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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

I'm reading for the excellent Strong Women, Strange Worlds next Thursday, March 20 at 4:00 PDT/7:00 EDT—with all these fantastic writers of speculative fiction! These online readings are free—and there are prizes! Sign up at eventbrite.com/o/strong-women- to attend. See you there? @Writing_Norse #Bookstodon #FreeBooks #AuthorReading #WomenAuthors #EnbyAuthors #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #FantasyFiction #HorrorFiction

Text: Strong Women, Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar [with color photo of fair-skinned woman with long, curly dark hair; she wears a black V-neck with embroidery], Nora Peevy [with sepia-toned photo of woman with cat-eye glasses, devil horns, and straight hair worn short; she wears a dark crew-neck T-shirt], Dani Finn [color art portrait of a fair-skinned person with plastic-framed glasses, blond hair worn short and over the ears, and a light blue button-up with a pattern], Angela Acosta [color photo of a woman with medium-brown skin, glasses, and long, straight, dark hair; she wears a pink button-up], Laura Blackwell [color photo of a fair-skinned woman with cat-eye glasses and graying shoulder-length hair; she wears a lavender pointelle cardigan, and Violette L. Meier [color photo of a Black woman with long braids; she wears a black blouse] / March 20, 7pm EDT Free on Zoom / Preregister now at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.weebly.com
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🕯✒️📜Writch📜✒️🕯

Just finished reading the whole collection of HP Lovecraft's fiction, and it was in some ways really interesting and enlightening. Not necessarily in the ways he may have WANTED, mind you, but still...

Gracious, did that man love to read himself write like some people like to hear themselves talk. And the racism could get real unbearable at times. But overall, I can see why his world-building and eerie atmospheres are still beloved to this day.

Also, now I finally get some of the references in Lovecraft-based media I like, so that's fun.

#bookstodon#book#reading
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Paracyclops

I’m very behind reading fiction magazines, about a year behind in fact. Interzone 297 was up to its usual exacting standards, with some excellent non-fiction (although, am I alone in NOT wanting book reviews to include a detailed synopsis?) Fav story: ‘Lights of the New World’ by Paul E. Franz

#sf #sff #sffh #sffh+ #sciencefiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #horrorfiction #shortstories #shortfiction #interzone #bookstodon @bookstodon @InterzoneMag

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Jesse Miksic

Going to do some book browsing tomorrow for my birthday. 🥳

Might buy a horror novel or short stories. I’m thinking Laird Barron, Christopher Buehlman, Isabel Cañas, Mariana Enriquez, Catriona Ward.

Also thinking of a graphic novel with some fresh and exciting art.

I like poetry, and I’m currently very interested in the possibilities of poetry and illustration. Something like Mervyn Peake, Julian Peters.

Anyone have any suggestions?

#bookstodon#poetry#horrorFiction
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IanMoore3000

One of the great things about reading anthologies of horror fiction is spotting the bit in the story where the protagonist has a choice to make and makes the patently stupid one; in the case of a story I finished recently it was replying "Why yes of course" to some randomer saying "I see you are reading a book about witchcraft - would you like to come back to my place and take part in a real life magic ritual?"

#RamseyCampbell#HorrorFiction
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CTGT

Ghostwritten
Ronald Malfi

I'm a big fan of the short form for horror so this format was made for me. Four interconnected stories that ramped up the creep factor.

A literary agent tries to track down a client who has dropped off the grid while working on a difficult screen adaptation.

Two bag men accept a job to deliver a rare book, with a few strange stipulations on how the book is to be handled and transported.

A boy with a strange pop-up book and few friends invites classmates to his birthday party.

A man tries to understand what happened to a former colleague after she received a series of emails with strange audio attachments.

9/10

#horror #horrorfiction #bookstodon @horror

Cover of Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi. A boy stands on stage with the curtains drawn. He is wearing a long sleeved white shirt, red tie, black pants and a clown mask as he carries a old fashioned lantern.
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Sarah Jackson

The Haunted Tea Set & Other Stories is "a delightful debut collection of ghostly short stories and other weird tales" 👻

Read the reviews on Goodreads: goodreads.com/book/show/204517

If it sounds like the kind of thing you might enjoy, you can get it as a paperback and ebook from most of the usual places. Links here! sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/writi

Vintage photo of a smiling woman in 1960s dress and cat eye glasses, with a ghostly double due to double exposure of the film. Text in pink reads The Haunted Tea Set & Other Stories, Sarah Jackson
#Horror#GhostStories#WeirdFiction
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