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Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 12d

Want podcast daddy's attention? uwu
Now's your chance uwu

Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · 12d

I’ll cut to the chase: just like all your favorite authors, I’m offering editing and writing coach services. So yeah, pitch incoming!

But first I wanted to talk a bit about my writing journey and WHY these services can help. (THREAD)

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Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social · 12d

What a great weekend to finish your story for our Halloween contest!
Prize: $50
Word limit: 250
Theme: New origins of Halloween traditions.
Entry fee: NONE
GL and subs: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...

A figure wearing a floor-length white sheet like a ghost. They are standing on a floor of dead leaves in a forest and holding a jack-o-lantern. Text reads: "Halloween Origins; Flash Fiction Contest; Closes midnight, Sept 30th."

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 14d

I went on the Dead Languages Podcast and all I got was this creeping sense of unease as the world disintegrates around me! Listen to me chat with PLM and Carson about disorientation in horror, fun ways to collapse reality, and NYC's plague of sexy, sexy rats

Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 15d

New. Fucking. Episode. We talk with D. Matthew Urban about reality breakdown in horror.

open.spotify.com/episode/1nMZ...

Episode 127: Reality Breakdown in Horror (D. Matthew Urban)

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 21d

Here is a link to Suburban Witchcraft Issue 10 & the written versions of my two new poems published within. Warmest thanks to creator & editor Mirjana M. for curating this beautiful magazine.
@suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social
www.suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10
#poems
#arts
#autumnpoetry
#poetrylovers

Communion in the Square, a poem by Carmella de Keyser, featured in Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Issue 10.

'A Permanent kind of Festive Season', a poem by Carmella de Keyser, featured within Suburban Witchcraft Issue 10.

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Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 28d

We’re doing a Drabble contest. Send us a Drabble.

Theme: HALLOWEEN IN SPACE

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · 23d

Excited the share that my story, The Dad Drawer, is published in this month's issue of Suburban Witchcraft Magazine! Its on page 156, but make sure to read and support the other talented artists featured in this months issue!

#horrorlit
#weirdlit

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social · 23d

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 10 is now Live!
Read at : suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

We hope you enjoy exploring this issue brimming with #art, #photography, hymns, remnants of a wounded Summer reintroducing itself to the Autumn’s gold with #poetry, #stories and a #drama play.

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Suburban Witchcraft Magazine @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social · 23d

Suburban Witchcraft Magazine Issue 10 is now Live!
Read at : suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

We hope you enjoy exploring this issue brimming with #art, #photography, hymns, remnants of a wounded Summer reintroducing itself to the Autumn’s gold with #poetry, #stories and a #drama play.

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · 23d

Want a minute-long story about generational trauma? Look no further than my story, The Dad Drawer! Published today in Issue 10 of @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social!

suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

Issue 10 | Suburban Witchcraft Magazine

Issue 10 of the Suburban Witchcraft Magazine

suburbanwitchcraft.com

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From Beyond Press @frombeyondpress.bsky.social · 26d

I think if a poetry journal sticks an AI slop image onto your poem when they publish it online, they should refund the reading fee you probably had to pay them.

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Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social · 29d

Are you looking for the kind of horror that leaves you staring at the wall? Well I have just the book for you!! 👀

Picture divided in thirds
Top: cover of Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day
Middle: a hand on window blinds “Domestic violence, cycle of abuse, home-invading serial killer, sentient corpse”
Bottom: a desperate women looks up, an ominous red filter over her face

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks! I enjoyed participating this time! I don't have any novels or anything coming out right now (I mostly write short fiction). If anyone is interested in my stories, they can find me at pierceking.com

Pierce King Writing

pierceking.com

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hi Eryn! Thanks for hosting #HorrorWritersChat this week!

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Sep 3

With the Haunting of Hill House being one of my favorite books, I would love to write something like that with Shirley Jackson. Not necessarily a haunted house, but some weird quiet horror! #HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · Sep 3

So what do you think you would write, #HorrorWritersChat? The end is looming. Outro coming soon.

