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Stephanie Ellis

@stephellis.bsky.social

Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader. Member BFS https://stephanieellis.org/

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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦@jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for the chat this week, Mary! Lots of great ideas and reading suggestions! I'm promoting my new book, Funny Taste: a.co/d/058QKxbN It's not historical as such, but it's set in an 80s-style fast-food joint and has an analog horror aesthetic. #HorrorwritersChat

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Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for joining us for #HorrorWritersChat and sharing your histories. Once you’ve answered the questions and interacted, share your promo with #HorrorWritersChat IN THE COMMENTS on this post. This is now your past. Join us again in the future for fresh horror chat! 🖤

That’s it for this week. After you’ve answered the questions and interacted with other posts, it’s promo time! Comment on this post with your self-promotion and use the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - To help increase visibility, please LIKE, REPOST, and COMMENT on the other promos. 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.
Spooky Pickle 🧚‍♀️Beware the Fairy Seasons🧚‍♂️@spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1h ago

Another awesome #HorrorWritersChat! Thank you, Mary! Well, currently the #BookBazaar26 is collecting followers before launching in October. Come join our bookish cult! We've got, uh, lots of books! You know you want soooome www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

The Book Bazaar 2026 on BackerKit

[The Book Bazaar: A Crowdfunding Project for authors, Coming October 29th, 2026!] Browse Books by Genre [https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/the-book-bazaar-2026/flair?tag_id=111][https://www....

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B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz@braegrosz.com · 1h ago

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat! My upcoming workshop for the online #RomancingTheGothic Conference is about how characters' history shapes their perception of setting and how to use that when writing Gothic forests. You can check out the rest of the lineup and purchase tickets here 👇

'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference

On 22nd and 23rd August we celebrate 200 years of Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications and marginalised genders in the Gothic!

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Hadassah Shiradski@dassawrites.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for running this, Mary! I have a gothic horror novella: In 1926, Rosalyn (aged 9) invents a game of royalty with her dormmates. When it takes over their lives and stopping isn't an option; Rosalyn must 'win' and be Queen. It...escalates. 👑🍀🔨 bookshop.org/p/books/what... 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

What Happened at Hawthorne House

Set in 1926, nine-year-old Rosalyn invents a new game to play with the girls she shares a dormitory with in the Hawthorne House Orphanage. Revolving around a Royal Court, their make-believe game quick...

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Tanweer Dar@tanweerdar.com · 2h ago

Thanks @marywyrd.bsky.social for another terrific #HorrorWritersChat! Check out all of my #books, including my #horror titles, on my website: tanweerdar.com

Tanweer Dar

Author & Artist

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Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for joining us for #HorrorWritersChat and sharing your histories. Once you’ve answered the questions and interacted, share your promo with #HorrorWritersChat IN THE COMMENTS on this post. This is now your past. Join us again in the future for fresh horror chat! 🖤

That’s it for this week. After you’ve answered the questions and interacted with other posts, it’s promo time! Comment on this post with your self-promotion and use the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - To help increase visibility, please LIKE, REPOST, and COMMENT on the other promos. 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.
Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 2h 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...

The Uncanny & Uncouth ARC Request

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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Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 2h ago

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks! I've got a thrilling, gory tale of elderly-woman vengeance coming out in the next issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social . It's called The Old Woman Who Became a Bear. You can preorder it here. thefiddlehead.ca/content/summ...

Summer 2026 issue (No. 308) — Disability: The Revolution Update | The Fiddlehead

During the week of August 10, our website will be updated to include a list of all authors featured in the summer issue along with recordings by the authors of all the pieces. Stay tuned for a digital issue announcement as well.

