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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 18h

"if you account for inflation, game prices used to be m-"

silence. "accounting for inflation" is for economists and/or perverts and I will do no such thing.

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✧𓂃𓈒*｡ﾟ Ne ｡ﾟ*𓂃𓈒 ✧ @artofne.bsky.social · 17h

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Anna Verner, Fantasy Author @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat

Hey, my flash fiction is still here in Dark Descent magazine Volume 14.
It is called A Good Day for Violence. I am pretty proud of it.

Go to their website Dark Holme Publishing to have a look.

Cover of Dark Descent magazine Volume 14. There is a picture of a young woman in black with black hair and wearing a black necklace. The background is red.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 10h

Greetings #HorrorWritersChat, it is I, the one who haunts your pickle jars in the dead of night! The SpooOOOooky Pickle.

Despite having no hands, I've managed to write many-a poems and a jar-full of stories. Many more to come.

I hail from a land of plenty and strife, where the chill settles in.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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

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 One

Come in, come in! The Phantasmal Symposium has just begun! Settle in the ruined music hall, and tell us – what do you write, from where, and in what ghostly visage have you arrived at our askewed doorstep?

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

#HorrorWritersChat

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for the fun and ghastly questions today, Gree!

the Deadlands Omnibus is now available for pre-order on my website. A young woman who resurrects dead animals by filling them with the souls of those she knew before the world went dark.

#horrorwriterschat

www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop

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Scribbler Johnny He/him @scribblerjohnny.bsky.social · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat the concept of a stringed apertif scares me. It's promising though. I'm Scribbler Johnny, I write odd romancey things about monsters and supervillains, I'm from Mordor and I look like a Weird Uncle.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat

Woo forced break by gut, answers go!

Mundane places are great. Helps unease people - Maybe they are shopping and encounter a spirit, or at the park and see a wraith. Nowhere is safe, as death has touched every corner

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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Scribbler Johnny He/him @scribblerjohnny.bsky.social · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat a blend of both! Yokai are also a favorite!

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

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?
#HorrorWritersChat

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!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 10h

Well, #HorrorWritersChat, aside from all the ghosts in my bones, I find many beautiful places just as haunting - and entrancing.

I've seen ghosts in old barns, abandoned houses that beckon me to explore their crumbling insides. My favorite haunts, however, are libraries and my own abode.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat

Those influenced by the collective psyche. Slenderman is every bit as valid as Bloody Mary, after all. More who agree on a spook, the more power it has~

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

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?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Scribbler Johnny He/him @scribblerjohnny.bsky.social · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat Daylight horror, the modern places. Where one is SUPPOSED to be safe from monsters.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat

The Cat whispers, leaving you marred, as The Jester plays for seemingly years.
You forfeit your soul long ago, you see,
For when you passed the threshold
Horrors that yearn to forever be
Took grasp, for they are bold.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Scribbler Johnny He/him @scribblerjohnny.bsky.social · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat "Listen here, 'Baron'. If you're trying to blame me for something my ancestors did, keep looking! I'm disowned and frankly happy to announce it! Go blame someone who isn't shunned by the name, eh?"

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Vee @icalasari.illusoria.ca · 10h

Haven't gotten back to editing my book nor working on my webcomic, but been drawing a monster from my setting every other day (caught a flu, so catch up to do to get to every day)

If any want to join, they can use the descriptions I wrote as a jumping board

illusoria.net/dokuwiki/dok...

cryscon [Illusoria RP Wiki]

illusoria.net

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat

The moment you entered the graveyard,
The scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears,
Quick did rise your fears
As the screams of the undead
Fill you with dread

Run, run, jump, and run!

Will you outpace
These hungry fiends
Or will you find a new place
As one of the living dead

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 10h

For my final act of the #HorrorWritersChat, I shall share some links!

I've recently re-released two spiffed up poetry books. One, The Shadow on the Wall, is a cute, spooky thing of rhymes. & it costs 0 dimes

I'm have a backerkit campaign for Fairy Seasons for #BookBazaar25.

linktr.ee/spookypickle

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 10h

Thanks for hosting !

My spooky short stories are on sale for Spooktober !

Five short stories of the eerie, tragic, and macabre ⏳💀
One novelette of dark waves and folkloric vibes 🌊🖤
Five creepy tales from the garden 🤎🪱

Available wide, kofi and itch

www.karenlykkebo.com/shortstory

Promo picture of Now and the Hour of Death, Dirt You Shall Become, and Drowned Hearts.
Dark background photo with a tree in moonlight.
Text (from above): Spooktober Sale. 0.99. Available wide, KoFi and Itch.
Arrows pointing to each book> "Everything is evil" (Now and the hour of death). "The gardens are evil" (Dirt you shall become). "The ocean is evil" (Drowned Hearts.)

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 10h

"The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears. You can't be sure it was the door to the mausoleum, forested by moss and frosted by lichen. But there is a darkness there that there wasn't before and the breath of warm decay."

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 10h

#HorrorWritersChat

The moment you enter the graveyard
The scrape of ancient stone shadows your ears
Odd, you think, to hear such noise in the dead of night that most fears
A quick peek around a tombstone makes the whole thing clear
You’re not the only one with a shovel here.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for hosting, Gree!
My recent release is Harrowfield, a quiet folk horror set in the England/Wales border land known as the Marches.

The past is still very much in the present.

mybook.to/Harrowfield

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 11h

Great chat as usual, and you were a great host, Gree_. You can find my famous horror authors interviews and other stuff on my web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

My story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR is in THE LIZZIE BORDEN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY. Pre-order link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTQBFK4V

The Lizzie Borden House Anthology

The Lizzie Borden House Anthology - Kindle edition by Girón, Sèphera , Graham, Heather, Addison, Linda, van Belkom, Edo , Wilson, Trish, Grant, Shannon, Wytovich, Stphanie M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Lizzie Borden House Anthology.

www.amazon.com

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for an awesome #HorrorWritersChat! Death by music comes for us all…

Here lies my blog of mostly cinema-inspired, semi-spiritual reflections on my favorite films/shows. Tis the season, so I’m bringing back Over the Garden Wall! 🎃💀♠️

worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/o...

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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦 @jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for the chat, Gree! It was a lot of fun this week.

I'm doing loads of things right now, but if anyone has a moment to check out my profile, I'm doing a writing challenge to post a piece of flash fiction every day this month.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 11h

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

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 11h

For promo, I'll stick with ghosts and go with my debut novella, A Survivor's Eye.

Imagine a haunted house but with the ghosts in your thoughts, threatening to take control.
books2read.com/u/mZqWwD

Promo image for A Survivor's Eye depicting the cover (a pale and haunted face, bleached of humanity, drowning in a sea of smoke. Two desperate handprints pressed against the whites of their eyes, trying to escape), on a tablet which itself hovers above thick blue smoke. The accompanying text reads; "There's more to life than survival. Available now"

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