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Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just going through old Petey videos and pics (I have THOUSANDS), and rediscovered this classic

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Listening to generic and obscure ‘80s metal makes editing more fun. #art #writing #editing #author #books #reading #music #metal

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AQ4: #HorrorWritersChat Spoiler alert: already got some! I have a few on my Patreon for free. My favorite is Aulae Damnationis. It was inspired by ‘Heresy in Disguise’ by Falconer and ‘Hellfire’ from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 30/09/2026

Hey #HorrorWritersChat ! I'm Artemis Quinn, I write dark fantasy and supernatural horror, and... I listen to a little bit of everything. My favorite at the moment is acoustic versions of metal songs, funnily enough.

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Oli Jacobs - Author @olijbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One thing about my approach to being an indie author is that my stories are just… there. If someone discovers 1, they can find another 20+ to see if they enjoy further, and also read many more on my site. Hell, you can get my whole collection on Kindle for around £70. My point is:

Scene from simpsons of Homer saying “I like stories”

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The Last Something @thelastsomething.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I did a series called "We Took the Long Way Home" about a spooky road that never ends. I listened to what the characters would be listening to on their drive, the very best of the 80s. Several songs made it into the story. Most notably, Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" #HorrorWritersChat

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It absolutely does. Mostly it's to get me in the mood of the scene I'm writing, e.g. I had Behemoth's version of A Forest on a loop for The Woodcutter, Wardruna's Kvervandi for a sacrifice scene in Reborn, etc. It totally makes you feel the emotion of the moment. #HorrorWritersChat

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Greetings #HorrorWritersChat I’m Mary, writer of cosmic, gothic, and weird horror. I love rock and metal. My favourite musician is Ville Valo (VV). Speaking of Lestat’s play list, my fave track on AMC’s The Vampire Lestat album - The Failures - is “Brutal Love” 🖤

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Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com · 30/09/2026

Shelly, from Maryland. Currently finishing up a serial killer novel set in Baltimore in 1891. I tend to use music functionally when writing. So, for example, I’ll listen to the same music my characters would listen to. Gets me into their headspace. #HorrorWritersChat

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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching Hell Night as part of my Satan and Slashers Halloween viewing. It feels like a William Castle picture for the slasher age. #art #filmsky #Horror #halloween #writingcommunity

The poster for Hell Night, featuring Linda Blair being pulled off of a metal gate by the hands of the dead with a spooky mansion in the background

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Oli Jacobs - Author @olijbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good evening #HorrorWritersChat. Oli Jacobs, cosmic horror author currently traversing the winds of the South. Music that soothes this savage beast are mostly ambient, with Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sleep Research Facility are common listens.

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q1: #HorrorWritersChat Forever and a day, I'm AC Cross. I write cosmic and body and gross and bleak and sometimes non-horror horror. Music, for me, varies. One minute, it's Billy Joel, the next it's Iron Maiden, the next it's The Night Flight Orchesta or Captain Black Beard. NO country though.

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The Last Something @thelastsomething.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

David Bowie's "Space Oddity" becomes Event Horizon Or, toss Rob Zombie into a Hellraiser-type situation #HorrorWritersChat

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Ell, I write ace horror & retellings of dark, weird, lesser-known fairytales. I love movie soundtracks and indie folk and pop. Currently have Rabbitology, The Crane Wives, Mollie Elizabeth, The Hound + the Fox, and Malinda on repeat. Need to check out Chasing Abbey.

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Comments are disabled so I'll say thanks for a great week of questions! Starting tomorrow, there's a free horror story every day in October here: www.aaronccross.com I also have a Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/aaronccross and two horror books here: www.amazon.com/stores/A.C.-...

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 30/09/2026

Q4: #HorrorWritersChat It’s not something I’ve written yet, but I would love to remake Carnival of Souls (1962) to the tune of (using the lyrics to inform the plot) of Hotel California by the Eagles.

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat So hard to choose only one! I'd go with Lustmord's The Place Where The Black Stars Hang paired with F. W. Murnau's 1922 classic NOSFERATU. Of interest: the original title is NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR. Here's Lustmord: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkm...

