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Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · last mo.

"Don't give up. I mustn't give up." Conviction is echoed on the pristine glass of the antique mirror you clutch in your sweaty hand. The key. Your hope of lifting this curse. "I won't give up." You descend the stairwell, deeper into the crypt. #HorrorWritersChat

Horror Writers Chat The crypt awaits below... 7PM BST (UK) 2PM EDT (US) #HorrorWritersChat Image description: Artwork by Angevere on DeviantArt (link: https://www.deviantart.com/angevere/art/Mirror-697941639), featuring feminine, jewelled hands gripping an ornate mirror, in which a horrid ghoul is staring back with gleaming red eyes, a desiccated face, and snow-white hair.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · last mo.

Good afternoon, #HorrorWritersChat! It is wonderfully cool today, and a storm is raging outside! A perfect weather for tonight. I am EXTREMELY excited for tonight's topic, as it is one of my favourite choices. When a promise is false. When hope is but an illusion. Tonight, the horror of LIES.

Write Horror? Join us for 4 questions with a promo opportunity! Every Wednesday 7PM BST (UK) / 2PM EDT (US) Hosted by Yours Truly, Gree! Search for the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat Picture alt text: Artwork by Angevere on DeviantArt (link: https://www.deviantart.com/angevere/art/Mirror-697941639), featuring feminine, jewelled hands gripping an ornate mirror, in which a horrid ghoul is staring back with gleaming red eyes, a desiccated face, and snow-white hair.
Rami Ungar the Writer@ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks Mary! #HorrorWritersChat, wishing it was Christmas already? Well, why not check out "The Wild Hunt," the story of two sisters who run away from home on Christmas Eve? It'll surely scratch that Christmas itch. www.amazon.com/Wild-Hunt-Ch... #HorrorSky #BookSky

The Wild Hunt: A Christmas Horror Story

The Wild Hunt: A Christmas Horror Story - Kindle edition by Ungar, Rami. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Wild Hunt: A Christmas Horror Story.

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

Thank you for the chat this week, Mary! I'm still between projects, but you can check out everything I've been up to over here: www.patreon.com/cw/arcdirect... There are plenty of free stories to explore, including my ongoing serial novel, with a new chapter every Friday. #HorrorWritersChat

The ARC Directive — Only knowledge can save you.

Get more from The ARC Directive on Patreon. Only knowledge can save you.. Support The ARC Directive and get exclusive access to their work.

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J.D. Buffington@jdbuffington.com · 2mo ago

Thanks for hosting, Mary! For those that enjoy sprinklings of scifi and social commentary in their horror (because all horror is political), check out my haunted house novel that defies the average ghost tropes while still delivering what you expect—just not how you expect it… #HorrorWritersChat

In the House of In Between

Check out In the House of In Between - <p>The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died inside its walls. Over the course of a century, what-o...

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Queen Anna V 👑 🫜🫜@annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you so much Mary! Amazing #HorrorWritersChat as always! I would also like to mention our anthology from people here. I have read all the stories and they are all so good! 🥰 ko-fi.com/s/c24c7af3a0

The Shadows That We Carry - Charity Anthology - William Beck's Ko-fi Shop

This is the physical copy of The Shadows That We Carry - a horror anthology I curated featuring 20 stories from the #HorrorWritersChat community. All ...

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Bert Piedmont author and editor@bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oh, someone from the longago times, the paperback world. I read The Other by Thomas Tryon as a child, #evilTwin trope at its finest. Probably why I still write about twins to this day. #horrorwriterschat

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

A revival is due. It’s time for them to receive their flowers 🖤💐 Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Shine a light on an underrated horror creator from 1900-1999 (20th century) Who are they? What do you love about their work? --- Outro in 10 mins.

Question Four. Shine a light on an underrated horror creator from the 1900s. Who are they? What do you love about their work? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Samantha Bryant | She/her@samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I recently read Monster, She Wrote and my TBR trebled from that alone. I already knew Elizabeth Gaskell for her social novel North and South, but now I'm a fan of her horror, too! #HorrorWritersChat

Book cover for Monster, She Wrote. Green with spooky images alongside the margins.
Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A revival is due. It’s time for them to receive their flowers 🖤💐 Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Shine a light on an underrated horror creator from 1900-1999 (20th century) Who are they? What do you love about their work? --- Outro in 10 mins.

