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@darknweird

#Writer #writing #amwriting #WritingCommunity #scifibooks #horrorbooks writes horror, sci-fi, weird most music, but mostly metal (black or death) too weird to be AI

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27 Million Parsecs to Hell

Keir Danjuma is a bio-engineer who thinks he can escape his past by leaving the galaxy, but four aliens, or maybe they're demons, have decided he needs to play a game with them first

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#agentguide #A #H #SF

25.02.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

once again #revpit is upon us! A lot more interest in horror this year than some of the prior ones

#WritingCommunity #RevPit2026 #horrorbooks

21.02.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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latest read: Crypt of the Moon Spider - Nathan Ballingrud - beautiful and weird. It's on the shorter side, so you can lay down in the language and spend some quality time with it while it burrows into your brain

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

19.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

latest read: Into Neon - Matthew A. Goodwin - @thutoworld.bsky.social . Old fashioned cyberpunk. No surprises, but well done. More body augs than some other offerings and no punches pulled on the violence that requires new body parts.

#reading #bookblog #booksky #cyberpunk

14.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is a great way to find more people in the horror community

04.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

two weeks of grinding out edits, but finally got last year's space horror into the hands of some beta readers. it's still rough but they're doing me a solid and putting eyes on it

#fiction #horror #writing #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #editing

25.01.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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latest read: HorrorstΓΆr - Grady Hendrix. slow build and then the horror went from a 2 to a 9 in about a chapter. stayed pretty relentless for the rest of the book

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

20.01.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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latest read: All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe - 3rd Miyabe book I've read. Just as quirky as the others. I really liked the ending, not expected.

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

20.01.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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well, hello there Clockwork Orange, it's been a while. We're not quite to moloko vellocet yet, but it feels like 2026 is going to be the year we see caffeinated milk in schools

18.01.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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1st read of '26: Not a Speck of Light - Laird Barron - @lairdbarron.bsky.social
- 'Blood in My Mouth' and 'Tiptoe' were exceptional. All around solid horror short stories, with some overlap (big fan). All of them Alaska winter bleak.

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

07.01.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

finished the ugly 1st draft for the new WIP. faster, but messier than the one I finished back in March. guess we'll see how the edits go

#fiction #horror #writing #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #editing

31.12.2025 06:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks!!

28.12.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thank you!

19.12.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

passed 30k on the new WIP over the weekend. 1st draft feels close

#writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

17.12.2025 01:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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watched Fatman this weekend and was blown away by Walter Coggins ("Skinny Man"). Every line, every action was malice and menace. Such an efficient depiction of villainy. it was amazing

#villains #movies #writing #horrorwriting

15.12.2025 02:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

latest read: no one will come back for us - premee mohammed - β€ͺ@premeemohamed.com. A fun collection of (often cosmic) horror short stories. I really enjoyed that several touched the same shared world from a few different angles. The Evaluator was my fave

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

07.12.2025 06:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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(next to) latest read: The Sleeping Dragon - Miyuki Miyabe. This was a weird mystery. What was an otherwise straightforward mystery included a couple of psychics. I don't run across a lot of speculative elements in mysteries. Fascinating.

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

07.12.2025 05:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

finished Nov. @ 22k on the new WIP. There's a solid chance I can finish the 1st draft by the end of the year

#writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

02.12.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm very sad to share the news that our lovely @chaoticauthor.online has passed away. His ending was peaceful and surrounded with love but came far too quickly after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.

28.11.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 38
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settling in for an end of the month writing sprint with Blut Aus Nord - "Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses"

#horrorwriting #amwriting #wip

28.11.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

finally broke 15k words on the new book. it still feels like a slog, but it's moving faster than the last one

#writingcommunity #HorrorAuthor #skywriters

24.11.2025 03:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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latest read: In a Lonely Place - Dorothy Hughes -
A nice piece of noir. The time and place are familiar to fans of Raymond Chandler, but the author tells it from the POV of an emotionally unstable vet with no boundaries.

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

16.11.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully, it's an A24 production. Otherwise, it's awkward when I call out their awesomeness. Frank Miller's name might sneak in for Sin City's contribution to contemporary noir and adding monsters to the mix

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13.11.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bourbon, dim sum, and bloody red velvet cake. The booze and blood flow. And everyone likes dim sum

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13.11.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hugo Weaving is Weird Rey (antag). He radiates maniacal menace. The protag is tougher. I would need a young, charming meathead.

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13.11.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm Joe and I write sci-fi horror. For the vibes, Blue Velvet and The Devil Conspiracy. One starts normal and takes it to an absurd extreme. The other is an absurd premise and gets told straightforward. That transition between normal and absurd is what I love and try to bring

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13.11.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my two favorite fake AI words of the day - volating and runctious. FWIW, I'm going to try and spend the rest of my day volating, possibly in a runctious manner

#writing #horrorwriters #damnyouai

11.11.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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latest read: This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances - Eric LaRocca - @ericlarocca.bsky.social . Not my usual flavor of horror, but I enjoyed it. My fave - "All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn". A weird tale of obsession.

#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks

27.10.2025 01:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Visiting? Elisa. Not my absolute favorite, but easily the most fun. Some of those others ... not so fun.

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23.10.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My current WIP has some flavors of Alien, Hellraiser, old sci-fi, and Asian myths.

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23.10.2025 03:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0