Hadassah Shiradski
@dassawrites.bsky.social
Queer ND goth. I write spooky stories!
'What Happened at Hawthorne House', my debut, is out now!
Writing a second novella, a story in verse, and a collection of doll stories 🖤
Playing with poetry and interactive fiction 🖤
🚫No AI🚫
'What Happened at Hawthorne House', my debut, is out now!
Writing a second novella, a story in verse, and a collection of doll stories 🖤
Playing with poetry and interactive fiction 🖤
🚫No AI🚫
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What Happened at Hawthorne House - Brigids Gate PressWhat Happened at Hawthorne House
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Set in 1926, Rosalyn (9) invents a game of royalty with her dormmates. Everyone needs to be in control, and stopping isn't an option; Rosalyn must be Queen.
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Stories, free:
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nightterrornovels.wordpress.com/2022/06/24/t...
There is no 'end' to dehumanisation aside from total oblivion. Someone or something can be pretty much endlessly dehumanised as long as there is something there in the first place, including a lack of consciousness, will, or body...The answer re: 'completion' is potentially never.
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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?]
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[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?]
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![Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs.
Question 3:
[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]
No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!
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November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There is no 'end' to dehumanisation aside from total oblivion. Someone or something can be pretty much endlessly dehumanised as long as there is something there in the first place, including a lack of consciousness, will, or body...The answer re: 'completion' is potentially never.
#HorrorWritersChat
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That's... a very broad question. I already do this in one of my WIPs; a short story collection set in Victorian London, focused around dolls and childhood. Dehumanisation is a key factor, as is the othering that comes with it and the perception (true and not) of a lack of humanity
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[Grafting. In progress. Conveyor attachments. Plugged. Mining extraction. Tools. Inserted.]
[Spinal chord. Interwoven. Cranial examination. Reactivated.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]
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[Spinal chord. Interwoven. Cranial examination. Reactivated.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]
#HorrorWritersChat
![Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs.
[Grafting. In progress. Conveyor attachments. Plugged. Mining extraction. Tools. Inserted.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]
No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usxg4rgbqfxz7cyqg72j7a4s/bafkreibfi4pxvshgmq7niudkidr6lt2344qvmp4q2m4yu6kf6mvv4ujciy@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
That's... a very broad question. I already do this in one of my WIPs; a short story collection set in Victorian London, focused around dolls and childhood. Dehumanisation is a key factor, as is the othering that comes with it and the perception (true and not) of a lack of humanity
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write gothic historical horror, usually supernatural, often with child or inhuman narrators. My works tends to the shorter side, and I'm currently writing a story in poems.
Industrial horror of the future is scarier to me, as the past is a known quantity.
🖤
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I write gothic historical horror, usually supernatural, often with child or inhuman narrators. My works tends to the shorter side, and I'm currently writing a story in poems.
Industrial horror of the future is scarier to me, as the past is a known quantity.
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
[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?]
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[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
![Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs.
Question One
[Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.]
[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?]
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November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write gothic historical horror, usually supernatural, often with child or inhuman narrators. My works tends to the shorter side, and I'm currently writing a story in poems.
Industrial horror of the future is scarier to me, as the past is a known quantity.
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
I write gothic historical horror, usually supernatural, often with child or inhuman narrators. My works tends to the shorter side, and I'm currently writing a story in poems.
Industrial horror of the future is scarier to me, as the past is a known quantity.
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
Reposted by Hadassah Shiradski
Hiraeth (HEE-reyeth)
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Hiraeth (HEE-reyeth)
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
It's a lovely day to reread Alice in Wonderland, eat apple strudel, and then write some horror narrative poetry (before it gets dark) 🖤
Take the time today to be kind to yourself. Take a deep breath, slow down enough to notice something small, and continue.
💙📚🩸
Take the time today to be kind to yourself. Take a deep breath, slow down enough to notice something small, and continue.
💙📚🩸
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's a lovely day to reread Alice in Wonderland, eat apple strudel, and then write some horror narrative poetry (before it gets dark) 🖤
Take the time today to be kind to yourself. Take a deep breath, slow down enough to notice something small, and continue.
💙📚🩸
Take the time today to be kind to yourself. Take a deep breath, slow down enough to notice something small, and continue.
💙📚🩸
Thanks for running this, Eryn!
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thanks for running this, Eryn!
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
It's not unanimous or anything, but many of my male characters fear breaking a (genuinely made) promise, unintentionally made (or broken) or not.
Doing so would show that they don't know themself as well as they think they do; it all ties back to perception of the self.
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Doing so would show that they don't know themself as well as they think they do; it all ties back to perception of the self.
#HorrorWritersChat
Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you!
This one is a little easier. No archetypes!
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This one is a little easier. No archetypes!
