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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 9h

I love you, French horror and your fucked up, selfish characters causing chaos in the name of lessening their own grief for even a second. Beautiful, never change.

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 11h

Had to pause for gamenight but back to watching 'Loch Ness Terror' and there are so many stupid things in this movie. But it is fun a fun time.

Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 12h

What a fun distraction, #AwesomeCharacters. Mitra is covered in recently snatched shinies snuggled with her friends and nothing is trying to eat them. Delgrij is giving himself a full light to whittle, mind entirely relaxed, while the others giggle and talk and nothing is trying to eat them.

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 13h

Just one thing after another today to remind me I have no viable income, am a terrible housekeeper, not that great of a parent or spouse and the neighbors are wasting all their veggies on me as I can't seem to get my ass in gear and bake them cookies to reciprocate. I should have stayed in bed.

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 14h

Hospital financial aid department, "Your application is processing so all bills are on hold." Hospital billing department, "Here's four letters and an email every day to remind you of the small fortune you owe us for that half hour you saw the doctor. Did you know you can pay online? PAY US. NOW."

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Oli Jacobs - Author @olijbooks.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks @jamesryan.bsky.social & #HorrorWritersChat! Soz couldnt be more engaged but multitasking… … coz I have a new book coming out! My haunted house horror Witten Hall is available to pre order on Kindle. Over 4 generations, all sort of terror occurs… Order now: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0HL...

Book cover for Witten Hall by Oli Jacobs. The cover is black save for a monochrome image or a manor behind some trees in the centre.

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 16h

#HorrorWritersChat Great chat today, super fun! I'm not promoting anything specific story wise but here's my latest newsletter in case you want to sign up buttondown.com/VincentLore/...

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Monday Catch Up

Hello world! Mood music I’m still trying to pin down the best day to send these. I want to send them once a week, but life hasn’t been very accommodating...

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DR LUKANSTEIN ⚧️ @beastcutter.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for hosting!! I have a payhip payhip.com/LukanGarrow and an itch store beastcutter.itch.io where my work can be found. My most recent project is A WEIGHT OF CARRION FLESH, which has heavy NIN and Rammstein vibes. beastcutter.itch.io/a-weight-of-...

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Lukan Garrow

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M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social · 16h

A fun #HorrorWritersChat, James. Thank you. Halloween is coming. If you like ghost stories that read like a supernatural thriller and are told from multiple POVs, Trapped in Amber is for you. mybook.to/TrappedInAmber

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 16h

#HorrorWritersChat Need help with work in the Backrooms of your book business? I can help 👋 And you’ll get more time to work on all those WIPs ⬇️

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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 16h

I thought the replies were off, so I will just share this again: bsky.app/profile/rose...

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for a fab evening of hosting! For promo, I'll go with A Mother's Porcelain as it's the most apt this week. It's Misery with a family dynamic, and some creepy dolls books2read.com/u/br95dA

A promo image for A Mother's Porcelain depicting the cover (a shattered porcelain doll head resting on a hard wood floor) is on a tablet, framed in darkness & blood. The accompanying text reads "A Mother's Porcelain. Love will be her prison. Available now"

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Queen Anna V 👑 🫜🫜 @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you James! Very cool and interesting questions today! #HorrorWritersChat You'll find everything you need on my Itch page. A fantasy horror with Zombies? A story with a Ouija board? A sci-fi horror in space? Or something fun and spicy perhaps? Got you covered! anna-verner.itch.io

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 16h

Thanks, #HorrorWritersChat! This comes out tomorrow! You can pick it up on Amazon, Kobo, and some other places! I have two stories - one horror, one sci-fi horror - and I drew the cover. Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKKGBXCF/ All Other Retailers: books2read.com/u/bxKnlJ

Uncanny and Uncouth anthology project

7 authors
10 stories
Multiple genres
Gothic elements
Forward by Vanessa Perry

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 16h

Also, just as I see some newer faces; one second promotion is for the #HorrorWritersChat anthology, featuring 19 fantastically talented authors from this chat (and 1 by me) with 100% of the profits going to Macmillan charity, in honour of the creator of this group, Matt Mason. amzn.eu/d/0gbq9DIm

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The Shadows That We Carry: A Horror Anthology eBook : Beck, William: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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I kind of already did this one, #HorrorWritersChat. The plot is 'watch this person slowly fall in love with the thing that hollowed out the love of their life and took their place'. It was not 'based' on anything, specifically, but the album 'Sundowning' by Sleep Token certainly led it places.

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Creature Feature - Buried Alive (Official Performance Video)

Oof, #HorrorWritersChat, hitting me where it's awkward. I don't like putting real people in my stories. So I...wouldn't write that. How about instead I offer you a band what embodies the genre? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b70...

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In the stories themselves music tends to play the part of lure, #HorrorWritersChat, as in a song you can't ignore drawing you closer, making you feel safe. For the process it's important to me to have a playlist while writing and the mood of that will influence the story quite a bit.

