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MA Writing Grad Reviews HORROR BOOKS YouTube video by Pirate Char

I’ve started reviewing horror books! Check in and let me know if you agree with my opinions

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Does anyone have any good horror book accounts to follow on here? 🙏🏻 readers or writers!

SIX OF 🐦‍⬛ x OUR FLAG MEANS ☠️

Framed for the murder of the father who once ordered her to the plank, a cursed, cold-hearted pirate is forced into an uneasy alliance with a rival captain to carve out the truth behind the death before the pirate lords carve her down.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #DF #RF #H #MY

Two fishing boats sail on a grey ocean, with seagulls in the overcast sky. White text overlaps the grey sky. It reads: A guide to 'From the Sea Fret' a 74k adult queer horror

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Excerpt Text is outlined: I scanned the horizon. It was just me on the water. There wasn’t anyone out sailing, or anyone swimming. I was completely alone. But… was I? Beneath me were leagues of ocean. Unlike in the forest, where you can hear the wildlife around you, there were creatures that could pass by in the sea and I would never know. The water concealed their movement, cloaking them from my view. It was getting harder to breathe. The vastness of the ocean was too open, and my skin felt too tight around my chest. I knew, deep in my bones, that something was beneath me and it was watching. On the port side, the water rippled. Though it was only a few steps, the length of the deck felt miles long. I was compelled to look below, and my body moved on its own accord. Though I was terrified of what I would see, I peered over.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Pitch and Comps Text is outlined: Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. He's hoping that the small fishing town will give him what he always wanted; peace. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, conspiracy and creatures beyond comprehension. 5 posters for books and shows have arrows and notes coming out of them. Dredge by Black Salt Games has the notes: Capitalism despite the horrors. Something's wrong with the fish. Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner has the notes: Queer and trans identity. People are monsters too. The Fisherman by John Langan has the notes: Lovecraftian. Ocean madness. The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers has the notes: Ocean madness. Obsession with answers. Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It has the notes: Who can you trust? Small town cosmic terror.

Grey ocean, with a white-capped wave, serves as the background. The title reads: Themes A moodboard of 9 images sits in the middle. A hand reaching out into dark water. Thick seaweed-covered chains being pulled from the ocean. A foggy wharf at night. A group of sharks in dark water. A pencil drawing of a compass on white paper. Close-up of a hazel eye with the pupil completely white. A pile of fish. A porthole looking out onto a grey ocean. The inside of a fishing shack. Text surrounds the images. It reads: Paranoia turns revenge. Struggles with identity. Trans and queer rep. Grief over what could have been. Desperation to fit in. Cosmic/psychological/body horror. Content warnings: emotional abuse, attempted sexual assault, manipulation, transphobia, internalised transphobia, misogyny, cosmic horror, psychological horror, religious trauma, drug/alcohol use, gore, death, blood, paranoia, body horror

⚓FROM THE SEA FRET⚓ - A cosmic horror from a queer perspective

Callum Point moves to Perne in search of peace. What he finds instead are religious zealots, monstrous fish, and a constant fog that whispers to him.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #LGBT

medical illustrations of a skull and a spine in the top left corner; a bronze statue of Lady Justice in the top right corner; a picture of a red brick house and a tree mid-autumn with red and orange leaves hanging on its branches in the bottom left corner; and a close-up of michaelangelo’s david in the bottom right corner.

WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE
a fantasy horror about a college freshman who joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic
🫀dark academia x body horror x STEM
🫀south asian rep x bi4bi
🫀vengeance, moral ambiguity, & guts galore
#questpit #W #A #F #H

Gothic manor, watching eye, Cornish coast, ornate key, handwritten letter, locked door in 6-panel collage

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

Sarah Waters meets Shirley Jackson.

For readers of:
📖 MEXICAN GOTHIC
📖 THE LITTLE STRANGER
📖 REBECCA
📖 PIRANESI

A woman falls in love with a house. She cannot quite tell whether the feeling is mutual.

#QuestPit

6 image moodboard with a rust red background Top left: monster in a forest Top right: yt girl with wavy hair & white Tshirt (representing the main FMC) Middle: a hand with flames, a girl doing a tarot pull Bottom left: 3 women dancing around a fire pit, forest scenery The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon

6 image moodboard with a rust red background Top left: monster in forest Top right: Romani woman with thick, curly hair & patterned head scarf (representing the second FMC) Middle: hand with a flame, woman dancing in front of a large fire Bottom left: covered caravan Bottom right: forest scenery The Witch of Gatlinburg | Demri Redmon

WEYWARD x THE BEWITCHING

When two witches in different eras find themselves battling the same ancient forest spirit, they must use magic to communicate through time and find a way to save their covens from total destruction.

#questpit #H #S #Q

Oulander x Ring Shout x Fleabag

In WWII London, at Guy’s Hospital, an Irish nurse works, tending to victims of the Blitz, turning cots, and executing demons by her other name, Saint Brigid of Kildare.

