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Genevieve Puttay

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Storyteller. Dreamer. I 💙 books, tea, and imagination. Writes MG horror. she/her Rep: Kaitlyn Katsoupis, Belcastro Agency https://genevieve.puttay.co.uk/

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Apr 8

I’m officially on sub with my latest obsession! I adore this story and am so excited for it to be flying into industry inboxes. May good fortune come on the wings of bats. 🖤

“The beginning is always today.” Mary Shelley.

#writingcommunity #onsubmission #middlegrade #horror

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 27

Due to Kubrick’s relentless perfectionism, The Shining holds the world record for most retakes in a dialogue scene.

When Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd) and Dick Halloran (Scatman Crothers) discuss ‘the shine’, it took 148 takes to wrap.

#WyrdWednesday

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 14

‘She opens her mouth, exhales. A luminous ribbon flows out of it, drawing gasps. Her pulse goes wild. This has never happened before. The ghosts are coming. Her arms are glowing, her breath is glowing. She’s being swallowed.

Myrtle says, “He’s here.”’

—Laura Purcell
#BookologyThursday

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 13

😂 Best reveal ever. 😂

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 13

The creation of sinister penguin jewel-thief Feathers McGraw—criminal mastermind, long thought to be a chicken—was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of Rebecca.

Like Mrs Danvers, he is eerily composed, deeply unnerving, and a gliding menace.

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 11

I really hope you love it, too! 🖤

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 10

Oh my gosh, it’s been so long since I’ve read a book that was so utterly consuming; I could not put this book down! It’s slick, textured, insatiable. I devoured it in one sitting. ALL THE STARS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Diavola, Jennifer Thorne
#booksky #horror #amreading 📚💙😱

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 7

“…I’ve realized there are two kinds of people. The ones who hear a creak in a dark, lonely house, and shut the windows because it must have been the wind. And the ones who hear a creak in a dark, lonely house, light a candle, and go to take a look.”

—E Stonex, The Lamplighters
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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 6

#WyrdWednesday

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Aug 6

Last year, local artists transformed the forest into a gallery of brilliantly bizarre, wildly inventive, impossibly cool outdoor art—perfect for #WyrdWednesday!✨

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 24

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”

—Shelley
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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 23

Haha! Poltergeist 2 actually scarred me more, so I can just admire the OG Poltergeist without dealing with all the childhood trauma. 😄

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 23

“And the house implodes”: a four-word description in Spielberg’s Poltergeist that was known as “the $250,000 sentence”.

For the effect, ILM built an upside-down model house, filmed it in high-speed as it was sucked into a vacuum, and then reversed the footage.

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 17

‘He discovered… the tree he’d crossed an ocean to find. Void of leaves, as if fire-scorched and left for dead, yet somehow raging with life. He approached it with caution, saw movement across the dark, wet bark. Could it be? A real mare tree?’

—J.H. Markert
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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 16

Agreed; the pic is an old Disneyworld postcard, which I thought was quite cool! I couldn’t find the artist though, sadly.

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 16

Haha yes! Goonies never say die!! 🏴‍☠️✨

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 16

When pirates buried treasure, they’d often murder a prisoner and lay him on top—enlisting his ghost to guard the gold. If no prisoner was handy, a crewmate would do.

Should the law come sniffing, they’d point to the fresh grave and say: nothing here but the dead.

#WyrdWednesday

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 11

Agreed! 😍

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’m weekending gothic-style and am so excited for this workshop on Saturday led by the brilliant Dr Charlotte Baker! Still time to book! 🖤

See www.eventbrite.com/e/gothic-ima... for details!✨

#writingcommunity #writing #writingcraft #gothic #gothicwriting 📚💙😱

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 10

‘There is water, dark and deep, and beneath it a sheen of silver—all those scales that haven’t been washed into the mine… And in the broad circle of liquid, the mer-queen, coiled in a space not quite big enough for her.’

A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones
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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ooh interesting! There’s certainly similarities. But I think the Dobhar Chu is a bit more of a fearsome/monstrous creature, so maybe the Otter King is its kindly cousin? 😀

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ooh, it’s stunning in all seasons! 😍

Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 9

A tidal island in the West Highlands, where three lochs meet, Eilean Donan is said to be the resting place of the Otter King—a powerful creature with silver-skin who once saved a selkie and was revered by locals.

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Genevieve Puttay @genevieveputtay.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you! Looking forward to it!