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T. Frohock (she/her)

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CI-borg and Wellman award finalist--author of the Los Nefilim series from Harper Voyager US. I've long been accused of telling stories, which is a southern colloquialism for lying. Repped by Lisa Rodgers, JABberwocky Literary Agency www.tfrohock.com

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T. Frohock (she/her)@tfrohock.com · 4h ago

I write dark/gothic fantasy. My favs are: Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Dark Matter by Michelle Paver The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 6h 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.
Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈@mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 4h ago

I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic & supernatural horror! 1. Frankenstein: a masterpiece about the dangers of men who refuse accountability. Also: super-gay. 2. Dracula: powerful social commentary horror about the dangers of conservative nostalgia & traditionalism. No notes. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 6h 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.
🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin ⚨ (They/She) 🏳️‍⚧️‍🍁@evavroslin.bsky.social · 4h ago

Glad to see the HWA has taken accountability in addressing the writer of the pro-AI post who has been removed from their position within the organization, and that they addressed some of the main harms. This is not the first time, but hopefully they will take more steps to betterment.

Jes Malitoris@jeswrites.bsky.social · 4h ago

They've responded. She is out. Curious to see more in the coming days, but it's a start:

T. Frohock (she/her)@tfrohock.com · 4h ago

Season 3 of 1670 is up on Netflix, and if you've missed this comedy, set in (you guessed: 1670) Poland, then I highly recommend it for the same reasons I recommend Dark Winds: it's a character oriented story and it's fun.

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 4h ago

Just got a report of a scam solicitation w/ contact info harvested from copyright registration lists. The work is unpublished & not mentioned anywhere else; registration included author's cell #, so solicitation was via SMS. Just a reminder that any contact info on a registration is public record.

Martha Wells@marthawells.com · 9h ago

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com · yesterday

"From the moment the quarrymen left, others moved in, drawn by the combination of invisibility, constant temperature, and complete remove from official Paris above."

Paris Catacombs: The Empire of Bones, Mushrooms, and Crime

Beneath the gaslit streets of nineteenth-century Paris, beneath the clatter of carriages over cobblestones and the cries of marchands ambulants, lay another city altogether — silent, cold, and made…

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Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2d ago

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

T. Frohock (she/her)@tfrohock.com · 2d ago

I don't usually get wrapped up in a series, but Dark Winds is the exception. It's a character driven story and that's why I'm so invested in what happens to the characters and their relationships. Well, that and those '70s cars. But mostly the characters.

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 4d ago

Ooh ooh! Happy August -- turns out THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is discounted at ebook retailers this month! :D $1.99 CAD at Kobo! The Tyrant's children have gone missing... and Veris Thorn is the only one who's gone into the magical forest and returned. So who better for a coerced rescue mission?

The Butcher of the Forest ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Butcher of the Forest" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. "A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times “The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one o...

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Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com · last wk.

"The battle location was previously believed to have been further west, but the artifacts found at the site conclusively link it to the final suppression of the Ceretani in 39 B.C., shifting the last fight firmly into ancient Cerdanya, their ancestral territory."

Evidence found of final battle between Rome and indigenous Catalonians – The History Blog

Archaeologists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (AUB) have discovered a Roman military camp from the final battle of the indigenous Iberian Ceretani revolt at Collet de Jovell in the eastern Pyrenees Mountains of Catalonia. The battle location was previously believed to have been further west, but the artifacts found at the site conclusively link it to the final suppression of the Ceretani in 39 B.C., shifting the last fight firmly into ancient Cerdanya, their ancestral territory.

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will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

proofs are like buses three new pieces in press, all drawing on cases i dont have space to do justice to in my forthcoming book on witchcrafts 1790-1940, but taken in different theoretical directions (doubt, imagination) or drawing deeper chronological connections (back to the 17th century!) 🗃️

Who doubts doubt? William G. Pooley University of Bristol In her account of the year after the death of her husband, Joan Didion described resolving to clear out his clothes before realizing she was unable to finish: I could not give away the rest of his shoes. I stood there for a moment, then realized why: he would need shoes if he was to return. The recognition of this thought by no means eradicated the thought. This is what Didion meant by her "year of magical thinking," a period during which she somehow thought her husband would come back, even though she knew "rationally" that he could not.' In her grief, Didion finds herself holding something like what the philosopher Tamar Gender has called aliefs, acting on propositions that are at odds with her conscious and "rational" thinking, but which she cannot shake.?Bad neighbours Will Pooley 'The writer of history, Hilary Mantel once said, 'is a walking anachronism, a displaced person, using today's techniques to try to know things about yesterday that yesterday didn't know itself. He must try to work authentically, hearing the words of the past, but communicating in a language the present understands. " This is the problem of the historical imagination: how can histories hold together different worlds? Historians have often seen this as a theoretical or methodological question. In what follows, I want to be more literal. This essay is three texts, braided together. First come these reflections on the methods of historical imagination. Second comes raw material, the brute words of historical sources. The final braid provides contexts and background. Each braid returns in turn: reflection, source, context. Imagination is what happens between them. [this chapter focuses on an 1886 murder case]WILLIAM POOLEY Decriminalization was not an Event: Witchcraft and Judicial Procedure in France from the 17th to the 20th Century 1. Introduction One evening in 1935, Alfred Jably knocked at the door of his landlord Abel Tennegain during dinner. Tennegain "stood up, without saying anything or giving anyone time to do anything, picked up his gun and a cartridge, and walked out, loading the gun as he went". Moments later, and without having said a word, he fatally shot Jably in the yard.! A few months later, a jury in the Maine-et-Loire assize court cleared Tennegain of murder and set him free. French juries do not provide explanations for their decisions, but the most likely explanation for this acquittal was the story that Tennegain and the witnesses for the defence told about Jably as a well-known "witch" who had caused all sorts of harm, and who Tennegain had killed in desperation and fear.2 For European historians, "witchcraft" calls to mind the late medieval and early modern trials. Between us and them stands decriminalization: today no state in Europe prosecutes people for witchcraft, and cases like the 1935 murder of Jably are what Gustav Hennigsen has called witch trials "in reverse"3 Rather than people accused of witchcraft, it has been those who have attacked suspected witches who have been prosecuted in recent centu-ries, allowing modern Europeans to congratulate themselves that the horrors