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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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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for hosting #HorrorWritersChat again, Eryn. My latest release is still the list of horror authors I made. You can check that out on The #ShadowBoxArchives. shadowboxarchives.com/2026/09/30/h... The other thing I have to share is an old article about why #Halloween deserves to be (1/2)

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#Horror #Nonfiction #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Created By: Rosé Black Do you know what I have been doing a lot lately? Reading a ton of indie horror. Seriously, I have up to 54 reviews on Goodread…

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M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you, Eryn and #HorrorWritersChat pals! Something is rotting in the old carriage house, literally. Halloween in Boston, ghosts, and buried mysteries in a Gothic story. And I'll say no more Trapped in Amber mybook.to/TrappedInAmber

Trapped in Amber cover. A creepy tree growing in a pebbled patio. A door spilling eerie light. The book tags: #character_driven #supernatural_thriller #fast_paced_mystery, #cozy_horror #POV_multiple

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"Hello, Amanda. I want to play a game." 🪚🪚🪚 @amandamblake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Scarecrow Don’t scare crow Scarecrow murders with the crows, silent, steadfast friend to survey the cornfields and Midwestern sunrises and red-sky sunsets with Scarecrow don't scare crow Scarecrow care crow You can get the horror poetry collection here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWF7GFG8

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A Nightmare for All Seasons: A Dark Poetry Collection

A Nightmare for All Seasons: A Dark Poetry Collection [Blake, Amanda M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Nightmare for All Seasons: A Dark Poetry Collection

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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fantastic questions, Eryn! And great answers #HorrorWritersChat! I’d like to share the cover for The Craven Companion, from Crystal Lake Publishing—a nonfiction anthology I edited. It’s got Mick Garris, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix and more. I’m so excited to share it with you.

A black & white illustration of filmmaker Wes Craven. The book cover text reads:

THE
CRAVEN COMPANION
The Films That Shaped a Generation of Horror Storytellers
Edited by Dustin Pinney
Foreword by Mick Garris

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Nate Crowder @natecrowder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great chat, as always! I think it might have given me some story ideas! Here's my Hurricane Katrina ghost story that won a Halloween fiction contest a few years back. Y'all might dig it. www.amazon.com/None-Left-Be...

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None Left Behind

Amazon.com: None Left Behind eBook : Crowder, Nathan: Books

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

#HorrorWritersChat The paperback is finally available for Uncanny and Uncouth! This spec-fic anthology is all gothic elements and has some absolutely amazing stories. Check it out! ♥ Curated by @vanessaperrywrites.bsky.social Amazon: a.co/d/0gbUIyZ7 Everywhere else: books2read.com/UncannyUncou...

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Uncanny & Uncouth: A Speculative Fiction Anthology by Vanessa Perry, Joshua Bader, Jeremy Bender, Tina Crossgrove, Sarah R. New, Artemis Quinn, Rachael Raine Rivers, Richard Temple

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

thanks for hosting #HorrorWritersChat ! While my next revenge cooks, I offer my previous queer horror short story where the reaping and the sowing might be deceiving to clueless eyes. free dl 👉 anakidd.itch.io/the-color-of...

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The Color of Illusion by anita

how far would you go for your perfect reality?

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J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Early in Good Intentions, my MC's ex calls her on the phone at night to warn her of a wild man living in her basement. She checks & there isn't. There's no sign there ever was one. This will have a payoff in the climax but I can't reveal what it is... it will be unexpected! #HorrorWritersChat

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J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good idea. My Grill Man will grill that sausage, because he just wants to grill man.

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M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The harvest has been good this year. Too good. Samhain is pleased with the sacrifice. But if we don't want to get caught, we'll have to hide all those bodies better... The sausage factory? #HorrorWritersChat

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

But everyone was happy, oh so happy. We were all going to make our quotas! But then we ate the harvest, and slaughtered animals fed on the harvest. And then the fungus, or whatever it truly was, took hold of us from within. Made us into the harvest. #HorrorWritersChat

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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The crops flourished like never before, draining the soil of its nutrients. I expected them to wilt, but they continued to thrive. Yet around the same time, the animals start to vanish, and yesterday, my brother disappeared. And now the plants are looking better than ever. #HorrorWritersChat

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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Okay, we have already made apple and pumpkin cider, pie, doughnuts, ice cream, ale, butter, jam, turnovers, bread, cake, brisket (you'll have to ask John about that one), roasted pumpkin seeds, and lastly, apple pie and pumpkin pie scented candles. I don't know what else to make.

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Raven Marie 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ Splatterpunk Author. Gender Anarchist. @macabretavern.substack.com · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat The harvest was good this year. Too good. I felt the pressure, next year's harvest sacrifice is going to have to be special, maybe even personal. The future of this town now depends on me feeding the sacred ground. It's my duty and my curse.

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Bradley Ramsey @imagine2create.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The harvest was good this year. Too good. When they find out about the sacrifices, a bloodbath will follow. Abundance, after all, comes at a cost. #HorrorWritersChat #HorrorAuthor #WriteSky #microfiction

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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Harvent this year, #HorrorWritersChat, was good. Too good. It seems the townsfolk stopped running. They accepted their fate and no longer fear our extra sharp scythes. Time to move on to another town where the people still value their lives. You can taste the desperate hope in every cutlet.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The harvest was good this year. Too good. We had so little rain! And I haven't seen Mina and Rose for over two weeks." I listen intently, behind her opened window. Soon, the phone clacks back to the handset. She walks into her back garden. I sharpen my sickle. None must know. #HorrorWritersChat

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

#HorrorWritersChat The harvest was good this year. Too good. The bounty of pumpkins overtook the town, suffocating the streets with thorned vines. They began to twist upwards, encasing the town in a verdant cage. Soon the leaves will black out the sky; no axe or blade able to make a dent. Help us.