KILDARE
🍀 Irish Female protagonist
🍀 1940s London
🍀 Questionable saints

#questpit #HF #W #A

THANK YOU ❤️ Now, Conjurers is such a good book

Dark stone well surrounded by overgrown ivy and moss, title WHERE ECHOES WAIT overlaid in white text.

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins.

The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud.

Epistolary gothic horror.

#QUESTPIT

Screenshot of a reddit post reading: AITA for predicting my aunt will die? The other day I [M20] heard the banshee, meaning someone in my family will die, and obviously it's going to be my aunt. She's pretty sickly and I can't imagine any other option. But when I told my family, they called me a disgrace. Naturally I tracked down the banshee and demanded answers, but she was totally useless and couldn't tell me shit, so I stole her comb. Sweet revenge. But I didn't anticipate that she'd try to get it back... and when I tried to get her out of my bedroom (hello, personal space???) I accidentally touched her and she had this weird seiuzure. Now this creepy, undead (but lowkey hot) chick is insisting that "my touch brings her memories back" and "she craves more". I can't lie, I'm temped (just because I want to find out who'll actually die and prove my family wrong... no other reason). If my dickhead cousin finds out about this I'm totally screwed. AITA?

Gothic mood board depicting a skull, an ancient Irish chieftain with a hunting dog, hands reaching through a ghostly gauze, a yearning man kissing the hand of his lover, a thurible spewing incense, hands clasped in prayer with a rosary, a woman in white facing a vast forest, and hands ripping a hole in the center of the owner's chest. Text reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 82,000 words, adult gothic horror"

AITA?

…Find out what happens next when the black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, even as the black plague closes in.

💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee

#QuestPit #Q #A #H #Horrormance

At Holy Conduits Academy, twins Beatrice and Benedict share a single miracle: two halves of the same Stigmata, the sacred yet painful marks that grant the power of divine healing. But when Beatrice returns transformed into a flawless, autonomous healer, Benedict is left abandoned in her shadow. However, her newfound perfection reeks of something unholy, and the darkness clinging to her is beginning to stir. COMPS Saint Maud Bunny Seklusyon Diablo IV The Secret History

A guide to REPLICA.

She returned with a perfect miracle, but her divine healing hides a hellish rot.

📖 Dark Academia: Holy Edition
🎭 Cult Vibes
❤️‍🩹 Toxic Sibling Dynamic
😈 Problematic FMC
💀 Dying Magic System
🪽 Religious Horror

#questpit #A #H #F #W

a skull, a lion, and candles on a black background. white text that reads: AN EDITOR'S GUIDE TO HEATHER CARTER'S ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL. ON SUBMISSION NOW. AGENTS: KATRINA LEMAIRE AND MARISA CORVISIERO OF CORVISIERO LITERARY AGENCY.

a skull, a lion, and candles on a black background. FOUR IMAGES OF BOOK COVERS (WE LIVE HERE NOW, CRIMSON PEAK- MOVIE, THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE, PHANTASMA). WHITE TEXT: ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL, Trapped in a ghostly limbo with no memories, Alloson and John must escape a haunted house that comes to life nightly with two-hundred-year-old ball. As their love grows, the time loop deteriorates and the house rages. They must solve the mystery of Radfield Hall before violent entities, possession, and a murderous prophecy claim their souls for darkness & part them forever. 99,000 WORDS, DUAL POV, ADULT GOTHIC PARANORMAL ROMANCE, ON SUBMISSION NOW, AGENTS: KATRINA LEMAIRE AND MARISA CORVISIERO OF CORVISIERO LITERARY AGENCY

a skull, a lion, and candles on a black background. WHITE TEXT IN TWO COLUMNS. COLUMN ONE: THEMES. ADULT GOTHIC PARANORMAL ROMANCE, AMNESIA, GHOSTS, NIGHTLY 19TH CENTURY BALL, TIME LOOP, HORROR AND ROMANCE, POSSESSION, CURSED BOOK WRITTEN IIN BLOOD, SPICE. SECOND COLUMN: COMPS. CRIMSON PEAK (GUILLERMO DEL TORO FILM), PHANTASMA (KAYLIE SMITH), THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE (CARISSA ORLANDO), WE LIVE HERE NOW (SARAH PINDBOROUGH)

a skull, a lion, and candles on a black background. WHITE TEXT: OPENING LINES. I drifted on a strange sea between worlds. If I once knew light, it had long abandoned me to a dark, feral nightmare. I ran through the shadowy plane, screaming until I collapsed, succumbing to the burn in my limbs. Through the hazy edges and echoing rumbles, the harsh line between the living and the realm of the dead withered.

