H.V. Patterson
@hvpatterson.bsky.social
Writes horror/speculative fiction, poetry, and plays. Loves folklore, spooky science, and baking/cooking. Cofounder Horns and Rattles Press she/her
Find me: linktr.ee/hvpatterson
Find me: linktr.ee/hvpatterson
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INTO THE DARK is out NOW!
You don't want to miss @awwlitmag.bsky.social's gorgeous dark fantasy anthology featuring my story 'Imperfect Monsters.'
🌘 Two hundred years ago, you would’ve been called a monster. 🌒
💙📚🩸📚🤏
www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
You don't want to miss @awwlitmag.bsky.social's gorgeous dark fantasy anthology featuring my story 'Imperfect Monsters.'
🌘 Two hundred years ago, you would’ve been called a monster. 🌒
💙📚🩸📚🤏
www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
December 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
INTO THE DARK is out NOW!
You don't want to miss @awwlitmag.bsky.social's gorgeous dark fantasy anthology featuring my story 'Imperfect Monsters.'
🌘 Two hundred years ago, you would’ve been called a monster. 🌒
💙📚🩸📚🤏
www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
You don't want to miss @awwlitmag.bsky.social's gorgeous dark fantasy anthology featuring my story 'Imperfect Monsters.'
🌘 Two hundred years ago, you would’ve been called a monster. 🌒
💙📚🩸📚🤏
www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
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INTO THE DARK IS OUT NOW!
my story is in this and i hope you guys will check it out ☺️
my story is in this and i hope you guys will check it out ☺️
Into the Dark is available now!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
INTO THE DARK IS OUT NOW!
my story is in this and i hope you guys will check it out ☺️
my story is in this and i hope you guys will check it out ☺️
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Happy to have a creepy little story ('What We Lose in the Weeds') stalking the pages of this anthology...
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Into the Dark is available now!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy to have a creepy little story ('What We Lose in the Weeds') stalking the pages of this anthology...
💙📚
💙📚
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Into the Dark is available now!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Into the Dark is available now!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors.
Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!
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It's almost time for our magazine issues to leave their hiatus! An open call for issues 19 and 20(!) will open on December 21st, 2025. Any speculative short story that centers characters or themes could be a fit. Are you ready to share your story?
Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/
Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/
Submissions – All Worlds Wayfarer
www.allworldswayfarer.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's almost time for our magazine issues to leave their hiatus! An open call for issues 19 and 20(!) will open on December 21st, 2025. Any speculative short story that centers characters or themes could be a fit. Are you ready to share your story?
Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/
Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/
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We're very excited that Ellen Datlow included Bitter Become the Fields in the summation section of Best Horror of the Year 17!
Shoutouts to @jennifleck.bsky.social, @aghastlything.bsky.social, Alexandra Fitzpatrick, and Valerie Hunter!
Shoutouts to @jennifleck.bsky.social, @aghastlything.bsky.social, Alexandra Fitzpatrick, and Valerie Hunter!
December 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We're very excited that Ellen Datlow included Bitter Become the Fields in the summation section of Best Horror of the Year 17!
Shoutouts to @jennifleck.bsky.social, @aghastlything.bsky.social, Alexandra Fitzpatrick, and Valerie Hunter!
Shoutouts to @jennifleck.bsky.social, @aghastlything.bsky.social, Alexandra Fitzpatrick, and Valerie Hunter!
Out today!! Includes my story, "Phalanges and Flames."
The darkness approaches...
Into the Dark launches tomorrow, on the solstice!
Into the Dark launches tomorrow, on the solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Out today!! Includes my story, "Phalanges and Flames."
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My short story “Second Love” is officially out in the anthology Into the Dark on December 21st! This will be my second published story and my only piece published in 2025. Click the link in the quoted post for preorder options.
Get ready to delve Into the Dark with us later this month: 34 dark fantasy and fantastical horror stories are arriving soon!
www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My short story “Second Love” is officially out in the anthology Into the Dark on December 21st! This will be my second published story and my only piece published in 2025. Click the link in the quoted post for preorder options.
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I have a story in this one! "Imperfect Monsters" is a YA horror story that blends time, space, and fairytales. I'm so excited for it to be out in the world tomorrow!
The darkness approaches...
Into the Dark launches tomorrow, on the solstice!
Into the Dark launches tomorrow, on the solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I have a story in this one! "Imperfect Monsters" is a YA horror story that blends time, space, and fairytales. I'm so excited for it to be out in the world tomorrow!
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Horror Book Club will return in 2026!
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Horror Book Club will return in 2026!
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
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Fellow #publishers: I realize there's nothing fool-proof about this, but it's a minimum step we must take to protect our authors' words from being fed through a generative AI tool willy nilly. Switch off Google's default-on smart features.
#publishing #whisperhousepress
youtu.be/mH0PNLnZCEw
#publishing #whisperhousepress
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How to Stop Google AI from Reading Your Files
YouTube video by Whisper House Press
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December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Fellow #publishers: I realize there's nothing fool-proof about this, but it's a minimum step we must take to protect our authors' words from being fed through a generative AI tool willy nilly. Switch off Google's default-on smart features.
