Tom Coombe
@calmtomb.bsky.social
Horror writer, occasionally funny
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Tom Coombe
@calmtomb.bsky.social
· Nov 23
The Clown King and Other Stories of the Pre-Apocalypse|Paperback
Something's coming...A teenage horror fan searches for the origins of a too-real, homemade slasher film. Two siblings inherit a statue that draws worshippers from around the world. A struggling restau...
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Thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy of my first short story collection. Your interest is much appreciated, a rare bright spot in a grim year.
The Big Lebowski
Boogie Nights
Rushmore
Boogie Nights
Rushmore
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 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The Big Lebowski
Boogie Nights
Rushmore
Boogie Nights
Rushmore
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Thank you, Erin. Another fun chat.
Finally, I have good news. My ghost story is finished, #HorrorWritersChat 🥳If you're interested in reading a ghostly one, I have Advanced Reader Copies available before the April 1 release date.
storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies...
Finally, I have good news. My ghost story is finished, #HorrorWritersChat 🥳If you're interested in reading a ghostly one, I have Advanced Reader Copies available before the April 1 release date.
storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies...
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Thank you, Erin. Another fun chat.
Finally, I have good news. My ghost story is finished, #HorrorWritersChat 🥳If you're interested in reading a ghostly one, I have Advanced Reader Copies available before the April 1 release date.
storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies...
Finally, I have good news. My ghost story is finished, #HorrorWritersChat 🥳If you're interested in reading a ghostly one, I have Advanced Reader Copies available before the April 1 release date.
storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies...
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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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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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#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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#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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#HorrorWriterChat
Thanks Eryn
I'll a link to my second book
It's pretty good, even if I found some grammatical errors
Difficult to get friends to proof read a bit of smut you've written, know what I mean?
GOD IS LOVE
LOVE IS WITNESS
MUST BE SLEEPING
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
Thanks Eryn
I'll a link to my second book
It's pretty good, even if I found some grammatical errors
Difficult to get friends to proof read a bit of smut you've written, know what I mean?
GOD IS LOVE
LOVE IS WITNESS
MUST BE SLEEPING
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
#HorrorWriterChat
Thanks Eryn
I'll a link to my second book
It's pretty good, even if I found some grammatical errors
Difficult to get friends to proof read a bit of smut you've written, know what I mean?
GOD IS LOVE
LOVE IS WITNESS
MUST BE SLEEPING
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
Thanks Eryn
I'll a link to my second book
It's pretty good, even if I found some grammatical errors
Difficult to get friends to proof read a bit of smut you've written, know what I mean?
GOD IS LOVE
LOVE IS WITNESS
MUST BE SLEEPING
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
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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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I'm working on a couple of ghost stories, plus my queer historical Fen rebels novel. There's a flavour of it in this story: northerngravy.com/the-lantern-...
Thanks Eryn for hosting!
#HorrorWritersChat
Thanks Eryn for hosting!
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I'm working on a couple of ghost stories, plus my queer historical Fen rebels novel. There's a flavour of it in this story: northerngravy.com/the-lantern-...
Thanks Eryn for hosting!
#HorrorWritersChat
Thanks Eryn for hosting!
#HorrorWritersChat
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Thanks for the fun questions, Eryn!
For any #horror fans out there, you can find an amazing compilation of authors and creatives in the chat below! 💕
#amreading
For any #horror fans out there, you can find an amazing compilation of authors and creatives in the chat below! 💕
#amreading
Here we go, the moment you've all been waiting for. Promo me up.
Tell me what you're working on, what you've just released.
Repost others. Be generous with that button.
And if you've not yet done the chat, go back, answer the questions, then promo. It's the right thing to do.
#HorrorWritersChat
Tell me what you're working on, what you've just released.
Repost others. Be generous with that button.
And if you've not yet done the chat, go back, answer the questions, then promo. It's the right thing to do.
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Thanks for the fun questions, Eryn!
For any #horror fans out there, you can find an amazing compilation of authors and creatives in the chat below! 💕
#amreading
For any #horror fans out there, you can find an amazing compilation of authors and creatives in the chat below! 💕
#amreading
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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...
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I'm still working on all the things. While you wait for them, read Fat Monster, it's the best and it's won 3 awards. amzn.to/4acKWcJ
#Bodyhorror, #MLMs, #fatpeople, #shoggoths, #fungusmonsters
#Bodyhorror, #MLMs, #fatpeople, #shoggoths, #fungusmonsters
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I'm still working on all the things. While you wait for them, read Fat Monster, it's the best and it's won 3 awards. amzn.to/4acKWcJ
#Bodyhorror, #MLMs, #fatpeople, #shoggoths, #fungusmonsters
#Bodyhorror, #MLMs, #fatpeople, #shoggoths, #fungusmonsters
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#HorrorWritersChat
If you want to read FOG OVER MONS, my WWI cosmic horror story about the Angels of Mons, here's the link. It appears in WICKED TALES: THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND HORROR WRITERS VOL. 3 (2015). Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wicked-Tales...
