Ratcheting Up OctoBOO with Team Halloween

Bwahaha! Spine tinglers!

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.

Some Spooktacular Reading in Notes:

The shivers are spreading with these awesome items.

Andrew Smith is getting cute with Dinkles

Chris J. Franklin spins an eerie short tale in response to a prompt by @Miguel S.:

and this one:

and don’t miss his new book:

BOOK RELEASE: TALES OF THE ZEITGEIST

Bill Adler gives us all some useful advice:

Robert Garron puts forth a creepy tale:

Steven Vickers has more advice for this scary season:

Some Spooktacular Reading in Posts:

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

Ben Blacker

Gremlins: The Wild Batch

Stephen Duffy

There’s Something Wrong in Cinder Hollow

Lauren Salas

All Yours

and

The Curious Case of Everett Murphy

Daniel Shepherd

https://substack.com/home/post/p-150296517

E.A. Colquitt

VIP (Very Important Potion)

and

Bring Up The Dead

Daniel W. Davison

The Werewolf of Mariahilf am Inn II.17

Miguel S.

Microdosing - 80mg of a Witching Hour

and

The Batch of Micro-Spooks! #2

Jeremy Anderberg

Discussion: What are your favorite spooky reads?

Kaci Rigney

Time is Blood

sleightsofheart

One Good Scare - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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!

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

Caro Henry – Caro’s Writing Perspectives  (dhw)

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 Shepherd – Daniel Shepherd

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 (dabbles in AI for images) (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

H. R. Sinclair – Down the Rabbit Hole

Hanna Delaney – A work of fiction

Heidi Zawelevsky – Conversations with Critters  (dhw)

Honeygloom – Honeygloom  (dhw)

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

Jenna B. Neece – Magical Manifestations Productions  (dhw)

Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here  (dhw)

Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week  (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 Salas – Cobwebs and Candles

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

P.K Daze – BAD PILLS PUBLISHING – Horror

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)

Ryder Hamilton Jones – Westville

S. Dumont – S. Dumont’s Corner

Sam Bartol – Ghost Notes  (dhw)

sarah cucchiara – people's princess

Scrawls of Dread – Scrawls of Dread’s Substack  (dhw)

Sergej Klementinovski – Writer's Odyssey

Shane Bzdok – Matte Black – Sci-fi, dystopian, horror

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

Tales From the Underworld – Tales From the Underworld – Historical true crime (dhw)

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)

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 – 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 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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