Question Four. Shine a light on an underrated horror creator from the 1900s. Who are they? What do you love about their work? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Tea Witch Friday@teawitch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ray. Mutherflippin. Bradbury. His small town simplicity and creative, exquisite use of quotidian language speaks to me deeply, and I think we could mesh his small town sensibilities with my gold rush hometown ones for a fascinating play on rural communities facing horrors among the rolling hills.

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

Collaborations with those who have gone before. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Which dead horror creator would you want to collab with? Why? What would you create together?

Question Three. Which dead horror creator would you want to collaborate with? Why? What would you create together? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Clover S. Laurel 🍀@tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 2mo ago

100% Poe. He was my main inspiration for starting to write horror. Before that, I was all-fantasy all the time, but Poe’s stories awoke my dark side. 😂 I also think our shared propensity for romantic longing would allow us to mesh well. #HorrorWritersChat

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

Collaborations with those who have gone before. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Which dead horror creator would you want to collab with? Why? What would you create together?

Question Three. Which dead horror creator would you want to collaborate with? Why? What would you create together? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#HorrorWritersChat I want to get together with Bram Stoker & reinstate his original ending to Dracula: the one where a volcano erupts & buries Dracula and his castle beneath lava. Was Dracula the original loadbearing boss? Maybe.

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

Collaborations with those who have gone before. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Which dead horror creator would you want to collab with? Why? What would you create together?

Question Three. Which dead horror creator would you want to collaborate with? Why? What would you create together? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Nora Shear@norashear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ohhh if I could work with Shirley Jackson it would be a DREAM. The focus on mental health, unmet needs, and women in liminal spaces would be fantastic to explore with her. And her language! :swoon: I'd want to write a haunted hamlet story with her. #HorrorWritersChat

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

Collaborations with those who have gone before. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Which dead horror creator would you want to collab with? Why? What would you create together?

Question Three. Which dead horror creator would you want to collaborate with? Why? What would you create together? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Clover S. Laurel 🍀@tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First week back for a while. Hi! I’m Clover, and I write experimental psychological horror. I love Night of the Living Dead. It’s refreshing to see a zombie movie made before all of the tired tropes. #HorrorWritersChat

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

Hello and welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. Zombies, vampires, dead coming back "wrong"...share your faves.

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Tamara (Rhymes With Camera) Sellman@rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#horrorwriterschat I’m Tamara, I write dark shortform fiction (horror or horror adjacent) A favorite resurrection story would have to be PET SEMATARY… and the cautionary tale it delivers. Much of what I love about horror is this lens on “be careful what you wish for”

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

Hello and welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. Zombies, vampires, dead coming back "wrong"...share your faves.

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Scribbler Johnny He/him@scribblerjohnny.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Howdy #HorrorWritersChat I'm Scribbler Johnny and I write humorous and satirical horror. A favorite in the resurrection theme is Versus. People get resurrected to fight the same battle so many times nobody remembers what they're fighting FOR.

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

Hello and welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. Zombies, vampires, dead coming back "wrong"...share your faves.

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Samantha Bryant | She/her@samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hi #HorrorWritersChat I'm Samantha, purveyor of short horror. I'm a big fan of resurrection horror starting as far back as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A more recent favorite was Stephen King's Pet Sematary (book and both films).

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

Hello and welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. Zombies, vampires, dead coming back "wrong"...share your faves.

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Justine Gardner@jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hallo! It's been a minute since I've been able to dive into the #HorrorWritersChat, albeit a bit late... My name is Justine, I write weird shit, and... Q1: "Hodge" by Elinor Mordaunt (c.1921). Strange, sad, Frankenstein-esque tale of unearthing an early human from the tide pools. Poor Hodge.

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

Hello and welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. Zombies, vampires, dead coming back "wrong"...share your faves.

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.
Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author@amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Alice and Andy from Little White Flowers predate the first draft of that story by about two years. I used to have a core set of characters that I would just move from story to story. It took a while, but I finally found the story that worked for them! #HorrorWritersChat

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

Kill your darlings...so you can necromance them back to life! 🖤 Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - What unpublished plots or characters have you “resurrected” to use in a new story? Why did you bring them back?

Question Two. What unpublished plots or characters have you “resurrected” to use in a new story? Why did you bring them back? 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 image: duotone in berry and black of a skull sitting on a pile of books next to some lit candles and cut roses.