If you want to read FOG OVER MONS, my WWI cosmic horror story about the Angels of Mons, here's the link. It appears in WICKED TALES: THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND HORROR WRITERS VOL. 3 (2015). Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wicked-Tales...
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
If you want to read FOG OVER MONS, my WWI cosmic horror story about the Angels of Mons, here's the link. It appears in WICKED TALES: THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND HORROR WRITERS VOL. 3 (2015). Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wicked-Tales...
If you want to read FOG OVER MONS, my WWI cosmic horror story about the Angels of Mons, here's the link. It appears in WICKED TALES: THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND HORROR WRITERS VOL. 3 (2015). Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wicked-Tales...
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#HorrorWritersChat Come visit Shreckland! They might even let you leave! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#HorrorWritersChat Come visit Shreckland! They might even let you leave! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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#HorrorWritersChat
Cheers Eryn! My aforementioned story Vinegar and Brown Paper will be appearing very soon in the next volume in the BHF Book of Horror Stories series. Here’s the draft cover. Oh, and here’s me according to Chat PG Tips.
Cheers Eryn! My aforementioned story Vinegar and Brown Paper will be appearing very soon in the next volume in the BHF Book of Horror Stories series. Here’s the draft cover. Oh, and here’s me according to Chat PG Tips.
February 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
Cheers Eryn! My aforementioned story Vinegar and Brown Paper will be appearing very soon in the next volume in the BHF Book of Horror Stories series. Here’s the draft cover. Oh, and here’s me according to Chat PG Tips.
Cheers Eryn! My aforementioned story Vinegar and Brown Paper will be appearing very soon in the next volume in the BHF Book of Horror Stories series. Here’s the draft cover. Oh, and here’s me according to Chat PG Tips.
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I’m doing a small campaign for my eco-horror “Monoculture” for the Locus Awards!
Check out the links in the alt text of the image. :)
Also, try the #QueerWritersChat on Friday!
Not horror, but I have my fantasy novel Mage By Blood on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453
#HorrorWritersChat
Check out the links in the alt text of the image. :)
Also, try the #QueerWritersChat on Friday!
Not horror, but I have my fantasy novel Mage By Blood on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I’m doing a small campaign for my eco-horror “Monoculture” for the Locus Awards!
Check out the links in the alt text of the image. :)
Also, try the #QueerWritersChat on Friday!
Not horror, but I have my fantasy novel Mage By Blood on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453
#HorrorWritersChat
Check out the links in the alt text of the image. :)
Also, try the #QueerWritersChat on Friday!
Not horror, but I have my fantasy novel Mage By Blood on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453
#HorrorWritersChat
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Those were some lovely questions, #HorrorWritersChat and I'm glad I made it this time! I'll share the things, as requested. >.>
My first novel is out, it is a horror fantasy about hungry shadows, monsters, trauma and monsters with trauma.
You can find it many places:
books2read.com/b/WealdandWen
My first novel is out, it is a horror fantasy about hungry shadows, monsters, trauma and monsters with trauma.
You can find it many places:
books2read.com/b/WealdandWen
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Those were some lovely questions, #HorrorWritersChat and I'm glad I made it this time! I'll share the things, as requested. >.>
My first novel is out, it is a horror fantasy about hungry shadows, monsters, trauma and monsters with trauma.
You can find it many places:
books2read.com/b/WealdandWen
My first novel is out, it is a horror fantasy about hungry shadows, monsters, trauma and monsters with trauma.
You can find it many places:
books2read.com/b/WealdandWen
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#HorrorWritersChat
I've a story in Tales From The Moonlit Path ezine.
And I have a book out, CORPSE ROAD BLUES. A ghastly collection of ghost stories. (link in my bio)
talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/wh...
I've a story in Tales From The Moonlit Path ezine.
And I have a book out, CORPSE ROAD BLUES. A ghastly collection of ghost stories. (link in my bio)
talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/wh...
February 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
I've a story in Tales From The Moonlit Path ezine.
And I have a book out, CORPSE ROAD BLUES. A ghastly collection of ghost stories. (link in my bio)
talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/wh...
I've a story in Tales From The Moonlit Path ezine.
And I have a book out, CORPSE ROAD BLUES. A ghastly collection of ghost stories. (link in my bio)
talesmoonlitpath.com/fiction-3/wh...
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Thanks, Eryn!
I'll promo this interview I conducted with the terrific @ivygrimes.bsky.social : frolicpress.substack.com/p/in-convers...
I also have a new collection. Kindle is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM9FDSKW
Paperback is out April 21. (It's better in print!)
#HorrorWritersChat
I'll promo this interview I conducted with the terrific @ivygrimes.bsky.social : frolicpress.substack.com/p/in-convers...
I also have a new collection. Kindle is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM9FDSKW
Paperback is out April 21. (It's better in print!)
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Thanks, Eryn!
I'll promo this interview I conducted with the terrific @ivygrimes.bsky.social : frolicpress.substack.com/p/in-convers...
I also have a new collection. Kindle is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM9FDSKW
Paperback is out April 21. (It's better in print!)
