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Abigail F Taylor
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🌙THE NIGHT BEGINS 🌙- Luna Press 2023
🐺MARYNEAL, 1962 🐺- Wild Ink Publishing 2025

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Looking for a book to give to someone you hate? Apparently mine is perfect for that! Add MARYNEAL 1962 to your tbr today & plot against your foes.

✨Great for people who hate indigenous rep, sapphic awakenings, shapeshifters, small town trauma, and the 60s✨
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
A screenshot from Goodreads top shelf for Maryneal 1962. It has to read 127 people 2025 two people LGBT two people horror two people I will not read it one person would rec if I hated you one person to read to one person don't make me mad one person not interested one person
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

My dad is actually pretty great.
A picture of a large, bearded man in plaid, changing a baby's diaper.
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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A few years ago, an erstwhile friend of mine drew him. He's very charming!
Dr J.H. drawn in blue and gold dandy finery. He has a watch that covers his forearm and a blue umbrella resting across his shoulders. He wears a bowler hat with brass goggles
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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They're asking for a pretzel please!
A Jack Russell terrier and a Pomeranian begging for food
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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El Caballero de la Triste Figura.

The face of a man who's just seen me finish a 900 page book only to pick up a new one.
My Jack Russell looking sad at the edge of the bed, snuggling his pink catfish sussie.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I can smell that my downstairs neighbors are making elotes and tamales but we're not close enough for me to just knock on their door with an empty plate in hand.
A yellow face wailing and clutching fists
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Just for fun, name two completely unrelated movies that share the same director.
The movie Jack with Robin Williams doing a jumping jack and wearing red shirt, blue shoes, untied black shoes and a khaki jacket. The title is written in blue, yellow, red, green chalk The movie poster for the godfather with Marlon Brando.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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My uncle introduced me to his new barn cat named Shithead and I love him so much 😭
A white Siamese cat being held by an enormous man.
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Being told I'm not allowed to write native stories even though IM BLOOD to the former Lt Gov of the Chickasaw Nation is so messy. Sorry not sorry I'm going to ensure my family history isn't erased by engaging with MY generational trauma through art.

If you want to read a #landback revenge story 🔽🔽🔽
A desert image with the caption all who once belonged to her or not welcome from packs of yellow eyes and by Abigail f Taylor published in new myths online magazine
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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🏚️ Isolation
🪓 Murderous Mothers
🐗 Skin Stealing Monsters
🏃🏼‍♀️A Final Girl
☠️ Southern Gothic
🕶️ Outranking Stephen King on a GR List
"A delectable, compelling slice of folkhorror so raw it's still bleeding" - MR Carey, The Girl With All The Gifts

THE NIGHT BEGINS
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A Texas book paired with a Texas beer
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Robert MacFarlane's book UNDERLAND. I'm not usually claustrophobic but I had to take breaks with this book. It's fascinating and beautifully written and very creepy about cave exploration.
#Bookvember
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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"When horror comes it's delivered sharp."-Runalong the Shelves

"Like Shirley Jackson, Taylor skillfully taps into the unique fears that can arise in domestic spaces& close-knit communities."-Ginger Nuts of Horror

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#horror #books #sapphic
Cover artwork by Kate Mcklain. The front has Maryneal 1962 dripping in blood and spray paint off a drive-in movie theater marquee. Beneath it tell her runs towards the audience or bloody hand out stretched. On the back cover Hardy is illuminated by the signs light revealing in human bone structure beneath the skin. He is wiping blood from his mouth
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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God I miss Giverny😭
Happy white French cow lounging in an overgrown garden A meringue topped with seasonal fruit Monet's garden.
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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The unwritten is a fantastic series! It's a book for book people. Not only does it explore separating the art from the artist & child stardom's toxicity, but it takes a deep dive into the origin of Story. It is thoughtful and breathtaking and nuanced. 10/10 recommend.
#bookvember
A cover of The Unwritten. It shows a bloody background with a typewriter in the foreground and the protagonist, Tom Taylor bloody and stuck on the pages. A blue and red themed image of a crowd. Everyone in blue tones is reading red bound books. Only Tom Taylor is wearing red. He's not reading but trying to escape the masses.
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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A grizzled force yanks Kitty to the ground. I hear the wind knock out of her followed by a little, wet gasp. I shatter my vocal chords as I throw myself toward the massive thing. With a wild snarl & another empty, long howl, it turns on me.
-MARYNEAL, 1962
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A 60s ad for 7up. A couple dressed in red and yellow are laughing in front of a fun house mirror, holding bottles of soda
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Convincing you to read my book THE NIGHT BEGINS based off the opening scene...
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Mama lives alone on the hill. The way I always heard it she brought that ax down on Daddy. But I figure as long as I'm not on her shit list there's no harm dropping by for a visit. It doesn't take long to get down to Hill country a few hours at most. It's an easy drive with long lazy stretches where you don't have to check with the map. It gets trickier in the Autumn when dust settles real quick like and the shadows stretch long and wide fingering all those doubts you ever had about the safety of the hills. Whether you've known the hills your whole life but the back of your hand comfort or not shadows distort the Earth and remind you that everything you thought you knew was a lie.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Thanks for the host!