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Delapore Media@delaporemedia.bsky.social · 2h ago

#horrorwriterschat My Latest Podcast: sites.libsyn.com/595275/sex-l... My website: www.delapore.media My latest horror ttrpg scenario: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

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Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for joining us for #HorrorWritersChat and sharing your histories. Once you’ve answered the questions and interacted, share your promo with #HorrorWritersChat IN THE COMMENTS on this post. This is now your past. Join us again in the future for fresh horror chat! 🖤

That’s it for this week. After you’ve answered the questions and interacted with other posts, it’s promo time! Comment on this post with your self-promotion and use the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - To help increase visibility, please LIKE, REPOST, and COMMENT on the other promos. 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.
Amanda M. Blake@amandamblake.bsky.social · 2h ago

I've pubbed some historical horror short stories that set the stage for hist novels/novellas coming out soon. One of my faves is out of print, but another is "The Plank in Thine Own," about a monk trying to exorcise evil from a demon. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #HorrorWritersChat

The Devil Take You: 14 Tales of Medieval Horror (Write Like Hell)

The Devil Take You: 14 Tales of Medieval Horror (Write Like Hell) [Luthi, Mitchell, Werner, C. L., Hall, Coy, Josephs, Anya Leigh, Anning, Benedict, Keeling, Phil, Salish, Brent, Wenzel, R. T., Blake, Amanda M., Ellis, Stephanie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Devil Take You: 14 Tales of Medieval Horror (Write Like Hell)

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Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for joining us for #HorrorWritersChat and sharing your histories. Once you’ve answered the questions and interacted, share your promo with #HorrorWritersChat IN THE COMMENTS on this post. This is now your past. Join us again in the future for fresh horror chat! 🖤

That’s it for this week. After you’ve answered the questions and interacted with other posts, it’s promo time! Comment on this post with your self-promotion and use the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat - To help increase visibility, please LIKE, REPOST, and COMMENT on the other promos. 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 · 2h ago

I have a fun story about a prog band named Brujah that rocks so hard they rip a hole through space time in this fantastic anthology from DefConOne Publishing. If not strictly horror, at least horror adjacent. The whole anthology is a delight. #HorrorWritersChat www.defconone.com/book/battlin...

Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders

"I am a woman between worlds. Civilian and military. Seamstress and soldier. The Grande Armée I serve stands between tradition and merit. France itse...

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Gabby@yorkshiregabby.bsky.social · 2h ago

#horrorwriterschat @allisfullofgore.bsky.social 4th zine coming at the end of the month! Presale soon, but if you fancy checking out the best queer horror writers to do the dang thing our 1st 3 issues here allisfullofgore.myshopify.com Also, follow us for unhinged theories, hot takes, & good times

ALL IS FULL OF GORE

horror fiction, horror poetry, horror films, horror movies, horror zines, queer horror, queer, lgbtq, indie horror

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Trish Wilson@trishcwilson.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks #HorrorWritersChat for another great one! I'm reading from three stories for a book sale at a local witchcraft shop for Halloween. One is FOG OVER MONS, my WWI Angels of Mons story. I'm also reading my Lizzie Borden story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR. Another historical! Third is a fantasy comedy. 📚

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️@lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 2h ago

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat Mary! By the Blood is my most historical horror novella - a vampire priest in 19thC Bavaria protecting his ward from angry mobs and a vampire coven who want to claim her.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️@lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 11mo ago

By the Blood Ursula's new governor, the mysterious Fr Marcellus, must defend her from accusations of vampirism. He knows they're false. He should know - he's a vampire himself. But the stakes soon rise when the undead also take interest in Ursula. 💙📚 #booksky ko-fi.com/s/6793e39b5b

Stephanie Ellis@stephellis.bsky.social · 2h ago

Attack the Block (2011) 13th Century. Lots of jousting and charging around on horseback, forsooth bruv: Lance the Castle Cockneys v Zombies (2012) 1640s London during Cromwell's time. Digging the ditch for city defences would reveal the zombies: Puritans v Ungodly #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2h 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.
Stephanie Ellis@stephellis.bsky.social · 2h ago

I use many aspects of my life in my stories, little snippets, but in Five Turns of the Wheel I gave Megan the trauma of a pretty violent miscarriage I suffered years back. Every word spoken to her by docs is real. Got angry all over again as I wrote it! #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2h 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.