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stumblegirl.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge
@a5roseb.bsky.social
Pop Art Horror: 30 Days of Rural Fear
Thirty nights. Thirty artists.
Day 20 - Banskys The Scarecrow Revolt
#PopArtHorror #RuralHorror #HorrorArt #AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
Open to All
September 20, 2026 at 11:52 PM
elilewislycett.bsky.social
Every now and then I come across something in my research that reads like a cut scene from Game of Thrones…#CheshireMurder #GOT #ruralhorror #teamhaunted
November 26, 2024 at 7:43 PM
roseverte.bsky.social
Our Burial Dolls Remastered was rebuilt in Unity,
reworking a Japanese free horror visual novel
for modern platforms — with English and German support.

🔗 Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/4108290/...

#VisualNovel #IndieGame #JapaneseHorror #RuralHorror #VNDev #IndieDev #indiegames
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
stormywriter.bsky.social
Most of the film is boring, and then goes from 0 to 100. The problem is the family is very irritating. #HorrorMovies #HorrorComedy #SlasherHorror #FilmLover #FilmCommunity #HorrorFan #FolkHorror #KillerHoliday #RuralHorror
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
joannacorrance.bsky.social
What a wonderful surprise to come home to last night!

“The Hamlet” is available to pre-order from Waterstones, Amazon or direct from the publisher at www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

#author #highlandsofscotland #ruralhorror #horror #scifi
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
roseverte.bsky.social
Mitono Village.
A remote mountain settlement.
Every child here undergoes a ritual.

Our Burial Dolls Remastered
Late January 2026

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4108290/...

#visualnovel #horror #indiegame #mystery #ruralhorror #folklore #folkhorror #upcoming #multiplatform
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
joannacorrance.bsky.social
My first hardback book! #author #highlandsofscotland #horror #scifi #ruralhorror
March 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
a5roseb.bsky.social
The Moon Fell Down
The moon did not set. It came down, dragging the dark earth with it.
#SurrealHorror #DarkFantasy #FallenMoon #RuralHorror #ApocalypticArt #AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
A stark monochrome surreal horror scene shows an enormous cratered moon hanging impossibly low over a barren rural landscape. The moon dominates nearly the entire upper half of the image, its pale, detailed surface sharply visible against a black, star-speckled sky. In front of it, a gigantic tangled mass of earth, roots, and dead trees appears to have been ripped from the ground and suspended in midair. Long bare branches claw outward across the moon while soil, dust, and debris spill downward into a dense haze. Below, an isolated human figure in dark clothing walks toward the phenomenon along a bleak, frost-covered road, emphasizing its immense scale. A weathered wooden farmhouse leans beside the road on the left, while a smaller collapsing structure and utility pole emerge from the mist on the right. Windblown dust obscures the horizon and swirls around the lone figure, leaving the landscape caught between a winter storm and an impossible celestial catastrophe. Keywords: fallen moon, rural landscape, dead trees, floating earth, lone figure, farmhouse, dust storm, monochrome, surreal horror, celestial catastrophe, barren road, dark fantasy AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
September 22, 2026 at 3:11 AM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge
The Nest
She held the eggs steady. Behind her, a hand waited at the door.
#DarkArt #GothicPortrait #UncannyArt #RuralHorror
#AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
A young woman stands facing the viewer in a dim, worn room. Her dark hair is loosely pinned up, and she wears a long, muted brown dress with a large, frayed white ruffled collar. Both hands support a deep nest of twisted twigs at her waist, filled with pale, brown-speckled eggs. A dark wooden door fills the right side of the scene. Near its lower edge, a hand reaches into view from the darkness. On the stained wall to her left hangs a black-framed portrait of a woman in similar clothing, whose face closely resembles hers. Soft light catches the woman’s face and the eggs while the doorway stays in shadow. Keywords: gothic portrait, young woman, bird nest, speckled eggs, wooden door, hidden hand, framed portrait, ruffled collar, worn interior, muted colors AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
September 25, 2026 at 2:53 AM
zarmawrites.bsky.social
The Farmhouse
Το αγροτόσπιτο

EN: andreaszarmakoupis.substack.com/p/the-farmho...
GR: andreaszarmakoupis.substack.com/p/251?r=86f1i4

#zarmawrites #flashfiction #horror #greekstories #shortstories #darkmood #ruralhorror #storytelling #writing #creativewriting #creepystories #horrorfiction
June 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
swampopossum.bsky.social
Expectant mother (2017)