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DR LUKANSTEIN ⚧️ @beastcutter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am late, #HorrorWritersChat but I missed so many, I gotta do the things. T^T I am a sad monster what writes disturbing fictions (weird, fantasy and erotic horror) and my favorite music to listen to is sultry metal (Sleep Token, mostly, it is an addiction and I refuse treatment).

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If you like: 🦇 Werner Herzog's Nosferatu 🫵🏻Gay sex 🦠 Supernatural plagues 💉Hapless virgin doctors 🩸Ethereal, sinister vampires 🏚️Forbidden gothic houses 🪞"The mirror moment" You should get yourself a copy of RUIN! payhip.com/b/JKNZ8 beastcutter.itch.io/ruin

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A small town is afflicted with an unearthly sickness. The culprit, they say, is not of the living. A city doctor seeks the cure. Something stirs in the forbidden House on the hill. “And should you com...

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WakeandGlaer again #WIPSnips and it is ever so fun to realize you let a side character live in the first book and now you have to figure out what to do with him in the second... he does not have a good time. Because I hate him.

One she poked at further, even offering the respect of her eyes, "Your party, Lyrt, the does and stag who guarded you during your meatless hunt for light." In a single move she stood up, set paws on the desk and glared down at him, emphasizing a size difference he despised. "What. Were. Their. Names?"
"I...I don't—" Lyrt tried, withering in the shadow of the large doe, too large he'd argue. A stag's size, he'd complain. But not to her. To her he huffed and looked away. Avoiding. "I don't see the point in this question."
"Of course you don't," Morin said smooth and sharp, stepping around the desk to cross arms over a chest broader than any stag. To loom closer, bright eyes shining in the dim of the room. "Not your blood, not your problem." An arm went out to indicate the auru outside as she continued as smooth, voice never wavering from its deep and resonant tone, "But, Lyrt, there are none of your blood on this cheln...and if you can't be bothered to care about us, why should we care about you?"
"B-b-" Swallowing, he stomped and shook fists at his side, trying again to find a courage she shouldn't have been able to steal. "Because I can cleanse you of the fairi!"
Laughter was not appreciated, instead huffed for and growled for.
While Morin simply shook her head and opened her door, motioning for him to leave. "Go hide, Lyrt, somewhere I can't smell your cowardice or I will cleanse you in the Wake."
When he stood his ground she shoved him out, earning a scratchier growl and higher pitched complaint, "You can't speak to me this way, I am--!"
"No one." Morin cut, sharp and quiet. Leaning, to show how much was required to see him eye to eye, she smiled and added, "You are no one and nothing while I am Captain and not near so forgiving as my missus." Standing and closing the door in his face, she wasn't done mocking, "Who should have tossed you to the Swell with your siblings."

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It blows my mind when people’s defence of using gen AI is, ‘Well, if I need a picture, what do you suggest I do? I don’t have time to learn to draw!’ The same thing you did four years ago, you microwaved fruit loop.

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Playing Valheim with son and sister, right before we log out (all of us on fancy new furniture) my son asks, "Did you use all the finewood?" My sister, "Yes." "On *chairs*?" I'm laughing now while she explains, "My priority is furniture." "But chairs? Auntie. Chairs." They're a delight.

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Watching 'Loch Ness Terror' and it is everything I expected it to be. Which is cheeeese. But fun cheese so I keep watching.

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Itch has yet to get back to me about moving books from the alt account to the main, so I can get rid of the account and not ruin anyone's ability to download their purchases. So until they do I'll be marketing both because I'm pretty sure anyone who'd care I write porn isn't reading me anyway.

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↳ bee! ˚₊· ➳♡ @palisades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hand-made and full of sad, I have #ebooks for sale. Queer horrors and fantasy what might be erotic: amberreinke.itch.io Queer erotic horrors what might be fantasy: lottieflocks.itch.io

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we must celebrate the arts for one very simple reason: the world outside is terribly cold, and only through each other may we find warmth - and what is a story but a reason to huddle close to one another and forget the frost?

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#WakeandGlaer today #WIPSnips and the word is in there a few times. I'd say enjoy the monster but you probably shouldn't. Line too long for alt text is: She could do no more than grunt for it, voice again locked in her chest.

