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And here's the full cover for Mother's Night, Rise of the Hare Witch, created by Ruth Anna Evans. (Went slightly wrong, I scheduled a blog post for 6pm, forgot all about this, remembered when eating my tea. Oh, so professional, everything back to front. 🤣)

Goodnight from Stephanie Ellis, trying to read the story under the headline: ‘THE DEVIL KILLS IN HOOKLAND’ from across the tram. Goodnight from Jack Belford, following the paths in Long Wolver Woods gilded electrum by the last of the Hunter’s Moon. Goodnight from Hookland.

Goodnight from The Devil’s Bread pub, where all the evening’s mutterings seem centred on Joe Wood’s sudden and unsettling disappearance from the village. Goodnight from Dorothy Winward, worried that there are more than satellites watching from tonight’s sky. Goodnight from Hookland.

Alas, alas, ther ys no easilye obtained cure for the dull ache of lonelinesse.

murmurings of fire advance in courtship of flesh made corpse candle bright replaced by whispers an infinite echoing of #surrendered_screams #horrorprompt

Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. #ClocksGoBack

On Bornholm it is customary to tip your hat and greet this stone ‘godmorgen Hellig Hågen’! The ‘tray’ or ‘altar’ piece at the front seems a later addition (perhaps medieval, but that is not certain) #StandingStoneSunday 📷 Klingon More: http://www.megalithi...

There are passageways where we cannot help but brush against phantoms. Places that narrow our movements till a spirit scraping is inevitable. Neither dead nor living will yield right of way. This may come from an unknowing of the other's presence or a terrible lack of manners. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter has 7 days to go and just under $7K left to raise. That means we need to raise at least $1,000 every day if you want to see Apex Magazine next year! That's ... kinda scary. So please back if you can and share the campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

So thrilled to have a story in this fabulous Halloween anthology! @deathbytbrbooks.bsky.social is doing so much amazing work in horror! 🦇🎃🖤 So grab your trick-or-treat candy & pick up a copy to celebrate the best holiday of the year! deathbytbrbooks.com/products/twi...

In a remote part of the Highlands, Domnuill-dhu—the devil himself—walks. Over the centuries, the MacNeil clan has serenaded him with music he composed, music known as the canntaireachd. It is to this land that John MacNeil returns. A land that demands a new piper ... mybook.to/Domnuill-dhu

For me, this has been by the far the best of his books. Loved it.

Okay, ya'll. The Apex Magazine Kickstarter still needs another $8,637 to fund 2027 and we only have 10 days to go. I'm starting to get STRESSED! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We ride autumn's roads wondering if the dappling will be the last of the year before everything becomes naked and grey. We ride and half-hope for a glimpse of those ghosts who used this road long before tarmacadam. The highway as a continuity with the dead. – #DAKilroy

Once a #Flashdog always a #Flashdog 😁 There was also something called The Infernal Clock. 😊

Almost time. Mother's Night (Rise of the Hare Witch) brings the snow and an unearthly Yule. (Hope to have the actual date soon!) #folkhorror #horror #booksky #womeninhorror #yule

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!

#horrorhaiku #haiku I am so tiny | but also so very sharp | and now you bleed out | #horrorwriterschat Squeak

It's my birthday this week, so celebrate my official middle age with one of my horror novels or poetry collections, like DEAD ENDS, a nifty little book about death and dying. #HorrorWritersChat www.amazon.com/Dead-Ends-Da...

Thanks, Alexander! I have a collection of falling into unusual situations, the unusual breaking in to the normal, and everything just out of the corner of your eye taking a step closer to being in sight… #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Alexander! I have been making videos about my books and the animation I am doing inspired by a poem by @ghostlytales.bsky.social and putting them on youtube (link in my bio). Hope everyone has a great week #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Alexander and #HorrorWritersChat! My new horror Witten Hall is out Monday. Cursed families, a haunted manor, and all sorts of horrible deaths await those who wish to read it. It’s so horrifying, I had a breakdown writing the first draft. amzn.eu/d/0dSuW1kb

#HorrorWritersChat Fun theme this week, thank you! Promoting the bundles I'm in. Ten days left, $10 to spend to get some awesome queer horror. Come check it out: itch.io/b/3876/we-ha... And check this one out if you have more cash: itch.io/b/3904/chill...

