Rebecca Cantrell
@rebeccacantrell.bsky.social
NY Times bestselling writer, cat slave, and nerd. No DMs unless I actually know you. No AI in my posts or my books. I wring them out of my writer brain drop by drop. (she/her)
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The Girl Who Would Live Forever: An Ivy Corva Novel
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I wrote a mystery thriller set during the Christmas season, because I'm a bit obsessed. If you're looking for "a wildly Hitchcockian tale of friendship and murder set within the cutthroat world of biomedical research", check out THE GIRL WHO WOULD LIVE FOREVER. www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Wou...
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A Crime Novelist Steps Back into the Real World: Guest Post by Keith Raffel mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-cr...
A Crime Novelist Steps Back into the Real World: Guest Post by Keith Raffel
Over two decades ago, I turned to writing crime fiction as a way to escape the world as it is. I loved my family and my friends and sometime...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
A Crime Novelist Steps Back into the Real World: Guest Post by Keith Raffel mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-cr...
Thank you @erynmccee.bsky.social for a lovely session of #horrorwriterschat this week. Thank you also to @marywyrd.bsky.social and @_gree (spelling?) for carrying on the torch lit by the wonderful @chaoticauthor.online. If I have anything to plug, it's gratitude for this wonderful online community.
Alright your chance to promo and it's the last one for 25 so make it your best.
If you've not participated don't promo, I will remove the quote post and you'll look foolish.
Lift up each other, repost, let's spread this far and wide.
I'm signing out. Be excellent to one another.
#HorrorWritersChat
If you've not participated don't promo, I will remove the quote post and you'll look foolish.
Lift up each other, repost, let's spread this far and wide.
I'm signing out. Be excellent to one another.
#HorrorWritersChat
December 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thank you @erynmccee.bsky.social for a lovely session of #horrorwriterschat this week. Thank you also to @marywyrd.bsky.social and @_gree (spelling?) for carrying on the torch lit by the wonderful @chaoticauthor.online. If I have anything to plug, it's gratitude for this wonderful online community.
Hooray!
DIck Van Dyke turns 100. Truly a SUPERcalifragilisticexpialidocious celebration of a man of joy. Happy Birthday!
December 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hooray!
They draw out regrets and guilt and faded dreams and place them on the threshold.
"Now," they say. "I'm ready to cross."
The answer comes too quickly. "Those are all you may carry with you."
#horrorwriterschat
"Now," they say. "I'm ready to cross."
The answer comes too quickly. "Those are all you may carry with you."
#horrorwriterschat
December 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
They draw out regrets and guilt and faded dreams and place them on the threshold.
"Now," they say. "I'm ready to cross."
The answer comes too quickly. "Those are all you may carry with you."
#horrorwriterschat
"Now," they say. "I'm ready to cross."
The answer comes too quickly. "Those are all you may carry with you."
#horrorwriterschat
Today? Hopefully sugar and laughter and the smell of fireworks, maybe the touch of a cat. And regret. And unfinished books. #horrorwriterschat
Q3, #HorrorWritersChat.
We're inundated with fireworks and a cat who is remarkably unbothered for a change. She's powered by spite today.
Anyway. Questions questions.
We're inundated with fireworks and a cat who is remarkably unbothered for a change. She's powered by spite today.
Anyway. Questions questions.
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today? Hopefully sugar and laughter and the smell of fireworks, maybe the touch of a cat. And regret. And unfinished books. #horrorwriterschat
The past. I can think of so many moment that would whack me right upside the head. #horrorwriterschat
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The past. I can think of so many moment that would whack me right upside the head. #horrorwriterschat
I'm Rebecca Cantrell. I write horror/mystery/thriller/screenplays. I hope I would haunt somewhere fun, like a bird sanctuary or a nice Victorian-era house that smells of tea and chocolate with a nice fireplace and lovely arsenic wallpaper. #horrorwriterschat
Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat!
Q1.
New Year’s Eve is a threshold.
Horror understands thresholds better than hope does - because something always comes through.
Q1.
New Year’s Eve is a threshold.
Horror understands thresholds better than hope does - because something always comes through.
December 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm Rebecca Cantrell. I write horror/mystery/thriller/screenplays. I hope I would haunt somewhere fun, like a bird sanctuary or a nice Victorian-era house that smells of tea and chocolate with a nice fireplace and lovely arsenic wallpaper. #horrorwriterschat
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Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Reposted by Rebecca Cantrell
Thanks so much for organising!
