Team Halloween 2025 Update

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About Team Halloween:

Autumnal Equinox has passed (September 21st) for us in the northern hemisphere (I’ll let the rest of you adjust according to your location). And we are in the Scary Season when Team Halloween really shines (not that they aren’t great all year round).

Not all of us writers publish here on Substack but instead publish as books (ebook, print, audio), and to me that is a good thing. When you publish here, it can be unpublished in an instant. The social media site Parler disappeared overnight with no advance warning to users. If you publish in a book, it is there in a more lasting (but not always permanent) manner. Sadly, both are vulnerable to Big Tech grabbing them to feed into large language models (LLMs), aka artificial intelligence (AI).

And, for you readers, rest assured that the writing is ALL done by humans, but not necessarily alive or in one piece! I never knowingly promote writing with any AI generated anything in it.

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Members of the Team:

A few special ones (in no particular order):

• Haunts You Later (a lifelong horror obsessive): horror movie reviews.

• Brian Schell and team: Horror Weekly.

• S.L. Stallings: whole section devoted to ghost stories.

• Emerald City Ghosts periodically calls for submissions, so subscribe and follow.

• DW Dixon ⚙️⚙️: list of mystery writers every Monday.

• The Fiction Factory is calling for your spooky stories!

• E. D. Jones: open for submissions for Write Sinister.

• Newton Webb: new book of macabre tales.

For these folks, the eerie is everyday. Boowahaha! Quite a Bunch (in alphabetical order):

• A. B. Frank – Victorian Vignettes – Exploring eerie elegance of Gaslamp Horror in Victorian era (NEW BOOK OUT)

• Adi Out Here – Turn on the Light – Murder, mystery, sex, romance, sci-fi, horror

• Amanda V Shane – Monsters & Mystics – Fantasy, paranormal romance

• Andrei Atanasov – Practice Space

• Brian B Baker – My Head is Unraveling – Horror writer, book reviewer

• C. Lee McKenzie – A Weekly Dose of Fiction – Writing for teens and sometimes adults (NEW BOOK COMING SOON, sounds like a real chiller thriller. Watch for her announcement.)

• C.P. Night – C.P. Night’s Myriadu – Science fiction/fantasy

• Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch

• Chris J. Franklin – Tales of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary fiction, humor, horror, Science fiction, host of Wednesday House of Haiku (CHECK OUT HIS BOOKS)

• Colin Devonshire – Colin’s Dark Stories

• Memoirs of a Mad Scientist – unique and entertaining

• EJ Trask – Age of Aquarius

• Ethan Sabatella – Senchas Claideb

• FranB – Tales at Twilight – Speculative stories with dark edge, humo

• Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show

• Harold Ember – Fragments and Pieces

• J. Michael Thomas – Dystopian futures

• Jane Dougherty – Jane Dougherty’s Bestiary

• Janine Eaby – Fiction & Fables

• James Kenwood – Grim Acres

• Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here

• Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week

• Judith Ashcraft – Horror, crime, detective, thriller

• Kailani B. – Damsel in the Library

• Ken Flyingheart – Echoes from the Well

• Kummer Wolfe – Worlds of Kummer Wolfe (”Oh, by Crom is it human written…”)

• Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror

• Leonardo Pasqual Colle – darkinkstories

• Lyndsey Resnick – Poison Ivy House

• Mata Haggis-Burridge – The Inciting Incident with Mata Haggis-Burridge

• Maximilian Siddell – Mythscape

• Michael B. Morgan – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover

• Mike Kay – A Shadow of Yew

• Nancy Waddell – Nancy’s Substack

• Natalie Phillips – Plotted Out – Cornish fantasy & dark humor

• Nick Buchheit – Nick After Normal – Short creative fiction, humor

• Nikki | Nocturnal Narrator – Speculative Fiction and Dark Tales | Nocturnal Narrator – Dark speculative fiction, builds interactive worlds to tell strange stories

• Nissa Harlow – Author of hard-to-classify fiction

• Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️ – Twisting the Myths

• R. M. Greta – In a Room

• Robert Garron – Robert Garron’s Substack

• S.L. Stallings – Ghost Stories – Paranormal fiction, tech horror, dystopia

• Saint-Lazare (the literally bare bones writer)

• Scott MacLeod – Son of Ugly

• Shane Bzdok – Matte Black – Science fiction, dystopian, horror

• The Dread Legacies – Reimagining classic monsters

• Theo Priestley – Tales of the Unexpected

• Thomas Cargen – Hand-drawn images from a creative mind

• Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost

• Tuxedo Catsaw – Tuxedo Catsaw Massacre – Horror through/with food

• Victor Jimenez – A Serial Assemblage of Words

• Wendy Cockcroft – Wendy Cockcroft’s Writings – Angsty fiction

These should keep your thirst for the scary slaked for now.

And links to my 5 books (so far):

I ask a small favor: if you’ve bought and/or read any of these, please post a review here or elsewhere online.

Coming November 1st: A Very Bookish Christmas

Where to Buy:
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop | BookBub | Books-A-Million | Everand | Apple Books | Kobo | Smashwords | Thalia (German) ebook & print | Angus & Robertson | Mondadori (Italian) | Vivlio (French/English) | Fable | Thriftbooks

Audible Links

• Wind Down the Chimney and Other Eerie Tales

• The Stardust Alliance and More

• The Wiccan Tales

• The Greeting Card Girl’s Christmas