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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 9h

"Fimbulvinter's Fires" is SO CLOSE to 100 books sold!! 💙📚

A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 3d

🩸📚🪐📚💙📚🌈🚀💫💜😱

🥶 apocalyptic survival horror
🌈 gay man x pan enby (achillean)🌶️
🗣️ language barrier + conlang
❄️ there's only one snow shelter
😩 hurt/comfort
🪓 touch him and die
🤬 be gay do vengeance

info: amweald.com/fires
buy: books2read.com/fires
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Fimbulvinter’s Fires

Fimbulvinter’s Fires: a queer sci-fi apocalyptic horrormance by A.M. Weald. Stranded after crash-landing on an unknown frozen planet, a musician turned fugitive must fight for survival agains…

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19h

HORROR FOR WEENIES is such a labor of love, and Emily's prose in describing the films she selects is just beautiful. Very rare that a tastemaker has the chops to dissect and reassemble a genre like this, but she's got it.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 19h

We like to root for the underdogs, right? Well, here's a bundle of books that haven't received the attention they deserve.

It includes the 4th book in my Lost Humanity series, Predators! If you never got to continue past Bridges, this is your chance!

itch.io/b/3305/under...

Graphic that reads "Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle, Oct 9th-13th, Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Text is brown on an off-white background with five yellow stars bordering it above and below. Around the text box are the following book covers: Predators by H.S. Kallinger, Zinmages by M.C. Burnell, The Spider's Friend by M.C. Burnell, Disappearance and Other Short Stories by PD Loupee, Memories of Sorcery and Sand by Joanna Maciejewska, Kranlian Rendezvous by Simon Wolfe, The Shadow of Arcadia by Alan K. Dell, Devil Deal by Janina Franck, The God Sun by Alan K. Dell, Water's Edge by Ellie Lieberman, The Third People by Lee Burton, The Crimson Knight by Zeta K. Pierce, The Lion by Lee Burton, Adventures In GameWorld : Game Start by Robert Rumery, All Through the House and Other Tales from a Random Place by Joachim Heijndermans, Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans, Blue by Niranjan, Wizard's Debt by Niranjan, Ambushed by Natasha O'Connor, At First Belonging by Rob MacWolf, and Demon Hunters Inc : The Infestation by Robert Rumery.

Image of a redwood forest at night containing shadowy shapes with glowing eyes in the blue spaces between trees. H.S. Kallinger is written in green at the bottom. Title text, Predators, is a gradient of gray fading into blood red over the thin trees. The top reads 'Book Four of the Lost Humanity series' in white text.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Professor Mitchell @professormitchell.bsky.social · 1d

The Under-Rated Bundle is now live! Check out over 60 underappreciated stories that may have flown under your radar, including fantasy, science fiction, and more.

itch.io/b/3305/under...

The bundle runs from today through the 13th, so don't miss it!

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Scribbler Johnny He/him @scribblerjohnny.bsky.social · 18h

I was *this* close to saying shunned by the blood.

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Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street @marleywrites.bsky.social · 20h

A pair of wide, highly reflective yellow-green eyes shine from the depths of the woods and a voice like the groaning of trees in the wind announces that it's Marley. 🌕🐺

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat

🤔

The containment unit in the Ghostbusters' basement

That, or in a theatre

Somewhere full of history

A place that thousands of people have occupied all at once through the crossroads of time

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Abigail F Taylor @abigailtaylor.bsky.social · 20h

Ghosts & haints exist wherever they're imprinted. It could be a graveyard or a lake or an abandoned house. Although my favorite haunting are the foresty ones & the unexpected ones, I do have a soft spot for orphanages. Perhaps because my grandmother was raised in one...
#HorrorWritersChat

A picture I took of the Woodman circle home, where my maternal grandmother & her brothers lived. She was there from the age of 3 to 18, when she got married. Her ceremony was in the house as well.

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 19h

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 · 20h

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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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction) @markguyer.bsky.social · 20h

I write fiction as Mark Guyer and nonfiction as Dustin Pinney. I will soon be living in Corning, NY. I like horror with depth and lots of jokes. I arrive here in a tattered Goonies shirt and black jeans that I keep forgetting about.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦 @jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat Q1:

Hello all, I'm Jacob Marsh and I write horror and supernatural thrillers.

My wraith would take the form of a creeping fog. Spilling under the door and seeping through the cracks. Walls may slow me, but nothing will stop my terrible advance.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction) @markguyer.bsky.social · 20h

It depends on the ghost.

Just a spooky thing that makes you nervous: house, preferably a spare room.

A lonely spirit with depression: abandoned places that should bring joy — theater, cinema, an empty town.

Scary ghosts: Marching down Main Street, big as a house and hungry.

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Edwin, Heart as Black as the Shadows Between the Trees @edwinbeatnik.bsky.social · 20h

Trees drink souls that linger on crossroads. Their branches block the path to Heaven, their roots entangle the road to Hell. And so spirits linger, and so they are consumed.
#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Stabby @yorkshiregabby.bsky.social · 20h

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Please, ask me no questions of the blanched and twisted visage that grins & beckons nightly at the windows of my third floor bedchamber... I am but a humble Gabby, writing queer horror & strange fiction from Leeds, from whence I can hear a violent howl over the Yorkshire Moors...

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 20h

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Ell! I write ace horror—supernatural, but lately also Gothic, sci-fi, & body horror bc of my thesis “Aromantic Frankenstein”). I’m from San Diego.

Tonight I mask half my face. When it’s time, with a swish of my cape I’ll retreat to my gondola & WAY too many candles. 🕯️

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 20h

#HorrorWritersChat
Good evening!
I write fantasy novels and horror short stories (as of now at least).
My horror is a mixed back of genres. I like to play with nature, folklore, and just a hint of dark humor (I'm Danish after all).

I'm on the couch in my PJ's, hoping to stay awake until 9pm..

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Rebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 20h

Ghosts are like cats and haunt wherever they please. I prefer to find them in ancient ruins, gloomy streets and hidden alleys. Or anywhere good chocolate is sold. #horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Sonia Sulaiman is an Ignyte Award Finalist @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 20h

Q2:

I use a lot of villages, so I often wonder if my strain would be considered folk horror. There’s a lot of cosmic comeuppance and justice debuted themes thinking back on it.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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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Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street @marleywrites.bsky.social · 20h

My own home, which isn't exactly lavish, but was pretty crumbly around the edges a few years ago... and where, at the risk of being lurid, someone may have met their end in a large fish tank some years ago.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 18h

#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 · 19h

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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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 19h

"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 · 19h

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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