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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The prompt was "The photograph showed someone who shouldn't have been there”, so I wrote a short horror story entirely off the cuff if you want to go check it out. api.novellea.com/server/story...

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The camera never lies….

A couple find an old abandoned Polaroid camera out in the woods, but soon discover that there’s a very good reason why it’s been abandoned… by Mark Woods · 15 min read

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

#vss365 #dream He dreams about it every night. An old abandoned house; the corridors always changing every time he leaves a room; every room full of old VHS videotapes and amongst them, one single tape with his name on. Putting it into a machine he presses play…and that’s when he always wakes up.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#vss365 #Travel “Time travel! Bah! That’s impossible,”said the scientist.”If it were possible, I would have invented it by now.” “Why do you think I’m here?”The stranger, who claimed he was from the future responded.He pulled a gun, shot the scientist in the face, then slowly faded out of existence.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Seriously. Is there any show currently on tv better than #slowhorses? Roll on season 6… There simply aren’t enough words to describe how much I love this show!!!!

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I DID rewatch Netflix’s Troll the other night, for the third time I might add, and still really enjoyed it ahead of Troll 2 coming on December 1st. Have my reservations about the next one though, as it looks like it might be a riff on Godzilla vs kong, but hoping it’s as much fun as the first.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

So, watched the first Wicked last night and that’s 2 1/2 hours I’m never ever getting back. It’s an interesting take on The Wizard Of Oz, but if you took out all the singing and trimmed the fluff at the beginning, it would be a much shorter film. (And yes, I DO know it’s a musical!)

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Did anyone ever actually ask for Disney live-action remakes? I mean, IS there actually any demand for them or is it just a cash-grab?

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

m.youtube.com/watch?v=faiT... The new Røry single is arguably her best to date. Both the song and the video are absolutely faultless as always.

m.youtube.com

RØRY - DEAD GIRL WALKING

YouTube video by RØRY

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

One of my #37club besties said today to me “how do you not know you’re neurodivergent?” And you know what? Never felt more seen, like she just validated everything I’ve ever suspected and like she was surprised I didn’t know. Which is exactly why this bunch that I only met in March are my ppl.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In love with this cover - gives off very spooky vibes!

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#HorrorWritersChat! Most of my male characters are afraid of not being in control, so go to extra effort to reassert control over the situations they find themselves in, often making things even worse. Whereas the female characters are often more rational

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#HorrorWritersChat! My male characters often mistakenly think they’re the superior gender, when a lot of times it turns out the women are the mentally stronger. Because of all the extra shit they have to deal with that men take for granted. Like being able to walk safely alone at night without fear

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#HorrorWritersChat! Because my male characters so often want to do the right thing, they are almost always easily manipulated; blinded by their own hubris. One of my ongoing themes I explore a lot in my work is how man is often ultimately more of a threat than any monster they help create.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#HorrorWritersChat! Mark Woods,uk horror writer, and the one quality that defines all my male characters is determination. Determination to do what they think is the right thing, even if that determination is often misguided. Ultimately it’s what damns us all - no-one ever thinks they’re the bad guy

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#vss365 You’ve always got #options. Even when life feels hopeless and you feel like there’s only one way out, it doesn’t need to be. There’s always a choice. You just need to have hope. That tomorrow will be better. You don’t know what tomorrow will bring and if you choose to go, you never will.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Meeting my #37club besties (well, a few of them) for secret Santa. #XmasStarWarsjumper is appropriate attire, right?

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My wife is watching #imacelebrity and it’s ironic, Ruby Wax has had so much work done her face now looks like it’s melted wax.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#vss365 Their #goal was to travel to the far reaches of the universe and converse with alien civilisations, unfortunately the aliens were not so keen and destroyed their ship the moment it first entered orbit. “Bloody humans,” said one alien. “Parasites,” said the other, and the first alien nodded.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Getting ready for #Download2026 listening to some of the bands I’ve not heard of, while making a playlist for Mrs.Sparky. why have none of you guys ever told me about ANKOR? They’re bloody brilliant, give off real Lake Malice vibes, and definitely now topping my list of bands I want to try and see!

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

(1/2) People have asked me which of these two books they should read first. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter. The Tape house chronologically came first, and acts as a prequel, but One Halloween Night was finished and released first last year as part of my Holiday Horror series.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

*Realises he’s been neglecting Bluesky lately because…you know, author stuff* Moves to rectify that situation

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I don’t know why I never hear more people taking about #slowhorses on Apple TV. Do people just not have Apple? Do they not realise just how good Gary Oldman is in that role?