#ohio #rural #ruralhorror #photography #dogs #labrador #deer #maumeevalley #auglaize #canonrebelt3i #animalportrait #stilllife #farmlife #rustbelt
The legs of a yellow lab, heavily pregnant, is shown sitting next to her snack, a severed white tail deer leg
March 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge
Root Cellar Regular
Somewhere between the cornfield and the cellar, something went very wrong.
#HillbillyMonster #CreatureArt #InkIllustration #RuralHorror
#AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
A black-and-white ink and wash illustration portrays a bizarre, lanky hillbilly creature from roughly the waist up against a mostly white background. His enormous head dominates the image, framed by a battered, floppy-brimmed hat patched, torn, and crudely held together with visible stitches and fasteners. Two wildly mismatched, bulging eyes stare forward beneath thick, unruly brows. One pupil sits near the center while the other eye appears slightly misaligned, giving him a startled, vacant expression. A long, narrow nose ends in pronounced nostrils above an uneven mouth with thick lips and several crooked, widely spaced teeth. Large ears jut from either side of his head, and thin strands of scraggly hair hang around his face and neck. His extremely long neck descends into a worn plaid shirt with rolled, ragged sleeves and suspenders. Fine crosshatching, loose scratchy lines, gray watercolor washes, wrinkles, patches, and distressed fabric textures give the character a handmade grotesque quality. At lower left, several stalks of corn rise beside him, including a clearly visible ear of corn with curling, dried leaves. The sparse background and monochrome palette keep attention firmly on the exaggerated rural monster and his wonderfully bewildered expression.
September 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge Something Dead in the Irrigation Canal
The water is still enough to show a face, but the face is already there.
#RuralHorror #IrrigationCanal #DarkArt #Sept26Challenge #AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
A painted rural scene looks straight down a long irrigation canal that narrows to a point on the horizon. Bright blue water fills most of the image. Concrete banks angle inward from both sides, with a dirt track and dense green reeds on the left and a golden field on the right. In the near left corner, a pale, humanlike figure lies caught among dried grass at the water’s edge. Its head tilts toward the viewer, mouth open. Below it, a long blue form stretches beneath the surface, crossed by wavering dark reflections from the reeds. Faraway trees and utility poles sit under a clear, pale sky. The flat daylight and orderly fields make the figure easy to miss at first glance. Keywords: irrigation canal, blue water, concrete banks, pale figure, reeds, golden field, rural landscape, submerged form, water reflections, painted scene AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
September 24, 2026 at 1:53 AM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge
Pop Art Horror: 30 Days of Rural Fear
Thirty nights. Thirty artists. One long September where something is very wrong out in the country.
#PopArtHorror #RuralHorror #HorrorArt #AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
Pop Art Horror: 30 Days of Rural Fear 1 Style of Andy Warhol • The Cornfield Children 2 Style of Roy Lichtenstein • The Farmer Saw Something in the Silo 3 Style of Keith Haring • Scarecrows Dancing Around a Burning Barn 4 Style of Jean-Michel Basquiat • The Bone Orchard 5 Style of Yayoi Kusama • Pumpkin Patch of a Thousand Eyes 6 Style of Edward Hopper • The Last Gas Station Before Nowhere 7 Style of Grant Wood • American Gothic, After Midnight 8 Style of René Magritte • The Farmer Without a Face 9 Style of Salvador Dalí • The Melting Harvest 10 Style of Frida Kahlo • The Woman Growing Roots Beneath the Farmhouse 11 Style of Georgia O’Keeffe • Something Among the Bleached Cattle Bones 12 Style of Francis Bacon • Screaming Livestock in the Slaughter Barn 13 Style of Norman Rockwell • The Thing at the County Fair 14 Style of Patrick Nagel • The Woman Waiting Beside the Abandoned Farm Road 15 Style of Margaret Keane • The Children Who Live in the Corn 16 Style of H. R. Giger • The Organic Machinery Beneath the Grain Silo 17 Style of Ralph Steadman • The Drunken Harvest Festival Massacre 18 Style of Robert Crumb • The Hillbilly Monster in the Root Cellar 19 Style of Takashi Murakami • Smiling Flowers Growing From the Graveyard 20 Style of Banksy • The Scarecrow Revolt 21 Style of Kenny Scharf • Radioactive Mutants at the Roadside Fruit Stand 22 Style of Wayne Thiebaud • Pies Cooling in the Haunted Farmhouse Window 23 Style of David Hockney • Something Dead in the Irrigation Canal 24 Style of Cindy Sherman • The Farm Wife Who Isn’t the Farm Wife 25 Style of Ernst Fuchs • The Infernal Harvest 26 Style of Niki de Saint Phalle • The Giant Woman Behind the Hay Bales 27 Style of George Tooker • Everyone in the Rural Bus Station Is Dead 28 Style of Alex Colville • The Black Horse Standing on the Railroad Tracks 29 Style of Mark Ryden • The Little Girl and the Butchered Prize Pig 30 Style of James Jean • The Harvest God Awakens Beneath the Fields
August 30, 2026 at 1:22 PM
jijigobroom.bsky.social
"Nothing bad happens in a small town... right??"

