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Finally started my second Hannibal essay, which was supposed to be short, but now it looks like it's just going to be short*er*. I apparently can't help myself. At least it's a great deal of fun.

Did I plan on curating a horror short story collection today for a sub call? I did not. Did I forget to save it the first time around and somehow lost all my formatting work so I had to put it together again? I did. I'll try to start my essay tonight. I have all my notes,just have trouble starting.

I've pubbed some historical horror short stories that set the stage for hist novels/novellas coming out soon. One of my faves is out of print, but another is "The Plank in Thine Own," about a monk trying to exorcise evil from a demon. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #HorrorWritersChat

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The obvious one is Predator, bc now we just want them in any given historical setting after Prey. A Hellraiser situation would be pretty interesting in another era, though. Set during the Inquisition, would they have to step up their game? #HorrorWritersChat

I draw from places my family has lived and taken me, what ancestral branches I can claim on my family tree, and I draw from my existential crisis in my twenties, bc it's the closest thing to conflict I have, largely internal. I make experiential shit up; I don't *do* much. #HorrorWritersChat

I mean, everyone has a backstory, but how eventful that is... I mostly write the more eventful part of their lives. The more immortal the characters, the greater the weight they drag behind them. Older they are, the more likely they did terrible things for their immortality. #HorrorWritersChat

Amanda M. Blake, purveyor of dark fiction, quiet to extreme, gothic to gore. Haven't read much historical horror. Most were contemporary at the time of pub, just history now. But on my list: THE HUNGER, Alma Katsu THE HISTORIAN, Elizabeth Kostova COLD SKIN, Albert Sánchez Piñol #HorrorWritersChat

When you pass by your university for the first time in twenty years and experience a very literal nostalgia that has you sobbing in an ice cream parlor bathroom. God, that's embarrassing.

In my youth, I was afraid of a lot of things. In my middle age, my back may be more delicate, but I'm conquering at least some of my fears of theme park rides, like high slides in a water park.

The realization that the smart kids, not just jocks and cheerleaders, can also peak in high school is a rough one.

I find it really interesting that Danish indie What We Become and VOD movie Viral were in production and came out around the same time completely independent of each other, but they're incredibly similar movies in execution.

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Yes, I still sometimes talk to God, but to be fair, I also regularly talk to Magneto, so I'm not sure that's a good metric for someone's existence.

Half my bad day was an apt that was seriously delivery-unfriendly (all methods of getting upstairs were outside and a swipe was required to get inside). There were tears, which was why someone finally let me in. The other half of my bad day was my own rare errors. I'm not handling that well.

I have three longer short stories that I think are brilliant but that I simply cannot sell.

Hard to choose between my two creature features, but let's go with 'Very Hungry Caterpillar but make it horror' meets National Geographic: OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER. You see the beast the entire time, yet I hope that sinking feeling never leaves. www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7PGK147 #HorrorWritersChat

pedipalps beckon over long writhing glistening tongue to thick for a throat rooted in a black hole borborygmic stomach a promise of satisfaction whose thirst is quenched? whose hunger satiated? who consumes whom? who is a what what subsumes a whom warm womb and an acid bath #HorrorWritersChat

The less you show, the more frightening the monster. But I show all my monsters, bc it's not monstrousness you have to fear so much as your familiarity that increases your risk of, say, disembowelment. Pspspspsps that monster, go on... get a little too close to its teeth... #HorrorWritersChat

I tend to write sexual anxiety into my creature feature designs, which might be why I enjoy the Xenomorphs so much. There's also supposed to be something almost recognizable in their features, but very off, so it feels wrong that it's there at all. #HorrorWritersChat

Amanda M. Blake, purveyor of dark fiction, quiet to extreme, gothic to gore. It's hard to go wrong with the sex/tech-core of the Xenomorph, in all its iterations and affect on the environment. I also really enjoy Moder in THE RITUAL. #HorrorWritersChat

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