hours, nearly a day. My stomach was starting to eat itself. My heart was twisting into knots. The state of the world outside was chaos. Insurmountable horror.
One step.
1/3
One step.
1/3
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#HorrorWritersChat One step was all it would take for me to reach the threshold. One step. I'd been standing in limbo for hours, nearly a day. My stomach was starting to eat itself. My heart was twisting into knots. The state of the world outside was chaos. Insurmountable horror.
One step.
1/3
One step.
1/3
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It was a lot of fun
#HorrorWritersChat!
This week, I’d like to share a book I have coming out called Hare-Raising Summer! It’s an interactive horror story where you’re sent away to spend the summer on your grandparents’ rabbit ranch and creepy stuff happens! www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...
#HorrorWritersChat!
This week, I’d like to share a book I have coming out called Hare-Raising Summer! It’s an interactive horror story where you’re sent away to spend the summer on your grandparents’ rabbit ranch and creepy stuff happens! www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
It was a lot of fun
#HorrorWritersChat!
This week, I’d like to share a book I have coming out called Hare-Raising Summer! It’s an interactive horror story where you’re sent away to spend the summer on your grandparents’ rabbit ranch and creepy stuff happens! www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...
#HorrorWritersChat!
This week, I’d like to share a book I have coming out called Hare-Raising Summer! It’s an interactive horror story where you’re sent away to spend the summer on your grandparents’ rabbit ranch and creepy stuff happens! www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...