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Lustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang [Full Album]

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Bradley Ramsey @imagine2create.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saw someone mention Kamelot earlier, so I'd do a horror story inspired by their track "The Haunting (Somewhere in time)" The concept would be an anthology about two souls who are reincarnated over and over again, only for their love to end in tragedy each time they meet. #HorrorWritersChat

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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grady Hendrix found an excellent way around copyright stuff in My Best Friend’s Excorcism by having the characters make up their own lyrics to popular songs.

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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know. I'm so afraid of copyright infringement, I have never thought about it. But if I think of something, I should try to write it. #HorrorWritersChat

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I have already done this with DREADFUL DISSONANCE. Blasphemous musical instruments pitch so high most people can't hear the music but they feel it in their solar plexus. The instruments feel warm to the touch and you have to put that flute in your mouth! Ew!

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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I worked on a peach farm as a kid. Peach fuzz is irritating, so I had nightmares of being covered in it and scratching my skin off down to the muscle, only for more to fall. Sometimes, giant peaches attacked, but that was less scary. Millions of peaches, peaches for me...

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Presidents of the USA - Millions of Peaches

ALT: Presidents of the USA - Millions of Peaches

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C.M. Black @foucaultu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lux Interior (RIP) from The Cramps arrives in a zombie apocalypse scenario, but ends up having a heck of a lot of fun, turning it into the most entertaining doomsday ever. It would make one hell of a music video. #HorrorWritersChat

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 30/09/2026

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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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm a screenwriter, best known for co-writing the 2004 "Hellboy" movie, although Random House published me in a "Predator" anthology novel a year or so ago, which was fun. I curate playlists of film scores when I'm writing. You can't beat Goldsmith's "Alien" for creepy vibes. #HorrorWritersChat

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Nora Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you, James, for a great series! I'm currently promoting the 2nd book in my series, No Sky Like Midnight, in which an immortal & a human flee an evil secret society... & sentient honey that eats people. Pre-orders are up on Amazon & Kobo! www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4FQ4X4H/ #HorrorWritersChat

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No Sky Like Midnight (The Descendants Book 2)

No Sky Like Midnight (The Descendants Book 2) - Kindle edition by Shear, Nora. Paranormal Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for the great questions, James. Would be churlish not to show off this visual by our very own @marywyrd.bsky.social PHENGARIS, with the electro fan MC, available here: payhip.com/b/58paC Parch Marks, my newly released novel, here: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... #HorrorWritersChat

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Eco horror - Phengaris
Cli Fi - Parch Marks.

Phengaris has a cover image of a, butterfly made of rusted parts

Parch Marks features markings of ferns on dried earth.

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Anthony Isaiah @ospiritsarise.com · 30/09/2026

I'm technically a horror-comedy cartoonist, but writing is writing, yeah? Make silly comics about demons, witches, and haunted roadside inns. Hammer Films meet the Sunday funnies. Listen to a lot of James Bernard soundtracks. Oh, and Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Kate Bush... #HorrorWritersChat

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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thank you for hosting #HorrorWritersChat this week, fantastic topic! i released a horror novel this week about queer corporate vampires making each other worse at every turn. the disparate music vibes are somewhere around NIN, arctic monkeys, and… fiona apple? take a peek on itch and payhip!

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MELT: refrain by subvertebra

A T4T corporate vampire polycule reinventing what it means to be alive; to live.

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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks James! No book news, still working on stuff but I am doing a Halloween advent here talking about media that inspires me each day through October! Hope everyone has a great week! #HorrorWritersChat

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C.M. Black @foucaultu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been thinking a lot about Twin Tribes' "Cauldron of Thorns." Their music video for it is literally my entire personal and professional aesthetic. I'd honestly write fanfic of that video, a young woman pursued by two very creepy suitors. Just a rose in a cauldron of thorns. #HorrorWritersChat

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ClippedScape | KQ Watson Writes🇨🇦 @kqwatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWriterschat Q2 Everything I write has a playlist, even my weird little alien short story I still occasionally submit to places. In Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse, main character's listening to her metal music through earphones which drowns out the zombie chaos outside. Very crucial!

