Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the 199 backers who made the ABANDONED: ASYLUM campaign a success and to those who spread the word. You did more than you know to help make this book and all the extras truly special. Enjoy this break from the fireose of posts I've been sharing. Updates soon!

ONLY SIX HOURS LEFT! As of midnight EST, ABANDONED: ASYLUM has 199 absolutely awesome backers. The support has been truly inspiring and humbling. There is still time to back this and snag the limited, full-color hardcover edition, time to reserve your room in these haunted and abandoned halls...

ABANDONED: ASYLUM has 170 backers and more folks than I can count helping spread the word. I'm overwhelmed by all the support. We have only 66 hours left to cross the finish line. If you're thinking of backing us, now is the time. I dropped by Building 93... there were bugs.... so many bugs....

What a difference one day can make! We're now almost 75% funded!!! Huge thanks to everyone who has spread the word and to all our new backers. We still have a ways to go and just a few days left but it's looking a lot better for this project. @mothman13.bsky.social

Feels weird to quote post myself, but want to bring this campaign back up in your feed. Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology from @rdspress.bsky.social . They’re about 2/3 of the way toward their goal with 5 days to go…

Victor LaValle@victorlavalle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a big fan of asylum horror & indie publishers, I’m excited @rdspress.bsky.social has a new anthology up on Kickstarter. They’re halfway to their goal with a few days to go. I’m in. Pledge what you can, if you are too. Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology www.kickstarter.com/projects/902...

Do y'all see this bookmark? If Abandoned: Asylum isn't fully funded, this is all I will have of this anthology edited by @mothman13.bsky.social. And I will cry. Nobody wants a crying Ann. Help me fund this anthology so that my bookmark has a nice home and I have wonderful stories to read.

@claymcleod.bsky.social Clay McCleod Chapman is fascinated by abandoned places--but is it a healthy obsession or will it lead him into the abyss? Check "Groundskeeper," in ABDANONED ASYLUM, my all-new horror anthology and help us out on: www.kickstarter.com/projects/902... @rdspress.bsky.social

@missmurdermercedes.bsky.social, Mercedes M. Yardley, shares the story behind her story, "Asylum Arletta" in my all-new horror anthology, ABANDONED: ASYLUM. Check it out on the starter of kicks: www.kickstarter.com/projects/902...

As a big fan of asylum horror & indie publishers, I’m excited @rdspress.bsky.social has a new anthology up on Kickstarter. They’re halfway to their goal with a few days to go. I’m in. Pledge what you can, if you are too. Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology www.kickstarter.com/projects/902...

Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology

An anthology of horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor James Chambers

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I'm excited to announce the first round of contributors to my new anthology, WHERE THE SILENT ONES WATCH with stories by Peter Rawlik & Sal Ciano and Sam Rebelein (@rebelsam94.bsky.social) and a poem by Linda D. Addison (@nytebird45.bsky.social). Coming soon from Hippocampus Press!

Saw this caption on a Reddit photo: "The James Webb telescope took this wide view photo of Uranus featuring six of its 27 moons" and decided not to read the comments. I stand by my choice.

This freaking "winter" weather. It has been like 50F on Long Island with constant overcast and the humidity equivalent of walking through someone else's cold sweat for the last week. Finally, today, sunshine! But I'd still like it a little cooler too. LOL!😜

Just opened my favorite kind of Word doc--a blank page. New story imminent. 😃

More spooky stuff! Not sure what @mlabbott.bsky.social, Christa Carmen, and @mothman13.bsky.social are reading, but I'm reading "The Last Halloween" from OCTOBER SCREAMS. Thursday October 12th at 8pm ET on the Galactic Terrors YouTube channel at tinyurl.com/y4gj654q and on Facebook live.

Sasha Graham is hosting the official NYC launch of A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF at Ghost Stories by the fire on Tuesday, October 24 – 7:30 – 9pm EDT with @mothman13.bsky.social, M. M. De Voe, Olena Jennings, and Christopher Ryan. Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/48rnxmja Facebook: tinyurl.com/yb2n6ud7

The Horror crew from October Ghosts at Tiny Raccoon Books this evening. Ghost stories, creepy dolls, heart houses, and monsters! Good times. Thanks to all the folks who joined us!

My tree decorated itself for Halloween. Candy corn, anyone? This is about three feet long, and it wasn't there yesterday. Cue spooky music! #halloween #fungus

Thanks to @alpbeck.bsky.social for this series of vintage reads posts for @hwany.bsky.social! THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon is a masterpiece of dark lit. Beautiful prose, psychological twists, some of the darkest scenes I've ever read. Belongs in the top 10 of 20th century horror classics.

Horror Writers Association, New York Chapter@hwany.org · 3y ago

We're starting a new #FEED today. Mentions of influential vintage reads that #Horror fans & #writers should know. Today's book is from our own James Chambers @mothman13.bsky.social THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon, pub. by Alfred A. Knopf (1971) Follow #VintageHorrorBooks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oth...

Sasha Graham is hosting the official NYC launch of A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF at Ghost Stories by the fire on Tuesday, October 24 – 7:30 – 9pm EDT with @mothman13.bsky.social, M. M. De Voe, Olena Jennings, and Christopher Ryan. Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/48rnxmja Facebook: tinyurl.com/yb2n6ud7

Cool beans! Long Island's Newsday gave my October Ghosts reading, October 7, at Tiny Racoon Books in Sayville a blurb in their things to do column. I'll be reading there this Saturday with @carolgyzander.bsky.social, @robertottone.bsky.social, Trevor Firetog, N.R. Lambert, and Robert P. Ottone!

Writer's life Upside: Reading a friend's great novel before it's published. :) Downside: Years passing before a terrific publisher buys it. :( Upside: Excitement and happiness that the rest of the world will now read your friend's awesome novel! :) Can't tag the author just yet...

...and out of stock! Wow, the Deluxe Signed Lettered Edition of A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL ETERNAL WORLD appears to have sold out. Thank you so much if you preordered a copy! This means the Numbered Signed Edition will be up for preorder soon, I do believe.

Caught MULHOLLAND DRIVE at a local arts cinema this week. 35mm projection of a scratchy print probably 20 years old. 45 minutes in the film broke, and the projectionist screened the last reel out of focus. Somehow this only made it all the more "Lynchian" and enjoyable.

4 days ago, one of my best friends -- and fellow PDX writer -- Jessie Kwak was hit in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. She's already had one emergency reconstructive surgery on her eye & faces more. Help out if you can! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-jessie-recover-from-a-traumatic-eye-injury

Help Jessie recover from a traumatic eye injury, organized by Robert Kittilson

Hi, I'm Jessie, a self-made freelance writer and author. On Saturda… Robert Kittilson needs your support for Help Jessie recover from a traumatic eye injury

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Weird House Press has opened preorders for the deluxe edition of A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL ETERNAL WORLD! These editions will include three bonus stories. Trade preorders will open in the near future. #cosmichorror #horror https://www.weirdhousepress.com/product/a-bright-and-beautiful-eternal-world/

A few summer pictures from the garden. Black-Eyed Susans. Bumble Bee in the Balloon Flowers. Cardinal in the Bird Feeder. Sunset through the Hydrangea Tree. #gardens #cardinals

I am officially running a fundraiser in support of my dad’s favorite charity. Details here (everyone who donates gets SOMETHING):

Robert's fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - JustGiving

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My cosmic horror collection, coming soon from Weird House Press. Art by KL Turner. “James Chambers conjures literary magic! A BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL ETERNAL WORLD is a wonderfully strange collection of short fiction...” --Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of CAVE 13 and NECROTEK