#HorrorWritersChat My collection of spooky shorts is a real mixed bag of spookery! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thank you Alexander! I am glad to be tall again, or taller at least. #HorrorWritersChat I have a mix of different stories on my Itch page, come and check them out. My latest is a Star Trek fan fic, not scary at all, but a very fun read anyway. anna-verner.itch.io

Thanks, #HorrorWritersChat! All of these go hand-in-hand together: - #BookBazaar26 launches Oct. 29th (www.the-book-bazaar.com) - Such Sweet Sorrow crowdfund is part of it - I write deep dive articles once a month, and this one talks about #S3. Check out TBB, read the article, follow! #AQPromo

Thanks Alex! #HorrorWritersChat need a terrifying book for the last 10 days of spooky season? "Symphony for Walpurgis" has you covered with tales of cryptids, giant bats, and even a Jewish exorcism, among other things. Go and grab your tickets to the Symphony today! #HorrorSky #BookSky

Going to repeat I have read this and it is a really chilling tale.

Thanks Alexander Here me books Read 'em Review 'em Prop up faulty chairs with 'em NO HEROICS, ONLY HORRORS NO REASON, ONLY RECKONING NO SAVIOURS, ONLY SYSTEMS WELCOME TO THE COLONIES OF THE TWAINEARTH www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W9KRT1... #HorrorWritersChat #BookSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity

Thank you all. My meeting is about to start, so it is a good thing I am a human again. I recently published my mystery urban fantasy, Shadow Cursed. books2read.com/shadowcursed #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat was great this week, Alexander. I have two things to promote for The #ShadowBoxArchives. Both of which are about #Halloween #Writing One is my featured story for this month which will be going public soon, but if you want to read it now, become a paying member of our Patreon ⬇️

Please submit to my next anthology! #subcall #horror #LGBTQ #cosmichorror #cthulhu Queering Cthulhu obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html #horrorwriterschat

Thanks for the great chat, Alexander! 🐁🧀 I'm working on a lot of fun Halloween stuff over on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/arcdirective You should check out all the new short stories I have and the ominous tide I keep mentioning. Sure hope something bad isn't in the water. 😱 #HorrorWritersChat

Thank you for hosting and serenading. The main thing I want you all to do us behold this, superb pumpkin being carved by @motiblackart.bsky.social You can also check out the novel. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... But mainly behold the pumpkin, to be honest. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for a great #HorrorWritersChat, Alexander! I'm on a committee putting on a Widow's Bay Weekend event in Rockport, MA in the spring. Watch my BlueSky page for updates and news. I'm working on TRAILER TRASH ZOMBIES, my horror comedy novel. Hope to finish it by summer if I get over my ennui.

#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...

#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.

#HorrorWritersChat Monster is more a matter of intent. The evil one could be human or otherwise but it is their purpose which makes them monstrous. However it is revealed it is always prey and predator, 😼 and mouse 🐭. Some of my characters tend to be very amoral & I love writing those.

#HorrorWritersChat I'm a fan of making the horror aspect appear normal to the protagonists. It's just what they do, how they've always lived (eg Tommy & Co in Five Turns world). The juxtaposition of apparent 'everyday-ness' with horror is jarring. Shirley Jackson did this perfectly in The Lottery.

Youngest has reminded me today is our four years in Wrexham anniversary 😅. Memories of no electric or gas & dealing with utilities that cold, cold night. Previous occupier had not paid bills & it cascaded onto us. No wonder I forgot.

#HorrorWritersChat Hi, I'm Steph and I write all sorts of horror, especially initially, but it gradually settled a little and now folk horror, gothic, historical, and post-apocalyptic are my main subgenres. I do, however, strongly believe we should not pigeonhole ourselves else we create a prison.

The therapist told me to stop #fuelling my negative thoughts and just focus on what makes me happy. So, I blocked her number and bought a shovel. Tonight . #vss365

There are rural communities with traditions going back centuries: the mummers troupes, the harvests, the music, the dancing, the lore. The Five Turns world takes this and recasts it in the way only the Folk can do. mybook.to/FiveTurnsWorld #booksky #folkhorror #horror #darkfantasy #womeninhorror

Available now, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

Just one of the folk horror novels in my back catalogue. Harrowfield ✔️Older female MC ✔️Pagan tradition ✔️Occult practitioners ✔️Ancient deity ✔️Ritual & morris dancers 😁 Link to reading sample here (& also free on KU!) stephanieellis.org/folk-horror/ #booksky #folkhorror #FridayReads

The wood is full of watching eyes. The wood is full of sharp teeth. The wood is full of things that makes burrows in the dark beneath. – Trad. Hookland rhyme

The Five Turns world is of old folk lore, ancient myths twisted & rural traditions equally distorted. Folk horror with an edge of dark fantasy & a grounding in my childhood. Novels via Brigids Gate Press brigidsgatepress.com/books and the collection via Wheelborn stephanieellis.org/folk-horror/ .