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Scribbler Johnny He/him
Scribbler Johnny He/him
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Romantasy and Horror author and voice actor. I write stories about healing and redemption. Usually polyamorous. Audiobooks read by me. https://youtube.com/@Scribblerjohnny?si=OA_C5ot07y7sJ4v6 https://inkitt.com/scribblerjohnny
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Scribbler Johnny He/him reposted
OGROFF!! This belongs in that same category with Cathy's Curse and Things as uniquely terrible movies I encourage everyone to watch.
I've scraped all the barrels and I don't know where else to look for undiscovered slasher gems, so this year I'm doing Slasher Search all request. First up is OGROFF, a 1983 Super 8 fever dream written, directed and starring French video shop owner Norbert Moutier. Look at his creepy mask!
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Glennville: Kyle Stevens series Glennville: Kyle Stevens series Small Town MurderThe Small town of Glennville New York is a nice quiet place to settle down and raise your family. At least that is What Sheriff Kyle Stevens thought when he retired after being a detective in New York City for twenty…
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This is one good example of how appropriations hardball can work if you're willing to not blink first. Another: take your pick for demands and restrictions on funding Executive Office of the President. Yes, literally defund the White House. EOP is the central hub of the assault on the Constitution.
Is all this really feasible? Won't Trump refuse to sign anything like this? Won't he litigate it? Won't it lead to government shutdowns? Yes, yes, and yes. But it's still absolutely doable and necessary. Here's why: newrepublic.com/article/2171...
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Awww, to be a horrible human again. Now I can share the book unboxing video I made last week, which is anything but an actual unboxing. (Or is it?) Doing the props and costuming was a lot of fun, so, please, have a look. #WritersHorrorChat
And that's your lot. You're all human again. Make the mouse - err, I mean, the 'most' of it. Self-promo time, everyone! Reply to this post, and be sure to include #HorrorWritersChat as you do so. Now, if you don't mind, let me play us all out. youtu.be/VOjJwlqHe-Q
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Replying to @alexanderhay.myatproto.social
Thanks for a great #HorrorWritersChat week! I publish a new horror story on my site every day in October: www.aaronccross.com/stories-your... I have two horror books for sale here: www.amazon.com/stores/A.C.-... I also have a Patreon here: www.patreon.com/c/aaronccross Feedback always welcome!
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Thanks for hosting @alexanderhay.myatproto.social I had fun reading folks responses, especially to the realisation that they were now a mouse and what is a monster. #HorrorWritersChat, see you again next squeak! Oh dear.
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#HorrorWritersChat Glad I'm back; thanks for restoring my form, Alexander, as this would have put a serious ro-dent in my plans... My latest over at Substack has a horror story for writers, and word about my five stories going up there next week: jamesryanfiction.substack.com/p/going-on-t...
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Follow this post and hashtag for your next favorite horror writers and books! #HorrorWritersChat
And that's your lot. You're all human again. Make the mouse - err, I mean, the 'most' of it. Self-promo time, everyone! Reply to this post, and be sure to include #HorrorWritersChat as you do so. Now, if you don't mind, let me play us all out. youtu.be/VOjJwlqHe-Q
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#HorrorWritersChat I can hear voices, feel warmth flowing towards me in the shadows. Kindred, they call and I answer, see the outline of whiskers, the flick of tails, claws. Too late I realise these are not brothers, but cousins mangled in awful majesty. King Rat is here and he is hungry.
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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She awoke, frozen with fear, to see Maria's damned finger puppets on her hand. Lion, zebra, tiger, giraffe, and monkey made five. It was monkey that held her attention the most, however. Stitch by delicate stitch, she watched as monkey sewed himself to the meat of her thumb. #horrorwriterschat
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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Bureaucracy. Noodly police (All Cops Are Eldritch Bastards). Pre-colonial demons, weaponized or tamed. Complacent pencil or broom pushers and the tulpas that accumulate around them. Exes (they deserve it). My parents (they like to feel included). Raisins. #horrorwriterschat
Right, you 'orrible little (James) Herberts. El Gato de Ulthar is hot on your furry little heels, and you're lunch if they get you. Are you a Mrs. Frisby, a Matthias or just plain taking the Mickey? Q3: What do you define as a monster in your horror, and how do you make it work? #HorrorWritersChat
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Oof. Ah well, the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. #HorrorWritersChat Q2: In revising my stories, I pay more attention to embodied detail these days. How impossible it is doesn’t matter when you can feel it! The scifi/supernatural can do whatever it WANTS!
What is a human world to a little mouse but horror? Q2: How do you make your horror stories horrible? Is it detail, emotion, pathos, fear or even comedy? Or something else? How do YOU make the punters quiver? #HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat The kitty was very sad that his mouse toy was gone, so he hunted the rest to show his dissatisfaction instead of napping. Everyone gasped in horror when they realized Kitty had been inconvenienced and he got a lot of salmon, which truly was the best and strongest ending of all.
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat This is it, the cat has you in its jaws, you gulp. All you can do is wait for the inevitable end. You close your eyes. Something scoops you up out of its mouth. A human child hits the cat on its nose. The cat scowls. You are saved! Oh no, wait, that's too tight. Stop squeezing.