I'd love people to take a look at The Nine O'Clock Horses, my brand-new Magnus Archives-inspired collection of horror shorts
It's got urban legend, autophagia, human monstrosity... and a hefty dose of suburban paranoia
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
I'd love people to take a look at The Nine O'Clock Horses, my brand-new Magnus Archives-inspired collection of horror shorts
It's got urban legend, autophagia, human monstrosity... and a hefty dose of suburban paranoia
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
December 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thanks so much for organising!
I'd love people to take a look at The Nine O'Clock Horses, my brand-new Magnus Archives-inspired collection of horror shorts
It's got urban legend, autophagia, human monstrosity... and a hefty dose of suburban paranoia
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
I'd love people to take a look at The Nine O'Clock Horses, my brand-new Magnus Archives-inspired collection of horror shorts
It's got urban legend, autophagia, human monstrosity... and a hefty dose of suburban paranoia
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0G2...
Reposted by Rebecca Cantrell
HORROR SUBMISSIONS OPEN 🔥
An anthology to honour the creator of #HorrorWritersChat, Matt aka MG Mason, is in the works.
Theme: CAMPFIRE HORROR FOR ADULTS
Deadline: 31st December 2025
See attached FAQ for details.
Please send any questions to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social
An anthology to honour the creator of #HorrorWritersChat, Matt aka MG Mason, is in the works.
Theme: CAMPFIRE HORROR FOR ADULTS
Deadline: 31st December 2025
See attached FAQ for details.
Please send any questions to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
HORROR SUBMISSIONS OPEN 🔥
An anthology to honour the creator of #HorrorWritersChat, Matt aka MG Mason, is in the works.
Theme: CAMPFIRE HORROR FOR ADULTS
Deadline: 31st December 2025
See attached FAQ for details.
Please send any questions to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social
An anthology to honour the creator of #HorrorWritersChat, Matt aka MG Mason, is in the works.
Theme: CAMPFIRE HORROR FOR ADULTS
Deadline: 31st December 2025
See attached FAQ for details.
Please send any questions to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social
Thanks for a great chat @marywyrd.bsky.social ! Today I'm promoting my collection of Christmas stories - YULETIDE THRILLS. Start at the back for the darkest tales and read forward until it feels too wholesome for a horror writer, then stop. #horrorwriterschat
Share your latest horror writer wins, news, sales, promos or horror creations you recommend.
Give the gift of a like, repost or quote post for other promos
REMEMBER: ONLY self-promote if you’ve participated in the questions.
Eryn @erynmccee.bsky.social is hosting #HorrorWritersChat on 31 December
Give the gift of a like, repost or quote post for other promos
REMEMBER: ONLY self-promote if you’ve participated in the questions.
Eryn @erynmccee.bsky.social is hosting #HorrorWritersChat on 31 December
December 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Thanks for a great chat @marywyrd.bsky.social ! Today I'm promoting my collection of Christmas stories - YULETIDE THRILLS. Start at the back for the darkest tales and read forward until it feels too wholesome for a horror writer, then stop. #horrorwriterschat
But the heart surgeon said...
I was barely dead...and you'd stolen it from me
(you can see why I don't write music)
#horrorwriterschat
I was barely dead...and you'd stolen it from me
(you can see why I don't write music)
#horrorwriterschat
QUESTION FOUR
Write new lines for this song to make it (more) horror.
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…”
Warning: If you play the original song for inspiration, you’ll be Whammed. I don't make the rules. Be careful out there folks.
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I’ll post the outro in 10 mins #HorrorWritersChat…
Write new lines for this song to make it (more) horror.
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…”
Warning: If you play the original song for inspiration, you’ll be Whammed. I don't make the rules. Be careful out there folks.
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I’ll post the outro in 10 mins #HorrorWritersChat…
December 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
But the heart surgeon said...
I was barely dead...and you'd stolen it from me
(you can see why I don't write music)
#horrorwriterschat
I was barely dead...and you'd stolen it from me
(you can see why I don't write music)
#horrorwriterschat
I once imprisoned an immortal child in a giant ice angel at the center of a Christmas market in Sweden for Christmas (BLOOD INFERNAL). If that's not festive, I don't know what is. #horrorwriterschat
Time to get festive #HorrorWritersChat
What three things would you include in a festive horror story to show the time of year without saying a specific holiday?
Think about the senses, scenes, and small details.