#publishing #whisperhousepress
youtu.be/mH0PNLnZCEw
#publishing #whisperhousepress
youtu.be/mH0PNLnZCEw
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There's still time to get in on the Kickstarter/preorder action if you want a taste of a transfemme protag, the men in black, and cursed arcade cabinets!
My arm is slinged so everything is talk to text right now, which made for some fun typos.
One week left on our kickstarter!
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One week left on our kickstarter!
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LOADING...THE MACHINE CHILD Kickstarter on the final level.
LOADING THE MACHING CHILD pulls the High Priestess card with original cover art by Aleeya Jones. There's only one week left to be part of the legend.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There's still time to get in on the Kickstarter/preorder action if you want a taste of a transfemme protag, the men in black, and cursed arcade cabinets!
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Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Horror Book Club will return in 2026!
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Horror Book Club will return in 2026!
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
Join us Tuesday, January 13th at 7pm! We'll meet at Heirloom Rustic Ales to discuss Split Scream Vol. 3 from Tenebrous Press.
Split Scream features two uncanny novelettes: "So Quiet, So White" by Patrick Barb and "Imago Expulsio" by J.A.W. McCarthy.
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THE WRITHING, VERDANT END IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!
Need some weird weird eco-horror in your life?
Then look no further than this little split collection from @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and me!!!
Need some weird weird eco-horror in your life?
Then look no further than this little split collection from @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and me!!!
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
THE WRITHING, VERDANT END IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!
Need some weird weird eco-horror in your life?
Then look no further than this little split collection from @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and me!!!
Need some weird weird eco-horror in your life?
Then look no further than this little split collection from @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and me!!!
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If I were still reviewing, I would jump on this! So, reviewers, jump on this!
I'm looking for reviewers and bloggers for my upcoming collection. Ebook only at this time. DM or email for a copy.
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If I were still reviewing, I would jump on this! So, reviewers, jump on this!
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Better late than never! Here is my awards eligibility list for 2025. It’s a smaller list than previous years, as I’ve been working on longer projects, but any pub is a win, and I am so SO grateful to the magazines and editors that took on my work.
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Better late than never! Here is my awards eligibility list for 2025. It’s a smaller list than previous years, as I’ve been working on longer projects, but any pub is a win, and I am so SO grateful to the magazines and editors that took on my work.
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Join us tomorrow!
The holiday seasons is approaching, and we're reading Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley for our next horror book club meeting! See y'all at Rustic ales Tuesday, December 9th.
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Join us tomorrow!
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the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
2026’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
In the grueling game of submitting, it's important to celebrate the effort as much as the acceptances. For the last few years, I've had a goal of accumulating at least 100 rejections a year.
I have officially received 100 rejections for 2025!!
I have officially received 100 rejections for 2025!!
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
In the grueling game of submitting, it's important to celebrate the effort as much as the acceptances. For the last few years, I've had a goal of accumulating at least 100 rejections a year.
I have officially received 100 rejections for 2025!!
I have officially received 100 rejections for 2025!!
New post up! See what I've been up to and my thoughts on the importance of reading non-fiction!
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Ho-Ho-Horror
In the Bleak Midwinter
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December 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
New post up! See what I've been up to and my thoughts on the importance of reading non-fiction!
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hvpatterson.substack.com/p/ho-ho-horr...
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So excited for this short prose piece today, and honored to be featured by @hexliterary.bsky.social again: hexliterary.com?p=2970
See Something, Say Something by Seth Wade
So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand—that...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So excited for this short prose piece today, and honored to be featured by @hexliterary.bsky.social again: hexliterary.com?p=2970
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You can buy the book here:
mybook.to/SilentScreamsAnthology
It's packed full of incredible stories, including Terry's marvellous piece.
mybook.to/SilentScreamsAnthology
It's packed full of incredible stories, including Terry's marvellous piece.
Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horrors
Amazon.com: Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horrors eBook : Gostelow, Mathew, Holland, Terry, Overall, Sonia, Haigh, Heather, Royston, Sarah, Maloney, Ali, Relph, JP, McLeod, Lindz, Fekete, Zary, Press, Ghost Willow: Kindle Store
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December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
You can buy the book here:
mybook.to/SilentScreamsAnthology
It's packed full of incredible stories, including Terry's marvellous piece.
mybook.to/SilentScreamsAnthology
It's packed full of incredible stories, including Terry's marvellous piece.
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Like #writing? Love quiet horror? My interview with @storyradio.bsky.social is out today, featuring an incredible reading by @terryholland.bsky.social.
We talk about the Silent Screams charity anthology and whether horror can ever be literature.
Listen here:
pca.st/episode/bb24...
#writingcommunity
We talk about the Silent Screams charity anthology and whether horror can ever be literature.
Listen here:
pca.st/episode/bb24...
#writingcommunity
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Like #writing? Love quiet horror? My interview with @storyradio.bsky.social is out today, featuring an incredible reading by @terryholland.bsky.social.
We talk about the Silent Screams charity anthology and whether horror can ever be literature.
Listen here:
pca.st/episode/bb24...
#writingcommunity
We talk about the Silent Screams charity anthology and whether horror can ever be literature.
Listen here:
pca.st/episode/bb24...
#writingcommunity
"Molting Love" is now free to read in Crepuscular Magazine! One of my creepier microfiction stories.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Molting Love" is now free to read in Crepuscular Magazine! One of my creepier microfiction stories.
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