Fruiting Bodies of Extremely Weird Splatter: Authors’ Other Works, Part One
Some authors who contributed to the Extremely Weird Splatter anthology (which fuses extreme/splatterpunk and weird horror) are established with hundreds of publications, and some are geniuses at the beginning of their transgressive paths. This series of three articles highlights career landmarks or, where appropriate, career trajectories.
Alex’s Escape. Fourteen-year-old psychopath Alex Packard has his own house, a shadow version of his parents’ house that THEY helped him build. He takes people there to kill them in the most entertaining ways he can imagine. After murdering his parents, he moves to Los Angeles to live with his married gay uncles, Bruce and Aaron. Alex bonds with his uncles immediately, coming out as gay, too. His bond with Aaron, a documentary filmmaker, tightens as he shares in Aaron’s passion for the camera, and he toys with both uncles, trying to ignite other passions. Meanwhile, he starts bringing beautiful boys and girls from school back to his house, staging more and more elaborate and violent scenarios with them to entertain himself as well as THEM… but his uncles have suspicions, and Alex leaves clues… and Alex might not understand the enormity of the forces that allow him to slaughter innocents in a shadow world.
The Middle Reaches is a four-cycle epic of weird horror and dark fantasy. What begins with a group of friends seeking the truth about an old disappearance leads into a dark and increasingly expansive journey through The Middle Reaches and beyond. As new characters and mysteries emerge, the paths established in earlier cycles continue to intersect, gradually revealing a larger story. Combining horror, dark fantasy, strange worlds, monsters, mystery, and cosmic/weird elements, The Middle Reaches is designed for readers who enjoy ambitious stories that expand in scope as their deeper connections emerge.
Read “Horror Gone Wrong” in Tasavvur Magazine.
Read “Five Matches” in Horrific Scribes July 2026.
A person wakes up trapped in a large, dark room, and has five matches to help him escape.
The Horror Lite Anthologies. It’s the hour of the evening when you want to curl up with a book of scary short stories. Tales inspired by the Twilight Zone. But not too scary… because you want to sleep, right? Each volume has 13 stories that will send a chill down your spine while leaving a smile on your face.
Read “Final Rites Fan” in Horrific Scribes March 2025.
A possessed room fan blows messages of vengeance. Who will be its next target?
Escaping the mounting issues with city life, a couple move into a suburban subdivision that utilizes a special form of security. An ex-con shares her experiences with an obscure cryptid on a late night talk show. Grigori Rasputin conducts a cult under observation by British Intelligence. The personification of Death, bored and lonely, wanders the streets of Denver seeking connection.
Every encounter is a confrontation. Doppelgängers, conglomerate spirits, and other awful things await your acquaintance in Rabbit Face and Further Awful Encounters, the debut collection from Thomas C. Mavroudis, of whom Bram Stoker award winner Christa Carmen says, “Employs crisp prose, heartbreakingly earnest characters, and a wicked gift for dark humor to absolutely brilliant effect.”
Read “From a Trail Cam Pointed at Our House” in Horrific Scribes, June 2025.
A frustrated father gets tricked into watching a very unnerving “suggested for you” video online.
“Lakehouse Infernal is the coolest, ball-bustingest, most outrageous, and most ENTERTAINING horror novel you’re likely to find in a long time.” – Edward Lee author of CITY INFERNAL
Lake Misquamicus was an unremarkable lake in Florida, unremarkable that is until suddenly it was filled with six billion gallons of blood, bile, pus, piss, shit and …things… directly from the pits of Hell. First the public was in shock, then the government built a wall, and as time passed it became another urban legend. But for some, it has become a travel destination. Spring-breakers, drug-runners, and religious nuts. But a weekend getaway on the shores of Hell, may not be the safest idea…
With an introduction by and officially endorsed by splatterpunk legend Edward Lee, LAKEHOUSE INFERNAL is an official entree in Lee’s infamous Infernal series. Christine Morgan (Spermjackers from Hell) expands on this universe with her own twist of hardcore horror tourism.
*WINNER OF THE 2020 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
(co-authored with Susan Snyder)
He is RIPTIDE.
The only great white shark successfully raised in captivity. The star attraction of Oceanview Aquarium. Feared and revered by adoring fans, he is king of his solitary realm, master of his domain.
He has no knowledge of the wild, the open seas, the hunt and the kill, or others of his own kind. For him, there is only the One. Who feeds him, has cared for him since he was a pup.
The One. So different, but so beautiful. He yearns for her to fulfill his new needs, urges he’s just beginning to understand.
Then a tragic disaster leads to him being torn from his known, safe world and hurtled into another. A strange world of hungers and desires and unfamiliar touch. A world from which not even the One may be able to save him.
*WINNER OF THE 2024 WONDERLAND AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror includes Rohr’s “Queen of this Carnival Creation”
Some horrors were never meant to be unearthed.
Evil lurks within the pages of Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror…
A video game walkthrough harbors sinister secrets. A grieving sister’s letters blur the line between alive and dead (and alive again). A chain of frightening emails is the only evidence that a young woman ever walked the earth. And a series of journals pursue a dwindling wagon train marching into Hell—or someplace worse.
Haunting podcast transcripts. Blood-soaked police reports. Bewildering court findings. Brace yourself for an anthology that resurrects the chilling power of epistolary fiction—where ordinary documents transform into vessels of absolute terror.
Spanning 21 original tales blending the classic gothic horror of Stoker’s Dracula with the contemporary dread of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, Dead Letters contains both short sharp shocks and prolonged sojourns into the macabre—and promises to haunt your sleepless nights.
Featuring thrilling contributions from Gemma Files, Ai Jiang, Gordon B. White, J.A.W. McCarthy, and Red Lagoe, and curated with precision by Jacob Steven Mohr (The Unwelcome and Nightfall and Other Dangers) Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror solidifies its place among the pantheon of must-read horror anthologies.
Hoosier Noir is a collection of Indiana crime fiction. Issue ONE features genre heavyweights Les Edgerton, Don Stoll, Preston Lang, and many more. This first issue also offers Michael Mullen photography, an Author Spotlight on Alec Cizak, and an exclusive interview with Rex Weiner.
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