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Horror Writers Chat

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Chat every Wednesday 7pm UK time (2pm Eastern for North America) Please don't use the tag for any other type of post. Use these instead 💙📚👀📢📚😱 (more feeds, fewer characters) Four questions about you and your horror work. Use #HorrorWritersChat to ensure your answers appears in the feed.

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author
@chaoticauthor.online
9 months ago
#HorrorWritersChat PINNED POST Please only use the chat tag for chat answers. It has a limited audience in terms of feed follower numbers, who is looking at the feed, and when. For book promotions use 💙📚👀📢📚😱 and for general posting use #HorrorAuthor Both give you a wider and less limited audience
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Satyros Phil Brucato
@satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social
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I often lean in on it but subvert expectations by making those manly men either queer (like Rol in Red Shoes, Jo in ...But They Call Me Jo, or John in Johnny Serious) or secretly weak (Tommy in Clown Balloons, Childers in Red Shoes, or the prince in The Lord's Greatest Jest). #HorrorWritersChat

Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales. #HorrorWritersChat

When you write men in horror, do you lean into masculinity, subvert it, or weaponise it? Share one moment where you made it matter.
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Gabriel R Johnson, novelist
@grjohnson.bsky.social
24 minutes ago
#HorrorWritersChat The antagonist of BAD DREAM sees himself as a masculine manly-man but is really a pathetic stupid poser douchebag, while its hero is always trying to learn the ropes of the whole masculinity thing.

Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales. #HorrorWritersChat

When you write men in horror, do you lean into masculinity, subvert it, or weaponise it? Share one moment where you made it matter.
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Satyros Phil Brucato
@satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
I'm Satyr, I write in a range of genres, and the most prominent quality men have in my stories is they're seldom the protagonist. I have exceptions, of course, but the majority of my tales center female leads. Those protagonists who ARE male are usually queer. #HorrorWritersChat

Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat! Q1 has arrived. It's international men's day today, and I thought actually that's a good topic. Not the easiest one to build questions around, either. So if I do not hit the mark I am sure you will forgive me. As usual, no links, no pitches, not till the end.

Tell us who you are, what you write, and the one quality that defines the men in your stories - whether it saves them or damns them.
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Adrienne Clark
@adrienneclark.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Matt is most frightened of his artistic talents and what they might inspire in others . . . #HorrorWritersChat

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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Erin Brown
@babblewocky.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
My Librarian is afraid of being unethical (he’s a glorified robber.) My beastling is afraid of boredom. (If the taste of people’s terror-infused flesh gets too uninteresting, how will he eat?) My vagrant is afraid they will ask what happened to all those missing girlfriends. #HorrorWritersChat

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
Oh, and the TWIST in that found fiction is DELICIOUSSSS, the kind of stuff that makes you go, "Wait, hold up" and flick back to where it all started just to enjoy the skill. Just 🖤 🌈📚 #HorrorWritersChat

These were fantastic questions--thanks so much, Eryn! If anyone's looking to support a trans author for Trans Awareness Week, I have a found fiction-y horror comedy about a cryptid-hunter investigating a small town in the woods! books2read.com/u/boB9YL steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
Shadows of Cathedral Lane has a BEAUTIFUL portrayal of friendship. So good to read!! #HorrorWritersChat

You want The Books of Matt aka MG Mason? Come and claim them! Also, please check out the feed of @chaoticauthor.online for other books not listed here. #HorrorWritersChat 📚💙

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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
After giving this a thought, it depends more on the individual that anything else. My men all fear different things—being hurt again, losing their safe places or loved ones, failing their task, losing their self, being stuck where they are, cats ...it really depends #HorrorWritersChat

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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Diane M. Johnson
@caseyadamsstark.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
Here it is, the Perfect Prophet series, where men are traumatized by their mistakes, the realization of their own mortality and by crushing guilt and responsibility. As always, thanks for hosting, Eryn. www.bookbub.com/authors/d…. #HorrorWritersChat

Here we go #HorrorWritersChat! Please, promo your stuff. Shout loud about what you've got on the boil. Tell us about your latest release. However, please also: repost mutuals and those here tonight. And if you could, repost some of Matt's books, who founded this chat and nursed it from its infancy.

there is no algorithm here, so visibility depends on engagement with others. hit the questions, use the hashtag, share other writer’s stuff. finally, have you got something to shout about? Now’s your chance.
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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
I'm Team Subversion on this one—many of my peeps display traits that don't align with their presentation, even as seen by other characters. One of my books has a usually cunning, quiet, deceitful man turn openly worried for someone, and NO ONE trusts that, not even the garden lol #HorrorWritersChat

Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales. #HorrorWritersChat

When you write men in horror, do you lean into masculinity, subvert it, or weaponise it? Share one moment where you made it matter.
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Diane M. Johnson
@caseyadamsstark.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
One word. Responsibility. Mateo feels responsible for unleashing a curse on his people, and it kills him inside. Pedro wants to fix his mistakes. So does Alec. And Lucas. Aaron is very responsible until a near death experience makes him hesitant. Responsibilities are scary. #HorrorWritersChat

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
These questions rock, Eryn!! The Overconfident Man is my favourite, especially if they low-key make sense in their assumptions and then fall to blind spots (read: couldn't see how anyone would make THAT choice, wtf is WRONG with ppl??), miscalculation, or plain bad luck. #HorrorWritersChat

Well then, #HorrorWritersChat. What's an archetype anyway? I jest. We're all writers here... after alllllllll....

