#HorrorWritersChat I write speculative/post-apocalyptic horror.

What I'm reading: a biography of Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser. It's both biography & horror story, since Her Majesty has a special date w/ the executioner.

What I'm watching: the news, it keeps me up at night, so. . . horror?

Be prepared to spend many hours researching how windows/buckles/rugs worked in your time period. I love that sort of thing. Often it's the mundane details that spark the imagination. For voice, go direct to first-person accounts - diaries, memoirs etc - to avoid cliches.

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Pretty much anything horrific from @stephengrahamjones.com or @chuckwendig.bsky.social gets my vote. And Ryan Coogler and Jordan Peele are the best horror directors right now IMHO. #HorrorWritersChat

I tend to read stories and novels set in that time period. I watch some TV and movies depicting the era. Then, I dive into research mode. This, though, can be dangerous. I do enough to make it look like I know what I’m talking about rather than so much that I never get to writing. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I'm Nat, I write horror & crime fic, & this week I'm:

Reading: an incredible novel from @brennanlafaro.bsky.social & a bunch of compsci papers on LLMs & the illusion of knowledge

Listening to: The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

Watching: Chip & Dale w/ the kids

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Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Brian Keene, Mary Sangiovanni, Keith Rosson, T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw.

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I've written crime fiction, Weird Westerns, Military Horror, and non fiction for various books and magazines. Wrote a history of sword & sorcery for Weird Tales. Essays about Dracula, Dark Shadows,comics, etc. I like to write about monsters,so the horror writing comes in handy.

I also write urban fantasy/dark Oz, & romantasy. But a little body horror creeps into everything I write, as does a little romance, even in the horror. Love blending genres. Knowing how to set up a chilling scene def helps with my UF series, as my Oz is dark & dangerous. #HorrorWritersChat

I’m Cullen. I’ve been writing horror comics for… oh Lord… nearly 20 years. And my first full-length adult horror novel came out just recently. This week, I’ve been re-reading Skipp & Skektor’s ANIMALS and Nancy Collins’ SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK!

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EVERYTHING

A lot of what i write is mashup: horror + crime + sci-fi, + whatever else grabs me...

I've written a sapphic con artist trilogy set in 90s London, & a screwball romcom; I have an ongoing series of demon detective novellas that's basically Discworld x Miss Marple...

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I do want their queerness to feel authentic to the period, bc I roll my eyes at how shallow some modern “first ever feminist retelling[s] of Frankenstein!!” can be.

I read academic papers. I have Victorian history content that I follow to just absorb casually over time. +

#HorrorWritersChat What a fitting question for 90% of my work!

My academic background is historic theatre, late 1800s & extensive tour guide work.

My favorite part of worldbuilding is the physicality of areas, walking streets my characters would walk & finding the 19th C. spaces that still exist.

RESEARCH ALL THE THINGS! I love going down research rabbit holes, finding primary sources. As an editor, I love it when authors do the work to make an historical setting as accurate as possible. Always makes for a richer story no matter the genre. #horrorWritersChat

Andrew Joseph White's You Weren't Meant to Be Human blew my mind. I also loved The Lamb by Lucy Rose. (But I love folk horror!) #horrorwriterschat

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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I write articles, RPGs, superhero comic books, fantasy, and everything in-between. Horror is SO emotionally charged. You really dig into the emotions and characters… especially if you want readers to care… and that plays an important role in all other writing.

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Hello! I am Kimberly Davis Basso, I write horror that sneaks up on you. I am reading some non-fic this week and maybe some sci-fi as I’m still agog over Artemis II.
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Hi! I’m Gabe, a trans man that writes quite a lot, and this is my first #HorrorWritersChat!
I’ve been watching a lot of CSI lately (starting from the beginning) and I’m thinking of having a Robert Eggers marathon this weekend. #Boydmartins

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#HorrorWritersChat Some of my favorite horror books I’ve read in the last year!
I wanna highlight one of my favorite queer horror novels, The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield. His prose and the illustrations are phenomenal! I can’t wait for his next book, Conjoined Angels!

Oh my sweet, amazing friendos of #HorrorWritersChat ...all I've been able to create since January is the attached illustration.

I would love some energy, but for now, self-care? (whatever that means.)

Y'all rock and I hope doing well. <3

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I do a TON of research. Once wrote a screenplay that took place in the 1800s in a fictional MA town. So I had to do a bunch of research on the approximate area, read books about the time period, etc.

Went nowhere, but that's my typical research frenzy. :) #Boydmartins

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Little bit of research, little bit of playing with anachronisms. Ideally I want the details to be as right as possible, or at least believable. There will always be THAT reader who says theremins didnt exist in the Old West. #Boydmartins

Going through my Goodreads. Cruel Angels Past Sundown: Hailey Piper. Charles Stross's Laundry Files series. William Meikle's S-Squad series. Martha Well's Murderbot series. Ascension by Nicholas Binge. A haunting in the Arctic: CJ Cooke #horrorwriterschat