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Prospero coaching my workout session.
Persephone owns that chair.
Raven—Queen of the darkness.

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Research. So much research. I pride myself on being "professional" which means I really want everything I write to be as accurate as possible. Even the little things that most readers wouldn't notice or care about, I still want them to be accurate.

Research is fun.

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I don’t know if Silvia Moreno-Garcia considers herself a “horror writer” but her stuff is amazing and tends to the darker side of things, I think. Mexican Gothic is my second favorite book of all time, a masterpiece. Have picked up a lot of her books.

Also, Grady Hendrix haha.

Oh gosh, that’s hard! But I would say, for me, it’s Stephen Graham Jones, Trang Thanh Tran, and Lora Senf.

For horror fiction podcast, I always tell people to check out Parkdale Haunt.

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I'm Tristan, I write creature feature horror but am aiming to expand beyond that. This week, I'm watching the latest episodes of Daredevil Born Again, The Boys, Invincible, and Scrubs. I'll be finishing DTF St. Louis. Movie wise: Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Mother Mary, and Normal.

People who's work has made my brain light up over the last few years: Stephen Graham Jones, Chuck Wendig, Lucy Snyder, Hailey Piper, Zoja Stage, Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant, Grady Hendrix, John Langan...

I'm still so behind on my reading list, though.

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Aww, thank you so much! 🥰

Man, I love this show! I actually don’t want to finish it because I know I’ll be sad when it’s over. 😭

#HorrorWritersChat Lots and LOTS of research. Everything from the food they’d eat, the clothes they’d wear, medicinal herbs, linguistics, even to how houses are built. I love history, so deep dives like that are a fun pastime!
(I’d love to time travel though! 😭)

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THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, my Lizzie Borden story. I've been to the house twice. Found blueprints of the house online & read about the ghosts from the house next door to the Borden house. Read as much as I could about Lizzie & her new home, Maplecroft.

I think she did it. 😎

Like my working life, my written life is scattered hither and yon and I write a little bit of everything, all of it weird.

Been dipping back down the poetry hole lately.
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ABSOLUTELY research. I LOVE researching our world's many cultures and civilisations, and pretty much everything about them! It's my favourite part of world-designing.

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#HorrorWritersChat Guess who forgot about this again! But I'm here now...

Hi. DJW here. I'm writing a few books called Descendant and I have zero idea when it will be out. It's a cosmic horror/love story-ish and I am taking a break from it.

I'm reading Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse. It's the second in a fantasy series rooted mesoamerican folklore and it is awesome. The world building is just incredible. The only downside is that I cannot physically relocate to Roanhorse's universe.

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Hello all, my name is Jacob Marsh and I write horror and supernatural thrillers.

If I get a break this week, I might start watching "Welcome to Derry" though I'm a bit concerned by how little I've heard about it. Have any of you been watching?

Horror ends up in everything, in its own way, but I also write fantasy, fairy tale reimaginings, and quasi-historical. A background in horror prepares me for wherever the darkness creeps in, sort of how a background in romance prepares me for the sex bits. It's all practice.

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I LOVE fairytales, folklore, and fantasy. My specialty besides gothic horror is fairytale retellings. The one I’m still proudest of is a genderbent reimagining of the tale “Allerleiruah” in which the magical land the refugee prince escapes to happens to be Asian (Chinese).

'Ello, #HorrorWritersChat, I am a sad monster what writes weird horror and I've been watching the documentary series 'Behind the Monsters'. As for reading, I read 'Lock the Last Door' by our own @vincentlore.bsky.social, which was a delight.

#HorrorWritersChat I've missed you! Been on RAVENFIELD HALL deadline so I've kept strange hours.

I write Gothic novels / Gaslamp Fantasy w/ horror elements & non-fiction on ghost-lore!

Just re-read @shvetathakrar.com's lovely essay in Fairy Tale Magazine about yakshas in her work, go check it out!

Since I don’t have a TARDIS, I love searching for documentaries or podcasts that focus on a specific historical event.

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My fantasy books both have elements of horror, but I've tried to make them fun, more horror comedy, less scary.

I am dabbling in spicy/smut short stories, it is very different. I have had help from other authors. I am good at writing banter, so writing flirting has been fun. 💙

Q2. I write things and then let other people tell me what genre they are. They're all on some spectrum of spooky-speculative-literary. And I write poetry. I used to do a fair bit of journalism but not as much in the past couple years.

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I've also written a dark fantasy which is waiting for me to return for editing!

I find that in writing my horror WIP I'm getting more ideas on how to push the "dark" aspects of my fantasy and it's helping me get fully into my characters' heads and see the depth of their humanity

I have a couple of fantasy WIPs in the works, and I did have my mental health Christmas Carol adaptation where the ghosts represented PTSD, depression and anxiety as Scrooge found himself lost to grief of a loved one.
Also a couple of fairytale ideas that I've been kicking around
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I write in the past and I always look up slang and the weather. I like grounding my fiction in a believable, verifiable reality.
A short I’ve been polishing is about a weird meteor shower from ages ago.
If it inspired me to write, I want you to be curious, too.

Obviously , dark fantasy. But I also dabble in science fiction from time to time. I also write essays and articles for publication, blog posts on my blog, and millions of emails and social media posts
Also, I'd like to someday experiment with erotica and LitRPG. Just saying. #HorrorWritersChat.

Hi! I'm Sophia! I'm about to query WHEN THEY COME FOR US, about a fake medium, a hungry afterlife, and the ravages of war and grief.

I'm reading THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN by Jen Sookfong Lee, an intergenerational horror about mother-daughter relations and legacies of violence. #HorrorWritersChat

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Well, I guess I'd have to start by figuring out if I want the setting to be accurate or feel accurate. Will certain details detract from the story, and why it needs to take place in the past. A combination of who I am writing for, and why write it. Then loads of research!