#HorrorWritersChat
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's not unanimous or anything, but many of my male characters fear breaking a (genuinely made) promise, unintentionally made (or broken) or not.
Doing so would show that they don't know themself as well as they think they do; it all ties back to perception of the self.
#HorrorWritersChat
Doing so would show that they don't know themself as well as they think they do; it all ties back to perception of the self.
#HorrorWritersChat
My characters lean into masculinity when it suits them to, & I subvert/lean into expected masculinity if doing so adds a layer to the story. My characters don't often have a binary gender!
Andrew saw himself as a potential father figure for Rosalyn &co, which informed his actions
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Andrew saw himself as a potential father figure for Rosalyn &co, which informed his actions
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Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My characters lean into masculinity when it suits them to, & I subvert/lean into expected masculinity if doing so adds a layer to the story. My characters don't often have a binary gender!
Andrew saw himself as a potential father figure for Rosalyn &co, which informed his actions
#HorrorWritersChat
Andrew saw himself as a potential father figure for Rosalyn &co, which informed his actions
#HorrorWritersChat
Hmm. There's a 'male archetype' of a character who cares deeply for others and tries to help; when a character has that, I often like to make their empathy and capacity of care their downfall (in the tragic sense; they care so much it destroys them).
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Well then, #HorrorWritersChat. What's an archetype anyway? I jest. We're all writers here... after alllllllll....
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hmm. There's a 'male archetype' of a character who cares deeply for others and tries to help; when a character has that, I often like to make their empathy and capacity of care their downfall (in the tragic sense; they care so much it destroys them).
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write gothic horror & dark fantasy, usually historical and/or supernatural, and... my male characters are not treated any differently than characters of other genders? What saves or damns my characters depends on multiple different factors...
🖤
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I write gothic horror & dark fantasy, usually historical and/or supernatural, and... my male characters are not treated any differently than characters of other genders? What saves or damns my characters depends on multiple different factors...
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat!
Q1 has arrived. It's international men's day today, and I thought actually that's a good topic. Not the easiest one to build questions around, either. So if I do not hit the mark I am sure you will forgive me.
As usual, no links, no pitches, not till the end.
Q1 has arrived. It's international men's day today, and I thought actually that's a good topic. Not the easiest one to build questions around, either. So if I do not hit the mark I am sure you will forgive me.
As usual, no links, no pitches, not till the end.
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write gothic horror & dark fantasy, usually historical and/or supernatural, and... my male characters are not treated any differently than characters of other genders? What saves or damns my characters depends on multiple different factors...
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
I write gothic horror & dark fantasy, usually historical and/or supernatural, and... my male characters are not treated any differently than characters of other genders? What saves or damns my characters depends on multiple different factors...
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
Thanks for running this, Mary!
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thanks for running this, Mary!
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
💙📚🩸
#HorrorWritersChat
Fruit pies, apple-spiced wine and rose tea for Rosebud, my witchy, gory, sapphic novella in verse; it uses the flowering/fruiting/decomposition of stone fruit, flowers, and berries as a central metaphor. It also features heavily in the story aside from that, a constant presence.
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
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Q3 - INTERMISSION
Time for a refreshment break.
We head over to the concession stand and discover that all the food and drink are themed on your work.
#HorrorWritersChat - What refreshments are we enjoying and how are they related to your work?
Time for a refreshment break.
We head over to the concession stand and discover that all the food and drink are themed on your work.
#HorrorWritersChat - What refreshments are we enjoying and how are they related to your work?
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fruit pies, apple-spiced wine and rose tea for Rosebud, my witchy, gory, sapphic novella in verse; it uses the flowering/fruiting/decomposition of stone fruit, flowers, and berries as a central metaphor. It also features heavily in the story aside from that, a constant presence.
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
For Hawthorne House, I'm not sure -- most of the characters are children, including the ones I'd pick to answer this, and I'm not familiar with child actors.
For Rosebud, my current WIP; Isabelle Fuhrman as Agnes/the witch, my antagonist and fave character -- she'd be a good fit!
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For Rosebud, my current WIP; Isabelle Fuhrman as Agnes/the witch, my antagonist and fave character -- she'd be a good fit!
#HorrorWritersChat
Q2 - COMING SOON
It’s time for the trailers.
And look #HorrorWritersChat - it’s a trailer for your very own horror work, adapted for the screen. Congrats!
Which work is it?
And which actor is playing your main protagonist, antagonist or fave character? Share your dream cast!
It’s time for the trailers.
And look #HorrorWritersChat - it’s a trailer for your very own horror work, adapted for the screen. Congrats!
Which work is it?
And which actor is playing your main protagonist, antagonist or fave character? Share your dream cast!
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
For Hawthorne House, I'm not sure -- most of the characters are children, including the ones I'd pick to answer this, and I'm not familiar with child actors.
