Ben Monroe
@benmonroe.com
Husband. Father. Author. Horror Fan & Writer. Probably not a zombie. HWA Member. He/him. www.benmonroe.com
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Ben Monroe
@benmonroe.com
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Ben Monroe - Ben's Fiction
Ben’s Books & Stories
My fiction tends to skew toward the dark or weird. Let’s just call it horror and be done with it. I’m often interested in the ways in which regular people react to strange or dan...
www.benmonroe.com
If you’ve got gift cards burning a hole in your pocket, maybe check out my list of works? A couple of novels, and I’ve got lots of short stories in some tremendous anthologies.
www.benmonroe.com/bens-fiction
www.benmonroe.com/bens-fiction
Egads! I seem to have fallen asleep in a Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Egads! I seem to have fallen asleep in a Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
I used to have a saying about being “a paperback guy in a Kindle world…”
Welp…
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Welp…
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MSN
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February 6, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I used to have a saying about being “a paperback guy in a Kindle world…”
Welp…
www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
Welp…
www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
My pal @dorkland.itch.io made this “Midnight Heroes” game, and I can’t wait to see it. They’ve been telling me all about it during development, and I’m sure it’s going to be fab.
Check it out.
Check it out.
2 new RPGs this year...
🎲 MIDNIGHT HEROES – A game of mystical superheroes powered by the Fate gaming engine.
🎲 UNDERCITY – A game of dark whimsy & fairy-tale horror beneath the city's streets.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4tqsWDp
🎲 MIDNIGHT HEROES – A game of mystical superheroes powered by the Fate gaming engine.
🎲 UNDERCITY – A game of dark whimsy & fairy-tale horror beneath the city's streets.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4tqsWDp
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
My pal @dorkland.itch.io made this “Midnight Heroes” game, and I can’t wait to see it. They’ve been telling me all about it during development, and I’m sure it’s going to be fab.
Check it out.
Check it out.
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I had a friend point me at this, a free online conference sponsors by the University of Pittsburgh and the Horror Writers Association.
HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026
www.queerhorrorconference.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I had a friend point me at this, a free online conference sponsors by the University of Pittsburgh and the Horror Writers Association.
Let’s go crazy…
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Let’s go crazy…
Even if they do have bad days there, too…
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Even if they do have bad days there, too…
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The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
New anthology release day! Tell your friends! (Ebook now, hard copy soon).
“Waterborne” is an anthology of liquid horrors, edited by @henryherz.bsky.social
Features my horror-western “Where the Water Whispers,” along with many other terrifying tales.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJ4F64X...
“Waterborne” is an anthology of liquid horrors, edited by @henryherz.bsky.social
Features my horror-western “Where the Water Whispers,” along with many other terrifying tales.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJ4F64X...
Waterborne
Waterborne - Kindle edition by Herz, Henry, Brewer, Z, Graham, Heather, Holder, Nancy, Kenyon, Sherrilyn, Maberry, Jonathan, McGuire, Seanan, Guignard, Eric, Robinson, Jeremy, West, Jacqueline. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Waterborne.
www.amazon.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:20 PM
New anthology release day! Tell your friends! (Ebook now, hard copy soon).
“Waterborne” is an anthology of liquid horrors, edited by @henryherz.bsky.social
Features my horror-western “Where the Water Whispers,” along with many other terrifying tales.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJ4F64X...
“Waterborne” is an anthology of liquid horrors, edited by @henryherz.bsky.social
Features my horror-western “Where the Water Whispers,” along with many other terrifying tales.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJ4F64X...
Not to brag, but I’ve hated him since the 80s.
January 21, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Not to brag, but I’ve hated him since the 80s.
Now I’m thinking about when I took a career assessment in my Senior year of High School. And my results told me I was suited to be either a police officer, or a cake decorator.
🤷🏼♂️
🤷🏼♂️
Great stuff in the replies, too. @benmonroe.com
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Now I’m thinking about when I took a career assessment in my Senior year of High School. And my results told me I was suited to be either a police officer, or a cake decorator.
🤷🏼♂️
🤷🏼♂️
How's my 2026 going so far? Glad you asked...
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 AM
How's my 2026 going so far? Glad you asked...
A thought about Halloween (‘78). The bit where the other sitter drops a kid off with Laurie, and then her friends go to the house she’s sitting at, etc.
Imagine being the homeowners and coming home, finding your kid gone and your house full of dead teenagers who’d clearly been fucking in your bed.
Imagine being the homeowners and coming home, finding your kid gone and your house full of dead teenagers who’d clearly been fucking in your bed.
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
A thought about Halloween (‘78). The bit where the other sitter drops a kid off with Laurie, and then her friends go to the house she’s sitting at, etc.
Imagine being the homeowners and coming home, finding your kid gone and your house full of dead teenagers who’d clearly been fucking in your bed.
Imagine being the homeowners and coming home, finding your kid gone and your house full of dead teenagers who’d clearly been fucking in your bed.
Josh is an old friend of mine. One of the smartest people I know, and a fighter. We’ve been talking about his run for Congress for a long time, and I’m super-stoked to see it finally begin.
Check out his video, and follow and support him if he seems like he’s saying what you want to hear.
Check out his video, and follow and support him if he seems like he’s saying what you want to hear.
I'm excited to officially launch my campaign for Nevada's second congressional district!
youtu.be/P9fVCIYo3hY?...
youtu.be/P9fVCIYo3hY?...
Campaign Launch: Josh Hebert for Nevada Congressional District 2!