Concept art for my #horror #ocs, inspired by Silent Hill 2, 3, and various horror movies/games.
#silenthill #fatalframe #horrormovies #demon #ghosthunting #ruralhorror #WIP #art
Three female presenting characters with a Hat Man grinning over them. #art
September 28, 2024 at 1:42 AM
roseverte.bsky.social
📢 We're still running our #NintendoSwitch　#BlockbusterSale for EU/AU!

🎵 How to Sing to Open Your Heart
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

☕CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

🪆Our Burial Dolls
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

#VisualNovel #otomegame #mystery #ruralhorror
September 10, 2026 at 9:09 AM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#May26Challenge - Rural Isolation Fear
The Storm Finally Came Home
The mailbox already knows nobody’s coming
#RuralHorror #StormChaser #CinematicHorror #DarkAtmosphere #AbandonedPlaces #AIart #AIchallenge #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #aiArt #aiartist #aiartcommunity #BuilderofNightmares
A cinematic rural horror scene unfolds beneath a violent storm sky over a flat, isolated countryside. A long gravel driveway stretches from the foreground toward an old farmhouse standing alone in the middle distance. The road dominates the lower half of the image, rough with scattered stones, muddy tire grooves, and damp earth reflecting faint gray-blue light from the clouds above. On the right side of the road, a rusted rural mailbox leans crookedly toward the ditch, its dark red paint faded and peeling with age. Tall dead grass bends in the wind beside it. At the end of the driveway sits a decaying two-story farmhouse with warped siding, a collapsing porch roof, and broken wooden beams hanging unevenly over the entrance. One warm amber porch light glows weakly from the front doorway, the only sign of life against the cold landscape. A lone human silhouette stands motionless near the front of the house, small against the massive storm overhead. The figure appears dark and unreadable, partially swallowed by shadow and rain haze. Above the farmhouse, enormous thunderclouds churn across the sky in heavy layers of charcoal gray, teal, and storm-blue tones. A thin lightning strike flashes in the far-right distance near the horizon. Telephone poles recede endlessly down the road and fields, emphasizing the emptiness and isolation of the setting. The overall atmosphere feels tense, abandoned, and deeply cinematic, like the opening frame of a modern folk horror film. Keywords: rural horror, storm clouds, abandoned farmhouse, cinematic landscape, gravel road, lightning strike, eerie silhouette, isolated countryside, leaning mailbox, atmospheric horror, thunderstorm, folk horror AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
May 11, 2026 at 4:52 AM
demainpublishing.bsky.social
Out now in paperback - "Corpse Road Blues" by Eric Nash.
Cover design by Adrian Baldwin; cover art by Mutartis Boswell

#horror #ruralhorror #ghosts #shortstories #writer #author #publisher #indiepublisher

