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A.C. Bauer

@acbauer.bsky.social

Horror writer and storyteller. Fan of books, comics and movies. Owner of @Cateyepress.bsky.social, an indie horror press. Halloween III stan account 🎃. He/him austinbauerwrites.wixsite.com/acbauer

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Gabby@yorkshiregabby.bsky.social · 6h ago

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 6h ago

A great topic this week, #HorrorWritersChat! As for promo - something I haven't mentioned on bluesky at all yet! Uncanny+Uncouth anthology, releasing Oct 1, is looking for ARC readers! It's gothic themes overall, there is a mix of genres. (I have 2 stories in!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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ARC Reader Application – The Uncanny & The Uncouth Thank you for your interest in becoming an ARC (Advance Review Copy) reader for The Uncanny & The Uncouth. This anthology features speculative fictio...

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Viva La Vivian@vivalavivian.bsky.social · 6h ago

Poltergeist with all the modern tech. Imagine being sucked into an Alexa and you hear that little girl's voice? Your Alexa just starts saying, "Mommy, I can't hear you, Mommy!" *shudders* Or maybe Pazuzu as an influencer. Captain Howdy's make-up game is on point. #HorrorWritersChats

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Question Four. Choose an existing horror IP or creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. Example: Predator plus 1719 Northern Great Plains became Prey (2022) Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Rami Ungar the Writer@ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 6h ago

Oh, this is a fun one! Hmmm...how about The Grudge in Meiji Restoration Japan? You would have a rapidly modernizing Japan, as well as numerous foreigners, coming across this curse and falling prey to it despite their "modern sensibilities" and whatnot. Ooh, somebody make that! #HorrorWritersChat.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Question Four. Choose an existing horror IP or creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. Example: Predator plus 1719 Northern Great Plains became Prey (2022) Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Vincent Lore [Coffee]@vincentlore.bsky.social · 6h ago

#HorrorWritersChat Scream in Victorian London... maybe written as a Sherlock Holmes type mystery, but with more gore as befitting a slasher. Add a gothic twist with a governess being the one menaced by the masked killer perhaps, in a grand old estate?

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Question Four. Choose an existing horror IP or creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. Example: Predator plus 1719 Northern Great Plains became Prey (2022) Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
AC Cross@aaronccross.bsky.social · 7h ago

Q4: #HorrorWritersChat Oh this is DANGEROUS. Dracula in the Wild West. Frankenstein Wild West. SAW in the Wild West. I think every horror IP would be well served placed in an Old West setting. You can't prove that it COULDN'T. Also, I call dibs on all of these. Just, you know, in case.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Question Four. Choose an existing horror IP or creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. Example: Predator plus 1719 Northern Great Plains became Prey (2022) Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Rebecca Cantrell@rebeccacantrell.bsky.social · 6h ago

Interesting question. Hmm... What if Frankenstein were a Western? The Monster riding into towns searching for his creator. A chase across the desert. Frankenstein pinned down by a posse. Conversation in a jail cell. Sand instead of snow. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Question Four. Choose an existing horror IP or creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. Example: Predator plus 1719 Northern Great Plains became Prey (2022) Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
A.C. Bauer@acbauer.bsky.social · 6h ago

#HorrorWritersChat off the top of my head, but it would be fun to see Chucky in a puritanical US setting. Probably be made of cloth and still have the possessed by a serial killer angle, but I think adding a layer of the time period’s “stop the lies, you’re demonic, child!” would be interesting.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Question Four. Choose an existing horror IP or creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. Example: Predator plus 1719 Northern Great Plains became Prey (2022) Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
A.C. Bauer@acbauer.bsky.social · 7h ago

#HorrorWritersChat over the course of writing a bunch of (mostly unfinished) short stories, I’ve explored some of things that have scared/haunted me over the years. Think car “stuff” is always a hard thing for me and becomes situations in my stories from time to time.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Making it personal. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - In what ways has your own history (past) impacted or inspired your horror writing? Examples: giving a character your childhood trauma, reimagining an experience with a different ending.

Question Three. In what ways has your own history (past) impacted or inspired your horror writing? Examples: giving a character your childhood trauma, reimagining an experience with a different ending. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
The Last Something@thelastsomething.bsky.social · 7h ago

Depends on the story. Sometimes much of their past doesn't matter, but sometimes their past is what defines them. I have an unpublished story about an old detective who stumbled onto some cult stuff when he was younger. That experience ended up defining the rest of his life #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Even fictional characters have a past. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example.

Question Two. How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Nate Crowder@natecrowder.bsky.social · 7h ago

For me, horror is ALL about the past. Things we've neglected and forgotten, hidden secrets, echoes of past regrets. While I do enjoy some "fear of what's coming" horror, as a historian, there's just so much to mine in history. We all live atop a graveyard of tragedy and horror. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Even fictional characters have a past. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example.

Question Two. How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 7h ago

#HorrorWritersChat I write fairytales, ecohorror, religious horror, Arctic horror, & weird shit. Historical horror I love: Kindred by Octavia Butler Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Viva La Vivian@vivalavivian.bsky.social · 7h ago

Hello, I'm Vivian and I write horror, various. Historical fiction is always good. For me The Exorcist, The Terror. I am sure I have read more but these came to mind rather quick. Coyote Songs is also a good one. #HorrorWritersChats

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Greetings #HorrorWritersChat I’m Mary, writing cosmic, gothic, and weird horror from Greater Manchester (UK). Three fave historical horror stories are: THE HUNGER by @almakatsu.bsky.social THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @stephengrahamjones.com VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito #HorrorSky

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
A.C. Bauer@acbauer.bsky.social · 7h ago

Hi #HorrorWritersChat! I’m A.C. and I write what I call “fun” horror. I’m a huge fan of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Also really enjoyed the Daughter of Dr. Moreau.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author@amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 7h ago

I'm Amber from central Maine. I write all kinds of horror, most with cults or ghosts. My favorite historical horror is Mexican Gothic. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - NO links or covers! Save your self promo for the outro (after answering the questions). Please LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT on other posts. Background: The outside of a small gothic mausoleum. The photo is taken from the corner, showing the arched entrance on the right and an arched window on the left side. Duotone filter: berry and black.
Kathy Palm@kathleenpalm.bsky.social · 5d ago

ARC READERS WANTED! MG horror! Do you want to be part of the Nowhere family? Do you want to help others know they are not alone, know that being lost is part of life, know that they have power? OUT OF THE NOTHING needs your reviews! Nowhere needs your help! Go to Book Sirens for an ARC...or DM me!

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Kathy Palm@kathleenpalm.bsky.social · last wk.

Well...the third and final book in my MG The Nowhere Series comes out on August 28th! OUT OF THE NOTHING Can Shelly find her power and save Nowhere? The book is up for preorder now and up on Book Sirens for those reviewers who want an ARC! undertakerbooks.com/products/out...

Out of the Nothing

Nowhere is broken. The Keeper, a monster made of shadow and jagged edges, rules there. The lost are scattered over the cracked, gray ground. The Collectors no longer do their job. No one is called to ...

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