#HorrorWritersChat
I'll promo this interview I conducted with the terrific @ivygrimes.bsky.social : frolicpress.substack.com/p/in-convers...
I also have a new collection. Kindle is here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM9FDSKW
Paperback is out April 21. (It's better in print!)
#HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat
If you'd like to read my story about the akaname in my bathroom, it's called MUD LICKER, based on Japanese folklore. It appears in the anthology LIKE A MYTH (2009). It's erotic horror & I published it as Elizabeth Black. The book is erotica.
www.amazon.com/Like-Myth-Fo...
If you'd like to read my story about the akaname in my bathroom, it's called MUD LICKER, based on Japanese folklore. It appears in the anthology LIKE A MYTH (2009). It's erotic horror & I published it as Elizabeth Black. The book is erotica.
www.amazon.com/Like-Myth-Fo...
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
If you'd like to read my story about the akaname in my bathroom, it's called MUD LICKER, based on Japanese folklore. It appears in the anthology LIKE A MYTH (2009). It's erotic horror & I published it as Elizabeth Black. The book is erotica.
www.amazon.com/Like-Myth-Fo...
If you'd like to read my story about the akaname in my bathroom, it's called MUD LICKER, based on Japanese folklore. It appears in the anthology LIKE A MYTH (2009). It's erotic horror & I published it as Elizabeth Black. The book is erotica.
www.amazon.com/Like-Myth-Fo...
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I'm working on the last book in the dark supernatural urban fantasy Meridian series under my other name. Angels, gargoyles, demons, witches, vampires, werewolves... All standalones (so you can read whichever), and all a fun, super spicy time.
www.totallybound.com/index.php?ro...
#HorrorWritersChat
www.totallybound.com/index.php?ro...
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
I'm working on the last book in the dark supernatural urban fantasy Meridian series under my other name. Angels, gargoyles, demons, witches, vampires, werewolves... All standalones (so you can read whichever), and all a fun, super spicy time.
www.totallybound.com/index.php?ro...
#HorrorWritersChat
www.totallybound.com/index.php?ro...
#HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat
Do you like Lovecraft or creepy or gross or people writing letters? Do you like me? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, you can get The Boddicker Letters right here, right now!
www.amazon.com/Boddicker-Le...
Do you like Lovecraft or creepy or gross or people writing letters? Do you like me? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, you can get The Boddicker Letters right here, right now!
www.amazon.com/Boddicker-Le...
Here we go, the moment you've all been waiting for. Promo me up.
Tell me what you're working on, what you've just released.
Repost others. Be generous with that button.
And if you've not yet done the chat, go back, answer the questions, then promo. It's the right thing to do.
#HorrorWritersChat
Tell me what you're working on, what you've just released.
Repost others. Be generous with that button.
And if you've not yet done the chat, go back, answer the questions, then promo. It's the right thing to do.
#HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
Do you like Lovecraft or creepy or gross or people writing letters? Do you like me? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, you can get The Boddicker Letters right here, right now!
www.amazon.com/Boddicker-Le...
Do you like Lovecraft or creepy or gross or people writing letters? Do you like me? If you answered 'yes' to any of those, you can get The Boddicker Letters right here, right now!
www.amazon.com/Boddicker-Le...
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Thanks for having me for another #HorrorWritersChat.
All of my work can be found for free on my ko-fi. I'm currently working on some longer stories that will go on there as well. Stay Spooky, everybody
ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...
All of my work can be found for free on my ko-fi. I'm currently working on some longer stories that will go on there as well. Stay Spooky, everybody
ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Thanks for having me for another #HorrorWritersChat.
All of my work can be found for free on my ko-fi. I'm currently working on some longer stories that will go on there as well. Stay Spooky, everybody
ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...
All of my work can be found for free on my ko-fi. I'm currently working on some longer stories that will go on there as well. Stay Spooky, everybody
ko-fi.com/thelastsomet...
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Mediterranean Gothic. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Flash Phantoms. Stories forthcoming in Black Sheep (Hobb’s End Press, 2026). More at ausiastsel.substack.com #HorrorWritersChat
February 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Mediterranean Gothic. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Flash Phantoms. Stories forthcoming in Black Sheep (Hobb’s End Press, 2026). More at ausiastsel.substack.com #HorrorWritersChat
Thank you Eryn and #HorrorWritersChat people.
This time of year makes us grateful for a warm place to sleep and turns our thoughts to those who don’t.
This charity anthology (which includes my story “A Tall, Thin House”) benefits women and children experiencing homelessness.
This time of year makes us grateful for a warm place to sleep and turns our thoughts to those who don’t.
This charity anthology (which includes my story “A Tall, Thin House”) benefits women and children experiencing homelessness.
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Thank you Eryn and #HorrorWritersChat people.
This time of year makes us grateful for a warm place to sleep and turns our thoughts to those who don’t.
This charity anthology (which includes my story “A Tall, Thin House”) benefits women and children experiencing homelessness.
This time of year makes us grateful for a warm place to sleep and turns our thoughts to those who don’t.
This charity anthology (which includes my story “A Tall, Thin House”) benefits women and children experiencing homelessness.