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"Hello, Amanda. I want to play a game." 🪚🪚🪚 @amandamblake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what do we do with all this corn? an abundance of corn an embarrassment of corn silos and barns and bins of corn all contorted with blue gray in the gold monster mash kernels tasty with tortillas but my kernel keratin of fingernails and toenails bulb and bulge am i tasty too? #HorrorWritersChat

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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦 @jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q3: We thought it had to be a mistake, but year over year, the numbers just keep getting better. All our hard work was paying off, and way ahead of schedule. 8.3 billion of them. It won't be long now. At 10, the harvest begins.

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat The neighbors eye our new pastor with distrust. What did those "Latin prayers" he always say really mean? They mumble over dinner, poke at their fires. I sit in Granny's rocker and keep my mouth shut. I love them all too much to let them starve. Better they burn him than me.

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat The harvest was good this year. Too good. People came from several towns over just to buy wheat. The townsfolk seemed content and why shouldn't they? It wasn't THEIR son they buried in the field. It wasn't THEIR screaming watering the soil. Still, there was always next year.

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Oli Jacobs - Author @olijbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat The fruits were sweet, the grain abundant, and the town would not want for a long, long time. Everyone was overjoyed at their change in luck. As they did, ol’ Farmer Hansen remained stoic. He knew the truth, the price for a fine yield. It was in his cellar, and it was WRONG.

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Harvest was good this year Too good But it committed the ultimate sin and testified against other Harvests gone bad. Harvests that tried to kill it, but got the woman it loved instead Framed for murder, it now prowls the badlands . . . Wait that's the opening to Renegade🤔 #HorrorWritersChat

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Tomex the Panda Riding a Motorcycle

Alt: I haven't seen Renegade since I was a kid But then again I only ever saw the opening monologue I hope there's no young people reading HorrorWritersChat because there's nothing worse than being around people who have no idea what you're saying

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Tom [ghostly voice] Coooooooooooombe @calmtomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“…carrots the size of sleeping bags. Squashes that dwarfed people’s garden sheds. We thought they might feed whole families. In the end, whole families fed them.” #HorrorWritersChat

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What A Charming House @whatacharminghouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dale first saw it growin' in his crops. Thought it were a weed, but it weren't, 'least not the kind we know. Naw, it was forked and red. He tried ta pull it, but it stuck in his hand, went up in him 'til his eyes shot all white and sick. It was drinkin' him, the land was then. #HorrorWritersChat

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat The harvest was good this year. Too good. If we don't arrange more storage, some eyes are going to start rotting. We don't want that - waste is a grave transgression.

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

#HorrorWritersChat Ethan was delighted the harvest was good this year. Lots of fresh artisanal cow's blood. His lover Ambrose makes Bloody Bulls in his zombie rave in Salem, MA. That's a Bloody Mary with fresh blood from grass-fed cows. Only the best for his undead patrons!

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat The children groaned & the corn rustled. A stalk of corn sprung from each pore in their skin. From each stalk grew 3 or 4 fat ears of sweetcorn. Ms. Dillon opened the kindergarten door wide to welcome the thresher. Tonight's corn boil would raise much-needed funds for the school.

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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat: It was so good we dressed it up in a pink gingham dress, plaited its hair and took it for some soft-serve. Of course, as it sat there kicking it's tender feet clad in new patent leather shoes, we didn't have the heart to tell it. What happens after. To the things that are picked.

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

The harvest was good this year. Too good. The blood and bone of the outsiders was of a tangible quality unseen in these parts. The locals were excited but wary of the new found fortune. #HorrorWritersChat

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

#HorrorWritersChat The stalks stretched tall over the fields, bending their backs to spread their leaves toward the farm house. Tufts of hair peeked out from husks, browns and blonds and blacks. In the stems, an eye wide and wild rolled, blinked. Settled on the farmer, sitting on his porch.

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The labyrinth of corn fields in the small town of Gareth heeded a warning to those who entered. "Most don't come back out!" A harvest fed by out-of-towners. "It's just a corn," some said. "A fun way to celebrate the season!" Their screams sirens to the locals who knew better. #HorrorWritersChat

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J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The harvest was good. Too good. The squash was happy. Too happy. They were smiling. Faces like human faces planted on their fronts, sneers stretching stem to bottom. A little 👅 coveted in thorns sticks out of each face, dripping acid. #HorrorWritersChat Q3

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J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heh heh same & that may have been my inspiration for this. 😆

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J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I haven't but I will check this out after the chat. Thanks for the link! 😊

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M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A secret has been festering for years in the purdy, southern town of my WIP #HorrorWritersChat A dirty, nasty one. You can guess what is about happen 😏

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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In my Nostalgiamares books, the MC is essentially realizing that a lot of things in her life have gone rotten and she is in the worst position possible to fix any of it. But there are lots of jokes! #HorrorWritersChat

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat Such a cool question. In the horror WIP, I'd say any semblance of justice or rightness is decaying with every body being found mutilated in ways incomprehensible. I'd say the MC and his relationship with a coworker is decaying, but violent, immediate breaking doesn't fit.

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't have a current WIP, not really. More like old things getting revamped that had wilted during drought, so perhaps they were decaying and I decided to water them. #HorrorWritersChat

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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat My character's relationship with his parents, but it's not like that was healthy anyway.

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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Currently doing developmental edits on the babysitting story (new nickname for the 90s story now that that's become a series), and we've got an enemies-ish to lovers relationship blooming, but lots of decay in the town that these two reluctant lovebirds are about to stumble upon. #HorrorWritersChat

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