It’s Scaretember with Team Halloween #1
Scaretember is here!
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
– Victorian Vignettes (dhw)Autumn Cranes (not scary, but a lovely feel of autumn) by
– Adam Writes (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties)Wicked Love by
– Monsters & Mystics (dhw)The Old Woman in the Wheelchair by
– Lamp Post in the Marsh – Honeygloom (dhw)Call Me Tex by
– Autumn Lives Here (dhw)Onryō – This Week’s Monster by
– Monster of the Week (dhw)Season of the Witch (a freebie from the archives) by
– Strange New Worlds (dhw)Every Day is Halloween – a Substack chock full of great Halloween stuff by
– Newton's Tales of the Macabre – Books and Boos, with Nicolina TorresThe Soundtrack to Your Demise - An Introduction by
– The Horror! The Horror!“Air, Water, Bread!” (technically sci-fi but definitely scary) by
– Shadows and Space (dhw) – Dracula’s GhostAnd 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 – Unsettled Mind – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic – Tales from the Defrag – Andy Futuro (dhw) – Pretty Evil Fiction – Fiction by Bill Adler (dhw) – Everywhere and Nowhere: Explore Fantastic Worlds (dhw, with help from faerie ancestors) – Blackthorn Witch – Telegrams from Bloodstream City – Horror Weekly – It's the Devil – Caro’s Writing Perspectives (dhw) – SwampWitch (dhw) – When in Doubt, Walk in a Circle (dhw) – The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon – Chris from Monster Complex – Colin’s Dark Stories (dhw) – Cyndi’s Dark Fiction – detect magic (dhw) – Dan’s Deliberations – Made from What’s Not Real (dhw) – Dirt Boots | A serialized novel by Australian Foodie – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles – Exploring the Eyrie (dhw) – EternalArt’s Substack – Vampires & The Vapors – Garbage Notes (spec fic, poet) – Ginger’s Substack – Grace’s Spook Show – Editor, Disturb Ink Books | Co-Founder, Unsettling Reads – H. is for Horror – A work of fiction – Conversations with Critters (dhw) – Through a Glass, Darkly (dhw) – Jenna B. Neece - Author & Podcaster (dhw) - check out Magical Manifestations podcast – Substack von jonasT (in German) (new here - stop by and say "hi") – Joyce's Place (dhw) – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer – Cobwebs and Candles – Halcyon Horror (dhw) – The Palace of Night – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed – The Traveling Circus (dhw) – Wannabe Vampire – The Inciting Incident with Mata Haggis-Burridge (dhw) – Targeted Nightmares – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover (dhw) – The Norman Crane – Macabre Curiosities – Twisting the Myths (dhw) – PC3 Horror – Robert's Substack (dhw) – S. Dumont’s Corner – Talebones – Scrawls of the Dread’s Substack – Automatic Writer – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning! (dhw) – The Wild and the Quiet – Pandora’s Box of Infinite Stories – Horror & Comics Unlimited – DOOM FICTION (dhw) – Wyatt Werne (dhw) (YA horror, thrillers, urban fantasies)———
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:
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | Kobo | Thalia (German) ebook & print | Smashwords | Angus & Robertson: | Mondadori (Italian) | Vivlio (French/English) | Fable | Palace Marketplace
Many thanks for getting the word out!! 🧡🎃
Thanks for including me in your list of authors! It's great to be part of team Halloween 🎃 I'm finding so many great substacks here!