PHANTASMA X THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE
Trapped in a haunted house that's stuck in a two-hundred-year-old time loop, Alloson and John must escape before an evil curse steals their souls.
#QuestPit #AG #OS #A #PR #R #H #Gothic

a dark-toned room with an archway containing a dark figure with a lantern. Four light gold decorative corner accents overlaying the image. Silver text that reads: THESE DARK TEARS. HEATHER CARTER. A WIP. 94K WORDS. ADULT GOTHIC ROMANTASY.

a dark-toned room with an archway containing a dark figure with a lantern. Four light gold decorative corner accents overlaying the image. Text reads: PITCH. Andra and her brother inherit Caridale, their childhood estate, only to find it in the grip of a dark curse. The walls cry black tears, vengeful ghosts haunt the halls, and the servants meet grisly ends. When a shadowy phantom takes interest in Andra and wants to strike a sordid bargain, she must break the curse before Caridale is lost forever.

a dark-toned room with an archway containing a dark figure with a lantern. Four light gold decorative corner accents overlaying the image. Four book cover/movie images: At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, Anatheme by Keri Lake, and the movie poster for The Phantom of the Opera (2004). Text reads: THEMES. Family Secrets, Hypoglycemic FMC, Haunted Mansion, Creepy Caves, Curses, Love Triangle (with a twist!)

a dark-toned room with an archway containing a dark figure with a lantern. Four light gold decorative corner accents overlaying the image. Text reads: OPENING LINES. My mother’s screams rattled my bones as I curled tighter into the shell of the old quilt. Slamming my hands over my ears, I tried in vain to block the awful, bloodcurdling sound, but it pierced through every layer of skin and sinew, singing in my veins.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA X ONE DARK WINDOW
Andra & her brother inherit Caridale, their childhood home, only to find it in the grip of a ghostly curse. Unless Andra surrenders to the phantom, servants will perish...and the ghosts will rage.
#QuestPit #WIP #AG #A #F #PR #H

Dark moodboard with deer, moths, forests, tapestry, monsters, roots, and vintage boarding school vibes.

A green collage with swirly accents and the text "as above so below".

#QuestPit #W #YA #H #MY #PR #RF

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x AGGGTM

To survive the summer at her coastal hometown's boarding school, Noa must:

1. End a (murderous?) moth infestation 🦋
2. Solve a decades-old cold case identical to her mother's 🔍
3. Not kill (or kiss) her new roommate, Ivy ❤️‍🔥

Mood board with: two interlocking wedding bands; a pendant with a heart that looks like a computer chip; a push-button computer chip; a gloved hand holding a flaming tube of red lipstick; a "New Messages" notification envelope symbol; a false eyelash; a broken mirror with pieces being picked up by a woman's hands; a woman's head and torso covered with billowing, sheer red fabric; a control room with a high-backed chair and several red computer screens; a woman in a long, close-fitting black dress with several dangling cords around her; a staircase with a woman in a formal black dress at the top and a man in a suit at the bottom, both people with their backs to the camera; fingers holding a broken mirror in which one eye is reflected; and a cocktail glass with cherries in and around it as well as a lipstick- and other red substance-smeared napkin, and a woman's hand (with long red nails, two silver rings, and sheer black fabric covering part of her hand/wrist) holding the glass.

“Love Is Blind” x THE STEPFORD WIVES

Alyssa attends a singles retreat where, unbeknownst to her, a wealthy man pays a hefty sum to make her fall in love. When she returns home after two years abroad with him, her friends are shocked at just how much she's changed.

#QuestPit #Q #A #S #T

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my book ALL THE DEVILS aka devilswip. in order from right to left they are: london notably the landmark big ben, a band performing on stage, a sheet of music, a record store, the silhouette of a rockstar, some musical instruments scattered on a bed, two men running, a pile of evidence and finally a hand holding a cigarette

🎸 daisy jones x knives out 🗡️

the songstress, the gambler, the sweetheart, the watcher, the matriarch and the rogue. six suspects. one the killer of renowned rock star sam corvi. but who? only they can tell you

#questpit #Q #A #LF #MY

Fear Street x The Secret History

While Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play she finds a dead body. When her friends begin turning up dead she wonders which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses?

#Questpit #Q #A #T #H #MY

Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…

"I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life.

INDIE INK AWARD 2025 FINALIST GRIM PORTENTS Grim Portents has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 Indie Ink Awards in the category: Writing the Future We Need: Latinx Representation by Latinx Author Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

Grim Portents

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of

📖 #F #H #PN #A #P #OV #POC #questpit

A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship

When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.

But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.

Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…

#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color. The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects. At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END

When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign.

#QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
Journals of a Familiar
Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape.
#questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

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THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTOR

💀 Teen monster horror
💀 Fast-paced, action-filled
💀 Small town mystery
💀 My job might be evil
💀 Bi-romantic asexual protagonist

#QuestPit #H #YA #Q

It’s my first time here! Is QuestPit US-only or can I join as a UK-based writer?

Hey all! I’m new to bluesky! Hmu if you’re interested in reading or writing horror (adult or YA). I love slashers, ghosts, and anything gothic 🕷️

Made this whole account just because I saw your TikTok 😭🙏🏻 thank you for your service