Tashi Saheb-Ettaba
@tashise.bsky.social
She/Her Multiracial 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 🇹🇳 MG and YA Horror Writer #AmQuerying my YA Horror, THE NIGHTMARE THAT DEVOURS https://www.tashisaheb-ettaba.com
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I love how Backrooms soundtrack is soothing and eerie at the same time.
Hey y’all, I need to pay a quick bill, and I need groceries. I’m willing to work, so, if you have any voice work, send it my way. $25 for 30 minutes. We can talk about longer reads. Also, video editing is $25 for videos up to 30 minutes, $50 30-hour, $100 longer than an hour.
Q4: #HorrorWritersChat A “ghost” that brings and feeds on loneliness is both infinitely dark and blindingly bright. Sooty and greasy, you know you don’t want it touching you, yet it invites—demands—attention and affection. It is love that makes you fear. A fear that makes you wallow.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
It sits on your neck, cold as a nightmare with fingers that dig into your throat, your mind. It w h i s p e r s, hissing words you can't keep out no matter how you clamp your hands to your ears. A thin tongue oozes across your cheek, your eyes. T h e y d e s e r v e i t ... D o i t. D o i t.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
You would think it’s an ordinary painting of a man covered in thick gray smoke. But his eyes—you can’t help but stare into those hollow white eyes. Maybe you’re tired, but you could have sworn you felt the fog slipping into your heart, eating your emotions away…. #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
#horrorwriterschat it's a thing that slithers. it nestles in the throat, latched onto the base of the tongue. its voice reverberates through the host's vocal folds, through manipulated bone and muscle. It stretches through the host. It anchors, unseen. It sits, and it watches, and it waits.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
My answers were about animatronics, so welcome to the Slice of Death. An animatronic in the shape of a 🍕 slice, with bulging white eyes & a knife. Named as a dark twist on "slice of life," it certainly shall be taking slices out of lives. #HorrorWritersChat Q4
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
The Chimera has a vaguely human head on the end of a long tentacle. Instead of suckers, mouths line the underside. The rest of it is underground, so we're not sure what it looks like. But watch out, the head just opened up and is breathing fire! #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
It didn't exist in three dimensions, or it wouldn't shift like that - almost like I was seeing slices of it dipping into my world from somewhere else. I could see viscera where the flesh disappeared, but the flesh reappeared and covered it. A jaw vanished, leaving bare teeth. #horrorwriterschat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat My monster is Lionel Metcalfe. He’s your next door neighbour. He always says ‘hello’. Keeps himself to himself though. And also, there’s that’s odd drilling noise you keep hearing through the connecting wall in the middle of the night…
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
The intention behind the scares varies from story to story, but more often than not, I'd say that my monsters remind characters of their past trauma or their past sins. The very sight of them forces my characters to confront deep-seated and repressed memories. #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
This monster is as old as humanity, has worn billions of faces over the millennia. One of its many incarnations could be in your house right now. Or the house of someone you love. Tearing down not with claws and teeth but with words as barbed as a mace ... #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
Picture this; the Drowned Coot. An old man murdered in a swamp. Carrying both the stench of decay and the swamp as he wobbles forever onwards to those who wronged him. When you hear wet hobbles, and the horrible, wet rasp. He is near. And then then rusted rifle clicks. #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe heart thrums with life. Bones clack in motion. The threaded fur rustles in the wind. It towers over the cemetery. Over you. Its frame devours the moon. Take your answers to questions 2 & 3, and create a brand new monster in your quote-post! #HorrorWritersChat
Since most of my villainous monsters are human, they scare people by betraying trust, abusing power, that sort of thing. The creature monsters may scare by their size or perceived strength, which may or may not really be an issue. #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat I don't like to reveal much too early. The feeling of isolation mixed with an overactive imagination is what I love. The slurping noises, something banging against a wall, a tentacle winding around a door knob, the build up of what the creature is and how the characters react.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoYou knit your own, primal incantations into the fur with a gilded needle. Words of binding. Control. Obedience. They glitter under the growing moon. Great monster design is intertwined with a theme. How do you express your favourite themes with your monsters? #HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat I don't usually show monsters. Learned that lesson from the movies JAWS & CURSE OF THE DEMON. It's more effective to leave what the monster looks like to the imagination. The mech. shark in JAWS kept sinking to the bottom of the ocean so Speilberg inferred it. Much more effective.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat My characters or my readers? Those are very different things. I lean towards putting enough detail for the imagination to fill in the blanks but ultimately it depends on the story itself, the narrator, the genre etc...
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
Often most of the horror comes from encountering something that shouldn't exist. Something predatory. I think of my characters as being hunted. The hunter may be grotesque, or just physically overwhelming I try to show enough for my readers to understand what the monster is #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
Running late, but I never miss these if I can help it! Bradley Ramsey here: writer of cosmic, sci-fi, and comedy-horror. Favorite monster design has to be anything Lovecraftian (and bonus points for multiple eyes). A lot of my creature designs have way too many eyes. 👀 #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoStrings of mercury seep out of your ampoules, reconnecting the bones, alighting the faded words carved into the marrow. Tell us who you are, what do you write, and what's your favourite monster design in horror? #HorrorWritersChat
I tend to go for the Tiny But Terrifying Glimpse approach. In prose, it's hard not to lose a lot of the terror once you have unveiled the full picture. The Lantern Men, the monsters in my story of that name, are invisible. The terror manifests in what they do to their victims. #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
The Grillman animatronics scare my characters through living out their programming in a literal manner: "I just wanna grill man." 😱 But Rose Marie is disturbed by them even before then. #HorrorWritersChat Q3
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat I think driving them insane or having them watch them rip apart other people scares them pretty badly.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat
#horrorwriterschat One of the creatures in my current piece is a reflection of all the darkness in one of the main characters. Looking into an onyx-glazed mirror, and trying to find familiar shapes in your own reflection. They're called the Wretched. They look decrepit. Decaying.
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoYou knit your own, primal incantations into the fur with a gilded needle. Words of binding. Control. Obedience. They glitter under the growing moon. Great monster design is intertwined with a theme. How do you express your favourite themes with your monsters? #HorrorWritersChat
Generally, it's because of their Otherness. Whether it's because they're godlike entities, carnivorous horses, or a mummified corpse, the fact that they're so far from the norm sets my characters on edge. #HorrorWritersChat
Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 2w agoThe frame of your creation rests betwixt crumpled gravestones. You cradle the silver heart in your hands. Stained with your own blood. How do your monsters scare your characters? Is it by their detailed design, or their vague, terrifying aura? How much do you really show? #HorrorWritersChat