#horror authors

[gollancz]

The synopsis says: “It’s the hottest summer on record and London is dying. Prices are high, pay is low, and stressed commuters are packed on to London Underground trains again like the pandemic never happened. To add to the misery, the temperatures underground just keep climbing and climbing, the heat trapped in the clay with nowhere to go. 

“Five travellers on an unlucky tube carriage find themselves bound together one morning as witnesses to a single horrific event – an event they can’t quite seem to remember. They make an unlikely team: weary tube driver, a disillusioned civil servant, an ambitious city trader, an overwhelmed hotel worker and an unhoused young man just trying to get by – but now they must come together to confront what they have seen and stop it in its tracks. Because there’s something lurking in the stifling darkness and labyrinthine tunnels that run below London… something old, something vicious, and something very, very hungry.” 

I couldn't be more excited to be working with @jonnywaistcoat on his next two novels! This is just more of what he does best - pulling apart the very seams of society and giving me very specific new sleep paralysis demons, and somehow getting me to say thank you afterwards.

And if you're near London next month, why not pop along to Gollanczfest to hear him chat all things horror with Joe Hill and V. V. James? Tickets are still available:

[leechjuice]

writeblr intro

who protects the shepherd; seduced by bleeding fur?

hello folks! i'm victor ivan (he/they), a queer novelist and screenwriter from the canadian maritimes. my first novel, in the end, you kill us both, an ode to revenge road trips and cannibalistic lesbians, is in final edits. i'm currently drafting my second novel, a lit-horror examination of cyclical abuse, religious psychosis & immoral healing through the eyes of five southern baptist teens who decide to worship a local dead girl as their own god. you can find snippets and updates of all my projects on my page. i'd love to find some fellow authors who love bugs, the monstrous feminine, horror of all mediums and writing as much as i do.

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[patricia-von-arundel]

With the current resurgence of popularity for horror, I want to read 52 horror books in 2023. But I don't want to just read the big names everyone knows. If you write (or read and want to recommend) horror, drop me an author and a title? I'm no one influential, but I'll review!

(Cross-posted to Twitter. Hence the strange wording. 😉)

[rotten-whispers]

Boxes, a horror novel by Baroque Forrest

(More info in pinned post)

[darklongbox]

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out Of Space. Paperback horror art by Victor Valla.

[malicious-code-103]

Follow nonbinary Baxley’s journey through the monster-infested Complex in my horror novel, “Boxes!” See pinned post for l1nk and to see content warnings in the Boxes masterpost📦

Featuring:

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ characters

❤️ Polyamory

☠️Sci-fi horror

🐿️Monsters

🔙Overcoming trauma

[sahonithereadwolf]

Presenting  Sahoni’s Venn-Diagram of Horror Authors

[yamchaisawesome]

Mary Shelly: Deep and disturbing thinkpiece on the human condition and the advancement of science.

Bram Stoker: Story that was a really cool slow burn mystery back in the day but is laughably obvious to the modern reader. Oh the pain of being a genre establishing trendsetter.

Edgar Allen Poe: DEATH DEATH DEATH MADNESS DEATH DEATH DEA-

HP Lovecraft: *Blatant Racism*, *Misunderstood Scientific Concept*, *Horrifying and Unknowable Entities That See Us Like Bacteria*

Junji Ito: What if a shark had legs wouldn’t that be fucked up?

[pattytempleton]

A hell yeah horror pre order!

[ashley-slashley]

horror authors need to stop using little girls as the punching bag in their books. it's getting old. every other "shocking" or "disturbing" book is about some girl under the age of 15 with blonde hair getting r*ped, tortured, murdered, and subjected to other acts that classify as human rights violations. we get it, you hate women and children, shut up

[marlenadutch]

Writeblr, I am on Twitter! Please follow me if you're over there.

I am especially interested in connecting with other authors, publishers, editors, proofreaders, reviewers, and artists.

[leechjuice]

last line tag

rules: share the last line you wrote in your wip

my sweet fiancée never allowing me to experience fomo i love u @cruelflesh <3

Rage left hot on the heels of Midge’s consciousness, gently sweeping the door shut behind them as they went.

please consider this open tag a personal invitation for you to share your most sacrilegious lines with the rest of the class

[spookyscribe]

I have thought over the matter on which you consulted me the other night, and my advice to you is this. Throw the portrait into the fire, blot out the story from your mind. Never give it another thought, Villiers, or you will be sorry. You will think, no doubt, that I am in possession of some secret information, and to a certain extent that is the case. But I only know a little; I am like a traveller who has peered over an abyss, and has drawn back in terror. What I know is strange enough and horrible enough, but beyond my knowledge there are depths and horrors more frightful still, more incredible than any tale told of winter nights about the fire. I have resolved, and nothing shall shake that resolve, to explore no whit farther, and if you value your happiness you will make the same determination.

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

[authorjacobfloyd]

Women in Horror Month Interview #09: Angelique Jordonna

Though I am not familiar with Angelique’s work, I have spoken with her on occasion and found her to be a very pleasant and friendly individual. I know she stays busy with her own work, anthologies, and her work at PsychoToxin Press. I was glad to be able to interview her for my blog. When was the moment you decided to you wanted to be a writer and what caused it? I’ve always been a reader. Most…

[afabstract]

The Room Upstairs - Book Review

When a mysterious door appears in 10-year-old Martin Gable's house, horrifying things begin to happen to people in their lives.

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) “It was 1998, the year of Britney Spears and Furbies. My home was Birmingham, England. I was ten years old, and I was happy.” Martin Gable recalls the horrors his family had to face when they unwittingly bring in a demonic entity into their home when he was ten years old in the horror novel “The Room Upstairs” by Iain Rob Wright. The…

[dibator]

It Came From The Trees And other violent Aberrations, by Canadian author, Joel McKay

  It Came From The Trees And other violent Aberrations  The newest segment of modern horror by Canadian author, Joel McKay  The book is published by Birchwood Press and is available worldwide in print and e-book format  Tree planters on the run from parasitic insects. A physicist who has become the target of a murderous airline. Teenagers trapped in a museum with an eldritch horror. An escaped…