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#SFFChat Happy October!

I'm Verati, hoarder of bird facts & partially-successful plant keeper. I've got a second-world fantasy series in the works with Book 2 coming out...soon-ish.

My favorite horror movie is John Carpenter's The Thing, which is just so good. It's no surprise that it's a classic.

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Everything in fiction represents something rather than depicting that something. It's symbols all the way down. Monsters have things to say.

The zombie started as a metaphor for slavery, with zombie master. But times have changed.

Hey #SFFChat!

I'm back after several months away.

I'm Jess Mahler and I write queer SFF. My fave monster has always been werewolves. I don't have a fave horror movie -- I'm a scaredy cat and can't sit through them!

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I love T. Kingfisher's fantasy, but her horror is also fantastic! One of my favorites is A House With Good Bones. There's a moment from it that I still think about sometimes...

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Ooo, I have grab the opener for Carrhae Liquidators, my bonus fantasy-apocalypse-horror novella

Content Warning: body horror

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I think adding elements of horror into SFF allows moments to explore the darker aspects of the world that you've built, but also the characters' fears! A moment of true terror is such a great way to flesh out a character!

I still think the scariest thing I’ve ever written (to me when I was writing it) was a very poorly proofread story I wrote in high school where a kid pees on an figurine of the devil and then is stung to death by a hoard of invisible bees.

Still chasing that objectively terrible dragon.

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The scariest thing I ever wrote was a non human entity that consumes realms. “The Void”. For one brief instance in Thawing the Line we slip into the POV of the void as it consumes a realm from the outside in, like chomping down an apple.

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I’m going to split the difference and answer what the scariest thing my MC experienced is, and I still think that’s possession by ghosts which left him paralysed, deaf and blind for about an hour and then fearful of burial sites since since he’s possession prone

#SFFChat Hello!! I'm Alex Larkspur and I write queer fantasy books!
One of my favorite horror movies is THE WITCH! It's so dread inducing in the best way!

I do think the scene in my novella Phengaris, where Mark comes across an old scrapyard full of junk sculptures in the form of giant insects, is pleasantly chilly. #SFFChat

Hi #SFFChat! I’m Catherine, writing about queer dirtbags who steal. My favourite monster is Doug Jones. I’m not narrowing it down much beyond that, but I’m a sucker for a terrifying gangly creature who brings more humanity than the rest of the cast combined.

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Today, I'll talk about Kyle Wakefield, author of The Church of the Mountain of Flesh! He's an illustrator too, & he captures the existential monologue of a trans man's descent into madness while trying to obtain the body he wants VERY well!
AND he has a new book coming out soon!

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Idk if it's shelved as horror, but the book that scared me most, ever, is Sphere. Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson is what got me into faeries. I was like... 'I thought they were pink and glittery WTF' and went down a rabbit hole I never came back out of

Ha ha this is just incredibly hard for me to do. One that has truly stayed with me is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. Terrifying not only because of the paranormal elements, but the recent historical reality it so searingly depicts. #SFFChat

#SFFChat Q4: What's the scariest thing you've ever written, OR what's your MC dressing up as for Hallowe'en?