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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The prompt was boa. I swear she's going to be the death of me, this VSS hostess. But not today, my friends, not today. I took the boa, and I took it dancing.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The prompt was amiss today. Our VSS hostess is toying with us. I know her game. I thought about gentle, but then I went mythic, and terrible. Because, why not.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The prompt was zenith. There's something raw about realising you reached the pinnacle. Everything will be less than this. I don't know if the guy jumped or not. It's a mystery.

Bare feet at the cliff's edge,
the grass soft between my toes,
the sea a thousand shades of blue
and nowhere left to climb.
The wind lifts my hair
like a lover's hand.
Far below, the waves
break themselves
upon the rocks.
So this is the zenith.
As triumph eludes me,
and I bear witness to
not a single revelation,
just the terrible beauty
of having come this far.
I close my eyes.
The earth holds its breath

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FenrirKin | ᚛ᚈᚆᚓᚔ ᚈᚆᚓᚋ᚜ @fenrirkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm a day late, but hi, I'm Fen! I write fantasy/folklore horror, and if I went out to a flower garden or veg patch and saw a PERSON growing out of the soil? I'd probably never sleep again. Now that I've had the thought, guess what's getting written...? #HorrorWritersChat

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FenrirKin | ᚛ᚈᚆᚓᚔ ᚈᚆᚓᚋ᚜ @fenrirkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ripening: Ainsel and Rowan's relationship. They're both doing their best! Decaying: heheheheheheheheheheheheheheh SO much. So much that the characters can't see, but the audience can, if they look carefully! #HorrorWritersChat

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FenrirKin | ᚛ᚈᚆᚓᚔ ᚈᚆᚓᚋ᚜ @fenrirkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As the wheat was reaped and the sheep sheared, as the fruit was plucked and eggs stacked into overflowing baskets, a thought was whispered somewhere, growing as it bounced from person to person until it buzzed frantically against the village boundaries: Where were the children? #HorrorWritersChat

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FenrirKin | ᚛ᚈᚆᚓᚔ ᚈᚆᚓᚋ᚜ @fenrirkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's a few bits of foreshadowing that I'm really hoping I'm able to pull off successfully, that carry across through all 3 books; my wish is for readers to get to a certain part in book 3, swear slightly, and go and grab book 1 and 2 to double check the foreshadowing clues. #HorrorWritersChat

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FenrirKin | ᚛ᚈᚆᚓᚔ ᚈᚆᚓᚋ᚜ @fenrirkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oathsworn: The Nameless is about found family, Fae, and freedom. It's urban fantasy with a folklore/eldritch horror bent, and is updated every Sunday on my Patreon, accessed for only £1 a month! www.patreon.com/collection/1... Have a snippet from the latest chapter (img): #HorrorWritersChat

He will never come back, their Sibling whispered from the shadows, a hint of sorrow clouding their voice. He went to a great field with a great many humans, all with sticks, some loud, some sharp. Someone touched him with a sharp stick, and down he fell.
You didn’t fix him?
His head was split; his thoughts were leaking into the grass, all mixed with the others, and the crows were already feasting on them.
You fixed the split milk jug.
That was a milk jug! Sibling sounded irritated. All it contained was milk; you ask the clay very nicely to hold on a bit tighter, and then you put the milk back in the jug. Milk isn’t thoughts, and the milk hadn’t been eaten by crows.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can always do after: but I hear you, it's not the same! I feel that. I'm struggling to check in when I'm not hosting, I need to clear my time better.

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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hate that I keep being too busy on Wednesday afternoons to participate. But here’s what the fine folks of #HorrorWritersChat were up to yesterday!

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fuck it. Our VSS hostess wants yeet? I'll give her yeet. And him. After I screamed about the prompt, all I could hear was, I'll yeet that man right out of my hair... so had to go for a spell. Gothic the fucker up like. Jesus fuck she's making my hair go grey with this one.

Yeet the man out from my heart,
Let his flesh from my memory depart.
Yeet the man from my very eyes,
Bury his face where darkness lies.
Yeet the damn man from my dreams,
Unstitch his voice from midnight's seams.
Yeet the cursed man from my feet,
Break every path where we might ever meet.
By ash and thorn, by winding sheet,
I cast him out.
I name it: YEET.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She was a side character who will have her own love story when I get to it; but yes I think it must!

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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My second horror novel, #Heliruna, is currently on sale until the end of October. Just $13.99 for the paperback right now, will go up after Halloween. Get it while it's hot! a.co/d/06QPF9M1

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Lem McMillan (author) @lemmcmillan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The identity of the book’s antagonist.

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J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com · 07/10/2026

Wish I had a pre-order page for my new book, but you can check out my first three here! jldurona.com Also, I want to shout-out @pippinacious.bsky.social's new book DEATH IN ITS MANY FORMS. Read it because it is good. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #horrorwriterschat

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I also do love a Chekhov's gun. I had a review once where they identified it most vociferously and I felt quite redeemed.

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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can go both ways on foreshadowing. I love to have a Chekov's gun that just doesn't go off. I also love a Chekov's Gun that goes off in an unexpected way. Or sometimes a red herring ends up being deadly. The best thing about knowing the rules is breaking them. #HorrorWritersChat

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q4: Oh I LOVE this question. In “Aromantic Frankenstein,” the Creature finally befriends some folks who take pity on his scars and say his eyes remind them of a long lost friend. It’s going to be weird when they put two and two together.

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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks Eryn! #HorrorWritersChat speaking of growing things, nothing says plant horror like plant/human hybrids! So go and check out "Rose." It's the perfect novel for this week's theme! www.amazon.com/Rose-Rami-Un...

