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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 11h

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if Icelandic folklore tickles your spooky fancy, then why not check out my short story collection Visceral Discoveries on the 'Zon 😉

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Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror

Amazon.com: Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror eBook : Mist, Villimey: Kindle Store

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 11h

Thanks for a fun one, Gree!
I have a collection that explores ghosts and (un)natural horrors all lingering in the corner of your eye…
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Nothing But The Willows & Other Things That Are Not There

Check out Nothing But The Willows & Other Things That Are Not There - <p>Perception is reality. But how much can you trust with only two eyes? Cracks in the fabric of the universe reveal facets of a p...

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 1h

That's an epic fight scene! 😅 What's the movie?

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

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Way past my bedtime. Will try to catch up on teskeers and comments tomorrow ✌️

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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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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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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 11h

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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!

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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.

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There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

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

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

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

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 11h

Well, it's 9pm. Time to turn off the screen and do something else.
Crocheting most likely.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 11h

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I'm mostly for folkloric, pissed-off, banshee kind of ghosts.
The "ghost leaving clues to help get peace or solve the murder" doesn't (generally) do it for me.
I'd like the ghost to be the villain

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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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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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

As much as I love unique ghost designs by authors, I love ghost folktales even more. They have so much history in them, especially between generations. So much can be told about a community by simply how they're treating the (dis)honoured dead.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

I'm folklore ghost all the way! They're the best.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

Definitely haunted swamps in Scandinavia too!

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

I wish it was so but more often than not, my computer is turned off before 9pm 😅 getting very close to lasting through tonight tho!

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

Awesome art piece!

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

Greetings! For I am your conductor.

I am Gree, writer of body, psychological, and religious horror for the Bloodied Rose: Verses of Midnight setting, hailing from the Czech Republic!

As for my own visage, it is evident on my own profile picture 😈

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Art of Roberto Ferras, featuring a hooded wraith with a human-shaped skull. Smaller, spectral trails with skull-shaped faces flow around it. It has a ball and chain on one wrist, and a short sword on the other. Behind it is a suitably Gothic, spooky architecture, coloured in red at the bottom, and baleful green at the top.

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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 12h

Hi. I'm Blair. Currently in VT hunkering down from the storm that is the current USA. I write comic books, and as of late, mostly horror comics.

Hm. I wear a half-mask like the Phantom of the Opera, not to hide scarring, but to hide the darker nature of myself.

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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?
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Rosé Black @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 12h

#HorrorWritersChat My my name is Rosé Black. I write horror and horrible comedy. My arrival came from the spirit of the thing even the dinosaurs were cautious around.

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?
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

I am quite typical here. Strangely deserted mountain villages and mining towns. Secluded shrines. Half-sunken castles.

They often protect revelations about who the living were as they summoned the ghosts as spirits, what were their sins, and what led them to their doom.

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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?
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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

Well, definitely depends on what genre you want 😅 the novels are fantasy. The series more epic/classic fantasy and standalone NA vibes portal fantasy.
The short stories are little horror pieces.

K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

I finally got around to mute words! Thought I already had, but guess it was only on here. Didn't realize the 'not interested' was on there too! Smart!
Thank you <3

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

I'm gonna have it as a point for the betas. It's still a bit of a rough stage, so I'm gonna keep it for now I think, then see.

K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

oh for sure! And honestly tea too. Unless it's my own coffee or a proper brew place.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

💪

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

yeah I just thought of it as appearance and I'm like 'dude, it's after 8pm, it's PJ's' 🙈

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

It's very cynical and dry 😅 underplayed for sure! it's a whole vibe

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