What three things would you include in a festive horror story to show the time of year without saying a specific holiday?
Think about the senses, scenes, and small details.
December 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I once imprisoned an immortal child in a giant ice angel at the center of a Christmas market in Sweden for Christmas (BLOOD INFERNAL). If that's not festive, I don't know what is. #horrorwriterschat
1) Christmas carol, but twisted, 2) Christmas lights, and 3) Santa. Usually also snow and blood. #horrorwriterschat
Time to get festive #HorrorWritersChat
What three things would you include in a festive horror story to show the time of year without saying a specific holiday?
Think about the senses, scenes, and small details.
What three things would you include in a festive horror story to show the time of year without saying a specific holiday?
Think about the senses, scenes, and small details.
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
1) Christmas carol, but twisted, 2) Christmas lights, and 3) Santa. Usually also snow and blood. #horrorwriterschat
I'd give Hazel from IT WANTS US ALIVE a new electric harp. Not as good for fighting demons, but she'd cut an album and tour Irish bars with her falcon, drinking, dancing, and singing. After what I've put her through, she'd glare and snatch it out of my hand.
#horrorwriterschat
#horrorwriterschat
It’s a time of giving #HorrorWritersChat
QUESTION TWO
Give a gift to your favourite protagonist/antagonist.
Introduce your character.
Tell us what gift you’d give them.
How would they react?
QUESTION TWO
Give a gift to your favourite protagonist/antagonist.
Introduce your character.
Tell us what gift you’d give them.
How would they react?
December 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'd give Hazel from IT WANTS US ALIVE a new electric harp. Not as good for fighting demons, but she'd cut an album and tour Irish bars with her falcon, drinking, dancing, and singing. After what I've put her through, she'd glare and snatch it out of my hand.
#horrorwriterschat
#horrorwriterschat
If we're doing movie: Black Christmas, Violent Night, Gremlins, and Rare Exports. All wonderful horror for the holidays. #horrorwriterschat
It’s that time again #HorrorWritersChat
QUESTION ONE
Introduce yourself.
Share the horror subgenres you write.
And recommend a festive season horror story you’ve enjoyed.
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Chat in the comments of fellow HWC posters!
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Save the self-promo links and self-promo images for the outro!
QUESTION ONE
Introduce yourself.
Share the horror subgenres you write.
And recommend a festive season horror story you’ve enjoyed.
---
Chat in the comments of fellow HWC posters!
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Save the self-promo links and self-promo images for the outro!
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If we're doing movie: Black Christmas, Violent Night, Gremlins, and Rare Exports. All wonderful horror for the holidays. #horrorwriterschat
I'm Rebecca. One of my subgenres is horror Christmas short stories and Christmas thrillers and mysteries. My favorite is A Christmas Story where the rich miser is haunted until he mends his ways. We could use more of that. (favorite movie version: from the Muppets) #horrorwriterschat
It’s that time again #HorrorWritersChat
QUESTION ONE
Introduce yourself.
Share the horror subgenres you write.
And recommend a festive season horror story you’ve enjoyed.
---
Chat in the comments of fellow HWC posters!
---
Save the self-promo links and self-promo images for the outro!
QUESTION ONE
Introduce yourself.
Share the horror subgenres you write.
And recommend a festive season horror story you’ve enjoyed.
---
Chat in the comments of fellow HWC posters!
---
Save the self-promo links and self-promo images for the outro!
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I'm Rebecca. One of my subgenres is horror Christmas short stories and Christmas thrillers and mysteries. My favorite is A Christmas Story where the rich miser is haunted until he mends his ways. We could use more of that. (favorite movie version: from the Muppets) #horrorwriterschat
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2023.
Holdovers. This one is sweet and melancholy again about those left behind at a boarding school over Christmas. Brilliant cast with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #holdovers
Holdovers. This one is sweet and melancholy again about those left behind at a boarding school over Christmas. Brilliant cast with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #holdovers
December 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2023.
Holdovers. This one is sweet and melancholy again about those left behind at a boarding school over Christmas. Brilliant cast with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #holdovers
Holdovers. This one is sweet and melancholy again about those left behind at a boarding school over Christmas. Brilliant cast with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #holdovers
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2022.
Violent Night. Dark, horror, people die creatively and spectacularly. David Harbour’s beefed up Santa saving a little girl at Christmas is sublime. The shed scene is a ballet of violence.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #serendipity
Violent Night. Dark, horror, people die creatively and spectacularly. David Harbour’s beefed up Santa saving a little girl at Christmas is sublime. The shed scene is a ballet of violence.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #serendipity
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2022.
Violent Night. Dark, horror, people die creatively and spectacularly. David Harbour’s beefed up Santa saving a little girl at Christmas is sublime. The shed scene is a ballet of violence.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #serendipity
Violent Night. Dark, horror, people die creatively and spectacularly. David Harbour’s beefed up Santa saving a little girl at Christmas is sublime. The shed scene is a ballet of violence.
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #serendipity
Preordered, because I very much DO need to read a book about exactly that.
I don't know who needs to read a book about menopausal women who quietly poison bad men who hurt women and children, but if you do, it's out for ARC readers right now.
Forbidden Tea comes out at the end of January - and Book 2, Widow's Biscuit, has 7.5K written.
Link in pinned. You can't miss it.
Forbidden Tea comes out at the end of January - and Book 2, Widow's Biscuit, has 7.5K written.
Link in pinned. You can't miss it.
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Preordered, because I very much DO need to read a book about exactly that.
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Single All the Way. A long time in coming, it’s a delightful rom com about a gay man coming home for Christmas with his best friend and his family scheming to get them together.
What's yours?
4/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #singlealltheway
Single All the Way. A long time in coming, it’s a delightful rom com about a gay man coming home for Christmas with his best friend and his family scheming to get them together.
What's yours?
4/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #singlealltheway
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Single All the Way. A long time in coming, it’s a delightful rom com about a gay man coming home for Christmas with his best friend and his family scheming to get them together.
What's yours?
4/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #singlealltheway
Single All the Way. A long time in coming, it’s a delightful rom com about a gay man coming home for Christmas with his best friend and his family scheming to get them together.
What's yours?
4/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #singlealltheway
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Shaun the Sheep: I love all things Shaun (and all things Nick Park). His troublemaking sheep cause delightful trouble but get home safely.
What's yours?
3/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #flightbeforechristmas
Shaun the Sheep: I love all things Shaun (and all things Nick Park). His troublemaking sheep cause delightful trouble but get home safely.
What's yours?
3/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #flightbeforechristmas
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Shaun the Sheep: I love all things Shaun (and all things Nick Park). His troublemaking sheep cause delightful trouble but get home safely.
What's yours?
3/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #flightbeforechristmas
Shaun the Sheep: I love all things Shaun (and all things Nick Park). His troublemaking sheep cause delightful trouble but get home safely.
What's yours?
3/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #flightbeforechristmas
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Love Hard. Funny and adorable tale of catfishing at Christmas and still finding true love. I was pulling for Josh the whole time.
What's yours?
2/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #lovehard
Love Hard. Funny and adorable tale of catfishing at Christmas and still finding true love. I was pulling for Josh the whole time.
What's yours?
2/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #lovehard
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Love Hard. Funny and adorable tale of catfishing at Christmas and still finding true love. I was pulling for Josh the whole time.
What's yours?
2/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #lovehard
Love Hard. Funny and adorable tale of catfishing at Christmas and still finding true love. I was pulling for Josh the whole time.
What's yours?
2/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #lovehard
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Difficult because there were 3 amazing movies that year. So I’m cheating and choosing all 3 because I can’t decide.
1/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies
Difficult because there were 3 amazing movies that year. So I’m cheating and choosing all 3 because I can’t decide.
1/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2021.
Difficult because there were 3 amazing movies that year. So I’m cheating and choosing all 3 because I can’t decide.
1/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies
Difficult because there were 3 amazing movies that year. So I’m cheating and choosing all 3 because I can’t decide.
1/4
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2020.
Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. Probably on the list because I wanted nostalgia and cheer and the charm of Dolly Parton to put the cap on 2020. Thanks, Dolly!
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #dollypartonchristmas
Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. Probably on the list because I wanted nostalgia and cheer and the charm of Dolly Parton to put the cap on 2020. Thanks, Dolly!
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #dollypartonchristmas
December 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
My favorite Christmas movie released in 2020.
Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. Probably on the list because I wanted nostalgia and cheer and the charm of Dolly Parton to put the cap on 2020. Thanks, Dolly!
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #dollypartonchristmas
Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. Probably on the list because I wanted nostalgia and cheer and the charm of Dolly Parton to put the cap on 2020. Thanks, Dolly!
What's yours?
#FilmSky #MovieSky #ChristmasMovies #dollypartonchristmas