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J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com · 07/10/2026

"The harvest was good this year. Too good. Next year the crops will harvest us." #horrorwriterschat

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J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com · 07/10/2026

There's a book in the story that my MCs dismiss as fiction until they read it later and find out it's decidedly not! Very excited to write that reveal! #horrorwriterschat

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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm Hazel, I write weird gay cryptid horror, and I also have a background in botany so the worst thing to find growing in a place where it shouldn't to me is any of a long list of invasive and aggressive plant species. #HorrorWritersChat

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Red Dragon Press @reddragonpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Agreeing with others there were some nice questions this week 😄 Especially loved the prompt! My second short story collection, THE STRANGE COMPENDIUM OF MR. EYES, releases Tuesday, October 20th! 👁 👀 👁 You can pre-order the ebook NOW: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HM6JYV2G

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The Strange Compendium of Mr. Eyes (Saga of The Dread Somber Book 2)

Amazon.com: The Strange Compendium of Mr. Eyes (Saga of The Dread Somber Book 2) eBook : Reyes, M. A., Ramos, Angelica: Kindle Store

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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks Eryn! Currently reworking my Tales of Unease horror/mystery vignette collection, hoping to have some things to share by end of October. Hope everyone has a great week! #HorrorWritersChat

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J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com · 07/10/2026

Hi, #horrorwriterschat! I'm JL, and I write spooky books for kids! Off the top of my head? The two huge tumors growing in my wife's uterus were pretty damn creepy! As for fiction... nope still the tumors

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J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com · 07/10/2026

There are evil Jack-O-Lanterns in my new story, and at various points they are ripe, rotten, or ripped apart Sometimes all three somehow? #horrorwriterschat

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q3 The harvest was good this year. Too good. Alice had really outdone herself, I’m sorry I ever doubted. My initial sympathy for those crinkle-faced things melted away with another scrape of the plate. Turns out the key to good mandrake is to wait until their first emotions.

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🧟‍♀️ JustEEEEEK! Gardner 🦴 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks, Eryn, as always for the hosting finesse. And for once I actually have something to share. A tale of mind was picked by Edge & Busby for a psychological horror antho called "Witnessed" out next March. Woot!

A mock-up of the cover art showing a bloody old-fashioned keyhole for an anthology of horror stories called "Witnessed" by Edge & Busby. Story title is "Circling."

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Really loved today's theme! Thanks so much for this. I'm trying to sell 31 books for October as a Hallowe'en thing (if I do, I'm planning to write + publish a short story set in the world of my horror comedy). I'm now behind on sales, so appreciate a boost! steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

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Shannon Knight @shannonknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The harvest... Too good. Anyone with a lick of sense avoided the branches heavy with fruit. Fields swaying with produce could rot where they stood. All who ate this forbidden crop would become part of the walking dispersal of spores that rotted the living from the brain out. #horrorwriterschat

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I should promo mine but I think today I'm going to just promo everyone that I can :)

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was like pumpkin seeds. PUMPKIN OHHHH OK there we go. :D

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Red Dragon Press @reddragonpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat There is a LOT of seeds being planted, considering it's a story told in 3 parts of the course of several centuries where so many details will come up again later. I can highlight one particular moment though:

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 07/10/2026

Thanks for a fun one, Eryn! Always *dig some eco horror. I’ve got a few eco terrors, plus ephemeral horrors that may or may not be there in my latest collection. 18 tales of horror, scifi, and the melancholy! #HorrorWritersChat

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Nothing But The Willows & Other Things That Are Not There

Perception is reality. But how much can you trust with only two eyes? Cracks in the fabric of the universe reveal facets of a prism. Worlds where gods and monsters are real, houses are haunted, and ti...

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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That the evil is closer to home, and still resides there. The now given location of a missing person holds the clue. #HorrorWritersChat

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Queen Anna V 👑 🫜🫜 @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you so much Eryn! Very creepy questions today! #HorrorWritersChat And thank you for reminding me me that I have a space horror waiting to be read on my Itch page. It's free to download. Go check it out! anna-verner.itch.io/the-hive

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The Hive by Anna Verner

A space horror short story.

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 07/10/2026

As always, check out the comments on the original post in order to see some amazing projects from the Horror Writers' Chat community! #Promo

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Elliott Dunstan -- GROTESQUE Oct 13th! @fiversdream.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I have a couple different WIPs I'm bouncing between but in Elessa/BCaC, the motivations of the antagonist are really coming together! Greed and fear are such reliable motivations.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I do try! Today I was mostly on empty but am glad I got through :D

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you for hosting and all the cool questions @erynmccee.bsky.social I love this harvest of glorious WIP details from #HorrorWritersChat as I get to be in awe of everybody’s creativity and look forward to reading more!

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The Last Something @thelastsomething.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat! I have a special one this week. Here's a narration of Part 1 of my "We Took the Long Way Home" series. This was the very first story I ever shared online. Give it a listen, it's a pretty good time Stay spooky, y'all youtu.be/5a6sfgYD9oY?...

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The Road Behind Us Went Completely Dark

YouTube video by Campfire Chronicler

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Spooky Simon 🛸🏳️‍⚧️ @spookiestsimon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat wouldn't you like to know weatherboy I'm gonna say the opening bit from my dieselpunk dystopia: "Years before the Gasmask Ghoul, Nemo Byrne was seventeen and standing in the town market with his sister while she called him a name that was not his."

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Are you a Widow's Bay fan? It was filmed where I live - Rockport, MA! Season 2 films here in March. I'm on a committee setting up a Widow's Bay gathering for mid-May 2027. We'll serve Sunset Cocktails! Keep an eye on my Fb and BlueSky pages for updates. I hope to see you there!

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