Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳

Quiet horror writer. Member HWA. Pubbed by PseudoPod (Ep. 776); Brigids Gate; Crossroad Press. (JD; Day job: improving crisis response systems) No DMs

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

“Haunting and creepy”
“Powerhouse stories”
“A piquant mixture of the whimsical and the terrifying”
“One of the best single-author collections I’ve read”
“If you’re a fan of literary horror, COLD COMFORTS ranks up there with the best of the genre”

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[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

This. All of this.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

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[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

@flametreepress Thank you! ♥️

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

I am beyond thrilled to have my story, “Two Lumps of Sugar” included in Flame Tree’s Christmas Horror anthology alongside so many amazing current and classic authors. ♥️🎄👻

[Flame Tree Press Team @flametreepress]

Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Christmas Horror - We're very pleased to present the list of authors included in our new festive anthology! Following on from our previous anthology, Christmas Gothic, we're now publishing a second collec...
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[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

@ElfordAlley @HWA_NYS Thank you!

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

Story acceptance! More details soon. 😊

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

@SteveGone58 Seriously?

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

For anyone who’s looking for some quiet creeps this spooky season. 🎃

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[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

The moon looks SO cool tonight. Go outside. Look up.

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

On the hunt…

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

@RonMcGillvray Here’s mine. For fans of quiet horror. https://t.co/3yclr6Gf72

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[💀Elford Alley💀 @ElfordAlley]

Out now on ebook and paperback! Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for the spooky season. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop!

Amazon
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Bookshop
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[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

@ElfordAlley Yay! Congratulations!

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

@ElfordAlley Congratulations!

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

Hummingbird!

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

Backyard visitor this morning.

[Marianne Halbert 😱🌾😳 @HalbertFiction]

50 year anniversary of the perfect film.

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