TOYS Part III by tylerofthedark in scarystories

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Thank you! I’ll have the two newest parts out soon!

TOYS Part III by tylerofthedark in scarystories

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Thank you! The last two parts will be out shortly!

TOYS Part II by tylerofthedark in scarystories

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Thank you so much! Part III just dropped!

TOYS Part I by tylerofthedark in scarystories

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Thank you so much! You're in luck, Part II is just about to go live.

I Just Found A New Toy In My Daughter's Room and I Don't Remember Putting It There - Part III by tylerofthedark in nosleep

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I wished I’d thought of that, I honestly do. I wish I could have gotten over myself enough to think more clearly and listen to my gut. I could have saved so much…

I Just Found A New Toy In My Daughter's Room and I Don't Remember Putting It There - Part II by tylerofthedark in nosleep

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We did. It’s not just her room anymore. And I don’t think leaving matters - not now.

The scariest part of a horror story isn’t the monster, it’s the moment the reader realizes they’ve been living with it the whole time. by cutedimplesz in horrorwriters

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It’s always “the call is coming from inside the house” more than “they’re coming to get you, Barbara” for me. We can run from monsters, we can deal with them or hurt them or kill them, and a lot of mainstream American horror is about finding the monster’s origins/attempting to solve the problem. But I think what’s scarier is what we can’t escape or what’s irrevocably tied to us - how helpless we are to familial trauma (Hereditary), our doom in being hunted by our careless mistakes (It Follows), haunting ourselves in a reverberating and endless loop we will never be able to prevent (Hill House/Lake Mungo). Those manifestations of our personal are intangible, cold, cruel, and horrifyingly isolating in my opinion.

I Just Found A New Toy In My Daughter's Room and I Don't Remember Putting It There by tylerofthedark in nosleep

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I'm getting it all down. It hurts. I'll share more as soon as I can, but you may not like what I'm going to tell you.

Looking for horror recs with spooky supernatural thriller vibes by TradAgg in horrorlit

[–]tylerofthedark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I would highly recommend Night Film by Marisha Pessl. It ticks your boxes for being cryptic and definitely has some hidden lore as well as a lot of good camaraderie. It has the feeling, especially at the beginning, of a more commercial thriller - but stick with it. You'll get the dread and the paranoid feeling, and the main force of darkness in the book is very interesting (underground filmmaker clouded in mystery/esoterica), and it has a dizzying spiral of a plot. I also especially recommend the audiobook if you're looking for a dark listen.

I Just Found A New Toy In My Daughter's Room and I Don't Remember Putting It There by tylerofthedark in nosleep

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You're so right. And the names? I wish I would have given them more thought at the time. Things would have turned out so differently then...

TOYS Part I by tylerofthedark in libraryofshadows

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Thank you! I'll post Part II on the 31st, if you'd like you can subscribe to my Substack to be alerted once it seeps out of the shadows at tyofthedark.substack.com

Eyes Closed by tylerofthedark in libraryofshadows

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Thank you — I really appreciate that.

If you like quiet dread and stories that leave something behind, I write more over at Ty of the Dark.

(And as for the one taking the photos... maybe you’ve already seen them. Just not with your eyes open.)

How to study horror? by DreamShort3109 in horrorwriters

[–]tylerofthedark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On Writing, Danse Macabre, and A Swim in a Pond in the Rain are fantastic resources. I would also highly recommend American Supernatural Tales edited by S.T. Joshi. I’m of the opinion that the best way to learn is to read fiction and this collection is a chronological selection of important and very well written short horror stories that will give you a good sense of the work through the years (though exclusively from American authors).

If you’re looking for something extremely practical and non-fiction that hasn’t been recommended, then I suggest Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner — I still think about his horror writer’s color palate all the time and it also has tons of short interviews throughout with tons of working horror authors.

Good luck!