It’s OctoBOO with Team Halloween

Time for your stories of ghosts, goblins, vampires, and all things that go bump in the night!

If anyone doesn’t wish to be tagged here, please let me know. The tagging is meant to help writers be seen, not annoy them.

Help Me Spread the Word!

I have been restacking stories I find on here of a Halloweenish bent. Help me do more by tagging me in the article or in a Note linking to the article. Let’s spread the chills and thrills of the season along with the colors, scents of spices, and things like pumpkin pie (actually, pumpkin everything)! On October 31st I will post a roundup of stories.

By the way, for those of you also participating in Macabre Monday, this is not connected. If you post in a Chat Thread, I won’t be seeing your stuff since I don’t use the Chat feature much (in fact, I’m no longer seeing anything for Macabre Monday—sigh). Notes is the Homepage of Substack, and when someone follows you, he/she is following your items on Notes.

Team Halloween in alphabetical order:

dhw=definitely human written (might be using AI-generated images, though)

Please let me know if you wish to be designated as “dhw.”

A. B. Frank – Victorian Vignettes – Exploring eerie elegance of Gaslamp Horror in Victorian era. (dhw)

A. R. Crocker – Crockerfeller Tales – Scoop Magilla cretor, Kraken Lore editor

Aaron Gillies – Unsettled Mind – Horror

Adam Kozak – Adam Writes  (dhw)

Alec Worley – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Alexander Ipfelkofer – Tales from the Defrag – Writer, photographer, narrator

Amanda V Shane – Monsters & Mystics – Fantasy, paranormal romance (dhw)

Amri Lewis

Andy Futuro – Andy Futuro – Cyberpunk, horror, dirtbag literature (dhw)

Author Michele Bardsley – Pretty Evil Fiction

Bill Adler – Fiction by Bill Adler  (dhw)

Bill Hiatt – Everywhere and Nowhere: Explore Fantastic Worlds  (dhw, with help from faerie ancestors)

Blake Liddell – Blackthorn Witch

Brian Martinez – Telegrams from Bloodstream City

Brian Schell – Horror Weekly

Buck Weiss – It's the Devil – College professor, Am Lit PhD, pulp reader, horror lover, writer

Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch  (dhw)

Charlotte Pendragon – The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Chris Well – Chris from Monster Complex

Colin Devonshire – Colin’s Dark Stories  (dhw)

Cyndi Gacosta – Cyndi’s Dark Fiction

Dan Blakely – detect magic  (dhw)

Daniel W. Davison – Lamp Post in the Marsh

David Perlmutter – Made from What’s Not Real – Superhero, anthropomorphic, fantasy; also use SF, horror, mystery, other when appropriate. (dhw)

Dungeon Mistress – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles (dabbles in AI for images) (dhw)

E.A. Colquitt – Exploring the Eyrie  (dhw)

Fiona Tate – Vampires & The Vapors – Non-fiction

Georgina Bruce – The Distractionist

Ginger Cook – Ginger’s Substack

Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show

H. Dair Brown – Editor, Disturb Ink Books | Co-Founder, Unsettling Reads

Hanna Delaney – A work of fiction

Heidi Zawelevsky – Conversations with Critters  (dhw)

Honeygloom – Honeygloom  (dhw)

Jean Marie Bauhaus – Through a Glass, Darkly  (dhw)

Jenna B. Neece – Jenna B. Neece - Author & Podcaster – Check out Magical Manifestations podcast (dhw)

Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here  (dhw)

Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week  (dhw)

Jim M – Jim Melvin’s Realms of Fantasy  (dhw)

Jimmy Doom – Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

John Coon – Strange New Worlds – Sci-fi, horror, humor/satire (dhw)

jonasT – Substack von jonasT (in German)

Joyce – Joyce's Place  (dhw)

Katelynsam – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer

Ken Flyingheart – Echoes From the Well  (dhw)

Ken W. – Vindicators  (dhw)

Lauren Salas – Cobwebs and Candles

Lauren Steinheimer – The Salty Witch – Health and wellness (dhw, actually supernaturally written)

Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror  (dhw)

Lisa Morton – Every Day is Halloween

Liz Zimmers – The Palace of Night

Lucas Mangum – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

Luke Harold – luke harold’s substack

Mark Watson Books – The Traveling Circus  (dhw)

Mary Sonny – Wannabe Vampire

Mata Haggis-Burridge – The Inciting Incident with Mata Haggis-Burridge  (dhw)

Matthew Christian – Targeted Nightmares

Michael B. Morgan – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover  (dhw)

Mike Kay – A Shadow of Yew  (dhw)

Nicolina Torres – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres

Norman Crane – The Norman Crane

Paige Garland – Macabre Curiosities – Horror

PC3 – PC3 Horror

Robert Garron – Robert's Substack – Sci-fi, non-traditional fantasy, speculative fiction, weird fiction (dhw)

Rod Bluhm – A Journey of Words – Poet, novelist (working on literary fiction trilogy) (dhw)

S. Dumont – S. Dumont’s Corner

Sam Bartol – Ghost Notes  (dhw)

Scrawls of Dread – Scrawls of the Dread’s Substack  (dhw)

Sergej Klementinovski – Writer's Odyssey

sleightsofheart – The Horror! The Horror!

Slow Burn Horror – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack

Snowyteller – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning!

Strawbridge – The Mind-Soul Sanctum – Re: mental health (self-help, emphasis on personal experiences, common sense)

Susan Earlam – The Wild and the Quiet – Obsessed with the uncanny

svndavn – svndavn stories – Romance, fantasy, sci-fi

The Black Knight – Shadows and Space  (dhw)

The Crusader's Castle – The Crusader's Castle – Westerns, neo-westerns, horror, book/movie reviews, essays

Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost

V Kelly-Sibley – Pandora’s Box of Infinite Stories

William Linares – Horror & Comics Unlimited

William Pauley III – DOOM FICTION  (dhw)

Wyatt Werne – Wyatt Werne  (dhw)

Xander Royle – Xander’s Substack – YA horror, thrillers, urban fantasies

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Keep writing! The readers are out there, anxiously waiting.

Please check out my author website. And thanks for reading.

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Thanks for reading. Please check out my first book of recently published eerie short stories (ebook, paperback, audio), and my new book of eerie Sci-Fi stories (Kindle and paperback), both from Wordwooze Publishing. (I even designed the covers.) My third book is now out in ebook and paperback: The Wiccan Tales. A real Halloween treat.

See them all here:

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