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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🤷♂️ The mouse was to give a speech to other mice about cheese eating etiquette He was very worried about it Because his speech was very stilton 😱 Now that was horrible! #HorrorWritersChat
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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Going on an adventure Walking out the door World's so wide, welcoming Stranger journeys in store Here I go a-wandering Sunny sky shifting to cloud What seemed placid and peaceful Has turned angry and loud (1/2) #HorrorWritersChat
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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We woke up in the dark to crickets, and still our clothes were wet with our blood, coffin splinters stuck in our hands. How damned to still be alive after trying so hard to be otherwise. You didn't want to be, no — not on a day it meant being born again as worse than yourself. #HorrorWritersChat
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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Scribbler Johnny He/him reposted
#HorrorWritersChat I don’t want to die. I know it’s a futile wish, and I know my life - such as it is - is the plaything of gods I don’t understand, but I still don’t want to die. I didn’t ask to exist. And yet, I do. An entity born of runes at the mercy of a word count. Cursed by sentience. I d
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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Q4: #HorrorWritersChat When I was an odd little boy, I would pick the wings off flies and legs off grasshoppers. It wasn't malicious. Simply curiosity and the unfettered cruelty that exists in childhood before a conscience emerges. So, I can't be mad that this thing is doing the same to me, can I?
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat I feel the claws sink in and I squeak. Sunlight. I look at my human hand! Mommy is rubbing my cheek. Mraow? Mommy says. I feel Mommy's claws sink in.
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat "The last mouse sat in his hole with all the the peanut butter and cheese to himself. Scratching comes from the wall outside and he sees a cat wielding a mallet."
Every story has an ending, but horror doesn't always have happy ones. Q4: What sort of very short (mouse-sized?) story can you write which has a sting in the tale? #HorrorWritersChat
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Fangs sharp-pointed, mind clever-cunning, yes-yes... Gree-thing won't be trapped-taken by large-things, no-no! Hello! I'm Gree, writer of body, psychological, and religious horror! #HorrorWritersChat
Good morrow, my dear little vermin. It's the weekly Horror Writers Chat! This week, I will be taking you down a rabbit hole, or to precise, into a mouse hole. Soo-ooo-ooo... Q1: Introduce yourselves, gorge on that Stinking Bishop, and tell us what sort of fiction you write. #HorrorWritersChat
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Greetings #HorrorWritersChat! A.M. Castro. Writer of spec fic and cosmic horror with a Latin American twist here and... Jeepers squeakers...I always wanted a tail/ a real excuse to smash through all the cheese in my fridge.
Good morrow, my dear little vermin. It's the weekly Horror Writers Chat! This week, I will be taking you down a rabbit hole, or to precise, into a mouse hole. Soo-ooo-ooo... Q1: Introduce yourselves, gorge on that Stinking Bishop, and tell us what sort of fiction you write. #HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat Others of my kind... like the Sumatran Rat Monkey? 🐀🐒 I use all five senses which I hear is not as common as it should be. I've been told I'm a very visual writer so I play up what is around my characters whether real or imaginary. Confusion, terror & anger figure into my horror.
What is a human world to a little mouse but horror? Q2: How do you make your horror stories horrible? Is it detail, emotion, pathos, fear or even comedy? Or something else? How do YOU make the punters quiver? #HorrorWritersChat
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Skitter-leap! Scuttle-hide! Cat-thing snapping at our tail-tail. Run! Hide! For me, the best monsters are those that were once something relatable. Familiar. Mundane in their commonness. Now, foreign. Dangerous. Lethal. #HorrorWritersChat
Right, you 'orrible little (James) Herberts. El Gato de Ulthar is hot on your furry little heels, and you're lunch if they get you. Are you a Mrs. Frisby, a Matthias or just plain taking the Mickey? Q3: What do you define as a monster in your horror, and how do you make it work? #HorrorWritersChat
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Interesting! In my writing, I try not to think about having a monster. I create something formidable for my main character to face, but I leave what counts as a monster up to the reader. All of my antagonists either have their reasons or are cosmic forces without reason. #HorrorWritersChat
Right, you 'orrible little (James) Herberts. El Gato de Ulthar is hot on your furry little heels, and you're lunch if they get you. Are you a Mrs. Frisby, a Matthias or just plain taking the Mickey? Q3: What do you define as a monster in your horror, and how do you make it work? #HorrorWritersChat
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My human monsters tend to be either powerful, sociopathic bastards or sad and broken weirdos. My monster monsters tend towards eldritch alien things. #HorrorWritersChat
Right, you 'orrible little (James) Herberts. El Gato de Ulthar is hot on your furry little heels, and you're lunch if they get you. Are you a Mrs. Frisby, a Matthias or just plain taking the Mickey? Q3: What do you define as a monster in your horror, and how do you make it work? #HorrorWritersChat
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#HorrorWritersChat Well, it depends on the story. #TFTNG is from monsters' POV; the real monstrosity is bigotry and hating people for things they cannot control or change. The main antag hates one person for an unforgiveable act, and she lets that poison everything. In #s3, the literal monsters-
Right, you 'orrible little (James) Herberts. El Gato de Ulthar is hot on your furry little heels, and you're lunch if they get you. Are you a Mrs. Frisby, a Matthias or just plain taking the Mickey? Q3: What do you define as a monster in your horror, and how do you make it work? #HorrorWritersChat
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Monster is what monster does. Looks can be deceiving. A hairy, horned, and hulking fellow may be thought a monster. They're a bookish wife guy. The real monster is probably that human slowly revealing themselves to be a walking red flag. And is that blood on their hands? #HorrorWritersChat
Right, you 'orrible little (James) Herberts. El Gato de Ulthar is hot on your furry little heels, and you're lunch if they get you. Are you a Mrs. Frisby, a Matthias or just plain taking the Mickey? Q3: What do you define as a monster in your horror, and how do you make it work? #HorrorWritersChat