Happy New Year!

Thanks to everyone who helped make 2022 special! First and foremost, thanks to everyone who wrote with us at @horrorprompt and @haikuprompt. It’s a pleasure and an honor to inspire works of horror from so many creative minds. This year, @NarlenBrando and @mrremoraman, joined me as permanent co-hosts and I couldn’t be happier to have them on board. I hope you’ll join us in 2023 for our weekly #HorrorPromptAwards Twitter Spaces where we celebrate the most terrifying tweets of the week. Thanks to everyone who nominated tweets this year and helped us celebrate the horrors.

Special thanks to @Matthew_DS9, for his musical contributions, to @mrremoraman and @TheVoidGospel, for their wicked #horrorprompt mug designs and gasmask art, and to everyone else who shared #horrorprompt art with us.

The first #horrorprompt Poetry and Prose anthology was published on Halloween. Read work from the 25 contributing authors when you download your free copy today!

Congratulations to our #Mugtober merch winners and massive thanks to my Patrons and all of my supporters for making this possible.

Here’s to a terrific and inspired 2023!

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🏆 December 2022 #HorrorPromptAwards winners

Shoutout to the nominators!

Thank you to Mrremoraman @mrremoraman, Mistress Of Spooky And Spice @LauraHuntley79, That Burnt Writer @ThatBurntWriter, Jaime B @jaim_ee_bree, Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts @Fizzytwizler, Necro @NarlenBrando, Matthew_NCC1701 @Matthew_DS9, BlackBiJewess @msbimia, and Rixari @PoetrybyRixari for nominating December’s most terrifying tweets! Here are your winners:

#HorrorPromptAwards #40 – December 4

I brought balloons. Look!
My favourite colour
Black and white, silver
For my birthday party.

Don't tell me you forgot
Just because I died
My throat ripped out
Life blood gleaming

I am back for my party
You see. Won't you
Celebrate with me?#vsshorror #horrorprompt 977 Grief pic.twitter.com/ElZeTrdpkU

— Eryn McConnell (@McconnellEryn) November 11, 2022

#HorrorPromptAwards #41 – December 11

shipwreck on grass seas
crows make meat of stretched-skin sails
ants bury treasure

#haikuhorrorprompt #vsshorror
prompt: #shipwreck

— Cassondra Windwalker (@WindwalkerWrite) November 22, 2022

#HorrorPromptAwards #42 – December 18

Evie Evermore
Ever my poor Eve
Why did you have to lie
Why must you always deceive?

Evie Evermore
Ever my poor wife
Rutting with my best friend
Cost them both their life

Evie Evermore
Ever my obsession
I dug her up, for after all
She's my favorite possession#horrorprompt

— Mrremoraman (@mrremoraman) November 26, 2022

#HorrorPromptAwards #44 – December 25

A little festive bloodletting
Right underneath the #mistletoe
I’m trying so hard to kiss you
I wish you wouldn’t struggle so

It is a shame that Christmas morn
You will have no heartbeat at all
But I’ll give your parts as presents
& I’ll give my lover your shawl#horrorprompt 933

— Randy Graf (@RandyGrafCanada) December 7, 2022

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January 2023 Horror Writing Prompts

#horrorprompt

Date	Contributor	no.	#horrorprompt
1	Rixari @PoetrybyRixari	958	cackle
2	Randy Graf @RandyGrafCanada	959	viscous snarl
3	Edward Fuller @fuller_edward	960	constriction
4	Mara Sky @saccharinething	961	ringmaster
5	Ian Parkin @parkini422	962	spores
6	Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc @TheDamesSwamp	963	loss
7	Zen Grabs @ZenGrabs	964	malison
8	Mistress Of Spooky And Spice @LauraHuntley79	965	tarot cards
9	kat @katiemaver	966	phantasm
10	Ems @ArtsyEms	967	curse
11	Hannibal King @Hanniba1KIN8	968	beast
12	Nova @eel1602	969	scabrous
13	amcii cullum @leftybookophile	970	terror-sealed throat
14	Unicyclesteve @unicyclesteve	971	grainy
15	RoxannaWrites @AutumnsCrone	972	encroach
16	вríttαnч @LateAndConfused	973	snow
17	Mrremoraman @mrremoraman	974	Formorians
18	I Am a Witch, Not Your Wife @laylathepaganB	975	rattlesnake
19	Darla @DarlaV	976	sanguine
20	OCDalvey @ocdalvey	977	meat jelly
21	Jaime B @jaim_ee_bree	978	immature
22	The Faceless Poet @ZeroSumGame8	979	status quo
23	Shane @RShaneThomas	980	stiletto
24	Stuart Brkn Johns @StuartBrknJohns	981	abstract delusion
25	Drabblecast Twabbles @DCtwabbles	982	unite
26	BizyBarbara @BizyBarbara	983	willow tree
27	Rixari @PoetrybyRixari	984	maunder
28	Randy Graf @RandyGrafCanada	985	rotting
29	Unicyclesteve @unicyclesteve	986	bilge
30	Ian Parkin @parkini422	987	scab
31	Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc @TheDamesSwamp	988	forest of hate

#haikuhorrorprompt

Date	Contributor	no.	#haikuhorrorprompt
1	Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc @TheDamesSwamp	526	menaced
2	Mistress Of Spooky And Spice @LauraHuntley79	527	raging silence
3	kat @katiemaver	528	lurking
4	Ems @ArtsyEms	529	microchip
5	amcii cullum @leftybookophile	530	gut-twisting anxiety
6	RoxannaWrites @AutumnsCrone	531	mortuary
7	Mrremoraman @mrremoraman	532	Mnemosyne
8	I Am a Witch, Not Your Wife @laylathepaganB	533	boots
9	Jaime B @jaim_ee_bree	534	hell-bound
10	Drabblecast Twabbles @DCtwabbles	535	violence
11	BizyBarbara @BizyBarbara	536	pressure
12	Rixari @PoetrybyRixari	537	haruspex
13	Randy Graf @RandyGrafCanada	538	fetid
14	Ian Parkin @parkini422	539	tripod
15	Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc @TheDamesSwamp	540	lecherous
16	Mistress Of Spooky And Spice @LauraHuntley79	541	curled claws
17	Ems @ArtsyEms	542	feces
18	amcii cullum @leftybookophile	543	suppressed a shiver
19	Unicyclesteve @unicyclesteve	544	keen
20	RoxannaWrites @AutumnsCrone	545	liturgy
21	Mrremoraman @mrremoraman	546	corrosive
22	I Am a Witch, Not Your Wife @laylathepaganB	547	fingernails
23	Jaime B @jaim_ee_bree	548	skin and bones
24	Drabblecast Twabbles @DCtwabbles	549	whispers
25	BizyBarbara @BizyBarbara	550	door
26	Rixari @PoetrybyRixari	551	traduce
27	Randy Graf @RandyGrafCanada	552	demonic
28	Unicyclesteve @unicyclesteve	553	fleece
29	Ian Parkin @parkini422	554	grating
30	Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc @TheDamesSwamp	555	trifling
31	Mistress Of Spooky And Spice @LauraHuntley79	556	bewitching

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