Rebecca Cantrell

A budget is a moral document.

@jackwallington.com know any places that could take 40-200 bare root fruit trees someone's rescuing from chipper in Kent end March .. please let me know if you do.. he thinks the agreement in my Oxford has fallen through

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It was that kind of chat

Widow's Biscuit. It's on preorder. Pre-ordered. Will have to wait three whole weeks!

I can buy it! What's the title of Book 2 in the Forbidden Tea series?

Always listen to Mittens.

Thanks @erynmccee.bsky.social for a lovely #horrorwriterschat today! My skin is crawling and I'm terrified to open my mouth lest a critter crawl in. Well done you!

Nothing of my own to promote today, but I did quite like @erynmccee.bsky.social 's novel FORBIDDEN TEA. Charming, well mannered, but oh so deadly. Justice delivered with biscuits. #horrorwriterschat

Whew!

Sorry. This whole line of questioning is giving me the creepie crawlies.

Ooo...I like it. We never give jellyfish enough credit for intention. #horrorwriterschat

An endless spiral of shiny carapaces, antennae raking the air. The synchronized click of millions of feet. The acrid smell. The arms of the cockroach spiral stretched for miles. AT the center was a writhing mass big enough to cover only a single human body. And it was enough. #horrorwriterschat

Thank you! I've followed both and saved up tabs for reading and listening for later. Perfect!

And they fly! And the smell! I know they'd can just knock you off like a spider, but they're somehow worse.

Pro tip: keep your mouth closed when they attack! #horrorwriterschat

One flew up and hit me in the forehead once. It was 20 years ago. I still remember.

I picked swarms of cockroaches too! Maybe it's a tropical thing, but those giant roaches that fly or scuttle around on the ground half the size of a shoe...SHUDDER #horrorwriterschat (full props to the hubby)

Can you recommend a source for creepy folklore about birds? Like maybe a creepy bird folklore reference manual? Or set of essays? I'm intrigued. #horrorwriterschat

Swarms of cockroaches. #horrorwriterschat

a person making a heart shape with their hands in front of a dog that is wearing a striped shirt Alt: a person making a heart shape with their hands in front of a dog that is wearing a striped shirt

Not puppies, right? (you mean puppies, don't you?) #horrorwriterschat

That seemed to be the consensus of the group too. Forests. They'll get you. Followed by water. Which will also get you. #horrorwriterschat

Bonus points for the terrifying GIF

And no matter how many you pull away, they just keep coming.

Hard to argue with that. We contain so much of our own horror.

Their sheer alienness...

I love all those books! The fungus! The creature in the depth! So many ookie things! #horrorwriterschat

Even Winnie the Pooh? #horrorwriterschat

Congrats horrifying another day! Insects. They're everywhere. You can't win against them. They get into orifices. Smaller than you, but mightier. They always win in the end. And they have creepy little legs and feelers. I was fascinated by them as a kid, but only in small doses. #horrorwriterschat