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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A romantic interest for the protagonist, of all things. Most unexpected! I'm not sure how it will change the story's direction just yet. I'll probably bump the fellow off, though. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The eclipse ended, but the daylight did not return. Neighbors lit their porch lamps. By evening someone had watered the shadows. By morning, they'd grown. By the third night we were leaving small offerings on porches, and the moon, we agreed, seemed to be considering them. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Themes, I'd say. Some are very obvious, right on the surface. Others will be obscured til the ending. Some, you might never notice. You might even excavate a few that I've unconsciously hidden from myself. I want this to be a work of many, many layers. We'll see if I pull it off. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hello, I'm Travis! I write strange stories and I'm terrified of solar eclipses. Is there one today? How awful! Not visible from Florida, thank goodness! #HorrorWritersChat

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Louie Applesauce @neondoom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Proud to have a song on this compilation supporting the Refuge House near Tallahassee, FL. A nonprofit providing direct services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. With @rbxbx.computer.gay and @frolicpress.bsky.social frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/soft-a...

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Soft Architecture: Soundworks for Shelter, by Frolic Press Recordings

16 track album

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

From the musical appendage of FP, a new EP! Leslie Keffer remixed by Mandragoro, @fire-toolz.bsky.social , Unicorn Hard-On, @safieflato.bsky.social , and myself as datewithdeath! CD available for pre-order now! frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/embody... #weirdmusic

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tragedy. It begins in a storm and ends in a storm. The main character is part of the storm system, as violent as any other part. The storm doesn't clear because it cannot. Everything had already been broken long ago. #HorrorWritersChat

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Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 15/07/2026

By the 40th day, something started knocking beneath the house. We counted the children & chickens. We counted the husbands & hounds. And then Nan remembered the dolly she'd left in the barn, the one with porcelain hands and the clothes we had crafted from Gran's old scraps... #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hopefully that makes it more uncanny? Haha! Or maybe it's a happy ending—fellow might have been a bore.

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It began raining on St. Swithin's Day. By the fortieth Day, something had started knocking beneath the house. My husband said it was pipes. He went down to check. He came back up humming, and never spoke of the cellar, or to me, again. #Horrorwriterschat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm in the South. I think I moved to close to the coast. Perhaps they dislike salinity. I know they like decaying wood. I used to see so many as a kid in North Central Florida and Southern Georgia.

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I never seem to see fireflies anymore. I'm glad they're still around somewhere.

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Goodness, what a mess of typos! (*described viscerally through how)

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The novel I'm working on is set in pioneer Florida c. 1906–1912, so the heat is almost a character. I think that to avoid it being background, it has to be described through viscerally through hot it affects human characters. I also try to give it a subtle intimation of agency. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hello! I'm Travis and I write strange, often horrible, stories. I am extremely uncomfortable in low humidity. Living in Florida, the combination of hot and dry is uncommon, but less and less so as the climate becomes more erratic. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hello! I'm Travis and I write strange stories. I'm afraid I have not played a video game since I played Golden Axe on an arcade machine in 1989, so I might have to sit this week out! #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks Gree! I'm promoting a new volume of Manly Wade Wellman's early work that I edited: 3 novels and a short story: travisdjohnson.net/books/fearfu... Wellman was one of the more unique Weird Tales writers. He wrote Appalachian "folk horror" long before the term was coined #HorrorWritersChat

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Fearful Rock and Other Fantasies | Travis D. Johnson

Four tales of folk magic and cosmic dread from Manly Wade Wellman's early career, available in one volume for the first time. A man marked with an ancient protective charm

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Probably the crossroads demon because this archetype shows up a lot in the blues and in the folklore of West Africa and the American South. The Cenobites are a modern example. I also like trickster figures who cause havoc to no discernible objective. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh, all sorts of things. In one tale, it's a bizarre situation involving a stapler. That's the one I'm most proud of; I wrote a story in which the objects of horror are mundane office supplies. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When my characters are victims of deception, it tends to be self-deception. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hello, I'm Travis and I write strange stories and I'm a bit late today! This is an interesting question. It's rather difficult for me to have a favorite lie! I don't care for lies, and I would indeed argue that horror is the most honest of genres. Sorry if this answer is evasive. #HorrorWritersChat

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Rockette Morton @rockettemorton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

So @safieflato.bsky.social announced on the Signify Something podcast they have released a new album on @frolicpress.bsky.social ‘Journey Through The Death Of A Friend’ is dedicated to noise artists, Ahlzagailzehguh: frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/journe...

