Our day is here! Scare your neighbors. Celebrate the creepy, gory, eerie, and spooky. Talk to new ghosts. Make blood sacrifices to old gods. Dance in the woods at midnight. Drink out of the skulls of your enemies. Eat candy. Happy Halloween! (Art by Sam Heimer, like every year.)

Tonight a play I wrote was performed at the Colonial Theatre in Pheonoxville! They played a series of original Halloween-themed shorts and mine was lucky to be in the lineup. What a blast! #writing #author #horror #Halloween

Had a great time with Camp Damascus by WorldsGreatestAuthor2TimeHugoFinalist #ChuckTingle! He takes every premise seriously, hits all the beats, and doesn't waste time. Usually religious horror doesn't land with me, but this was really well drawn. #queerhorror #readsky #booksky

I have a new story up courtesy of the good folks @horrortree.com I had a lot of fun with this one, very short read, check it out here: horrortree.com/category/tre... #writing #horror #booksky

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Trembling With Fear

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Horror Tree@horrortree.com · 3w ago

🩸 🩸Trembling With Fear🩸 🩸 In, “𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲” by Noah Wood, our protagonist’s life crumbles. 💗 Nicolette Ward reminds us of the importance of tradition in ‘𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱’ 🪞 Stephen Tenerowicz reveals how home can be a trap in ‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁’ 🛌 Kamran Conn

"They will need time to feel comfortable with flowers." Finally read this, what a treat! Might not work for everyone, but I wholeheartedly reccomend it to anyone who needs something somber and hopeful. #booksky #readsky #readingcommunity

Never would I have thought to put one of the more disturbing passages from Annihilation into Lemon Grab's voice and it works too well 🤣 Now I'm imagining the whole book as an episode of Adventure Time

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · last mo.

never forget lemon grab's immortal words (yes, i get to post annihilation riffs until the power goes out)

Just got this in the mail, so very excited! I am fully in spooky season mode already. #booksky #horror @jeffvandezande.bsky.social

Wrote a short piece on The Castle of Otranto, the first gothic novel. I've been reading through classic horror lit for the last five years, now I'm writing about it. Check it out here: fearsoftheforebears.substack.com/p/the-castle... #booksky #gothic #writing

The Castle of Otranto

a short review of a very old book

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Sometimes good things happen! For those who don't know @scottdrakeford.com wrote a good book, then his publisher shafted him with a bad cover, a worse title, then left him to dry. So happy to see it get re-published. Can't wait to swap my copy of "Rise of the Mages" for "Ire" #booksky

Jamedi is Spooky@jamreads.com · 2mo ago

It's my pleasure to help reveal the cover of Ire, first book in the Age of Ire series, written by @scottdrakeford.com, which will be re-published in 2027 by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social. Cover art by Joe Wilson. Release date: January 26th, 2027. Full info: jamreads.com/reveals/cove... 💙📚

Just found out a short horror play I wrote a while back is going to be performed at my local theater! I'm freaking out and trying to fit the rehearsals into my schedule. I'm overjoyed but I truly did not expect this. Gonna be tough to work around! #booksky #HorrorAuthor #writing

Rewatched Rocky Horror Picture Show last night and got unexpectedly hit in the feels at this part. Also, how did I never notice before that the life preserver is from the titanic?!? #timcurry

I had no idea Tim Curry was in this! Time to revisit a notably weird entry in the seventh gen console library.

Double Fine@doublefine.com · 2mo ago

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

Tim Curry as Long John Silver was an indelible part of my childhood. Discovering his camp films and learning that the conservative adults in my life were afraid of Rocky Horror helped me realize which side of things I wanted to stand on. Tim Curry will be missed. That LAUGH will be missed!

Toss@stevenspoints.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Have you ever picked up a horror novel in your favorite niche or subgenre only for it to disappoint by doing it all wrong? Well I wrote a little rant about that specific experience and what it means here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Substandards of Subgenre

How niches set expectations and ruin everyone’s day

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It may only be a petition, but its a start. Let's hope it's not too late. Say NO to reckless AI stoptheracetoreplace.org/en/sign/real...

Real Life Beats Fake AI | Stop the Race to Replace Humans

Don’t let a handful of tech billionaires replace what makes us human. Help stop reckless AI. Join the movement to put humanity before profit.

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Finally setup a personal website and a Substack to start getting my fiction and essays out in the open. Here's a short piece I did the other day complaining about the horror sections in small bookstores: fearsoftheforebears.substack.com/p/stocking-t... #booksky #writing #horror

Stocking the Spooky Shelves

Complaints about Horror Sections in Small Bookstores

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I had a good time at the launch of the Phoenixville Poet's Society first zine. It was great to see how much of the community showed up to support it.

What an amazing collage of four separate pieces of media that haunt my nightmares! I think we all remember Watership Down and Donnie Darko but If you haven't already, please watch Rabbits by David Lynch and read Dead, But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay.

Paul Tremblay@paultremblay.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Bunnies!

I had an amazing time at the Black Belt Theatre event hosted by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social and Chris Poggiali: 6+ hours of kung fu movie bliss! Meeting Hendrix was a delight and I got my copies of his books signed! Check out These Fists Break Bricks for an amazing history of the genre. #booksky

I was catching up on all the zines I read and I saw that @laurenwrites.bsky.social has moved on from editing Trembling With Fear @horrortree.com Thanks for all the great work you did there! Can't wait to see more of your own writing!

Here's the link to my drabble "Cold Coffee Comfort" 101words.org/cold-coffee-... Be sure to check out 101words.org for daily microfiction.

Cold Coffee Comfort - 101 Words

The watch repair will take some time, so you wander the mall and buy a coffee. You, the ugliest man […]

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My drabble "Cold Coffee Comfort" will be up on 101words.org next week on 9/12. Drabbles are a fun excercise and I'm always impressed at what a good writer can do with just 100 words, or in this case, 101.

I was back in central PA for a wedding so I made time to visit the Midtown Scholar. It's still one of my favorite bookstores of all time. #booksky

My story is up on this edition, check it out! #booksky #writing

Horror Tree@horrortree.com · last yr.

Trembling With Fear - Summer 2025 Edition w/stories by @noahwood.bsky.social , ‪@academiablues.bsky.social, @ariskari.bsky.social, & more!‬ horrortree.com/trembling-wi... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

My story "Turn Back!" will be featured in the Summer Special edition of Trembling with Fear, the online horror zine by @horrortree.com next Sunday. I can't imagine pursuing writing without the resources Horror Tree compiles, check them out if your looking for open submissions! #booksky #writing

Book club at the Reads & Company bookstore was fantastic as always. This month we read Disco Witches of Fire Island by @blairfell.bsky.social We all loved it! It's so much more optimistic and uplifting than I expected. Now I just want a complete copy of the Disco Witch Manifesto!

I had a great time at the Phoenixville Pride Fest yesterday where I got to meet @blairfell.bsky.social He gave some kind encouragement to keep writing and I'm very excited to read his book Disco Witches of Fire Island for the Reads and Company book club. #prideweek

Book club at the Reads and Company bookstore was fantastic last night! We discussed Stag Dance by @torreypeters.bsky.social (we loved it!) Great way to get excited for #PrideWeek

Popped into a small bookstore at the mall. They had a really nice local author display with a whole shelf for the shop owner's books (nice perk). Love to see it. #booksky #writing

Just finished Fevre Dream by #GeorgeR.R.Martin If you like classic vampire tales or 19th century America as a setting, you owe it to yourself to read this one. I'd force everyone to read it if I could, but in the words of Abner Marsh, "We all got to make our goddamned choices!" #bookquotes