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:
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.
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https://substack.com/home/post/p-150296517
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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:
Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | Kobo | Thalia (German) ebook & print | Smashwords | Angus & Robertson: | Mondadori (Italian) | Vivlio (French/English) | Fable | Palace Marketplace















Want spooky season to last a little longer? Browse these frightful fictions!
With thanks to A.C. Cargill for including my work 👻
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