Horrific Scribes and Scribbles, February 2025

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Joined Feb. 24, 2025

A writer, associate English professor, and Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor who has traveled the world but mainly writes about Pennsylvania.

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“Squish”

Someone’s elbow poked her rib; a woman’s breasts pressed into her back; an old man’s cane jabbed her leg; a toddler’s sticky paw touched the skin on her own exposed hand.

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Author Keywords: claustrophobia, anxiety, fear of crowds

Author Warnings (if any): None.

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Zoltán Komor

Joined Feb. 25, 2025

The Hungarian bizarro writer who brought you such magical creatures as Turd Mummy, the Foreskin-Golem, and Urethra Ballerina.

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“The Vacuum Castrator”

A notorious old woman with the power to castrate with her mouth is on the loose…

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Author Keywords: Bizarro

Author Warnings (if any): Male genitalia torture— but in a fun way.

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T. Fox Dunham

Joined Feb. 26, 2025

As a cancer survivor living under its constant shadow (you never stop thinking about it), Fox explores our shared mortality through his fiction and, defying comfortable conventions of how sickness, dying and disability are depicted in entertainment, Fox tells the true story through his characters like Matteo.

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“Survival Instinct”

The mafia has had its share of monsters—but never like this. Will Matteo uncover the alien infiltration of his family or will he sell his soul for one more day? What would you do? Be honest with yourself.

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Author Keywords: Noir, Horror, Crime, Mafia, Cancer Survivor, Monster, Bug Invasion

Author Warnings (if any): Violence. Drug Use.

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