What’s your favourite male archetype to corrupt in horror - and how do you twist it until it becomes something monstrous or tragic?
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Diane M. Johnson
@caseyadamsstark.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
I don’t put conscious effort into this one. The character is who the character is. In Perfect Prophet, there are men who define themselves by their actions, and men who don’t. The bully,Mark. The protector Ray. But Alec doesn’t, nor Lucas who eventually realizes he’s bisexual. #HorrorWritersChat

Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales. #HorrorWritersChat

When you write men in horror, do you lean into masculinity, subvert it, or weaponise it? Share one moment where you made it matter.
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Diane M. Johnson
@caseyadamsstark.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
In the tarot world, I think a lot of my male MCs fall into the definition of the fool. Sorry, guys… They’re brave, optimistic, naively self confident, then something happens to shake that to the core. Often a near death experience that’s hard to get past. #HorrorWritersChat

Well then, #HorrorWritersChat. What's an archetype anyway? I jest. We're all writers here... after alllllllll....

What’s your favourite male archetype to corrupt in horror - and how do you twist it until it becomes something monstrous or tragic?
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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
Jeannie here, late but always thrilled to catch #HorrorWritersChat —my corner has speculative, queer tales with nature &/or paranormal horrors. Most men I throw into all of that are... INTENSELY loyal to the people they love even when they're unaware of either of those two points, bless em 🖤

Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat! Q1 has arrived. It's international men's day today, and I thought actually that's a good topic. Not the easiest one to build questions around, either. So if I do not hit the mark I am sure you will forgive me. As usual, no links, no pitches, not till the end.

Tell us who you are, what you write, and the one quality that defines the men in your stories - whether it saves them or damns them.
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James Van Fleet
@horrorfilms101.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
What scares my male characters the most is either (a) recognizing that an overwhelming desire is not a righteous need, or (b) a hungry monster with sharp teeth. #HorrorWritersChat

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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MTH
@megt.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
I think my male characters fear failure/impotence, both the good guys and the bad guys. Some of the bad guys become good guys because of it. Some of the good guys become bad guys because of it. Overall, they want to control every situation and if they fail, they fail hard. #HorrorWritersChat

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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mark woods
@sparkymarky1973.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
#HorrorWritersChat! A trailer I made for my latest release…
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Here we go #HorrorWritersChat! Please, promo your stuff. Shout loud about what you've got on the boil. Tell us about your latest release. However, please also: repost mutuals and those here tonight. And if you could, repost some of Matt's books, who founded this chat and nursed it from its infancy.

there is no algorithm here, so visibility depends on engagement with others. hit the questions, use the hashtag, share other writer’s stuff. finally, have you got something to shout about? Now’s your chance.
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mark woods
@sparkymarky1973.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
#HorrorWritersChat! Most of my male characters are afraid of not being in control, so go to extra effort to reassert control over the situations they find themselves in, often making things even worse. Whereas the female characters are often more rational

Q4 is up. Ten minutes to outro and the promo: I am still working my way through. You're all wonderful busy bees today and I adore you! This one is a little easier. No archetypes! #HorrorWritersChat

What scares your male characters the most - and what does that reveal about the masks they wear?
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MTH
@megt.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
They are fully realized people overall. Though one male protag thought himself such a great fighter he "knew" he alone could rescue a hostage from a supernatural power. Ended up possessed/programmed to serve that power's needs, and in the end becomes a pariah. Oops. #HorrorWritersChat

Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales. #HorrorWritersChat

When you write men in horror, do you lean into masculinity, subvert it, or weaponise it? Share one moment where you made it matter.
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Amelinda Bérubé
@metuiteme.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
Ooh what an interesting Q 💀 Masculinity tends to play out in my (YA) books as a trap - one ppl are struggling with, if the story has any sympathy for them, but one they often get sucked into anyway, w disastrous consequences. Trying to be The Hero, fr ex, never works out well. #HorrorWritersChat

Q3. I'm doing what I can to answer everyone, and repost, so bear with me. So I don't keep you waiting, I'll throw out 3. Interpret this one how you like. I know many queer folks like me do not align masculinity with man shaped. And with horror, we love to subvert our tales. #HorrorWritersChat

When you write men in horror, do you lean into masculinity, subvert it, or weaponise it? Share one moment where you made it matter.
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mark woods
@sparkymarky1973.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
#HorrorWritersChat! Because my male characters so often want to do the right thing, they are almost always easily manipulated; blinded by their own hubris. One of my ongoing themes I explore a lot in my work is how man is often ultimately more of a threat than any monster they help create.

Well then, #HorrorWritersChat. What's an archetype anyway? I jest. We're all writers here... after alllllllll....

What’s your favourite male archetype to corrupt in horror - and how do you twist it until it becomes something monstrous or tragic?
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