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My latest book just went live! A small group of teens enter an old abandoned house in the woods called The Tape house, but how many of them will come out? #ukhorror #ukhorrorauthor www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FY4TCDS...

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The Tape House

The Tape House eBook : Woods, Mark : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#horrorwriterschat Well my next book will be The Tape House - my version of the VHS movies where teenagers, trapped in an abandoned house, find themselves watching old videotapes with their names on while trying to escape. Spoiler: the house doesn’t want them to leave…

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#horrorwriterschat I try to construct some kind of weapon from things in my room, then wait for whatever to come for me - as I’ve obviously lived through but forgotten whatever’s coming for me from the night before and I’m not going down without a fight.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#horrorwriterschat Willow Creek and Wolf Creek are 2 of my favourite movies so I’d probably say camping, or travelling the outback. In either scenario, you’re trapped out in the open, miles from anywhere, nowhere to run to if things go pear shaped. And probably with no phone signal too! I’m so dead.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#horrorwriterschat No animals. No cats, no dogs, no people - or at least, none after dark. Windows all boarded up, missing person posters, and the announcement of a curfew in place and a warning not to open the door to ANYONE after dark.

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Well, we're rocking now, eh, like we're gathering at a Eurovision contest! The timing was entirely undeliberate. As the best things usually are. So #HorrorWritersChat bods, what would you notice first? Hmm? Yes there's a theme this week. Clever me huh?

Question Two

You arrive in a small town with no map signal, no way out until morning. You're offered one place to stay - but it doesn't feel empty. What's the first thing you notice that's wrong?

#HorrorWritersChat

Quote post and don't forget the tag

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

#horrorwriterschat Hi - I’m Mark Woods, Uk horror writer from Norfolk in East Anglia. I write a mixture of extreme horror, cryptozoological horror, and just anything I generally think is scary.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just a little reminder that you can now buy signed physical copies of my books at The Cosy Book Den in Dereham! Even if you don’t want one of my books, still pop in, and help support your local independent bookshop. #shoplocal #thecosybookden #localauthor #ukhorrorwriter #ukhorror

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#HorrorWritersChat You can read more about Lady Temperance, and indeed mr skinny legs, in my book The Golem. Available on Amazon

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#HorrorWritersChat The green man - because many of my stories are about tearing down the world we know, and rebuilding it in some new nightmarish landscape. More of a rebirth with horrific consequences for those who survive, forced to fight for their lives in this new darkness

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#horrorwriterschat Lady Temperance’s opposite is an agent of chaos who goes by many names, but often Mr Skinny Legs. If the two worked together, they could change the universe for the better -but Skinny Legs just wants to see the universe burn and devolve into anarchy for no other reason but he can

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#HorrorWritersChat One of my characters, Lady Temperance, a celestial whose job it is to maintain the balance, has to accept she can’t save everybody, or all worlds. Some have to perish, to die, as part of a much larger pattern

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Mark woods, uk horror writer and I first started writing horror after I reviewed a book, and the author told me I should write my own stories if I could do better. So I did - and I wrote horror because that’s what I know.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#HorrorWritersChat He found the Easter Eggs at the bottom of the garden, no idea who put them there.He brought them in, gave them to the kids, then went to work.He never made it.On the way the phone rang.”THE EGGS,” his wife screamed. “WHERE DID YOU GET THEM?” In the background his kids screamed too

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#HorrorWritersChat Well, I already have people (?) dressed in animal masks in my WIP, The Tape House, so it would be easy to have one dressed up like the Easter Bunny. Maybe wanting to insert eggs up you, that will hatch inside you releasing…well, what do you fear most?

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#HorrorWritersChat I’d love to write a zombie story set on The Body Farm - with corpses left to rot and be studied coming back to life resenting the way they’ve been treated

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#horrorwriterschat Hi - I’m Sparkymarky, uk horror writer based in Norfolk. About to have a couple of my books featured in the local authors section of my new local bookshop, so hoping that gets me a bit more attention

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Such a clever short story with a neat little twist in the tail.

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mark woods @sparkymarky1973.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Got these ready to go to a new local independent book store in town, once I’ve signed them - so proud, they look so pretty in real life!!!

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