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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 1h

We want to know what you love about Chicago! Nominate your favorite creators, changemakers, business owners, and more for a Best of Chicago award by Oct 26. Help us celebrate what makes this city amazing by going to chicagoreader.com/best

Best of Chicago 2025 - Chicago Reader

It's time for the Best of Chicago 2025! The ballot opens for nominations October 6 through October 26. We want to hear from you, our readers, about what is the latest and greatest in Chicago.

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly every time I get a call or email from a promo whatever and they end with HOW DOES THAT SOUND?!? I think exhausting. It sounds utterly exhausting. Just let me write my words and drink my tea. Tiny fish. Well kept secret. Secret menu.

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks Gree for a great #HorrorWritersChat!

My interview with Bruce Campbell (Groovy!) is at The Horror Zine.

www.thehorrorzine.com/Special/Bruc...

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 2h

This week's Martin finale goes out to @chaoticauthor.online. The man needs your help. He's bored, in a hospital, and low on the green. Send him messages and use this link to brighten his day. Without Matt, you'd never get to read my corny jokes. HORROR!

ko-fi.com/onechaoticau...

#HorrorWritersChat

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 2h

Sharing my horror collection Next Door via Bookshop because it ships free today! Support indie bookstores 🖤🖤🖤
#HorrorWritersChat

bookshop.org/a/1721/97817...

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent advice. I’ve never thought about cemetery camouflage.

Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 2h

The moment you entered the graveyard,
the scrape of ancient stone
shadowed your ears.
Rest sweet child,
as No One slips into your soul,
and Nothing waits to sip your tears…

#HorrorWritersChat
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2h

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

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 Four

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!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 2h

A thousand souls tethered to a take out line. 🖤

Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like the best ghost locations are the ones with the most emotional energy. In no particular order: The DMV, day care, and anywhere offering free samples at lunch time.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 3h

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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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 2h

So many fears are in play in hospitals.

Anna Verner, Fantasy Author @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 3h

#HorrorWritersChat

Knowing a few people that are not well at the moment, Hospitals can be weird places, especially at night when you hear nurses walking up and down the corridors creating shadows under the door, stopping outside your room to read your chart, (At least I hope that's who it is).

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 3h

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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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Liminal spaces 🖤 and I don’t know why I adore the word liminal but I do

Halfbloodlycan (Christine Cunningham) @halfbloodlycan.bsky.social · 3h

Liminal spaces like empty gas stations, coffee shops always, woods, and cemeteries the rare chance I can. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 3h

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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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Have you read SA Barnes Dead Silence?

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 3h

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Yup yup yup 🖤

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, ghosts are some of my favorite people. So I guess I prefer them to be what authors feel is going on, and I appreciate when it isn’t always scary.

#HorrorWritersChat Q3

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?
#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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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Hmmm favorite haunts. I love really old cemeteries. There’s a cemetery in my hometown from the 1600s, which I realize now is young, but as a kid it was ancient. Really beautiful. Q2
#HorrorWritwrsChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 3h

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