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Vincent Lore [Coffee]
@vincentlore.bsky.social
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Self-published author of Lovecraftian and gothic horror featuring trans man protagonists. But I write whatever I feel like.
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And just to finish the timeline cleanse stuff: look at the babies! Photo taken by me many years ago. Charlie (orange/blonde boy) and Street Cat (fluffy black lady)

#caturday
Two cats sitting on a brick and concrete porch. One is a pale orange short hair, sitting upright, and the other is a fluffy black with a pink collar, lying down. They are making eye contact, mid slow blink.
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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If you want to give this short story a read yourself, you can get it PWYW right around these parts:

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A trope cloud with the book cover for Friend of the Damned in the center. The arrows pointing at the cover are: gothic horror x gaslamp fantasy, spiritualism and mediums, women's wrongs, a letter to the villain, small but diverse cast, trans MC, a mysterious scent, dogs...?
January 24, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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The changes I've made to my Runner Owen series plot puts this line in a whole new perspective.

I can't wait for y'all to see it

#writing #gothic
Black text on a tan background. The text in the middle reads "Don't hurt her. I'm the one you want." The text on the bottom reads "Friend of the Damned (Runner Owen 0.1)"
January 24, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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#WeeknightWriters I have nothing new to share yet, maybe next month that will change. Until then, remember my trans man led horror short stories are still available PWYW over on my Kofi and PayPal. Take them for free! I don't mind. ❤️

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Finally, after six months, I can try the candles I got from @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social's store! I would've done this much sooner but then I ended up in the hospital... So I figured a quick review was in order to make up for that

In short: 😍😍😍 I made a good decision! It smells wonderful!
A photo of a lit candle on a table. There's a book and the candle lid beside it. The text on the lid reads Pick Me Up
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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#HorrorWritersChat

Talked about both Lazarus and Owen today, and you can meet them in my short stories, available PWYW on my Kofi and Payhip.

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Take em for free! At this point I'm happy just to be read 😂 Storygraph reviews are fun too though
two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
January 21, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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#WeeknightWriters well, they aren't recent but I've got two horror short stories out for free/PWYW still. Friend of the Damned begins my Runner Owen series while Lock the Last Door starts Pharaoh Syndicate Investigations. Enjoy the scares!

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
January 16, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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I stopped everything I was doing to find the art @roselinbooks.bsky.social did of the MC's cat! His name is Apep :D
Artwork of a long-haired black house cat with yellow eyes framed by black eyeliner. He has a pink tongue out in a blep.
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Hi. Physically disabled trans guy here. My horror short stories are still free/PWYW on Kofi and Payhip. Would love to hear thoughts on them. Take care y'all ❤️

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Behold, the best picture I will ever take. Meet Charlie and Street Cat. Charlie was my baby, a stray who chose me as a kitten. Streetie just walked into my sister's house and never left. They were good friends who slept on my bed and watched TV with Dad.

I still dream about them.
An orange cat and a black cat looking into each other's eyes, mid slow blink.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Somebody else mentioned cats, which is good because it was this guy who came to mind immediately 😅
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Making my two #horror short stories free/pwyw on Kofi and Payhip again, and D2D soon if possible, because real life sucks right now. Stay safe out there.

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Thank you, and happy Halloween 🎃

If you need a quick, queer, scary break from reality, my trans man led short stories might be what you're looking for! Two series starters for two very different detectives for hire, but you'll be haunted by both...

get them here: books2read.com/ap/nzej7l/Vi...
two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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For the curious, this is what went missing from my room... they apparently found it in the laundry.
A dragon squishmallow in green orange and purple gradient on top of a stack of pillows
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Thank you! I have two short stories:

Friend of the Damned has a queer accepting setting with a small but racially diverse cast, tragic lesbians, and a gay autistic trans man MC.

Lock the Last Door has a disabled (hand injury) bisexual trans man MC.

books2read.com/ap/nzej7l/Vi...
two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Tis the season 🎃

Like short stories? Victorian gothic fantasy? Queer-accepting settings? Women's wrongs, restless spirits, terrible fates? MCs with very complicated relationships with the villain?

You might like this story, the first in the Runner Owen series.

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Four of the check your Halloween candy memes, with the story title FRIEND OF THE DAMNED in the candy bar and the following in the blank space over it: autistic trans man detective, Victorian class conflict, tragic lesbian mediums, letter to the villain (homoerotic) Cover to the short story Friend of the Damned
October 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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LOCK THE LAST DOOR
A queer Lovecraftian noir

A trans man private eye is forced by his crime lord rival to find the source of the eldritch corruption taking over an abandoned house in the first story of the Pharaoh Syndicate Investigations series.

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🤏📚 💙📚 #horrorsky
The book cover for Lock the Last Door on a green and black background. The text reads as follows: Short Story 6.6k words Trans detective MC Creepy abandoned house! Who did this? Private detectives and crooks Freshwater horrors (written in yellow) Villainous DILF Flapper era! Scary bubbles! Where's the music coming from? Lovecraftian terrors! Note: this story contains minor period typical misgendering and sexism
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Looking for a quick scare this #Halloween? My 🏳️‍⚧️ short stories are queer in more ways than one! If you like gothic fantasy or the Cthulhu Mythos, you'll probably enjoy them.

📚💙📚🌈📚🤏📚💙😱

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two headstones with book covers on each one. the text on top reads: trans man detectives vs horrors! by Vincent Lore. the text between the two headstones reads: ghosts! eldritch gods! body horror! dread! the book covers are for Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. each headstone has a jack o lantern beside it
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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#spookyseason is upon us! Need a quick, queer scare or two? I bet you'll like my #horror short stories!

💙📚🤏📚🌈📚

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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For once I'm glad to be up (too) early! Here, check out my very queer trans masc led horror short stories.

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
October 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Spooky month is here, as are my queer short stories. Need a quick and scary break from reality? I think you'll like these

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Do you like horror with trans masc MCs? Do you like fast paced short fiction? Do you like mysteries of the gothic and Lovecraftian flavors?

You might like my stuff. Two stories so far and much, much more on the way. Check them out!

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
September 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#WeeknightWriters feels kind of silly to promote my two week after week but I hope I'll have something new to offer soon. Until then, if you like scary mysteries with trans man MCs, here are my short stories

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
September 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Do you like trans MCs? #Gothic gaslamp fantasy, or noir inspired cosmic horror? You might enjoy my short stories!

💙📚🤏📚

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two book covers and black text on a blue-white background. Over each book cover is their title: Friend of the Damned and Lock the Last Door. In between the covers are the words: trans masc detective MCs in historic inspired horror. Over the cover of Friend of the Damned is the genre: gaslamp gothic horror. To the left of the cover are the tropes: 1890s inspired, ghosts and mediums, women's wrongs, and letter to the villain. Beneath the cover are the content warnings: mild transphobia, violence, death, alcohol use. Over the cover for Lock the Last Door is the genre: Cthulhu Mythos Noir. To the right are the tropes: flapper era, crime lord rival, creepy old house, and scary bubbles. Beneath the cover is the content warnings: minor transphobia, violence, death, body horror
September 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM