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Dan Short

@danshort355-91.bsky.social

Horror fan & Amateur Horror fiction writer.

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Children Of The Night: why vampires keep a firm grip on the human imagination This is an edited extract from my unpublished non-fiction book Dracula & Frankenstein: A Biography. It’s also appeared on the website writing.ie In ancient Greece and Rome, the mythical l…

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#vampire #dracula #bramstoker #Victorian #gothic #horrorbooks #booksky πŸ’™πŸ“š #authors #writingcommunity #horror

26.11.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
regular and special editions of Coffin Moon

regular and special editions of Coffin Moon

Coffin Moon by @keithrosson.bsky.social is called the best modern vampire story ever by @stephenking.bsky.social I saw Joe Hill on his King Sorrow tour (which is a new favorite book), he had big praise for it too. They are not wrong. This book is a modern classic
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25.11.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Clown - American Short Fiction The clown counted his murders as he drove the new couple to the house on Rocking Horse Lane. Not few. The Lexus needed air again, according to the little orange light, the man in his passenger seat wa...

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β€˜It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana EnrΓ­quez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night

In The Guardian, horror writers name the scariest stories they've ever read. Eric LaRocca picks Joan Samson's THE AUCTIONEER, one of our classic horror rediscoveries: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

25.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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And now I'm watching The Nun II.
The first movie didn't impress me at all, but I'm willing to give the sequel a shot. After all, I didn't like Annabelle at all, but really liked Annabelle: Creation. And the Nun character freaks me out in the Conjuring movies.πŸ™‚

03.11.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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John Atkinson Grimshaw
Moonlight Wharfedale

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rewatching a classic… can you guess the movie :) #filmsky

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Welcome to Derry, Episode 4: Marge has to keep her "eyes" on Pennywise... bwa-ha-ha.

Episode 4 of #ITWelcomeToDerry is now streaming on HBO Max and Epsidoe 5 premieres this Sunday.

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