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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 3h

I don't want to promote myself.
The founder of this chat and my co-host is in hospital, so he can't be here tonight, and huge thanks to Gree for stepping in at short notice.
But he writes such lovely ghost stories. Some of them are short, and cheap. If you could snag his books, it would help no end.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 3h

Concluding? Oh please! The Phantasmal Symposium’s work is eternal, as is the thirst for alive souls! We are simply twirling away elsewhere…

Now is your time to join us! What do you write? In what crypts can we peruse it? What more do you have to share?

#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.

The Orchestra Has Performed Their Final Piece!
The Symposium hopes you enjoyed our ghastly arrangement in this music hall! There is no algorithm here – visibility is reliant on your engagement.

Have you answered the questions? Do you have something to share? Promote below, and share each others’ posts!

The orchestra shall resume its operations… next week.

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1h

This is the perfect novel for you if you thought SALO or A SERBIAN FILM were too lighthearted. Tell your friends ❤️

Eric holding a copy of WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 47m

whoa, that's amazing! i don't think i've ever heard of anyone actually making an actual connection via tinder? that's awesome!

Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 49m

isn't that just how it goes? the brain gets a little space to breathe and suddenly BOOM: look at all these pretty colors i've suddenly decided to process.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 3h

Same. I feel like, if we’re not listening to old stories, what are we here for?

And, if we’re not telling new stories, what are we here for?

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a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "

Alt: “Both?” “Both.” “Both.” “Both is good.” -Road to El Dorado

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 3h

TRYING REALLY HARD NOT TO THROW UP ABOUT IT

Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 3h

alright my fellow Horror Writers, i gotta bounce for a bit bcs i've got a very important meeting in five minutes. 🫡 i will return at some point.

hopefully.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think I have a specific preference? Both? Both are good. I suppose it all boils down to the story they're attempting to manifest through.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 3h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
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Question Three

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.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

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

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Ian @deathyboy.bsky.social · 4h

#horrorwriterschat Alleys behind fast food places.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 4h

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I've never been an urban explorer, as I live pretty rural, but run-down, old, disused buildings intrigue me. The stories they held, and the stories they now tell.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Sonia Sulaiman is an Ignyte Award Finalist @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 4h

Q2:

I use a lot of villages, so I often wonder if my strain would be considered folk horror. There’s a lot of cosmic comeuppance and justice debuted themes thinking back on it.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 4h

Yes!! This is fantastic!!

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J. Neira @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 4h

Restaurants. 😋 i real life & in my cozy horror stories. I think good descriptions of food can give cozy vibes to a horror story. My MC Rose Marie is a 🍕 delivery girl! There's also Grillman's, an evil fast-food chain run by animatronics that turns humans into meat.
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction) @markguyer.bsky.social · 4h

It depends on the ghost.

Just a spooky thing that makes you nervous: house, preferably a spare room.

A lonely spirit with depression: abandoned places that should bring joy — theater, cinema, an empty town.

Scary ghosts: Marching down Main Street, big as a house and hungry.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 4h

True horror is trying to eat a burger and getting it smacked out of your hands by some invisible force. 😂

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 4h

It's kind of uncanny how often these two things coincide, tbh.

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 4h

As much of a sucker as I am for a traditional house riddled with grizzly haunts, I've been veering towards more unusual locations lately.

Shopping malls, restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores. "Normal" locations that SHOULDN'T be weighed down by phantasms.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Stabby @yorkshiregabby.bsky.social · 4h

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Please, ask me no questions of the blanched and twisted visage that grins & beckons nightly at the windows of my third floor bedchamber... I am but a humble Gabby, writing queer horror & strange fiction from Leeds, from whence I can hear a violent howl over the Yorkshire Moors...

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 4h

Hellooooo! I am Katherine Silva, "Kat" for short and I'll be darkening your doorstep in the pale wisps of a lost love, maybe even your soulmate. Not necessarily a shape as much as a shadow.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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A Local Cryptid @michelleheller.bsky.social · 4h

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Heya demons, it's ya girl, Michelle Heller. I write horror of many kinds, am currently in the swamp ass capitol of the world (Florida), and I'd definitely be that ghost that's just lying in bed next to you. Not to scare you. I'm just tired, man.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 4h

Is that a theme I see before me?

I think, #HorrorWritersChat bods, that my ghostly visage would be that of another excellent bugger, Dorian Grey. Or the author? No, the painting. It's so dastardly demonic, right?
Oh and the name's McConnell. EM. I write the psychological, supernatural, the gothic.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 4h

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It’s Jez, soon to be 60 😳 writing ‘kitchen sink horror’ from a grotto in Aberdeen, Scotland. I’m afraid I don’t know what a ‘wraithful visage’ is, sorry. It sounds painful.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 4h

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Hello, I am Vee, I write Eldritch Horror, I live in Alberta, Canada, and I arrive as a retail worker, for what terror is more Eldritch than working for a faceless megacorp and getting crumbs to survive on?

...Also helps to explain why my answers are coming only on breaks

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 4h

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Good evening!
I write fantasy novels and horror short stories (as of now at least).
My horror is a mixed back of genres. I like to play with nature, folklore, and just a hint of dark humor (I'm Danish after all).

I'm on the couch in my PJ's, hoping to stay awake until 9pm..

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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?
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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 4h

Uh-oh. Seems I've already done my rounds then. 👻

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