For Rosebud, my current WIP; Isabelle Fuhrman as Agnes/the witch, my antagonist and fave character -- she'd be a good fit!
#HorrorWritersChat
For Rosebud, my current WIP; Isabelle Fuhrman as Agnes/the witch, my antagonist and fave character -- she'd be a good fit!
#HorrorWritersChat
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write gothic horror, usually historical or supernatural and exploring my experiences with neurodiversity & gender. I have a strong interest in folklore & storytelling...
Two films that inspire & describe my writing: Pan's Labyrinth and Let The Right One In
#HorrorWritersChat
I write gothic horror, usually historical or supernatural and exploring my experiences with neurodiversity & gender. I have a strong interest in folklore & storytelling...
Two films that inspire & describe my writing: Pan's Labyrinth and Let The Right One In
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
Q1 - DOUBLE FEATURE
Glad you could join our (virtual) cinema trip!
First, let's introduce ourselves and share the horror subgenres we write in.
Now, what are we watching?
Share the two movies/films that have inspired your writing or that capture the vibes of your work.
Q1 - DOUBLE FEATURE
Glad you could join our (virtual) cinema trip!
First, let's introduce ourselves and share the horror subgenres we write in.
Now, what are we watching?
Share the two movies/films that have inspired your writing or that capture the vibes of your work.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write gothic horror, usually historical or supernatural and exploring my experiences with neurodiversity & gender. I have a strong interest in folklore & storytelling...
Two films that inspire & describe my writing: Pan's Labyrinth and Let The Right One In
#HorrorWritersChat
I write gothic horror, usually historical or supernatural and exploring my experiences with neurodiversity & gender. I have a strong interest in folklore & storytelling...
Two films that inspire & describe my writing: Pan's Labyrinth and Let The Right One In
#HorrorWritersChat
Finished 'kinder', now on to 'cage of flesh'! Yay!
I really like the method I'm using to construct this novella; by having each poem inspired by a word/phrase used in the previous poem, I'm ensuring that the narrative remains cohesive.
It's why I'm writing it in Twine, and it's playable/interactive!
I really like the method I'm using to construct this novella; by having each poem inspired by a word/phrase used in the previous poem, I'm ensuring that the narrative remains cohesive.
It's why I'm writing it in Twine, and it's playable/interactive!
I'm back to work on my novella in verse! Today, I'm listening to Forest Theme from 'The Path' as I detail this ...'romance' between a witch and the girl in her house. A poem's connected to the next by a selected word; currently it's 'kinder' (just done 'mouse')🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ...
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Forest Theme
YouTube video by Kris Force - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Finished 'kinder', now on to 'cage of flesh'! Yay!
I really like the method I'm using to construct this novella; by having each poem inspired by a word/phrase used in the previous poem, I'm ensuring that the narrative remains cohesive.
It's why I'm writing it in Twine, and it's playable/interactive!
I really like the method I'm using to construct this novella; by having each poem inspired by a word/phrase used in the previous poem, I'm ensuring that the narrative remains cohesive.
It's why I'm writing it in Twine, and it's playable/interactive!
I'm back to work on my novella in verse! Today, I'm listening to Forest Theme from 'The Path' as I detail this ...'romance' between a witch and the girl in her house. A poem's connected to the next by a selected word; currently it's 'kinder' (just done 'mouse')🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ...
💙📚🩸
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ...
💙📚🩸
Forest Theme
YouTube video by Kris Force - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm back to work on my novella in verse! Today, I'm listening to Forest Theme from 'The Path' as I detail this ...'romance' between a witch and the girl in her house. A poem's connected to the next by a selected word; currently it's 'kinder' (just done 'mouse')🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ...
💙📚🩸
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ...
💙📚🩸
Working on my novella-in-verse (maybe a novel in verse?) whilst it's still light outside! The music today is 'Lost Chair' aka the main theme of The Witch's House, which is fitting given that I'm writing gory, witchy poems from the POV of my witch's familiar...
🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSr...
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🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSr...
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The Witch's House OST #3 - Lost Chair (Main Theme)
YouTube video by ThePixelatedHero
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November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Working on my novella-in-verse (maybe a novel in verse?) whilst it's still light outside! The music today is 'Lost Chair' aka the main theme of The Witch's House, which is fitting given that I'm writing gory, witchy poems from the POV of my witch's familiar...
🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSr...
💙📚🩸
🫐🔪🥩
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSr...
💙📚🩸
Thanks for running this, Eryn!
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
#HorrorWritersChat 💙📚🩸
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
#HorrorWritersChat 💙📚🩸
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thanks for running this, Eryn!
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
#HorrorWritersChat 💙📚🩸
I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑
brigidsgatepress.com/product/what...
#HorrorWritersChat 💙📚🩸
I don't think many fears have been forgotten... Though many people seem to be ignoring the fear of surveillance/a lack of privacy.
