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- Q4: #HorrorWritersChat My novelette, The Light Across the Street, the MC’s father quickly passes and the story progresses from there. I personified it as rot; fungus; slime; dust, greasy and gritty. It’s not really an entity (though there are entities in the book), but a pervasive, unending decay.
- 4 February is World Cancer Day. 1 in 5 people develops cancer. We lost HWC originator Matt to cancer in 2025 🤍🕯️ #HorrorWritersChat - The call is coming from inside the house. Q4: Write a one-post scene where your character meets the personification of cancer in their home. --- Outro in 10 mins
- Q3: #HorrorWritersChat Based on the physical symptoms of my own generalized anxiety, I wrote Red Clouds with a lot of reference to agitated nerves, pain, pins & needles in hands to mark the character becoming frightened. But of course, in body horror, it’s more than just anxiety…
- #HorrorWritersChat Our bodies are the homes that house us. Sometimes they work to our advantage. Sometimes they can work against us. Q3: Describe the physical characteristics of one of your horror story characters. Is there anything about their body that helps or hinders them in their story?
- Q2: #HorrorWritersChat In my novel, In the House of In Between, Backlund House is the constant. It is a domicile; no malice. However, because it IS a constant, there are grooves to fall into and find yourself facing—something. Sorta like, hearing a song and it’s a coworker just in their groove.
- #HorrorWritersChat In fiction, homes tell us something about their inhabitants. Q2: How do the living spaces in your horror reflect your characters?
- Q1: #HorrorWritersChat JD Buffington home now, safe from corporate meddling. Author of horror and scifi—and I do blurby reviews of books and other media, too. Poltergeist comes to mind first. I moved a lot as a kid and was always afraid of finding ourselves someplace haunted. Only a few times.
- Welcome to #HorrorWritersChat I hope you've grabbed a snack and a drink in a cosy spot. Let's begin. Q1: Introduce yourself and the horror subgenres you write. Then, share your favourite horror story/movie set inside a home.
- Thanks so much for the thoughtful questions! ❤️ #horrorwriterschat If anyone wants to read a sometimes sad, hopefully funny, occasionally brutal queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber, The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle is available: Here books2read.com/u/boB9YL & here steve-westenra.itch.io
- Thanks Mary! Great questions as ever, & a great tribute to Matt Since Marcellus has been in my answers again, here's my pay-what-you-like novella, By the Blood, with the Vampire Priest acting as ward and governor to a suspected vampire - protecting her from town and undead alike #HorrorWritersChat
- It's World Cancer Day. I’m highlighting Macmillan Cancer Support and the fundraiser for our dearly departed Matt 🕯️🤍 who we lost to cancer last year. Matt started #HorrorWritersChat which has grown into our dear community. Please also check out his books under MG Mason @chaoticauthor.online
- Thank you for attending #HorrorWritersChat and sharing your horror with us. Once you’ve answered the questions, it’s time to share your stuff! It's promo time. Let’s also uplift each other and reshare what we see. --- Join us again next Wednesday...but don't be a stranger.
- 4 February is World Cancer Day. 1 in 5 people develops cancer. We lost HWC originator Matt to cancer in 2025 🤍🕯️ #HorrorWritersChat - The call is coming from inside the house. Q4: Write a one-post scene where your character meets the personification of cancer in their home. --- Outro in 10 mins
- #HorrorWritersChat Our bodies are the homes that house us. Sometimes they work to our advantage. Sometimes they can work against us. Q3: Describe the physical characteristics of one of your horror story characters. Is there anything about their body that helps or hinders them in their story?
- #HorrorWritersChat In fiction, homes tell us something about their inhabitants. Q2: How do the living spaces in your horror reflect your characters?
- Welcome to #HorrorWritersChat I hope you've grabbed a snack and a drink in a cosy spot. Let's begin. Q1: Introduce yourself and the horror subgenres you write. Then, share your favourite horror story/movie set inside a home.
- I appreciate the community and camaraderie of #HorrorWritersChat, but I may be absent the next few weeks as some corporate big wig is hanging out with us to try and improve our quality and efficiency. This person has never worked with our machines and has already made a terrible suggestion. Yay.
