Launching Team Halloween!
Let the eerie, creepy, spine-tingling fun begin…
Macabre Monday was started by
during the Halloween season and has continued on through the year, with , , , and taking up the reins. They got me started writing the stories in my two published books. And the ideas keep coming.As we get closer to another such season, I’m taking things a step further with Team Halloween and encouraging you all to beef up your postings of creepy creatures, hauntings, and things going “bump!” not just in the night, but all day long. And you can post them any day of the week, not just Mondays.
Post your best Halloweenish poems, fiction, essays, and whatever else you dredge up from the dark dungeon of your mind! And please feel free to post links to your published works elsewhere. We don’t all post our stuff here. Just be sure to tag me and indicate that your items are part of Team Halloween. Bwahaha!
Looks like
are getting a head start with this item:A few folks to start us off, but feel free to join in (post a comment or send me a DM):
dhw=definitely human written (preferably without AI images, but no guarantees)
A. B. Frank – Victorian Vignettes (dhw)
Alec Worley – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic
Alexander Ipfelkofer – Tales from the Defrag
Amanda V Shane – Monsters & Mystics (dhw) Andy Futuro – Andy Futuro (dhw)
Anna C. Webster – Resident Anna
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
Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch (dhw)
Charlotte Pendragon – The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon
Chris Well – Chris from Monster Complex
Dan Blakely – detect magic (dhw)
Daniel W. Davison – Lamp Post in the Marsh
Dungeon Mistress – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles
E.A. Colquitt – Exploring the Eyrie (dhw)
EternalArt – EternalArt’s Substack
Fiona Tate – Vampires & The Vapors
Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show Hanna Delaney – A work of fiction
Honeygloom – Honeygloom (dhw)
Jean Marie Bauhaus – Through a Glass, Darkly (dhw)
Jenna B. Neece – Cereal Fiction (dhw) - check out Magical Manifestations podcast
Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here (dhw)
Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week (dhw)
John Coon – Strange New Worlds (dhw)
Katelynsam – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer
Lauren Salas – Cobwebs and Candles
Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror (dhw)
Lucas Mangum – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed
Mary Sonny – Wannabe Vampire
Matthew Christian – Targeted Nightmares
Morgthorak the Undead – Morgthorak the Undead
Newton Webb – Newton's Tales of the Macabre
Nicolina Torres – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres
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
Shaina Read – Kindling Skyla – Slasher
sleightsofheart – The Horror! The Horror!
Slow Burn Horror – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack
Snowyteller – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning! (dhw)
Stephen Duffy – Short Shivers
Susan Earlam – The Wild and the Quiet Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost
William Pauley III – DOOM FICTION (dhw)
A bit of news: my newest book will be featured in a local book club. I’ve been invited to be there but prefer to hide out in front of my laptop at home, typing up more eerie tales!
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This is the best idea ever!
Sounds like an awesome idea! I fully support this! Will talk to Dan and get him to join in as we approach October!
We've plans for Varcola to be released every Monday in Oct, and to also release regular Monster articles.