@ericnash.bsky.social

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FC69Q6ZV/
Corpse Road Blues: An exploration of contemporary hauntings: Amazon.co.uk: Nash, Eric: 9798286974023: Books
Buy Corpse Road Blues: An exploration of contemporary hauntings by Nash, Eric (ISBN: 9798286974023) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge
The Farmer Saw Something in the Silo
A quiet night in the cornfield became considerably less quiet when the sky opened up.
#PopArt #RuralHorror #UFOArt #ComicArt
#AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
A bold pop-art horror illustration shows a terrified farmer in the left foreground staring upward with wide blue eyes and his mouth hanging open. He wears a large black cowboy-style hat and dark blue clothing. His face is rendered in intense coral red, cream, and black, with heavy ink-like shadows and halftone dots emphasizing his alarmed expression. Behind him, a tall cylindrical farm silo rises from a dark cornfield on the right side of the image. A narrow ladder runs vertically along the silo, while a small attached structure sits near its base. Above the farm, turbulent bands of black and deep blue clouds tear across a coral-colored night sky. An enormous cone of pale yellow-white light breaks through the clouds and descends toward the ground beside the silo, widening as it reaches the field. Dense halftone patterns, thick black outlines, limited saturated colors, and dramatic graphic shadows give the entire scene the appearance of a vintage comic-book panel frozen at the instant of an unexplained encounter. Keywords: farmer, silo, cornfield, light beam, night sky, pop art, comic art, halftone, rural horror, UFO encounter, frightened man, farm AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
September 3, 2026 at 4:39 AM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Sept26Challenge
Barn Dance at the End of the World
Three scarecrows dance hand in hand while a barn disappears into a wall of flame.
#ScarecrowArt #BurningBarn #FolkHorror #PopArtHorror #RuralHorror #AIart #AIchallenge #aiartcommunity #aiartist #GenAI #GenerativeArt #SynthArt #BuilderofNightmares
A vertically composed, rough-textured illustration shows three scarecrow-like figures dancing across the foreground while a barn burns behind them. The entire scene is dominated by fiery red and orange, with heavy, irregular black outlines giving the artwork the appearance of hand-painted or block-printed folk art. The three figures stretch their arms toward one another in a loose chain across the lower half of the image. Each has a round black head surrounded by short radiating spikes, small circular eyes, and a simple mouth. Their narrow bodies wear ragged tunic-like garments marked with scattered black dots, while long angular legs bend outward as though the figures have been caught mid-dance. Behind them stands a simple red barn outlined in black, with a large dark doorway and a small crosshatched symbol near the roof peak. A smaller rectangular structure extends from the barn's right side. Towering flames fill nearly the entire upper half of the image, twisting upward in jagged bands of yellow, orange, red, black, and occasional blue-violet. Black marks scatter around the blaze like sparks and charred fragments. The primitive shapes, aggressive brush texture, intense colors, and gleefully dancing figures create a strange mixture of celebration, rural nightmare, and playful chaos. Keywords: scarecrows, barn, fire, dancing, flames, rural, folk art, red, black outlines, primitive figures, horror AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
September 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
a5roseb.bsky.social
The Soft Weight of Quiet Hours
She stands among the still linens at dusk, her gaze carrying the hush of work-worn silence.
#GenAI #SynthArt #AIart #aiartist #aiartcommunity #GenerativeArt #AIchallenge #BuilderofNightmares
#RuralHorror #AtmosphericArt #EerieStillness
A woman stands beside a line of hanging linens outdoors in the warm light of late afternoon or early dusk. She is turned slightly toward the right but looks directly toward the viewer with a calm, steady expression. Soft light grazes her face, revealing gentle creases at the corners of her eyes and the natural texture of her skin. She wears a muted brown dress with long sleeves and gathered fabric at the shoulders, the front fastened with small buttons. A light, earth-toned headscarf covers her hair, tied loosely and draping softly around her temples. Her right hand reaches to adjust or touch one of the linens on the clothesline. The drying fabrics vary in pale, weathered tones, clipped with simple wooden clothespins. The background blurs into warm shadow, suggesting a quiet rural homestead. The entire scene holds a still, contemplative mood, as if suspended in a moment of solitary ritual and evening calm. Keywords rural portrait, dusk lighting, drying linens, contemplative stillness, muted palette, soft textures, homestead atmosphere, cinematic quiet, earthy tones, gentle tension Attribution Clearly identified as AI-generated; use is permitted for non-commercial creative projects. MidJourney, FLUX.1-schnell model via Perchance, Artspace.ai, REVE, Echoform™.
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
pamorris657.bsky.social
In the quiet Pennsylvania countryside, on a dead end road - she waits. #DarkHollowRoad #haunted #obsession #missing #childabduction #kidnapping #ghosts #abandoned #urbanspelunking #psychological #thriller #horror #ruralhorror #Pennsylvania
January 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
semetrarhodes.bsky.social
#Horror Released April 30

KKN DI DES PENARI (2022)

Another Indonesian "cursed remote village" film directed by Awi Suryadi. Interestingly, the script was based on a viral Twitter thread by an author going by SimpleMan.

#IndonesianHorror #RuralHorror #BasedOnTwitterThread
May 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
kansaswoman.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjE2sRpo/
#horror #midwestgothic #midwesthorror #rural #ruralhorror #horrorwriting #writing #scarecrow #scarecrows #cornfield #cornfields #gothic #countrygothic
Here is some writing tips and everything you need to know about writing rural horror. ##writertok##writersoftiktok##horrorwriter##authortok##writingcommunity
TikTok video by Viktoria Bezzeg | Writer
www.tiktok.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
marifemartin.bsky.social
Lately…..
#ElBañoDelDiablo (V. Franz y S. Fiala) cómo el “pecado” del suicidio llevaba a estas mujeres a convertirse en asesinas #ruralhorror 👍

#Marco (A. Arregui & J. Garaño) la mentira como forma de vida. Fascinante 👌
December 24, 2024 at 4:25 PM