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#HorrorWritersChat
Q4, and this is the last one for tonight. Hang around for the pimp your book part of the night in 10 minutes. Please do repost others. Please do go and repost one of Matt's books as well.
Thanks thanks.
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Thanks thanks.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I don't think many fears have been forgotten... Though many people seem to be ignoring the fear of surveillance/a lack of privacy.
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I tend to stick to the 'old' in my writing; nature and the dark, hidden things speak to me more clearly than modern (though the latter has its place). I find it easier, interesting, and more cathartic to focus on the industrial revolution and prior to it; creativity is easier!
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So what does it say about us, as the folklore evolves, and we fear new things, in the dark...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I tend to stick to the 'old' in my writing; nature and the dark, hidden things speak to me more clearly than modern (though the latter has its place). I find it easier, interesting, and more cathartic to focus on the industrial revolution and prior to it; creativity is easier!
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Stories of the fae folk, due to feeling like a 'mimicry' of human but still powerful/dangerous.
And the Jewish folktale that 'The Corpse Bride' gutted and inverted; the idea of my autonomy being stolen and spat on, and again after death (and being viewed as a monster for reacting)
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And the Jewish folktale that 'The Corpse Bride' gutted and inverted; the idea of my autonomy being stolen and spat on, and again after death (and being viewed as a monster for reacting)
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October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stories of the fae folk, due to feeling like a 'mimicry' of human but still powerful/dangerous.
And the Jewish folktale that 'The Corpse Bride' gutted and inverted; the idea of my autonomy being stolen and spat on, and again after death (and being viewed as a monster for reacting)
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And the Jewish folktale that 'The Corpse Bride' gutted and inverted; the idea of my autonomy being stolen and spat on, and again after death (and being viewed as a monster for reacting)
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Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write short stories and novellas --primarily gothic horror, usually historical and/or supernatural. As a kid, I watched an Indiana Jones film in IMAX for the first time. I think it was crystal skull? That one scene with the ants... Yeah. I haven't rewatched it.
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I write short stories and novellas --primarily gothic horror, usually historical and/or supernatural. As a kid, I watched an Indiana Jones film in IMAX for the first time. I think it was crystal skull? That one scene with the ants... Yeah. I haven't rewatched it.
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Hola, Horror Writers. I'm going to post and eat as I've pretty much just walked in. But, we're all about it today, so close to Halloween!
Tell me tell me. What scared you as a child?
No links, no hawking books please, till the end. Thanks Thanks.
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Tell me tell me. What scared you as a child?
No links, no hawking books please, till the end. Thanks Thanks.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hi, I'm Hadassah!
I write short stories and novellas --primarily gothic horror, usually historical and/or supernatural. As a kid, I watched an Indiana Jones film in IMAX for the first time. I think it was crystal skull? That one scene with the ants... Yeah. I haven't rewatched it.
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I write short stories and novellas --primarily gothic horror, usually historical and/or supernatural. As a kid, I watched an Indiana Jones film in IMAX for the first time. I think it was crystal skull? That one scene with the ants... Yeah. I haven't rewatched it.
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Reposted by Hadassah Shiradski
‘And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding’ ~ Alfred Noyes #BookWormSat
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding’ ~ Alfred Noyes #BookWormSat
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
‘And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding’ ~ Alfred Noyes #BookWormSat
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding’ ~ Alfred Noyes #BookWormSat
Reposted by Hadassah Shiradski
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
Violet, a sentient porcelain-clockwork doll from an unpublished story is at the door. She's here to ask me to write a sequel where she gets a good ending instead. She's my favourite because she's so fun to write!
or
Gem, a teenage vampire from my WIP, asking 'wtf, Hadassah?!'
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Gem, a teenage vampire from my WIP, asking 'wtf, Hadassah?!'
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QUESTION FOUR
There’s a knock at the door.
Before you can answer it, the door opens and reveals…your favourite character. They are your creation.
Who is visiting you?
Why are they your favourite?
And why are they here, now?
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Linger a little longer for the outro & promo #HorrorWritersChat
There’s a knock at the door.
Before you can answer it, the door opens and reveals…your favourite character. They are your creation.
Who is visiting you?
Why are they your favourite?
And why are they here, now?
- - -
Linger a little longer for the outro & promo #HorrorWritersChat
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Violet, a sentient porcelain-clockwork doll from an unpublished story is at the door. She's here to ask me to write a sequel where she gets a good ending instead. She's my favourite because she's so fun to write!
or
Gem, a teenage vampire from my WIP, asking 'wtf, Hadassah?!'
#HorrorWritersChat
or
Gem, a teenage vampire from my WIP, asking 'wtf, Hadassah?!'
#HorrorWritersChat