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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 3h

Eric Schmitt had a whole franchise planned around his Jack Smith gotcha, but it’s all crashed faster than the Universal Dark Universe.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 10h

Sen. Schmitt really displays the attention to detail required of lawmakers who make decisions that affect all of our lives.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 19h

Love the summary: A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel (Jack Smith) was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts. www.nytimes.com/2026...

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Avengers Infinity Gauntlet I saw at Endgame Encore looked really cool, and the stones light up. $80 was a little more than I wanted to spend, but still, really cool.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Marcus Theaters treat you right for your birthday month. This was free for me at a viewing of Avengers: Endgame.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Keep hanging on. In the darkest hour, Ant-Man could turn up on the Ring camera.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Apparently it’s a waning gibbous moon I’m seeing, but it raises a good question. If it’s daylight yet a full moon is still visible, are the werewolves still out?

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We heard from two successful businessmen at a summit yesterday on Virginia’s proposed constitutional amendments. They were returning citizens. 1/2

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I went from yes to Hells Yes! on all three Virginia amendments when I went to a Solidarity Summit with speakers noting how people and families were impacted. It was especially meaningful to hear from returning citizens on what regaining their voting rights meant.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very cool panel on horror writing this morning at Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Branch Library Horror Fest in Norfolk, VA, with Joe Maddrey, Mark Sieber and Bridgette Brenmark.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A problem gambler’s disappeared in a New York City where magic functions alongside the everyday world. Was he fleeing a curse. And can Harlow Maddock deploy her limited skills in psychometry to find out? Answers in “A Touch of Excitement” in Street Magic 3!

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where I’ll be today! Norfolk Library - MARY D. PRETLOW ANCHOR BRANCH HORROR FEST! Joining some cool writers for “Author Talk.”

MARY D. PRETLOW ANCHOR BRANCH
HORROR FEST!
Author Talk Featuring:
Bridgette Brennmark
HAUNTING MELODY:
THE WEIRD LIBRARY (PODCAST):
LATCH KEY (BAND)
Sidney Williams
A DISTURBANCE OF SHADOWS:
FOOL'S RUN:
LONG WALTZ
Joe Maddrey
THE SOUL OF WES CRAVEN:
NOT BAD FOR A HUMAN:
ADAPTING STEPHEN KING
and Mark Sieber
HORROR DRIVE-IN:
HE WHO TYPES BETWEEN THE ROWS:
STAFF WRITER FOR CEMETERY DANCE
SATURDAY, SEP. 26, 10–2 P.M.
Author Talk 10:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
111 W. Ocean View Ave | 757-441-1750
THE CITY OF NORFOLK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
www.norfolk.gov/NPL

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Live today, a few questions with Steve Niles of 30 Days of Night fame re: his Kolchak-inspired detective/monster stories.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pairing Suggestion - Sid in Different Genres: My newest publication is an urban fantasy thriller tale in the Camden Park Press Anthology STREET MAGIC 3. That might pair great with my post-apocalyptic tale in their CAT LADIES OF THE APOCALYPSE volume. books2read.com/catladies/

books2read.com

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse by Lyn Worthen, Annie Reed, Caryn Larrinaga, Joy Kennedy-O'Neill, Carol Gyzander, Leigh Saunders, Wayland Smith, Joe Borrelli, CJ Erick, Meyari McFarland

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Speaking of spooky season reads, my novella A Disturbance of Shadows is nicely priced. It’s haunting/slasher/cosmic horror tale set in an old Louisiana mansion. Kindle - $4.99 - trade $13.99

Disturbance of shadows cover - young woman in front of old dark house

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pass on Talk Like A Pirate Day? I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. … Means 'no'.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My wife and I have a firm plan to early vote, but I felt my sense of obligation, solemnity and solidarity getting a kick in the pants anyway as I saw the first voting posts yesterday. The smallest push has value. Showing I Voted stickers says: Now you! There’s an assignment!

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My Cat Zoë: Oh, Hell, he’s getting out the noise canceling headphones. There’s gonna be vacuuming!

