I mean, everyone has a backstory, but how eventful that is... I mostly write the more eventful part of their lives. The more immortal the characters, the greater the weight they drag behind them. Older they are, the more likely they did terrible things for their immortality. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 19m 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.

Amanda M. Blake, purveyor of dark fiction, quiet to extreme, gothic to gore. Haven't read much historical horror. Most were contemporary at the time of pub, just history now. But on my list: THE HUNGER, Alma Katsu THE HISTORIAN, Elizabeth Kostova COLD SKIN, Albert Sánchez Piñol #HorrorWritersChat

Chance Morgan@chancemorgan.bsky.social · 28m ago

#HorrorWritersChat I’m Chance, and as a horror writer, I gravitate towards monsters, folklore, conspiracies, and body horror. For historical horror fiction, I’ve been on a big Clive Barker kick lately, so I’ll say: -“Son of Celluloid” -“New Murders in the Rue Morgue” -“Rawhead Rex”

When you pass by your university for the first time in twenty years and experience a very literal nostalgia that has you sobbing in an ice cream parlor bathroom. God, that's embarrassing.

In my youth, I was afraid of a lot of things. In my middle age, my back may be more delicate, but I'm conquering at least some of my fears of theme park rides, like high slides in a water park.

In case you missed it, here's the PW announcement! We're already finalizing the ARC & cover. I am excited. I am ready to make you suffer.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3d ago

The latest @locusmag.bsky.social — which you should subscribe to — has interesting book deal news, including forthcoming titles from @elliottgish.bsky.social @zinrock.bsky.social and @horrorsong.blog

The realization that the smart kids, not just jocks and cheerleaders, can also peak in high school is a rough one.

they sucked then and they sure as hell suck now. it's more enraging because they won, not just covid but everything, national health is being dismantled, vaccines, real good future science, they got their wildest fucking dreams to kill us all and they still won't shut the fuck up until we all kneel

I find it really interesting that Danish indie What We Become and VOD movie Viral were in production and came out around the same time completely independent of each other, but they're incredibly similar movies in execution.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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they can sense that something indeed shifted forever, that the "back to normal" they were sold is not quite right, but they can't see that the period of solidarity and self sacrifice was not the part that snapped the social contract in half, but the abandonment of the vulnerable.

Currently doing a final proof of @dangerslater.bsky.social's WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, due out next February (gotta be patient, y'all). And take heart, Cultists: as bad as this world sometimes is, at least in *our* canon, there's not a Disney adaptation of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". Not yet anyway🖤☠️

Day 210! I read Exile by @amandamblake.bsky.social published in Carnival of Horror from @undertakerbooks.bsky.social. Too freak for the circus - a sad irony. Read my review here (sorry it's short, but it's too damn hot to think): mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/s...

S/D/Y Jun 29 – Exile by Amanda M Blake – Carnival of Horror

I wasn’t sure where this one was going when it opened with a sad clown wondering through the forest, and I would never have guessed where it ended up. That’s quite the compliment, I thi…

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I've just started Out of Curiosity and Hunger by @amandamblake.bsky.social. There is such a brilliant, layering quality to this so far. Listening to Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel on audiobook. What books are you reading as we head into August?

Almost a year later, we've been able to make up over half of this loss — thanks *entirely* to new subscriptions 🙏— but we still need some help to make up the rest. All it takes to support BWDR is a $29 annual subscription, and in exchange you get full access to everything we've published since 2013!

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Between a number of high-profile hearings and Trump being on camera for hours a day, this was a crazy week. If you appreciate my efforts to chronicle it for you, reminder that the best way to support what I do is with a subscription to PN, which I think you'll enjoy. Paid subs make my work possible.

A thing I've been saying is that I think polls have been asking if people think the economy is bad and people have been answering that they think the economy is evil

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Hell on earth: Saturday Update

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com News: I crossed 50 Goodreads ratings on In the Dollhouse We All Wait and 120 Goodreads ratings on Question Not My Salt. I appreciate everyone who’s taken a chan…

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Yes, I still sometimes talk to God, but to be fair, I also regularly talk to Magneto, so I'm not sure that's a good metric for someone's existence.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

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New pinned post with updated info and editing services! I'm Lily (they/them)! I'm a queer, disabled writer writing weird SFFH fiction. Current project: Bloodbound, a serial story (18+) about lesbian vampires. Read my work, check out editing services, and other links: lilyflowerbooks.carrd.co

West Virginia passed its law to target one 15-year-old (at the time) girl. It's utterly absurd

This Machine Kills Hair Bands@she5los.bsky.social · 2w ago

We've asked questions! We found answers like "there are about 10-15 trans kids in sports"! We don't need laws at literally any level condemning 10-15 children, out of hundreds of thousands, who want to play sports with their friends!!!

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I’m not even ON threads but I’ve seen this more than once, and this is exactly it

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

Half my bad day was an apt that was seriously delivery-unfriendly (all methods of getting upstairs were outside and a swipe was required to get inside). There were tears, which was why someone finally let me in. The other half of my bad day was my own rare errors. I'm not handling that well.

I have three longer short stories that I think are brilliant but that I simply cannot sell.

I love this book! It’s brilliant. And charming. And clever. And profound.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3w ago

“It took Benjamin Franklin twenty-seven minutes and fourteen seconds to discover there was pornography on the Internet.” Clones of the Founding Fathers are sick of fascism, too. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends Meg Elison's witty science fiction novella Foundling Fathers!

I fucking love this movie and I fucking love that this is the best piece I have written on it. Now no one has to give the bad place clicks to see me gush over my favorite Grampa Gooey film.

NightTide Magazine@nighttidemag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Believe it or not, The Fly is an ooey-gooey love story. @sharai.bsky.social dives in for its 40th anniversary. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...

Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports

choo choo choose anger@ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have not ever seen a single story about a trans kid causing any issue in some sport they’re playing (other than other butthurt parents) yet this is somehow an exponentially bigger problem than an ocean of conservative men preying on children and women.

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”