YouTube video by Josh Hebert for Nevada
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January 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Josh is an old friend of mine. One of the smartest people I know, and a fighter. We’ve been talking about his run for Congress for a long time, and I’m super-stoked to see it finally begin.
Check out his video, and follow and support him if he seems like he’s saying what you want to hear.
Check out his video, and follow and support him if he seems like he’s saying what you want to hear.
I was just talking to a friend about a really shitty movie I worked on back in the 90s with @willmckinley.bsky.social, and it turns out it’s on Tubi where you can watch it for free. Which is overpriced, if you ask me. tubitv.com/movies/46953...
Night Vision (1997)
A maverick detective and his rookie partner hunt down a publicity-obsessed serial killer, who records his victims' deaths for posterity.
tubitv.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I was just talking to a friend about a really shitty movie I worked on back in the 90s with @willmckinley.bsky.social, and it turns out it’s on Tubi where you can watch it for free. Which is overpriced, if you ask me. tubitv.com/movies/46953...
How I'm walking out of 2025
December 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
How I'm walking out of 2025
If you’ve got gift cards burning a hole in your pocket, maybe check out my list of works? A couple of novels, and I’ve got lots of short stories in some tremendous anthologies.
www.benmonroe.com/bens-fiction
www.benmonroe.com/bens-fiction
Ben Monroe - Ben's Fiction
Ben’s Books & Stories
My fiction tends to skew toward the dark or weird. Let’s just call it horror and be done with it. I’m often interested in the ways in which regular people react to strange or dan...
www.benmonroe.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If you’ve got gift cards burning a hole in your pocket, maybe check out my list of works? A couple of novels, and I’ve got lots of short stories in some tremendous anthologies.
www.benmonroe.com/bens-fiction
www.benmonroe.com/bens-fiction
2025 has been a tough year for me for a lot of reasons I don’t feel like going into. I crashed out over the last couple of days, realizing I’d been running on stress-induced adrenaline for the past few months.
Looking forward to putting this year in the rear view mirror.
Stay strong, y’all.
Looking forward to putting this year in the rear view mirror.
Stay strong, y’all.
December 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
2025 has been a tough year for me for a lot of reasons I don’t feel like going into. I crashed out over the last couple of days, realizing I’d been running on stress-induced adrenaline for the past few months.
Looking forward to putting this year in the rear view mirror.
Stay strong, y’all.
Looking forward to putting this year in the rear view mirror.
Stay strong, y’all.
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If you're an artist coming over from Twitter because of this bullshit they added, first of all:
Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now
Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here
Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now
Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here
Man its like just so invasive and gross feeling to see "Edit Image" appear over other people's images. Musk decided to give us the only kind of gift he can for christmas, sickening disappointment. Best of luck out there folks.
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you're an artist coming over from Twitter because of this bullshit they added, first of all:
Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now
Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here
Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now
Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here
Just drove past the local Church of Christian Science. Which got me thinking about the the obvious extrapolation that there must therefore be Christian Mad Scientists. And anyway, so I figured out RFK Jr., I guess.
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just drove past the local Church of Christian Science. Which got me thinking about the the obvious extrapolation that there must therefore be Christian Mad Scientists. And anyway, so I figured out RFK Jr., I guess.
Happy Punch a Nazi Day to all who celebrate (which, I’m sad to discover doesn’t seem to be everybody).
Today is the 85th anniversary of Captain America! December 20, 1940, was the publication date of Captain America Comics #1. Created by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby.
December 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Punch a Nazi Day to all who celebrate (which, I’m sad to discover doesn’t seem to be everybody).
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As a caregiver of 22 years, I want you all to be as kind as you are able out here on these mean streets.
“Someone you know is preparing for their first holiday without their husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son. Be kind.”
“Someone you know is preparing for their first holiday without their husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son. Be kind.”
December 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
As a caregiver of 22 years, I want you all to be as kind as you are able out here on these mean streets.
“Someone you know is preparing for their first holiday without their husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son. Be kind.”
“Someone you know is preparing for their first holiday without their husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, daughter or son. Be kind.”
The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Bring it. I’m all outta fucks.
Bring it. I’m all outta fucks.
December 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Bring it. I’m all outta fucks.
Bring it. I’m all outta fucks.
Have I mentioned lately that a novel of mine was published a couple of years ago? Well, it was, and some folks who’ve read it really enjoyed it. Maybe you will too.
A great gift for the horror fan on your holiday list. Find the ways to buy it here: brigidsgatepress.com/product/the-...
A great gift for the horror fan on your holiday list. Find the ways to buy it here: brigidsgatepress.com/product/the-...
The Seething - Brigids Gate Press
brigidsgatepress.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Have I mentioned lately that a novel of mine was published a couple of years ago? Well, it was, and some folks who’ve read it really enjoyed it. Maybe you will too.
A great gift for the horror fan on your holiday list. Find the ways to buy it here: brigidsgatepress.com/product/the-...
A great gift for the horror fan on your holiday list. Find the ways to buy it here: brigidsgatepress.com/product/the-...
Fuck these incompetent ghouls, their obsession with children's genitalia, and their psychotic need to enforce their misery agendas.
I am absolutely seething right now.
I am absolutely seething right now.
Hurting kids even more while we wait for those fucking files…
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Fuck these incompetent ghouls, their obsession with children's genitalia, and their psychotic need to enforce their misery agendas.
I am absolutely seething right now.
I am absolutely seething right now.
"Show me how your 2025 went."
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Show me how your 2025 went."