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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 1h

You got it. Get better soon or I’ll start having people call you and sing karaoke K-pop songs.

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

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!

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

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Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social · 4h

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

It worked.
All the preparation. The old words spoken. The spell found with her corpse.
Now she would come home.
Again.
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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!

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pun @thelastpunicorn.bsky.social · 4h

where a ghost lingers is less important than the how and the why

I like when ghosts don’t know where they are, not quite sapient, retracing the path they took when they were alive, seeing a version of the world that no longer exists

I like my ghosts insensate in their longing

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

I’m sure it’s nothing. But greet the people you meet there with respect and deference and you may gain a ghoulish ally. Otherwise…

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

And a cryptic infuser no less! Now we know where Nessie has been.

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

Perfection! I'll get to work expanding it for Graveside Press :)

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 4h

Evening all, William Beck - writer of fun fantasies and hopeful horrors.

I arrive tonight, as I do most nights, as anxiety manifested.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 5h

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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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

So now me know where the monkey paw came from. #HorrorWritersChat

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

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You weren't sure where the sound came from at first; not until it continued enough to lure you to a magnificent tomb. Intricate statues carved into the structure stared at you with lifeless, rough eyes, one reaching out. The last thing you remember is taking its hand.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 4h

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…

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

"The moment you entered the graveyard," the skeleton said, "The scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears."

"What'd you put in my ears?!" Martin slapped at his head. "Don't be putting shit in my ears!"

"No. It was poetic! I was saying--"

"Not cool messing with a guy's ears."
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social · 4h

I vote no for inter-dimensional insect infestation.

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I'll just be here swatting at invisible bugs now. For a while. Thanks.

J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 4h

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat
As a disbeliever in any thinness between veils, I like seeing authors find ways to bring ghosts into our world. Is it gas? Is it madness? Is it time travel? Is it an inter-dimensional insect infestation?

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 4h

And then he ran into my knife.
He ran into my knife ten times. #HorrorWritersChat

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

I don't have lots of experience writing either, because my horror often has sci-fi origins: rogue AI, cosmic parasite, etc. With an occasional human slasher. I DID publish a short fantasy story featuring the fairy Yallery Brown (in The Fables Next Door) so there are exceptions!
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister @sinister42.bsky.social · 4h

Hell yes. #horrorwriterschat

J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 4h

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat
Abandoned spaces are creepy, sure; unnatural darkness doesn’t feel safe—someone or THING could be in that back corner…

But unexplored wilderness hides so much more. Flora and fauna eager to kill and eat you, and the ghosts of their ancestors ready to drag you into the loam.

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?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

And now I want a gas station with madness and inter-dimensional insect infestations! @michelleheller.bsky.social get on that!

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 4h

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat
As a disbeliever in any thinness between veils, I like seeing authors find ways to bring ghosts into our world. Is it gas? Is it madness? Is it time travel? Is it an inter-dimensional insect infestation?

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

Moms secretly rank their kids. CONFIRMED. #HorrorWritersChat

Rebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not going to get into the business of ranking ghosts. That's how you call down an eldritch haunting that crosses generations. I love them all equally, like a good mom. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Blair Shedd @onegemini.com · 4h

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Right now, I'm all about the folklore spirits. My current project deals with local ghosts and supernatural happenings, so I've been doing deep dives on some of the ghosts of the past, from train accidents, to haunted covered bridges, to Native spirits.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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

I think my taste bends more towards ghosts that aren't traditional. Give me things that don't have a shape, don't have a voice, warp your mind or your guts or time. I want ghosts I can long for and be afraid of at the same time.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

I read this too fast and saw "loan" and not "loam" and for a second I got *really* scared.

Ghosts are bad. Ghosts with bad credit and sketchy loans? 😬

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 4h

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat
Abandoned spaces are creepy, sure; unnatural darkness doesn’t feel safe—someone or THING could be in that back corner…

But unexplored wilderness hides so much more. Flora and fauna eager to kill and eat you, and the ghosts of their ancestors ready to drag you into the loam.

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?
#HorrorWritersChat

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

Hang on, guys. I speak cephalopod...

"I would like to speak to you about your vehicle's extended warranty..."

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E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister @sinister42.bsky.social · 4h

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. #horrorwriterschat

Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 5h

Hello #HorrorWritersChat, my name is Rami Ungar, I write horror and dark fantasy, I'm from Ohio in the deep, dark out that the USA is slowly becoming. And I'm coming in the form of a guy wearing a Cthulhu onesie. Which I will wear tonight when I'm chilling after work.

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

Hang on, didn't I suggest this to you?

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. VPN.

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 4h

TIL Iceland goes hard with its ghosts. #HorrorWritersChat

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 4h

I prefer the spirits of the folkloric variety because you can learn so much history from them.

Fun fact: a ghost in Iceland is typically a draugr or afturganga, meaning walking again. They're more of the zombie variety but still have their minds intact and often seek revenge.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 4h

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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