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Viva La Vivian

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Writer/ Reader/ Horror fanatic/ Certified Heathen/ First book debut in October 2025!!! https://www.amazon.com/stores/Vivian-Kasley/author/B07RRCDPJD?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 28d

My first book, up for pre-order now! I hope if you decide to check it out that you enjoy it! A variety of tales to satiate your horror taste buds. It's pulpy, it's funny, it's tragic, It's creepy, and at times, it's campy. Thank you, always. x

-Viv
mybook.to/AllsWell

All's Well That Ends Well

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for hosting, Gree!
My recent release is Harrowfield, a quiet folk horror set in the England/Wales border land known as the Marches.

The past is still very much in the present.

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 10h

Another for good measure:

Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 10h

Four snapshots of movies so many people haven't seen that I like:

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

In this post/thread lies a ton of different horror. All you have to do is click the post and scroll down to see. Lots to choose from! I can't keep up with all of it. LOL!

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Concluding? Oh please! The Phantasmal Symposium’s work is eternal, as is the thirst for alive souls! We are simply twirling away elsewhere…

Now is your time to join us! What do you write? In what crypts can we peruse it? What more do you have to share?

#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.

The Orchestra Has Performed Their Final Piece!
The Symposium hopes you enjoyed our ghastly arrangement in this music hall! There is no algorithm here – visibility is reliant on your engagement.

Have you answered the questions? Do you have something to share? Promote below, and share each others’ posts!

The orchestra shall resume its operations… next week.

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Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 11h

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if Icelandic folklore tickles your spooky fancy, then why not check out my short story collection Visceral Discoveries on the 'Zon 😉

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Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror

Amazon.com: Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror eBook : Mist, Villimey: Kindle Store

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 11h

Sharing my horror collection Next Door via Bookshop because it ships free today! Support indie bookstores 🖤🖤🖤
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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 11h

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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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 11h

I have my LGBTQ+ contemporary dark fantasy, Lemon Balm, available for preorder! If two ace-spectrum non-binary leads going against a corrupt governmental structure sounds like your jam, consider grabbing a copy!

www.vampireantihero.com/the-night-ga...

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 11h

My favorite ghost stories haven't yet found a home, but I did write a story based on fever dreams where I become obsessed with math. In "Six," featured in Judith Sonnet's SCREAMS anthology, the mc is haunted by a number.

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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks Gree! And if you're still in an ethereal, ghostly mood, check out the scariest collection of 2025: Symphony for Walpurgis. You can grab your tickets using the links below.

Amazon: tinyurl.com/5awn78h3
B&N: tinyurl.com/5e9vu3hr
Kobo: tinyurl.com/bdhthesj
Apple Books: tinyurl.com/5ev7cr8k

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 11h

Thanks for a fun one, Gree!
I have a collection that explores ghosts and (un)natural horrors all lingering in the corner of your eye…
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Nothing But The Willows & Other Things That Are Not There

Check out Nothing But The Willows & Other Things That Are Not There - <p>Perception is reality. But how much can you trust with only two eyes? Cracks in the fabric of the universe reveal facets of a p...

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

I hope you love it! Thank you! Just a little warning, some of the stories are a bit gory and VERY horror forward. <3

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

In my haste to post, I forgot to say, A big thank you for hosting! x

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you, #HorrorWriterschat!

My collection, out on Halloween, the day the veil is thinnest! Just one quote from a reviewer: "It’s like cracking open a book and landing in a drive in theater on 80s horror night!"

Let's meet at the drive-in. 🎃

Pre-order here: mybook.to/AllsWell

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

My collection, out on Halloween, the day the veil is thinnest! Just one quote from a reviewer: "It’s like cracking open a book and landing in a drive in theater on 80s horror night!"

Meet me at the drive-in. Be there or be devoured by the ghosts of Samhain. 🎃

Pre-order here: mybook.to/AllsWell

All's Well That Ends Well

Read it now

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

Be it rotten flesh or dusty bones against thy stones, doesn't matter, illusions shatter, once you see shadows dancing to a ghostly tune you've never heard, and yet, you have, for it was always going to play for you, for us, one day, the song plays for all of us, dust to dust.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

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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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

Same.

Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

Interesting. I don 't know. I have lived in places where you might change your mind--or not. ;)

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

Both. All ghosts need a voice. But if I had to choose, I prefer the folkloric kind as all tales are born from somewhere, perhaps with a bit of truth. Their stories are kept alive and bent into other ghosts over time. Even those made up somehow become real once they've scared us.
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

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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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!

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 12h

Yeeeees!

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My fave movie.

Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 12h

St Augustine. The old fort there--I can feel the ghosts! Graveyards are my fave though! I visit them whenever I can. New England holds special spots, like Union Cemetery where the white lady resides. If I can smell old books and decaying wood, arrrgh, there be ghosts!
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 12h

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 12h

Hi, I'm Vivian, from a place where truck nuts come to die--Florida. I write a variety of horror, a little of everything. Um, ghostly visage? I arrive as that one ghost that likes to sit in your fridge and eat all your shit before turning into a demon dog looking for my keymaster.
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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

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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