Its voice, its terrible voice, cavernous yet soft, wretched yet tender sang next, "Such a feast you brought me, little bite with delusions of being a predator." Laying down, all that mass too great to make her chest a pillow it snuggled beside her, bark-white forehead nuzzling as a fawn might. "For cycles your young will feed me." Sitting up it traced her lips with the very tip of a massive needled finger and pouted, "But you...I doubt you will last the light."
Sound, in her chest, in her throat begged release and the monster gave it to her. With a whisper she could not hear it gave her voice, and she used it to beg, "I can last hundreds for you, thousands if you need. But please-"
"Let the fawns go?" It laughed too quiet for the thickness of its chest, the size of its neck, and set the blue-black horror of its tongue along the bare fur of her stomach. Up and up it licked, tip alone enough to cover her, to soak her in milky drool. "Mm-mm, little bite," it cooed after tasting all of her. "Delicious morsel as you assuredly are... they will be more, given time to ripen." Snuggling its too large face again beside her, it sighed, eyes closed and gears quiet. "And with all you dragged along I have plenty to feed them, seeds even to plant. My mire may not seem the setting for a luscious garden...but I promise you life can flourish here as well as anywhere. You, however--"
The teeth glancing her thigh were twitched for, all of her desperate to flee, but she bit futility away and promised, "Can be all you need. Light after light. Take whatever you desire from this flesh, these bones but let them go."
"Mm, no," it said too smooth, needle tracing hips while more twirled her tail between them. "Your mind speaks of him, you know, drips with him." Too close its face, eyes staining her gray fur red, needles yet teasing, seeking more as one slipped between impossibly still thighs. "You yearn as I for his touch."

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It is so difficult learning a new art program. I know Aseprite is great, it has everything I probably need, but it is so different from Pyxeledit that it feels like I'm working with someone else's hands. I hate how long this is taking, I can't seem to do anything right and I am going insane.

It is time to watch Prom Night (2008), which I've never seen, and try again to sprite this fucking turnaround. I may need to alter the sprite of this sad little man, he is being obstinate.

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This feels like a trap, but alright.

A prompt game that reads: "Writers! Post this meme and let people say nice things about you."

Image is what looks like a closeup photo of some rainbow, 3D-printed scales

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Title: Honoria Genre: gothic gaslamp fantasy/mystery Number of kissing scenes: one (unfortunately) Sativa or Indica: ... might need to phone a friend for this one 😅 vincentlore.itch.io/honoria

Cover for Honoria A Runner Owen Short Story

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I'd like to know what I did to make youtube think I want to see fat femboy ass. There's a game somewhere in there (Aces Under the Moonlight, you were going to ask), I know, but it's just feeding me videos of this boy's ass and I just...I want to know what I did. What did I click on.

Weald and Wen : Book One of Children of Mar by Amber Reinke

It’s the middle of the (Timezone)! Quick!! Promote your creative work(s)!! Title: Weald and Wen Genre: Horror Fantasy Number of kissing scenes: Too many though maybe not the sort you mean Sativa or Indica: Neither for me, thanks amberreinke.itch.io/weald-and-wen

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[Horror/Fantasy Novel]A dark lyrical tale set in a visceral world with a fresh horror around every corner.

I spent all day revising things no one is going to see anytime soon so...I think I have to stay up...to get actual work done?

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters please forgive the laughing. It will continue. Delgrij: Hahahaha...oh, wait-HAH. Okay, I'm done. But no. Bad. Distorted terribly. He has no idea. Mitra: Good and perfectly clear, she is sure in herself. Faerai: She sees herself paradoxically stronger and weaker than she is.

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Well, I didn't get my wish. And we're not going to survive paying all these hospital bills on our own, so since my lungs failed me, I need to ask you for help. Shares help, too. 💜 ko-fi.com/cknightwrites

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🔞Zack Prince Books🔞 @esteemedbastard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My birth month #sale *and* the Queer Romance #bundle end in 2 days! Everything on my #itchio is 32% off! Cream and Sugar is bundled with 25 other amazing works for $25! Get in on these amazing deals before they're gone! itch.io/s/197425/bir... itch.io/b/3889/queer...

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Birth Month Bundle by Zack Prince

A bundle by Zack Prince, $3.20 for 6 games

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Erin Lindsay: Let Me Do My Job (Chicago PD)

I finished revising the first book of #BeaumontMysteries, all 170k words in two days because I am quite possibly addicted to this setting and this idiot vampire who has made exactly three good decisions in his 351 years of life. Now work on something I can *publish*, brain, please?

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Alt: Erin Lindsay: Let Me Do My Job (Chicago PD)

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Alt: ALF gif of the alien namesake puppet in a chair, at a dining table, saying, "Oh, no! No! I'm, I'm doomed!" As he puts his weird little face in his big furry hands.

I am being love-bullied into writing Parnamyr a fucked up romance sequel to the main Mar series. Which is to say I started writing it, decided he doesn't deserve to be happy, and stopped. I'm going to have to finish it now. It'll be a while, because it must come *after* the series but...

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ALF I'm Doomed

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like shit asking for help but I don't know if I'll eat tonight if I don't. It's a bad pain day. Can someone help my disabled trans ass get some food before everything closes? ko-fi.com/A0307Q3

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My keyboard hates me. I cleaned it this week too. Still randomly deciding I need a million 'm's (so much deleting there). My first mechanical keyboard, I am trying so hard to be good to you, why you so bitchy?

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