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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would probably just expand on my horror poem, “Aqueous”, since it was already inspired by music. But I feel like that new Whalefall movie that’s coming out soon is doing that for me. 😂 #HorrorWritersChat

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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's mostly a background thing to give a sense of personality. Although I do have one character who I have cursed with my internal radio. If I can't hear the Lord's Prayer without Iron Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name" immediately playing in my head, neither will he 😈 #HorrorWritersChat

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

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: Music doesn’t come up much within the story unless I’m writing about sirens luring folks to their doom (in which case I focus more on the mirages of heart’s desire of the characters than the sound of music). Or any creature using nostalgia as a diversion…

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Just Some Phil @justsomephil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat First thought that comes in mind is that any horror would go screaming away when Mozart enters – either because of the music, either because of the poop jokes. Also more of a tragedy, but maybe the last night of Tchaikovsky vs ghosts of his past.

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

The members of my favorite band of all time, Poets of the Fall, find themselves booked to play a gig for the Lovecraftian gods of my horror mythos. If they can make them dance, they'll be allowed to leave with their lives. I believe in them. 🙏 #HorrorWritersChat #AuthorSky #writingcommunity

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"Hello, Amanda. I want to play a game." 🪚🪚🪚 @amandamblake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Halestorm touched on a few horror classics in THE STRANGE CASE OF.... I wrote a Red Riding Hood song for Lzzy Hale bc of it. Kamelot's gone a little more sci-fi lately, but they've done plenty of gothic. I want a Dracula concept album in the vein of The Swing of Death. #HorrorWritersChat

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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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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just for fun, I wanna see Megan Thee Stallion in Silent Hill 2 😂 I don’t think Pyramid Head could handle her 💅 #HorrorWritersChat

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Music mostly sets the mood for my short stories, but I’ve written poems that are directly inspired by songs before. (Ex: “Immortal” was inspired by “Blight of River Systems” from maudlin of the Well.) #HorrorWritersChat

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m Clover, and I write experimental horror. My playlist is full of prog metal and drone, which fits the isolating atmosphere in my stories. #HorrorWritersChat

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can feel myself becoming an insufferable weeb again. Sorry if I’m annoying anybody with wanting to talk about anime all the time 🫣

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy #caturday Chacha has been my best friend while I’m sick. Hubby took the photo 📸

A black cat is laying on the lower torso of a person with purple hair. There is a Spy x Family blanket under the cat

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With all the craziness going on with flock cameras rn, if you all ever see a mugshot of me claiming I committed any crime, please take it with a GIANT grain of salt. Justice for Lindsay Isaacs!

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Probably Wander from Shadow of the Colossus

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Bride Of Frankenstein by Bruce Timm

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I would thank my parents for encouraging my passion, my wife for supporting me so fully, Sam Raimi for showing me how horror could look, and George Romero for showing me how horror could speak.

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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks, hubs, for being first reader. Thanks, dog, for listening to my ideas. Thanks, mom and dad, for trying but failing to make me normal. Thanks, horror familia, for reading my weird and wild words. #horrorwriterschat

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The Last Something @thelastsomething.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anybody and everything I've taken inspiration from. My friends who have supported me. All of the lovely narrators on YouTube who have helped share my stories. All of you fine people. And, of course, every single reader #HorrorWritersChat

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Put me on the spot why don't you 😂 My editor buddy @slenders1ckn3ss.bsky.social, my friends of whom there are too many to name, Vincent Price who I inherited my name from, and the band Ghost, without which I never would've met Jay and started writing this stuff at all

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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why folk horror is perfect for exploring the autistic experience. (I actually have thought about making a presentation on this topic.) Panelists would be me and Taylor Grothe to talk about autism and folk horror, and @stephellis.bsky.social for her folk horror expertise. #HorrorWritersChat

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Oli Jacobs - Author @olijbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat *approaches microphone* *clears throat* *takes a deep breath* *leaves*

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"Hello, Amanda. I want to play a game." 🪚🪚🪚 @amandamblake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I always thank my parents for supporting me and my writing endeavors, respecting that it's work and important to me, even though they don't understand a lick of it and don't enjoy any of the genres. I really appreciate it. #HorrorWritersChat

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Q4: #HorrorWritersChat I would be so genuinely stunned, mainly because it's not every day you see actual, literal pigs take wing and soar across the sky, that it would take a second for me to recover. But, in the end, all the thanks and glory go to my readers. They are the only reason I succeed.

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would need an entire BOOK of Thank Yous 😂 Definitely the #HorrorWritersChat community for further encouraging me to be a horror creator, then my mother, and then my closest friends and loved ones who stood by me and supported me all the way!

