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Author Diary October 7th

 

Hello everyone!

Welcome to spooky season! We made it back here again, after a surprisingly mild Summer here in the Pacific Northwest. I know that a good chunk of the country cannot say the same, but I hope that it has mostly passed by now.

I wanted to do something a little different this year, since I was still fairly new at this last Autumn, still getting my legs wet with running a blog, and so I didn’t have much material for this season; pretty silly for someone who calls themselves a horror writer.

That’s why I’m happy to announce that for this Spooktober that I’ll be starting what I hope to be a regular tradition of The Plague of ’30; in 1930, Port Astor was ravaged by a mysterious disease that force the entire city into quarantine. No one knows where it came from, at least officially. In that year, and the follow years to some extent, Port Astor was a scene of unspeakable dread and terror as people struggled to survive, mortal and supernatural alike. Each year will focus on a specific series of events from that time, or some critical angle.

This was actually a project I had planned way back in 2019, before you-know-what happened, and I felt it was not appropriate to work on for the last few years for the same reason. But now, I think it is time to let myself work on it.

I hope that you all enjoy! After this month, I have an even longer project set to drop that I am equally as excited to share!

 

Be good to yourselves out there.

Zachariah O

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