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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sorry to say that I did not like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and may actually hate it. (Sorry, fellow horror fans.)

But I do kind of envy my uncle for getting to witness this.

My uncle telling me about seeing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 in the theater and someone bringing and firing up an actual chainsaw.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 12h

Nine days in, I continue to enjoy this immensely.

5 Things to Know About Being Bitten By the Black Desert Dog

The pack is calling.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 16h

Just spotted two cybertrucks in less than a minute. Felt like seeing a rat in your kitchen.

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John Ward 🎃 Consumed is now live on Kickstarter @johnward.bsky.social · 19h

I can go first. I helped put together this incredible 380-page horror anthology, featuring some incredibly talented writers from around the world. Help us bring this book to life. www.kickstarter.com/projects/229...

Consumed is a horror anthology now on Kickstarter

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 1d

Cool. Could I maybe do math homework while I watch? In a hospital waiting room?

Headline about the episodes in Stranger Things’ final season all running between 90 and 120 minutes

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 1d

If AI was actually so effective as to be inevitable, we wouldn’t have so many people browbeating us with commentary about how inevitable it is.

James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 1d

It took AI to convince me the human soul exists in much the same way it took a bar full of stripper vampires to convince Harvey Keitel that God exists.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 1d

I got a B+ in a summer Victorian literature class SOLELY by taking part in class discussion. I didn't open a single book.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 2d

#HorrorWritersChat Ghosts belong in the liminal spaces next to comforting ones. The hallways of your house. Between the trees in the forest. Just behind you in the stark sunlight of a summer morning. This is my favorite spot for them, because you feel safe and secure. It's an illusion ripped away.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Two

Ah, the performance has begun! Behold the souls of the living darting into the flutes and trumpets! Now, as you sip your ectoplasmic wine, tell us – what are your favourite locations for ghosts? And why?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Stabby @yorkshiregabby.bsky.social · 2d

#horrorwriterschat

I like my ghosts like my coffee: derived from the souls of inanimate objects. A house that haunts before the plaster is dried, a spooky doll that just left the factory, a combo TV/DVD freshly plugged in. From whence the spectres? Who knows, but they're in all the banal crevices

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

I like the idea of a haunting that just starts. It's what makes Poltergeist so effective. It's not a family moving into a dream home. It's a cluttered, lived-in suburban house that suddenly has ghosts.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

I was a Boy Scout and they played it at like every district-wide event we had to go to.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

Hello all. Tom Coombe here, horror writer who is starting to wish he'd lived in more places than Pennsylvania in his life.

My wraithful visage would probably be more disappointed.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

Have you seen this? Sort of in the same vein, but has other things on its mind.

History of the Occult | 2022 | Official Trailer | SCREAMBOX EXCLUSIVE

YouTube video by Bloody Disgusting Horror

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 3d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever Lee Greenwood comes up (not that it often does), I like to throw out this little anecdote: I know a guy who attended a wedding where, at the end of the night, all the guests had to stand in a circle and join hands while "God Bless the USA" played.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

These people are psychopaths.

Interview with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: Huang said he’s “super excited” about the financing opportunity, adding that he wishes he could give Musk more money.

“Almost everything that Elon is part of, you really want to be part of as well,” Huang said.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

Made some real-life friends. Pretty much everything I've gotten published -- and my own self-published collection -- couldn't have happened without social media in one way or the other.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really glad I've kept up with this, one week in. At the very least, I'll have a bunch of first drafts to polish in November.

In The Bird House

Devils can take many forms.

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 2d

Very unsettling work about a relationship infected by fascism.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d

Get free shipping on your order of my debut novella from bookshop.org this anti-Amazon day 🌕🐺

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Wax and Wane

Check out Wax and Wane - <p>Jobless, directionless and impotently angry at the world around him, Cormac finds purpose among the Mic Tíre - a far-right organization with aspirations to transform Irelan...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d

"Everything is exactly how they remember it: Three 21-year-old shitheads, disheveled with bad haircuts, ratty clothes, ugly macho postures. Except there’s a fourth guy this time, in between them, his arms hung around their shoulders." @iamchrisscott.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Black Beacon Books @blackbeaconbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Win this original art by @gregchapman.bsky.social by pre-ordering #samhainscreams for Kindle. Details here: blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/samh...

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to our lead auditor Gary Thorndale, whose son just got married to, as Gary says, "a dental hygienist who makes me wish I was single and 20 years younger."

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Tom of the Dead @calmtomb.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty cool when you get assigned something at work that makes your soul leave your body.

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John Ward 🎃 Consumed is now live on Kickstarter @johnward.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the day. If you’re hungry for #horror then you should back Consumed - now live on Kickstarter. The anthology has 28 twisted and terrifying tales from some of the most imaginative indie writers out there. Edited by @thewritekc.bsky.social and me. Dig in. www.kickstarter.com/projects/229...

Consumed: a food-themed horror anthology

This horror anthology is stuffed with twenty-eight terrifying tales. An exciting new read for those who hunger for horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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