I mean, it's epistolatory. The nearest thing to an MC is the city in which it is set. Blinthorpe would probably grant me the gift of a Fata Morgana style vision of its cathedral, St Hilda's, mirrored in the sky. Or a portal embedded in the back of a scurrying sewer creature. #HorrorWritersChat

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Each flame had an arch of darkness above it, casting a pattern on the wall behind like the arches of an aqueduct bridge. Only it stretched right round the room. I twirled and twirled, until I realised the flames were now the dregs of a sunset, the arches a ring of standing stones. #HorrorWritersChat

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I am creating several. The one I'm just finishing is about a plague in purple. You may interpret that as you will 💜 #HorrorWritersChat

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#HorrorWritersChat Good work everyone, but also I think we should stubbornly refuse to be beaten by Marco sodding Rubio. Where's that nice man-sized wicker container...

Shirley Jackson's The Summer People, and it's not even close, to be honest. Just that subtle sense of everything closing in around the city couple, the quiet collusion of the community. #HorrorWritersChat

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I think I tend to use the seasons most often, possibly because they feel the most inexorable? You can defy your family, maybe even a god? But the unforgiving and relentless orbit of our helium tyrant? #HorrorWritersChat

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Mark, the main character in Phengaris, is not a fan. He absolutely despises all the po-faced traditions and etiquette that surround a deathbed. And he also hates birthdays, which rather puts him at odds with his mother's best friend Helen. #HorrorWritersChat

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I'm Shan & I write fairytales, ecofiction, Arctic horror, New Weird, & religious horror. I want to see more stories which decenter humans. We aren't the most important critters in the universe. #HorrorWritersChat

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