My book MARYNEAL 1962 is out now and available on all major platforms!
✨ Indigenous Rep
✨ Coyote Shifters
✨ Sapphic
✨ 60s Nostalgia
✨ Small Town
✨ Folkhorror

🛑 add to Goodreads or Storygraph!🛑
goodreads.com/book/show/23...
A picture of Delah & her friend, Hardy. The two main characters in MARYNEAL 1962. They are holding hands in front of a moonlit window. Delah's shadow looks like a girl. Hardy's looks like a coyote.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The indie art space is full of incredible talents and I'd like to shout out my friend Samhears who designed my monster in THE NIGHT BEGINS & created pieces for a limited release pulp fiction. He's a wonderful musician & prolific artist!
#HorrorWritersChat
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Saul Swift-Water discovering the body of a preacher in the short story THE BALLAD OF A MUSCOGEE TRAPPER. A skin stealing monster pulling apart it's outer hide from THE NIGHT BEGINS. Artwork by Samhears
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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A pivotal scene in my latest novel, MARYNEAL 1962, happens at the drive-in theater. So, the snacks would be a hot dog, popcorn, classic coke, Sno-Caps, and a pickle.
#HorrorWritersChat
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Hi y'all! I'm a grief/literary/Gothic/historical horror author -often inspired by my Choctaw-Irish heritage.

We're watching IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES & POLTERGEIST.

Like most, I was introduced to these movies way too young & the storytelling & imagery stuck with me.
#HorrorWritersChat
The movie poster for in the company of wolves. Red Riding Hood looks at a half naked man whose face is being torn apart as a wolf emerges from beneath the skin The movie poster for poltergeist. A little girl sits in front of a television pressing her hands against the static screen
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Fun fact! I can do this with me feet 😃
Picture of one foot backwards next to the other foot facing forward
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I got back on my skates after the mighty FOOSH back in August. I went 5k and it was lovely.
Shady Green Park trail
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Taking myself on a date to see Richard III. I'm interested in seeing how this interpretation will be done!
A black box stage with a minimalist screen set up in the back with an abstract image of red dunes and a beach. A curving skeletal spine with a skull and crown. A sword sticks out of the pelvic bone. The text reads Auriga Production in collaboration with LIP Service presents Richard III Oct 30-niv 16 2025 Bath House cultural center
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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🐺shifters
🏚️small town secrets
🎡 creepy carnivals
👯‍♀️ sapphic
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"A harrowing & gorgeously rendered exploration of grief, & what happens when we keep our secrets & our true selves locked up inside."
- Emily Jane, USA Today Bestselling Author of Here Beside the Rising Tide
A picture of the book cover for Maryneal 1962. Beside it the quote a small town girl must find a cure before the next full moon or she'll have to kill the boy next door. The publisher logo next to Amazon and Barnes and nobles logo
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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From my historical horror MARYNEAL 1962
#WipSnips #horror #sapphic
A picture of barn swallows with the quote " I don’t want to subject her to Hardy. Not when he’s no longer himself. I keep thinking about the swallows and their forked tails darting in and out of the stables wishing I was like them and able to escape. Out of all the things that would haunt me and make my skin crawl, I didn’t think it would be little birds."
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM