It’s Scaretember with Team Halloween #1

Scaretember is here!

Sep 04, 2024

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.

This time of year is all about colors, scents of spices, and things like pumpkin pie (actually, pumpkin everything). It’s also a time for ghosts, goblins, creepy creatures, and more. I have scoured Substack for tales suitable to the occasion, focused on those from Team Halloween members, and have listed a few. Hope you enjoy them and will take time to check out more writings by these writers and the rest of the team. (If you know someone who should be included in the list, please let me know in a comment.)

NOTE: Starting in September, I will do these posts every other Wednesday, listing articles, poems, stories, etc., that catch my eye. For September and October that will be anything in line with Team Halloween. In November and December, I’ll focus on things related to that holiday season. After that, well, who knows! On the other Wednesdays, I will post my list of other writers (it helps my tagging efforts by splitting the list).

Posts

The Thin Man by A. B. Frank – Victorian Vignettes (dhw)

Autumn Cranes (not scary, but a lovely feel of autumn) by Adam Kozak – Adam Writes (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties)

Wicked Love by Amanda V Shane – Monsters & Mystics (dhw)

The Old Woman in the Wheelchair by Daniel W. Davison – Lamp Post in the Marsh

The Pest Stops Here by Honeygloom – Honeygloom (dhw)

Call Me Tex by Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here (dhw)

Onryō – This Week’s Monster by Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week (dhw)

Season of the Witch (a freebie from the archives) by John Coon – Strange New Worlds (dhw)

Every Day is Halloween – a Substack chock full of great Halloween stuff by Lisa Morton

The Winter Wraiths by Newton Webb – Newton's Tales of the Macabre

Book Review: Ghost Host by Nicolina Torres – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres

The Soundtrack to Your Demise - An Introduction by sleightsofheart – The Horror! The Horror!

“Air, Water, Bread!” (technically sci-fi but definitely scary) by The Black Knight – Shadows and Space (dhw)

The Empty House by Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost

And if that’s not enough to whet your appetite for stories that thrill, scare, or just make you want to sleep with the lights on, check out the authors below.

And don’t forget that from now until midnight on October 31st, it’s Team Halloween time! Post your scary stories any day of the week!

The Rest of the Team 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. R. Crocker – A.R. Crocker

Aaron Gillies – Unsettled Mind

Alec Worley – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Alexander Ipfelkofer – Tales from the Defrag

Amri Lewis

Andy Futuro – Andy Futuro (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

Caro Henry – Caro’s Writing Perspectives (dhw)

Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch (dhw)

CB Mason – When in Doubt, Walk in a Circle (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 O’Donnell – Dan’s Deliberations

David Perlmutter – Made from What’s Not Real (dhw)

Dirt Boots – Dirt Boots | A serialized novel by Australian Foodie

Dungeon Mistress – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles

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

EternalArt – EternalArt’s Substack

Fiona Tate – Vampires & The Vapors

Franco Amati – Garbage Notes (spec fic, poet)

Ginger Cook – Ginger’s Substack

Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show

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

H. H. Duke – H. is for Horror

Hanna Delaney – A work of fiction

Heidi Zawelevsky – Conversations with Critters (dhw)

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

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

jonasT – Substack von jonasT (in German) (new here - stop by and say "hi")

Joyce – Joyce's Place (dhw)

Katelynsam – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer

Lauren Salas – Cobwebs and Candles

Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror (dhw)

Liz Zimmers – The Palace of Night

Lucas Mangum – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

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)

Norman Crane – The Norman Crane

Paige Garland – Macabre Curiosities

Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️ – Twisting the Myths (dhw)

PC3 – PC3 Horror

Robert Garron – Robert's Substack (dhw)

S. Dumont – S. Dumont’s Corner

S.E. Reid – Talebones

Scrawls of Dread – Scrawls of the Dread’s Substack

Sean Thomas McDonnell – Automatic Writer

Slow Burn Horror – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack

Snowyteller – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning! (dhw)

Susan Earlam – The Wild and the Quiet

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 (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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