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for hosting #HorrorWritersChat James! I was gonna share that I have a new ace horror coming out soon ft. the fearsome Manananggal (fetus-eating cryptid that can split itself in half), but link’s not ready yet. So here’s another of my ace horrors! longleafreview.com/ellen-huang/

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NIX - Longleaf Review

"NIX" by Ellen Huang | 13 Nights of Horror | Longleaf Review, Fall 2022

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C.M. Black @foucaultu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you, James, for hosting. I am about to unleash the ultimate horror music video list this coming month on my regular Substack. And I finally got around to a Substack for my fiction. Please check it out as I keep 'em free. #HorrorWritersChat theforgottenseance.substack.com/p/hewlett-pa...

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Hewlett Packard Lovecraft and the End

At the end of the world, only one AI bot, trained on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, remains.

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Anthony Isaiah @ospiritsarise.com · 30/09/2026

Music plays a small part in my comics. Spells, for instance, tend to be written in verse. (Inventive, I know!) Also, the main demon sort of dresses like Mick Jagger from THE ROLLING STONES ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS. #HorrorWritersChat

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ClippedScape | KQ Watson Writes🇨🇦 @kqwatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q3 4 words: David Bowie as Pinhead.

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Anthony Isaiah @ospiritsarise.com · 30/09/2026

Mozart has to listen to AI-generated music for eternity. #HorrorWritersChat

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TomMLittle @tommlittle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for this week's #HorrorWritersChat! In addition to writing horror, I write about it. Those ideas appear over on YouTube, and I'm preparing a few new videos now that we're approaching Halloween: youtube.com/@La_Ofrenda

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Horror and history, fact and fiction.

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Anthony Isaiah @ospiritsarise.com · 30/09/2026

Wonder if I could write a good story based on Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights," maybe? Might be something in there. #HorrorWritersChat

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ClippedScape | KQ Watson Writes🇨🇦 @kqwatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q4 Story I've semi-shelved, same world as Clipped, inspired by Blood Like Lemonade by Morcheeba. An exalted comes to investigate a break in the tithe supply & finds how corrupt Earth is. Basic plot of the song but genderswapped so... spoilers? www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyRx...

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Morcheeba - Blood Like Lemonade (official)

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Anthony Isaiah @ospiritsarise.com · 30/09/2026

Check out O SPIRITS, ARISE! A webcomic updated twice weekly on BlueSky, Instagram, and ospiritsarise.com. Horror so tame you’ll laugh. Humor so nonsensical you’ll scream. Thanks for the chat, everyone! #HorrorWritersChat

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ClippedScape | KQ Watson Writes🇨🇦 @kqwatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Horrorwriterschat Great subject today, it's been a while since I participated. Following the musical theme I guess I'll promote something I almost never promote An X of Y And Z, a short post-apocalyptic lovestory filtered through gasmasks. The FMC is a singer! books2read.com/anxofyandz

The cover of An X of Y and Z by KQ Watson. Its a gasmask flanked by two be-hatted plague doctor masks hovering above a cityscape while a bouquet explodes like a mushroom cloud. In red and white is the title An X of Y and Z. on a background of paper with typing on it. The text says The Children laughed as they ran from the Chiffy, who yelled and hollered and called them thieves.

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John Togher @thecairnshoretides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q4 Tom Waits: Dirt in the Ground A gravedigger uncovers a girl’s body, and remembers 8 years of fatherhood, even argument over her shoes that morning. His wife insists they have never had children. her fear of him grows as he gives intimate family moments she can't remember.

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John Togher @thecairnshoretides.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Book Two of The Cairnshore Tides Trilogy - Out Today! Cosmic Folk Horror. Available on Amazon, Kindle and KU.

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Dustin Pinney @markguyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wasn’t going to participate because my brain is nothing but mucus, but I couldn’t pass up this topic! Thanks, James! Here’s the story I mentioned. The one inspired by Danse Macabre. #HorrorWritersChat www.patreon.com/MarkGuyer/po...

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The Macabre Dance (one of my earliest publications) | Dustin Pinney

Since I’ve been too tied up in moving, I can’t write much fiction. Blogs kind of fall out of my fingers, so I can write them all the time. S

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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trent Reznor in a dystopian 9 to 5 desk jockey based world inside a Thomas Ligotti fever dream. #HorrorWritersChat

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