Q4. Going back to the first question: your historical doppelganger. What would you write together?

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Sep 3

Since traveling through time would be an unknown journey, pretty much anything that could go wrong through the actual traveling. Maybe some entity lives along the "road" used for time travel or it could inflict alien biology onto the traveler. #Horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · Sep 3

So #HorrorWritersChat we're on the past now, so lets talk time travel. It's usually more scifi than horror but how could you incorporate it into horror? I'm all ears.

Q3 How would you incorporate time travel into horror? What makes it horrifying?

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Sep 3

Probably the 20s and 30s. I just love the weird pulp vibes of the time plus the lack of modern day technology. #Horrorwriterschat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm very much enjoying the historical doppelgangers. Well done #HorrorWriterChat bods.
So this question assumes that you have full knowledge of the era. You don't have to choose one you do write in, but you can. You absolutely can.

Q2
Assuming you knew everything about the era what historical period would you most want to write horror about?

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm Pierce, from VA. I don't know if I could say any historical writer is my doppelganger, but I LOVE Shirley Jackson and Ray Bradbury!

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well hello #HorrorWritersChat, are you ready? Of course you're ready you wonderful scallywags. Go on then flex your intros. And leave the links at home for now thanky kindly. You know why.

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Step inside, horror writers. Where are you from and which historical writer is your doppelganger?

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Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

@erikmchatton.bsky.social's his debut collection is out tomorrow and I think it's going to blow some serious minds.

@authorplm.bsky.social is hosting a release party on Friday, join up for a reading, giveaway, and interview!

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-echoes...

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Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · Aug 27

Look, none of us want to order from the 'Zon. That's why I made the ebook of my weird horror collection PORTRAITS OF DECAY available on my website. It's $9.99 and just about every cent goes to the author. If you're into that sort of thing, grab it here: carsonwinter.com/product/port...

Portraits of Decay (ebook) - The Official Page of Author Carson Winter

Under your mask, there is only decay. In Carson Winter’s debut collection of social horror, characters reveal their darkest selves in the face of the insane and inexplicable. A couple finds themselve...

carsonwinter.com

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Aug 21

Spooky Season is in the air! Give me all of it!

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Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · Aug 18

As of August 15, A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE has been out for one year. And wow, what a year it's been. I've always seen this book as something of a black sheep in my catalog, but I wanted to take some time to reflect on it. /THREAD

@tenebrouspress.bsky.social

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Aug 18

That game is so fire! I've been thinking about playing the DLCs for spooky season.

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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · Aug 18

I succumbed to temptation.

(I'm playing Dredge and it's 10,000% my shit.)

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pierceking.bsky.social @pierceking.bsky.social · Aug 6

I loved participating in this last year! Can't wait to see my new prompts!

Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Aug 2

Day two and we've sent 49 sets of prompts!
Wanna get in on the challenge?
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...

Bin facts:
The blue bin has barely been touched 💙
We've sent quite a few ghosts out 👻
We've also sent a lot of mould and needles 🖤💉

Hope those prompts are prompting 🦝

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Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social · Aug 6

Got my prompts today!!! Hazzah!!
Get yours and join me in this fun challenge! #WritingCommunity

Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Aug 2

Day two and we've sent 49 sets of prompts!
Wanna get in on the challenge?
trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto...

Bin facts:
The blue bin has barely been touched 💙
We've sent quite a few ghosts out 👻
We've also sent a lot of mould and needles 🖤💉

Hope those prompts are prompting 🦝

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Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎉AHHH it’s been one year since Crushing Snails came out!!!🎉
My debut novel, my book baby that I never gave up on 🖤
Thank you so much to @apocalypseparty.bsky.social for taking a chance on my teenage serial killer, my agent @literaryclara.bsky.social, and all the readers who have picked it up 🖤

A birthday cake next to the cover of Crushing Snails with the text “happy first birthday Crushing Snails”

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