Tom [ghostly voice] Coooooooooooombe

Water turns to wormwood. Vampires in the clergy and the courthouse, clowns making sinister plans. Feast and famine in dying coal towns. All that and more in my debut collection, on sale now.

To be followed by a remake of Psycho where there's also a mummy.

If movies have taught me anything, it was for positive reasons.

If the wicker man at our fall festival catches on fire, it will be purely accidental.

After enough time goes by in a relationship, your partner might feel comfortable enough to say things like "I don't mean this to be insulting, but when you wear that hat with that jacket you look like Ed Gein."

Wait Until Dark and Panic Room

Word of warning if you’re thinking of buying the old gray mare…

Facing a whole other type of criticism after asking my kids to come up with three things that make my AI assistant special.

I enjoyed The Cycle, even if it's big twist was spoiled by me being a massive horror nerd in grade school and knowing waaaaay to much about the history of [REDACTED], meaning that a certain detail tipped me off.

The most cursed passage you'll encounter today that doesn't involve, say, murder or war crimes.

Patrons At this Rural Diner Say Cheesecake Factory is Fine Dining to Them But Say So Out of Earshot of the Owner Who Has No Sense of Humor About This Kind of Thing

In my Twitter days I had a running gag about a guy named "Jim Tollson" who would show up at public meetings to raise "who's gonna pay for this?" complaints about apocalyptic events. Happy to report that character has made it into a story set to be published soon.

“Packaging looks good, but can we make the cat look vaguely disappointed in the user?”

Hell yes.

I think traveling back in time 40 years would definitely turn me into a “Oh, I don’t watch television” guy.

My parents took me to "see" Disney's The Black Hole in 1978, probably at the Hi-Way Drive-In. I wasn't even two yet and have no memory. The first movie I REMEMBER seeing is The Empire Strikes Back, and even then, it's just one scene: Vader meeting with the bounty hunters.

none of this shit is going to work and if you talk about them like they're bond villains you're doing their marketing for them

They hold these events constantly where I live and whenever I see signs like this I think “This sounds like a lost Beastie Boys song.”

#horrorwriterschat Thank you @alexanderhay.myatproto.social! I actually do have something to promote! My short story, Keepers of the Sacred Nuts, will be featured in Bushy Tailed Demons, releasing in Jan 2027. Also want to shout out Anna Orridge's Parch Marks www.amazon.co.uk/Parch-Marks-...

Since Halloween is almost here, I thought I would promote this anthology, featuring one of my many “urban legend is actually real” stories. #horrorwriterschat

The rattler passes the den, silent as new grass. He hasn't seen us today but tomorrow he could. The look in mother's eyes tell us: Eventually we all see the inside of a snake. #HorrorWriersChat

The monsters in my stories are sometimes people, or things that resemble people, or something otherworldly, but they're almost always the threat, even if they don't always have ill intent exact. It's not for me to say whether I make it work. #horrorwriterschat

I like to keep readers off base with a few off-hand mentions and suggestions of something odd before ramping up the weirdness in the final stretches. #horrorwriterschat

Tom Coombe, author of many short horror stories, often based around religion, small towns and monsters. #HorrorWritersChat

We watched a well-regarded Italian horror film from the 70s last night and I found myself not enjoying it, partially because it just wasn't for me but also because the protagonist looked like JD Vance.

Makes me feel less guilty about rolling out my new $1,750 gaming console.

Pavement, Beck and (at that point in my life) Ween

Can't wait to tell my niece and nephews they can finally play as a woman being held prisoner inside her own body.

In grade school a (years later rightly disgraced) priest said he'd contribute to our school's cherished tradition of pre-Xmas break movies But instead of, say, a Disney movie, he showed up with 3 crappy public domain movies, none longer than 15 min. I feel like we're being ruled by his like now.

Hopefully a ruling will come around the time I release my insufferable historical fiction book, "Marty McMorgan and the Mississippi Moonshine Massacre of 1919."

Trying to imagine the person worried about spoilers for The Simpsons in 2026. Will Graham wouldn’t want to venture inside that mind.

The original cast of Game of Thrones. Only Dinklage made the final cut.

This is wildly besides the point, but as a lifelong "Tom" I can't imagine getting to adulthood and introducing myself as "Tommy." It's a name for, like, a prat-falling British comedian or a kid who has a favorite Paw Patrol character.

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. "We are five miles from the Ohio/West Virginia border when the gill-men take over the highway."

It's my birthday, and my collection Lonesome and Festering includes a story titled "The Birthday Hole" about a special hole a man grows for his shitty, entitled lover on his birthday. It's a nasty one. Check it out and preorder my collection here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lone...

Very happy for everyone getting to see The Devils for the first time this week.

The Weird Library has an audio version of my story 'Cold Reading' out! Check it out for some haunted carny action! www.youtube.com/watch?v=663I...

Facebook is mostly awful but sometimes you get to learn about complete strangers finding cursed objects.

One shift washing dishes at a catering place where. Giant pots, tiny sink. I went back to my previous job working in a swimming pool factory instead.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Like those 90’s twin films, they should release 4 different monkees movies the month before

Creeps, losers, loners, and outsiders abound in my upcoming collection Lonesome and Festering, which you can preorder before the November 10th release. The vibes are icky and strange and uncomfortable, but this book is also full of love stories. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lone...

The studio will release 8 Beatles biopics on the same day if its demands are not met.

Best part of being the lieutenant governor? Bossing the sergeant governor up and down the mansion.

We should not have to settle for "Ghoul Decides Against Further Ghoulishness" when it comes to victories, yet here we are.

Every so often I wander over to LinkedIn and leave feeling vaguely ill. It's like I've stumbled onto something that I -- or anyone -- should not have seen, like the guy in Eyes Wide Shut.

One of my great grandmothers would refer to any sort of rowdy, disobedient or stubborn child as a "bullis." Cousin refuses to get ready for bed: "He's being a bullis."

Yeah, I can remember being born too. I was in a hospital. A doctor was there. Some nurses. My mom.