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Stephanie Ellis
@stephellis.bsky.social
Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader.
Active Member HWA, member BFS
https://stephanieellis.org/
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Twiggy Voo?

Napoleonic Britain 1913
A body in the library - or is there?
Doubles - and I don't mean tennis
Christmas is coming ...

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #cosycrime #Christmas #fiction
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His widow, Cat, has invited friends to leave messages and donations in his memory to Macmillan, Matt's chosen charity. I've helped set up a memorial page so please feel free to share this to anyone who knew and loved him.

www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...
Fundraiser in Memory of Matt Mason for Macmillan Cancer Support
Help Louise Willingham raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
www.justgiving.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Such sad news.
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 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My current WIP, Sermon of the Wolf, very much brings Hel into the game & it gets me that her realm of Niflheim is too often regarded as a place of evil. She basically homes everyone (dead) who isn't chose by Odin or Freyja for their halls ...
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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We're lucky to have such interesting people joining us for Writing the Occult: Cryptids & Creatures - including the writer and audio producer Hero Owen, who's going to take us into the changing world of werewolves.

Details & tix: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tis the season (almost) for cosy Christmas crime

1913 Napoleonic Britain
Winston Churchill on a diet
Lenin annoyed at receiving a dukedom
A murder mystery game goes wrong
And the monks next door aren't what they seem

Twiggy Voo?

#booksky #FridayReads #althistory

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Currently reading this modern take on the story of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion: Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell.

Thoroughly enjoying (am reviewing it for Horror Tree).

#Booksky #FridayReads
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @catcavendish.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

🩸📚😱📚💙
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @csjonesauthor.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

🩸📚😱📚💙
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Hi there! These are all the books I have available at the moment. 😁

Check out my website for more info: www.yolandasfetsos.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Here's something I've been working on this year. Got to see the proof copy today & it looks wonderful. Initially print only, but I'm sure ebook will appear.
It holds stories and poems of those with lived experience of homelessness. As soon as links are available, I'll be sharing!
A good cause. 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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And if it isn't too greedy, I'll also link Fiends and Phantoms (cover art hand-drawn by my partner btw) because Memento Culpae explores a Victorian England that has worked out how to use souls as an industrial power source - very appropriate to this #HorrorWritersChat!
Fiends & Phantoms

6 tales of horror for fans of M R James and E F Benson

Featuring:
- academics delving too deep into the dark
- folk horror slug gods in the Bavarian hills
- vengeful saints
- Judiciary Mediums with regrets
- ironic fates for bodysnatchers

#booksky 📚💙
Fiends and Phantoms - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop
Lawrence Harding presents six tales of the Victorian weird, including: An occultist paying his dues A dark entity among the bookstacks An ancient h...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat Cool questions! x
Horror in all forms in my first collection. Get it now!!! Beep boop! I mean, thank you!

mybook.to/AllsWell
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Thanks Gree, that was a blast!

I'm still promoting my upcoming book Autumnborn: a.co/d/5L8oVeu

There is also a free teaser for it to read here on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/autumn...

#HorrorWritersChat
Autumnborn teaser | The ARC Directive
Get more from The ARC Directive on Patreon
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November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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This was fun, and you can find many of the stories set in post-industrial PA in my debut collection.

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat

Let them glare. I want this. The cold metal is nothing compared to the hollow emptiness inside. All I love, the machine devoured. Let me become one with the machine. Let me embrace its inhumanity.
[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 8:26 PM
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I had a blast in #HorrorWritersChat as always! Here's my web site:

trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

And The Horror Zine. New issue went up today. Check it out!

www.thehorrorzine.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Thanks Gree. I loved the format of the questions this week :)

I'm very happy that my novella is part of this fantastic special offer from my publisher this week.

#HorrorWritersChat

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Day 3 of our Buy Direct sale!

Today and all this week: grab @anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror PHENGARIS from our ebook store... and get 50% off Black Mirror-with-cryptids novel SALTBLOOD!

Support small presses - we need you!
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Well, that was quite disturbing. Thank you so much for these prompts, Gree, they really went places I always appreciate exploring. 🌙 Will be back with something exciting to share next week:)

Meantime, I’d like to post these booklets I make with my stories. 🖤

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Thanks for the chilling #HorrorWritersChat!

Speaking of ace horror (well, since I brought it up), check out this interview I did recently with @codydo.bsky.social on the intersection of horror, writing AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN, and reclaiming power.

acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...
Horror, Telling Stories, and Aspec Power... with Ell Huang
In this One on One, I talk to my lovely friend and fellow horror fan Ell Huang about our shared love of horror, bringing an aspec lens to the genre, and reclaiming the power of our stories as aspec pe...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Just wanted to boost William's lovely idea for an anthology in Matt's honour too, in case he doesn't have a chance tonight.

#HorrorWritersChat

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Just incase I miss tonight, a reminder that there's a #HorrorWritersChat anthology in the works in honour of our creator MG Mason.
DM me for anyone wishing to take part or wanting to hear more!

Have a great night everyone!
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I had a blast in #HorrorWritersChat as always!

Here's my web site:

trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

And The Horror Zine. New issue went up today. Check it out!

www.thehorrorzine.com

My story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR appears in THE LIZZIE BORDEN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY.

www.amazon.com/Lizzie-Borde...
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I have waited so long
to be the only thing
that ever was real.

#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 8:32 PM
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THX for a great #HorrorWritersChat Gree!
AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is still a new release! Non-fic for ghost/horror lovers! On limited-time Nook/Kindle sale! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/americas-m...
Also, Torch & Arrow helps keep family afloat torchandarrow.etsy.com
America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction|Hardcover
Instant USA Today Bestseller From the Bram Stoker nominated author team who penned A Haunted History of Invisible Women, the first book of its kind to investigate gothic tropes that define American lo...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Blades inching closer, pierce my head
Bring the promise of eternal death,
Shatter and carve the skull-bound brain
Defile the mind, feed only pain
Neural pathways fuse as one.
I lose myself and I am done
Nothing left but an empty shell
The proof that here, we have made our Hell.

#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 8:16 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat

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