Trembling With Fear 11-24-24

Greetings, children of the dark. Some quick reminders and parish notices for you before we get stuck in:
- Our Christmas special is open for subs for another few weeks – make sure your story is absolutely, 100% verifiably tied to the season, please! Not just that it’s a bit cold.
- We are very much closed to our regular short story submissions. I don’t like returning things unread, but please help us to help you and only submit when we’re open.
- Thanks to those who’ve heeded our plea for more drabbles. I’m behind on the inbox because ~life~ but I’ll get through it hopefully this weekend (and hopefully actually find time to train our new assistant so you don’t have to wait on me anymore!)
For now, though, it’s time for our weekly fare. For this week’s main course we head to Grandma’s house with Philip T Bond. That’s followed by the short, sharp speculations of:
- DJ Tyrer’s game time,
- Kyle Smith-Laird’s relationship problems, and
- Rebecca Krouse’s purple palace.
Over to you, Stuart.
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Hi all!
So, you may have noticed that we’ve gone silent on X over the past week. This decision was (surprisingly, if you know me) not political. They’ve finally started charging large-scale customers to use their APIs, and with how much our engagement has dropped there over the past two years, I just don’t have the time, energy, or motivation to search for an alternate way to auto-post to the platform.
So, as always, we’re on all the other sites.
Also, by the time you’ve read this, the cover for our delayed Trembling With Fear Year 7 should have been decided upon, and the next step is getting text on it. We’re getting there! Woohoo!
Now, for the standards:
- Thank you so much to everyone who has become a Patreon for Horror Tree. We honestly couldn’t make it without you all!
- Please, order a copy of Shadowed Realms on Amazon, we’d love for you to check it out!
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