OctoBOO Continues with Team Halloween

A few items from fellow Substackers to set the mood!

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.

I Couldn’t Wait Until October 31st

My plan to wait until October 31st to post a roundup of your chilling, thrilling stories and other Halloweenish posts has crashed and burned. Why? Because I can’t wait! Too much good stuff already popping up.

Tales From the Underworld , a team of historic true crime researchers and writers, has announced they will be posting a series of “Spooky Season” stories. (Some AI images but all human written text.)

Jennifer Morrow posts (for paid subscribers) some great advice and some rather—uh, well, let’s just say “very seasonal” pumpkin carving images by Ray Villafane. See it here:

Morgue Horror and Good Advice

Jessica Maison reveals the cover art for the second hardcover graphic novel in the Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters series - THE KILLING STONE. The book launched today (8 Oct 2024) Take a peek here:

The Killing Stone Cover Art Revealed

Lauren Salas ratchets up the old concept that something that is part of our nature can be cured, in this case having to do with vampires. Read it here:

Whatever It Takes

Miguel S. has prompted some rather spooky micro-fiction and pulled it together here:

The Batch of Micro-Spooks! #1

V Kelly-Sibley a story that will make you shudder! Read it here:

The Witches Heart

Charlotte Pendragon brings us another entry in The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries. Read it here:

October: The Winds of Change

H. R. Sinclair takes you Down the Rabbit Hole with a series of spooky tales from previous years:

The Halloween Edition

Romancing the Jack-o’-lantern

In Which We Discuss Witches

Caro Henry brings a chill to the air with this poem:

The Awakening

The Brothers Krynn , a true treasure here on Substack, sinks his teeth into the whole Dracula phenomenon with this insightful essay:

Vampires - How Hollywood transformed Literature's most repellent Monsters into most Seductive of Corpses

And as if that weren’t enough, last year about this time, Jeremy Anderberg listed classic Halloween Short Stuff. Check them out here:

What to Read Next: Classic Halloween Short Stuff

Did I miss anyone’s Halloween stuff? Please let me know in a comment.

On a more serious note

Some people are facing the horror of Hurricane Helene with Hurricane Milton is bearing down on already impacted people in Florida. Plus here on Substack several people I follow or subscribe to are facing their own horror.

Honeygloom , bringer of the Horror Haiku Club Prompts, is facing a rent increase she can’t afford. Please check out her Substack and visit her Etsy shop (I couldn’t find a link, sorry).

Jeremy Anderberg is now job hunting (publishing, editing, writing, etc.) and keeping up his Substack Read More Books. See more here:

I lost my job this week. Here's how you can help.

Jenna B. Neece is dealing with health issues but soldiering on with big plans for her Substack, combining her author page with her podcast which is growing in popularity. See more about that here:

Wake up! September is Over!

The Rest of Team Halloween in alphabetical order:

In addition to the people named above, here are more great folks to check out.

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 creator, Kraken Lore editor

Aaron Gillies – Unsettled Mind – Horror

Alec Worley – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

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

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)

Chris J. Franklin – Tales of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary fiction, humor, horror, sci-fi (dhw)

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 (dhw)

Dustin Frueh – Between the Words

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

Fiona Tate – Vampires & The Vapors – Non-fiction

Franco Amati – Garbage Notes – Speculative fiction, poet

Georgina Bruce – The Distractionist

Ginger Cook – Ginger’s Substack

Gloria Horton-Young – SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM  (dhw)

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)

Jean Marie Bauhaus – Through a Glass, Darkly  (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 Steinheimer – The Salty Witch – Health and wellness (dhw, actually supernaturally written)

Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror  (dhw)

Life as Women Laughing (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

Mary Sonny – Wannabe Vampire

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

Matthew Christian – Targeted Nightmares

Mike Kay – A Shadow of Yew  (dhw)

Miri Stone – Miri and the Muse – Steamy paranormal romance with fantasy/adventure

Nicolina Torres – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres

Norman Crane – The Norman Crane

Paige Garland – Macabre Curiosities – Horror

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

PC3 – PC3 Horror

Perry Chalmers – My Own Little World

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

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

Tracy – Trial & Error

Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost  (dhw)

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.

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