D.J. MacHale. He’s mostly known now for YA fantasy, but he created Are You Afraid of the Dark? It inspired myself and a generations of others to embrace dark storytelling. I think we should be discussing him in the same breath as R.L. Stine. And he kinda blurbed my book!
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Dark fantasy (Horror adjacent)! If I can get the funding up to $2500, everyone gets an extra short story, chapter 1 of Lavender's Elegy (a villain's story), AND a copy of the audiobook. Check it out!
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#HorrorWritersChat Arthur Conan Doyle. I know he is famous for mystery, but The Hounds Of Baskerville should count as horror.
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Celia Dale. The cruelty.
I'm going to go with Diane Guest. I read her book Lullaby because I was doing a challenge where I had to read a book from the year I was born, and it was really good. I haven't read anything else of hers yet, but I would like to in the future.
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Erm. Hmm. Uh. Welp. I.........don't know a lot of underrated horror creators from the 20th century. I mean...what is "underrated?" I really like Algernon Blackwood's story "The Willows" - good early weird horror there, but I don't know if it's "underrated." #horrorwriterschat
Thank you for this question. Florence Engel Randall is my spiritual predecessor. I credit her with really creating the cozy sci-fi horror template that inspired me. Though she never used that term. She was underappreciated in her time despite a film adaptation.
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Thanks for the questions, Mary, and thanks everyone for the fun chat!
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Thanks for another delightful #horrorwriterschat @marywyrd.bsky.social ! I'd like to promote a friend's book that just came out: Bullets and Balloons: Crime, Culture, and Comic Book History by Dale Berry . Has some horror in there too. Nonfiction. #horrorwriterschat
Aloe is Book 2 in the Tales From The Night Garden series, an LGBTQIA+ contemporary dark fantasy following two ace-spectrum, nonbinary leads. Acanthus and Cypress are back, and they're fighting Nekane ...
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Mark Guyer (fiction) / Dustin Pinney (non-fiction)
#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Backrooms Written By: Rosé Black As a quick aside, sorry I haven’t posted an article in a bit. I was trying to catch up on my stories. With…
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Artemis Quinn 🏳️⚧️🎨📚
Rosé Black
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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author
Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author
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Jez Conolly
Mary Wyrd (she/her)
J. Neira - cozy horror author & slush reader
E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister
