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#HorrorWritersChat Replies are disabled James. So let me quote post. Following the theme… I Co-host my local Shut Up & Write group, plus I post its Instagram, and have compiled this playlist on YouTube youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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#HorrorWritersChat I’m not too sure, but I suspect it would involve the repeated insertion of knitting needles in ears.

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#HorrorWritersChat I’m thinking Ed Sheeran, trapped inside a pain amplifier (containing a soundtrack of his own music) with millions shelling out for live video PPV. It lasts for hours. Fortunately the audience doesn’t have to listen to the songs. That would be a horror too far.

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James Ryan @jamesryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beatles mythology fascinates me. My dad met ‘em!

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#HorrorWritersChat All of my writings (horror and non) include Easter eggs to the Beatles, an early influence of mine. Someone who read my current WIP told me that after the scene I included, they can't look at the cover of ABBEY ROAD the same way again...

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#HorrorWritersChat I can’t say that it has so far, no. Maybe one day it will. Also, I can’t write while listening to music. My appreciation of music is too intense to relegate it to just background noise. I know we all differ on that one.

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#HorrorWritersChat How do you do fellow kids! Jez, but you can call me ‘Jez’. While my broad favoured style is ‘Scandinavian Electronic’, my top band is Cocteau Twins. I’m old, see.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Genuine admission: when I first heard people going on about ChatGPT, I thought they were saying ‘chippy tea’.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It may be a distinct advantage that I’ve neither played the video game nor seen *any* of the previous film versions, but Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is a funny gruesome blast. After Hours meets The Thing. A heap of fun.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I don’t really know what an ‘author table’ is. Is it where you have breakfast? I’d like to have breakfast with Samuel Beckett. Would he choose the grapefruit or the kippers?

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Oh, I don’t know. Tough one. I’ve never been to a horror conference, so I wouldn’t know what to expect. The only relevant story I know of features William Shatner, who upset a lot of Star Trek fans at a conference when, on a panel, he told them all to ‘get a life’.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat How do you do fellow kids! You may remember as ‘Jez’. I write ‘domestic liminal’ horror. Apparently. From my current crop of WIPs, let’s go with ‘The Maiden Aunt’: a flat-share comic horror featuring a pot plant with a bizarre and gruesome life cycle…

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is MOD Bicester, 2.3 miles from the village of Piddington, where they propose to accommodate 1200 migrants…hold on…hold on… no, I’m sorry, I’m mistaken - this is HM Prison Bullingdon, which is *1.2 miles* from Piddington, which already houses 1100 adult male convicted criminals.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Go right ahead Piddington, welcome in Tommo’s legion of wifebeaters as your citizen protectorate. Let’s then see, in due course, how much you enjoy picking through the wreckage of your village once these invertebrates move on to their next ‘ground zero’.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At the risk of sounding ahead of the curve, I’ve always considered ‘listening to Ed Sheeran’ as a cultural phenomenon roughly on a par with other conditions such as ‘contracting amoebic dysentery’ and ‘living under a Reform government’. ie I’d rather shit in my hands and clap, thanks all the same.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The next word is ‘TESTICLES’. Frank to describe…”

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not wishing to share a spoiler, however here is the first page of my story ‘Ordnance’ as it will feature in ‘PERIPHERY: THE HORROR OF LANDSCAPE AND PLACE, soon to be published by Warped Perspective - this print volume will be available to order *very soon*. I will share the link here ASAP.

Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I made video art. You can pay me now if you like. Or later. I don’t mind.

Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NYX are for anyone who wishes that Dead Can Dance had stayed a bit, y’know, medieval. Or this might just sound far too Enya. youtu.be/2L_KPEbLUo8?...

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat How do you do fellow kids! Jez, writing ‘domestic liminal’ horror. Most of my childhood toys were horror-related! So they were always horrific.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The ‘Thick White Sliced’ are decloaking. They very much want to see anyone who disagrees with them *dead*. Preferably violently and publicly.

Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can’t think of a worse combination than peanuts and chewing gum.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Life throws up challenges. I’m Switzerland, I’m Kum Ba Yah, I’d like to teach the world to sing. I hate Fascism. Yet, when I look at the youths who died in the Middlesbrough pike-up, and I see the people of their community, I conclude: ‘human scum’. Which makes me an arsehole doesn’t it.

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#HorrorWritersChat I don’t actually read very much horror fiction. I guess I’d pick Thomas Ligotti, because the notion of fear that he toys with is fundamental and leaves you thinking hard about…everything.

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#HorrorWritersChat From my story ‘Special Collections’: I owe so much to Liquorice. I look at her whenever I can. Her lovely thick black coat, her wet nose, her waggy tail, her horns, her hooves, her incredibly sharp teeth, her huge, redder than red eyes. Beautiful girl. I’d do anything for her.

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#HorrorWritersChat I’ve reached the age when the only things that truly scare me are: 1) falling down stairs 2) having a stroke

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#HorrorWritersChat Nothing. It’s all good. I love it. It sometimes feels like the only good thing in this world. No complaints.

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#HorrorWritersChat How do you do, fellow kids! Jez, currently cat-sitting, working up a new short story collection, among various other things. I’m frightened of other people. Hardly does a day pass when someone else scares me. Humans are the sickness. Also, spiders give me the willies 🕷️

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What a world what a world… a world in which you just know there are millions of Americans who are okay with all of this, because, even as their own lives turn to shit, they still enjoy seeing the people who they hate have their lives destroyed too. If only it was as easy as throwing water on them.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My story ‘Ordnance’ Will be appearing in this print anthology from Warped Perspective in September. Here is the cover reveal. I like it a lot.

Cover reveal for ‘Periphery: the horror of landscape and place’

Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Well, all sorts of goodies coming your way during September and October from Conolly Towers. Links will be shared when they become available.

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Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Couple of great cameos in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. I don’t often recommend new movies, but this one is super smart and satisfying.

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Agnes Obel - Arches (Official Audio)

New Agnes Obel album in about three weeks! Here’s my favourite track of hers. youtu.be/oLBx61Bi5eE?...

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#HorrorWritersChat Real acts of human cruelty are the inspiration. The Fritzls of this world. What was life really like inside that house?

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#HorrorWritersChat ‘Will you *please* stop doing that, mother! Do you want me to lock you up in your room again?’ She cowered when I asked her this. I threw the raw meat on the carpet and she devoured it in a matter of seconds. I switched on the electrified fence again and went back upstairs.

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#HorrorWritersChat They’re kind of essential. My monsters are human. They are our dark side, which is why they often seem banal, likeable even, on first impression. The everyday masks the evil. Butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths. Except, of course, it would.

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#HorrorWritersChat How do you do fellow kids! Jez, the man who writes prosaic horror. Setting aside the fact that I think people are monsters, the first ‘monsters’ that scared me to death were the Autons, in the form of dummies, smashing their way out of a shop window in Doctor Who.

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