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was saying in a reply that particularly with a truncated final season, the Star Trek Strange New Worlds whimsical episodes just stand out more. TOS had Trouble With Tribbles, A Piece of the Action, I, Mudd, Shore Leave, 1/2

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Man, when you’re at the eye doctor for a check up, they keep interrupting your socials posting to make you look at charts and into devices with glowing lights.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As spooky season approaches, just a note on my collection Scars and Candy from Crossroad Press. It includes some recent stories and early ones and new including "Playmate" and "Coffin Texts." I was very pleased with how those turned out. 1/2

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Charles L. Grant’s wife Kathy Ptacek reminds that he’s been gone 20 years today and has asked for the sharing of thoughts and recollections. Since I’ve been sharing paperback pics for a while, in remembrance here are a few of his titles from my shelves.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I mentioned in my recent Sid Happens newsletter that a story of mine might be debuting in Spanish. "A Cairn of Flat Stones" is here quicker than I expected, a tale of quiet horror. 🔽 1/2

Illustration of stones over spanish language story A Cairn of Flat Stones

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Mark Thomas @mdthomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This was an amazing adaptation. I got everything I wanted from it, and I'm glad we finally got the "real" Ghost in the Shell. Is it too much to ask that they follow up with GitS 1.5 and GitS 2 as well? And why not a faithful adaptation of Appleseed and a revival of Dominion while we're at it?

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Watched Frank Perry’s “Last Summer” for the first time on the new Blu-ray. Haunting is the best way I can describe it, after thinking about it a couple of days since. I keep thinking it resides in a way alongside John D. MacDonald’s “The End of the Night,” though it’s more Starkweather

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A new edition of the Sid newsletter, Sid Happens is now live. Check it out here. Some news you may have heard, but there's one hint of something upcoming that appears in the newsletter for the first time anywhere. tinyurl.com/3amw3mzp

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Got a copy of Street Magic III in today. Requisite holding up the anthology pic. My urban fantasy thriller “A Touch of Excitement” is included.

Sid holds Street Magic III trade paperback

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Powerful 9/11 memorial moment in NYC as Jennifer Nettles performs a Vince Gill song.⬇️

Jennifer nettles performs with pianist in background

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey, it’s Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico. The one they didn’t want you to see.

James Talarico is interviewed by Jimmy Killel

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Got the Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow trade in just in time for a rewatch of the Supergirl movie on HBOMAX! Should be fun as more people discover it.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Okay, Virginia and particularly Hampton Roads area horror readers. I’m appearing at a cool horror themed event at MARY D. PRETLOW ANCHOR BRANCH of City of Norfolk Public Library. Just in time for spooky season.

MARY D. PRETLOW ANCHOR BRANCH
HORROR FEST!
Schedule of Events
TALKS:
10:30 A.M. AUTHOR TALK WITH
BRIDGETTE BRENNMARK, SIDNEY WILLIAMS,
JOE MADDREY AND MARK SIEBER
12 P.M. LOCAL HAUNTED LORE WITH
CAPE HENRY LIGHTHOUSE
MOVIES:
10 A.M. INVASION OF THE
BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
12 P.M. THE DESCENT
SATURDAY, SEP. 26
10 A.M. – 2 P.M.
111 W. Ocean View Ave | 757-441-1750
THE CITY OF NORFOLK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
www.norfolk.gov/NPL

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Star Trek Day to all who celebrate, and as Trek celebrates 60! The first episode I remember catching a bit of is The Gamesters of Triskelion. Like a lot of people I first got to see TOS in its entirety on afternoon TV in first-run syndication. 𝘈𝘥 𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢!

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s my birthday, microbloggingverse. Celebrate by buying horror, mystery, suspense, fantasy and science fiction books! www.amazon.com/store...

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Guy on my Facebook feed commented “Moron Alert” on my repost re: expanding the Supreme Court. I thought, “Dude, you don’t have to declare that. I’m sure it’s readily apparent when people get to know you.

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Sidney Williams - Horror | Thriller Author @sidneyw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm reading Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr, a mystery in the Anna Pigeon series set on and around Ellis Island and Liberty Island. I used MapQuest to reference the areas mentioned in the book.

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