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I thank Donovan from the Last Crusade 'Cause if I hadn't seen him age super fast in that movie as a four year old, I doubt I'd be as drawn to the macabre as I am now Sh-shit, that's quite a thing to see with little understanding of the world huh? #HorrorWritersChat

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would thank my spouse. Genuinely, I would not have made it this far without them. I published my first book back in 2016 when we were living together platonically because my mom’s dementia had progressed to dangerous levels. I wouldn’t have published if he hadn’t encouraged me 💖 #horrorwriterschat

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Robb // R.M. Sayan @rmsayan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I'd love to go to a panel on the ideologies behind cosmic/eldritch horror, how it's a genre that rises from conservatism and how authors adapt and work with it. Langan, Vandermeer, Jemisin, David Wong, Alan Moore even would have awesome things to say I feel.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Oh, let me sit next to Alan Moore. Even if I don't sell a thing, I'll at least get to hang out with a modern-day wizard.

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The Last Something @thelastsomething.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's really hard to pick. I grew up reading a lot of Stephen King. It'd be unbelievable to share a table with him. However, I feel like I would have a weirder, better conversation with Clive Barker Really, I'm just basing this off of who I'd rather hang out with and talk to #HorrorWritersChat

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Honestly? I'd want to share the table with a friend. If I had to share a table with someone famous or who respected but didn't know well, I might have a panic attack 😂 So, I guess I'd like to share a table with anyone from this chat!

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Kimberly Davis Basso @kdbwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My ideal horror conference panel would be about the huge diversity of form and function that’s possible in horror- poetry, graphic novels, shorts, novels, and different formats/ means of delivering the story. Q2 #horrorwriterschat

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Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not sure if he has a Bluesky, but another Delaware-based horror author named Henry Corrigan. He is openly bisexual, so perhaps he would also be on that panel I mentioned in the last question. Anyway, he’s super nice, so I wouldn’t mind spending a few hours next to him. 🙂 #horrorwriterschat

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q2 My ideal horror conference panel would definitely be about creature features/cryptids. I would definitely want @thelastsomething.bsky.social on the panel, and @karenlykkebo.com too.

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Just Some Phil @justsomephil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I don't know about people, but I'd love to hear about the geographical/cultural limits of horror vs universal horror- how something that looks universally scary is considered mundane somewhere else.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I'm Shan, & I write ecohorror, fairytales, religious horror, & weird stuff. Yesterday, I finished writing a novella called House Wife. Caught in a bad marriage, a climate refugee forms a strange relationship with her house. Think "The Yellow Wallpaper" by way of Cronenberg.

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat Ooh, tough one. I don't know who'd necessarily be on the panel, but it would definitely be about Bleak Endings and how they can not only be thematically appropriate within a story but NECESSARY at times. We'd discuss how creating that sick pit in the stomach can be massive.

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J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader @jneiraauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooh, definitely would be about cozy horror. Defining it, seeing which horror stories might fit the label, and maybe even debating which types of horror it is opposite of. #HorrorWritersChat Q2

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Rami Ungar the Writer @ramiungarwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guess mine would be about the way horror comforts us and helps us process our inner turmoil. I have written about that subject before, so I could do a panel on it, easy. That being said, I hope to do a panel on horror through the autistic lens at StokerCon next year. #HorrorWritersChat

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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It would be a seminar on travelling the world and those beyond to gain experiences that help with the creative process And uh, the Cenobites would be on it Free ride to Amsterdam! #HorrorWritersChat

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It would definitely be a conference about the intricacies of writing horror, especially in my chosen genres, or an exploration of those genres' finest works. I would like the panel members to be diverse in WHAT they write - scripts, poems, short stories, novels, etc.! #HorrorWritersChat

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat The panel would likely be "Humanity in the Undead: Vampires and Monstrosity" There are so many people I could call out for that panel but I'd probably pick Rose Sinister.

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Spooky Simon 🛸🏳️‍⚧️ @spookiestsimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Can't give you panelists (brain fried from a long weekend and some work stuff) but: autonomy and the eldritch: choosing to become monstrous

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Tom [ghostly voice] Coooooooooooombe @calmtomb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'd love to sit in on a panel about found footage horror, whether it's in print or on screen. #HorrorWritersChat

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Jacob Marsh - Author 🇨🇦 @jacobmarsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Q2: Oh that's a fun one. Something to do with monsters. I'm thinking, "Reimagine Folklore: How to respect the old while ushering in the new." But more catchy, haha. And if we're dreaming, someone like Guillermo del Toro would be perfect for that panel!

Clover S. Laurel 🍀 @tea-and-mushrooms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Inclusivity and intersectionality in horror! The genre has long been dominated by a very narrow perspective and doesn’t include a lot of marginalized characters. When it does, they’re usually the first to die or the villain. I’d love to see a panel about improving this issue! #horrorwriterschat

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Trish Wilson @trishcwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat: I'm Trish Wilson & I write quiet horror & horror comedy. My pitch: Lizzie Borden took an axe... Today, the house is a bed & breakfast with ghost tours. Does Lizzie haunt the house? Who is the child who appears in the attic? There were no children in the Borden house...

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