OctoBOO Building Up with Team Halloween

Closer, closer, come to us, Samhain!

Oct 24, 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.

So much great stuff being posted right now that I’m doing extra posts this month.

And watch for Crazy/Cozy Christmas beginning November 1st. And no, I’m not skipping Thanksgiving, so those stories are very welcome, too.

Please don’t miss my own humble eerie efforts at the bottom of this post.

And you Macabre Monday folks, due to the switch to you submitting your stuff via Chat, I no longer see them. If you want to be part of Team Halloween, please send me a DM or comment below. Thanks!

Some Spooktacular Reading I missed last time in Posts:

Yes, as Halloween draws near, the spirit moves, as these writers show.

Chris J. Franklin

ring-a-dings here:

Matthew Christian

wields a fine edge here:

Targeted Nightmares

Sweets

When I was sixteen, I died, and it ruined my life. It was Halloween one year ago when Sweets – the urban legend, and very real serial killer – stalked me, gutted me, and left my body parts scattered across the front lawn of Dyersville-West High School. Always one for dramatics, he’d left my head impaled on the school’s f…

a year ago · 10 likes · 1 comment · Matthew Christian

The Brothers Krynn

shows the horror in what many think of as a fun movie:

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

Analyzing the Best Horror Movie of the 2000s - Pirates of the Caribbean: Drowning in the lost sea of emotion By Dan

After the confrontation between Jack and the guards on the HMS Interceptor, we shift to the promotional ceremony, with nobles, and other guests mingling with each other, with violins playing for atmosphere, to celebrate the promotion. But we are going to have some sad foreshadowing with the violins coming across as sadder and melancholic, as it fades wi…

a year ago · 13 likes · 2 comments · The Brothers Krynn

and lists more reading here:

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

Warrior Wednesday Forty-Four Edition 2024-10-23: The Penultimate Horror Issue

Here we are with the greatest online event of all times…

a year ago · 15 likes · The Brothers Krynn

The Black Knight

presents a Terran Tuesday poem:

Shadows and Space

Word Daggers

Art by James Ryman (Applibot…

a year ago · 19 likes · 7 comments · The Black Knight

Kaci Rigney

presents a spirited tale and a great piece of art by Kolleen Singleton:

A Writing Journey | Kaci Rigney

Ghostly Goodnight

a year ago · 2 likes · Kaci Rigney

Jennifer Morrow

continues her year round contributions to our eerie vibe here:

Autumn Lives Here

Bloody Mary & A Solved Cold Case

Hello, Creep Club! You won’t think it’s weird if I ask “Is your coffin ready?” Or, “Do you have enough tombstones in the yard?” or, “I declare, the price of dry ice is ridiculous!”*dainty foot stamp* I know what kind of people I’m talking to…

a year ago · 5 likes · 3 comments · Jennifer Morrow

and dares you to take that first step here:

Autumn Lives Here

There's Something in the Basement

No. 3 in The Scary Songbook Collection- Inspired by “I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement” by Ramones…

a year ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Jennifer Morrow

Leigh Parrish

dishes out the Halcyon Horror here:

Halcyon Horror

The Vigil

October 31st, 11:53 pm…

a year ago · 27 likes · 4 comments · Leigh Parrish

Honeygloom

lets it all out here:

Honeygloom

My Handful of Dirt

I can’t say exactly when it started. I noticed… a shadow out of the corner of my eye. Just always as if something was darting away right when I looked. I’d look around, but nothing was ever there. I think that was my big mistake. Looking. If I had ignored it, I don’t think it would be what it is now. I think looking, searching for it, gave it power…

a year ago · 9 likes · Honeygloom

E.A. Colquitt

posts a new eerie tale:

Exploring the Eyrie

Lonely Traveller

This road circles the rocky hill... as far as she can tell. Her car wheezes out a death-rattle, its soaked system spluttering against the storm…

a year ago · 2 likes · E.A. Colquitt

If I’ve missed your stuff, sorry. It helps if you tag me with a link to it. Saves me a bit of time searching.

Lots more out there. Go hunting!

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Thanks for reading. Please check out my three books (so far) from Wordwooze Publishing:

Wind Down the Chimney and Other Eerie Tales – my first book of eerie short stories (ebook, paperback, audio).
The Stardust Alliance and More – my second book of eerie stories with a touch of Sci-Fi (ebook, paperback, audio).
The Wiccan Tales – a novel and a real Halloween treat.

(All human written. I even designed the covers.)

See them all here:

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