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JOURNEY THROUGH THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by Safie Flato

2 track album

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thanks, Mary! I've edited a new collection of early works by Manly Wade Wellman, available for pre-order: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fearful-ro... Also a new edition of Leiber's classic 'Conjure Wife' and a collection of my own tales. (Links in bio.) #HorrorWritersChat

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Fearful Rock and Other Fantasies

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'll go with Mary Butts (1890-1937). Her work isn't well known because it's quite avant-garde, but she gave us "Speed the Plow" (1923), one of the most truly shocking stories ever written. She also wrote excellent pamphlets critiquing rationalism. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

C. L. Moore just because she was so cool and one of my biggest influences. What would we create? Something really weird, of course. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I wouldn't say I've ever done this. I may revise a story or change a character until its something quite different, but they were never really dead. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hello, I'm Travis and I write strange stories. My goodness, resurrection! So much to choose from. I guess I'll name Poe's "Ligeia" and Bob Clark's 1974 anti-war film 'Deathdream'. #HorrorWritersChat

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Horror Writers of BlueSky. Come share your thoughts, your faves, and your work while chatting with fellow horror writers at #HorrorWritersChat The theme: Resurrection. Vampires. Revivals. Zombies. The Dearly Departed. Reboots. #AmWriting #HorrorSky #AuthorSky #IndieAuthor 🩸📚 💙📚

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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! This week, I'm hosting our weekly get-together. And because it's my birthday, the questions are birthday-themed! (In general. Not just mine.) Please join us on today at 2 PM EDT (USA)/7 PM BST (UK) for four spooktastic questions! #HorrorSky #WritingCommunity

Write Horror?

Join us for four questions with chat and a promo opportunity!

Every Wednesday at 7 PM BST (UK)/2 PM EDT (USA)

Hosted this week by the birthday boy, Rami Ungar

Search for the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat

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👻 John Spookium @johnlithium.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

WARNING: FLASHING IMAGERY. Promo vid for the upcoming @argrecnetlabel.bsky.social compilation. First time uploading video here, hope it works. Music by @johnlithium.bsky.social (remixed by datewithdeath / @frolicpress.bsky.social ). Video by @johnlithium.bsky.social .

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New CD/EP on Frolic Press Recordings from Leslie Keffer, known for her work with Sonic Youth. Release party tonight. Remix EP soon w/ @fire-toolz.bsky.social, Bill Nace, Unicorn Hard-On, datewithdeath, Safie Flato. frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/embody

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Embody, by Leslie Keffer

5 track album

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Every time I get to the end of it I start right back on page 1!

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thanks for hosting! My first book is out now, as is a special edition of Fritz Leiber's classic 'Conjure Wife' that I edited with the assistance of the great Ramsey Campbell: travisdjohnson.net/books

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Books | Travis D. Johnson

Travis D. Johnson is a composer, writer, publisher, and lifelong scholar of the weird. He wrote his first horror story at age four and, at eleven, saw his poetry carried into orbi

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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I would love to be able to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson for the first time again. That really unlocked something in me, and gave me a forever love of weird girls with dark histories. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Probably Poe's "Berenice" because it was the first thing that really shocked me. I was 10 or 12 when I read it. It made me realize that horror literature was a world without boundaries. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Oh, I'd rather not. There were two sequels already. The first of them is pretty good. I think that some of the spirit of the original is present in many of my stories, but I never consciously emulate anything. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Creature from the Black Lagoon I think is fundamentally about destructive hubris and how humanity brands violation as "discovery" and the unknown as monstrous. I return to this theme again and again. #HorrorWritersChat

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water is amazing! I wish I'd seen it as a kid. US infomercials were never that interesting.

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hello! I'm Travis and I write strange stories. The first horror film I saw was Creature from the Black Lagoon on my local TV station when I was 4. It was in 3D and the local hardware store had the glasses. I wrote my first story immediately after seeing it. (Actual photo, 1983.) #HorrorWritersChat

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Two hours to go until #HorrorWritersChat #HorrorSky #amwriting

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Frolic Press | Travis D. Johnson @frolicpress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A very big thanks to Gert De Meester for including my collaboration with Autistici ( @audiobulb.bsky.social ) on this brilliantly curated playlist along with @seefeel.bsky.social @neurononeuro.bsky.social @theblackdog.bsky.social and so many other greats!

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Ron V 🏳️‍🌈 @rvillanova312.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Gonna be posting this today. #HorrorWritersChat

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