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Shantell Powell

@shanmonster.bsky.social

Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI shanmonster.dreamwidth.org

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J.D. Buffington@jdbuffington.com · 50m ago

Thanks, Mary! I love history. If we’re talking historical horror, that’s my haunted house novel to a T! Houdini, Vietnam, 1990’s roiling turmoil, and Afghanistan stop-loss back to back tours…war fucks us all up. But especially inside Backlund House. #HorrorWritersChat

In the House of In Between

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-or who-haunts the storied property remains ...

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Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 1h ago

#HorrorWritersChat I've got a WIP that started out as memoir & partway through I decided to make it speculative fiction. What began as a short essay is turning into a novella about a nonbinary kid in the 80s trying to figure out how to stop puberty from happening. It's Judy Blume on hard drugs.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 1h 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.
Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 2h ago

#HorrorWritersChat I write fairytales, ecohorror, religious horror, Arctic horror, & weird shit. Historical horror I love: Kindred by Octavia Butler Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

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

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

Question One. Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. 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.
Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 3h ago

Years ago, a chef confidently told me that the one thing that unifies all cultures is bread. I disagreed. "Name a culture that didn't traditionally use some sort of bread!" "Easy," I said. "Inuit."

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3w ago

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 4h ago

It's true! I've never been chastised by them for my anti-LLM stance. They're good folks with a good newsletter. Give 'em a shot!

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 4h ago

When you sign up for the Tenebrous NWHRA (New Weird Horror Readers Association) newsletter, you may ask yourself: Will I get defensively screeched at with pro-AI defensiveness & product shilling?🤔😱 You will not! That’s the Tenebrous Don’t-Be-A-Fuckin-Tool Guarantee™️ sendfox.com/tenebrouspress

Shane Hawk@shanehawk.com · 4h ago

Reactor Mag (formerly Tordotcom) has serialized a truncated version of @tvayyyy.bsky.social’s story, “Neon Moon,” from NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, PART II: BACK FOR BLOOD. Consider it a little taste of what to expect in Part II, and enjoy a fresh take on Mothman. reactormag.com/excerpts-bac...

Read an Excerpt From Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. - Reactor

As any savvy horror fan knows: the monster never truly dies.

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Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 4h ago

I want to give money to some of the Palestinians going through hell on earth, but the chuffed platform doesn't appear to accept PayPal. Does anyone know of a way I can help with my PayPal funds?

Miranda Keeling@mirandakeeling.com · 7h ago

Little girl on the train: Uncle Mallory died. Her mum: Yes. Little girl: So he won't feel anything now. Her mum: No. Little girl: Which is good because the insects will be eating his eyes.

Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 23h ago

STOP. 🙏🏻 Please You are my hope 💔 My mother is struggling with severe eye problems and losing her sight My phone the only way I share her story and ask for help is now broken I’m trying to keep my family going Even $10 can help save a family’s life chuffed.org/project/help... Can you donate? ❓

Selfie of Amir holding a phone with a shattered screen. He looks very saddened by the situation.Amir's mother sleeping on a hospital bed. She's wearing a patch on her right eye. An IV drip is hanging above her head and is connected to her right wrist.
Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 17h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure. Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy@laurenwrites.bsky.social · 8h ago

The next Writing the Occult is our biggest yet - but are you brave enough to join our journey into time and place? When: From 1pm UK time on 5 September Where: Online, via Zoom (fully recorded, too, so you can dip in as your day/energy/spoons allow knowing you'll be able to catch up later) 🧵⬇️

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now!@lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 8h ago

📣 Attention romance fans! My sapphic historicals are 40% OFF on Audible RIGHT NOW for Audible Premium Plus members. 🎧✨ and the paperback for Miseducation is currently SOLD OUT in most places (!!) so you'll def want to grab this while you can! Hurry, sale ends 8/10! Snag your copy today ➡️

The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Pride, prejudice, and…lessons in love?Jane Austen meets My Fair Lady in this joyful, clever opposites-attract Sapphic romance featuring Caroline Bingley and...

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The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · 14h ago

Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.