Authors

Phoebe Barr

Phoebe Barr (she/they) is a library worker, environmental activist, and writer. Her speculative fiction has previously appeared in The Colored Lens and the Ethereal Nightmares anthology. More of her work is available online at writealongtheriver.wordpress.com. 

Read Barr’s short story “Final Confession from the One-Woman Department of Mind Control” in Horrific Scribes.

Amanda M. Blake

A mass of tentacles and rose vines masquerading as a person, Amanda M. Blake (she/they) is the author of such horror titles as Question Not My Salt, Deep Down, and Out of Curiosity and Hunger, dark poetry collection Dead Ends, and the Thorns fairy tale mash-up series. For more, visit amandamblake.com

Read Blake’s short story “Weed Killer” in Horrific Scribes.

Emmie Christie

Emmie Christie’s work includes practical subjects, like feminism and mental health, and speculative subjects, like unicorns and affordable healthcare. She has been published in Factor Four Magazine, Small Wonders, and Flash Fiction Online, among others. Her fantasy romance novel A Caged and Restless Magic debuted Feb. 2024. She also narrates for Strange Horizons. Find her at www.emmiechristie.com, her monthly newsletter, or BlueSky.

Read Christie’s short story “Every Nowhere Leads to Somewhere” in Horrific Scribes.

Laura DeHaan

Laura DeHaan (any/all) is a masseuse and crematorium technician in Toronto, Canada. They are very quiet and definitely not behind you. Visit their (poorly-maintained, sporadically-updated) website https://iaminyoureyebrain.com/ for a full listing of their published works. They can still be found on twitter, such as it is, @WritInRooster.

Read DeHaan’s short story “It Gets Worse If You Pick At It” in Horrific Scribes.

T. Fox Dunham

T. Fox Dunham lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife, Allison. He’s a cancer survivor, disabled author, modern bard, herbalist, baker and historian. His first book, The Street Martyr, is in production to be a major motion picture by Throughline Films. He’s a well-published crime, horror and Sci-fi author and a member of the Horror Writers Association. Fox is proud to have also contributed to official Stargate canon with a story published in the Stargate Anthology Points of Origin from Fandemonium Books, telling the last story of the Asgard. He’s also a political author. MSN, Yahoo News and several north-eastern newspapers regularly publish his op-ed pieces. More information at tfoxdunham.com & Twitter: @TFoxDunham

Read Dunham’s short story “Survival Instinct” in Horrific Scribes.

Angelique Fawns

Angelique Fawns is a journalist and speculative fiction writer. She began her career writing articles about naked cave dwellers in Tenerife, Canary Islands. After selling her first story to EQMM, she fell in love with weird fiction, which is ACTUALLY stranger than non-fiction. You can learn more at www.fawns.ca, discover her work on her Amazon page, find her lurking at @angeliquefawns on X, read her blog about upcoming calls at https://angeliquemfawns.substack.com, or see her gaze into the abyss hoping it stares back at her.  Over 80 stories published. Find some in Mystery Tribune, Amazing Stories, and Space & Time.

Read Fawns’s short story “Final Rites Fan” in Horrific Scribes.

Amy Grech

Amy Grech, she/her/hers, has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including 10 by 10 Flash Fiction Stories, Apex Magazine, Even in the Grave, Gamut Magazine, Microverses, Punk Noir Magazine, Roi Fainéant Press, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Yellow Mama, and many others. Alien Buddha Press published her poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self. Visit her Amazon Author Page.

Read Grech’s short story “Snow Angel” in Horrific Scribes.

Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (he/him) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives in the Royal Burgh of Lanark, famous for its Lanimer celebrations and also various scrimmages that William Wallace of Braveheart fame was involved in. He is a children’s author, short story writer, editor and poet. Since 2008 he has been poetry editor for the British Fantasy Society. He is also a member of the Glasgow SF Writers Circle, Biggar Writers Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His work has appeared in places like “New Writing Scotland”, “Unsung Stories”, “Dreich”, “Shoreline of Infinity”, “Occult Detective Monthly”, “Visual Verse”, “Dreams and Nightmares”, “Star*Line”, and many other magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Canada. He has twice been a writer-in residence and was a director of the Scottish writer’s collective, Read Raw, and still looks after Read Raw Press. He reviews for the British Fantasy Society, and the website Concatenation, where his convention reports also appear. He is the proud owner of 1000 trees in Korup rain forest in Cameroon and has adopted a polar bear called Svetlana who writes regularly and says she is looking forward to eating – no – meeting Jessie, his black labrador. 

Read Hunter’s poetry selection Three Distorted Visions in Horrific Scribes.

L.N. Hunter

L.N. Hunter’s comic fantasy novel, The Feather and the Lamp, sits alongside works in anthologies such as Best of British Science Fiction 2022 and Ghostly, as well as several issues of Short Édition’s Short Circuit and the Horrifying Tales of Wonder podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less entertaining. When not writing, L.N. occasionally masquerades as a software developer or can be found unwinding in a disorganised home in Carlisle, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate.

https://linktr.ee/l.n.hunter
https://amazon.com/author/l.n.hunter
https://www.facebook.com/L.N.Hunter.writer

Read Hunter’s short story “The Train” in Horrific Scribes.

Kasimma

Kasimma is an author from Igboland–obodo ndi dike. Visit her at https://kasimma.com/.

Read Kasimma’s short story “Funky D” in Horrific Scribes.

Emmanuel Komen

Emmanuel Komen is an African contemporary poet, philosopher, and thinker based in Nairobi, Kenya. His works explore themes of identity, nature, and the human experience. He is a dedicated tours and travel agent, guiding visitors to breathtaking destinations such as the Masai Mara for the wildebeest migration, as well as Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro for adventurous climbs. A passionate motorsport enthusiast, Emmanuel is an avid fan of the safari rally and proudly supports Team Toyota GR.

Read Komen’s Whispering Walls and Other Haunting Verses in Horrific Scribes.

Zoltán Komor

Zoltán Komor was born on June 14, 1986. He lives in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He writes surreal short stories and has been published in several literary magazines, including Horror, Sleaze and Trash; Drabblecast; The Phantom Drift; Gone Lawn; Bizarro Central; Bizarrocast; Thrice Fiction Magazine; The Missing Slate; The Gap-Toothed Madness; Wilderness House Literary Review; Weird Fiction Quarterly, and more. His first English book, Flamingos in the Ashtray: 25 Bizarro Short Stories, was published by Burning Bulb Publishing in 2014. That same year, his second English book, Tumour-Djinn, was released by MorbidbookS. His third collection, Turd Mummy, came out in 2016 via StrangeHouse Books. His latest novel, The Radiator Boy and The Holly Country, was published by Potter’s Grove Press in 2021.

Read Komor’s short story “The Vacuum Castrator” in Horrific Scribes.

Christine Lajewski

Christine Lajewski is a writer, retired alternative high school teacher, and a teacher/naturalist at Mass Audubon. She spent 22 years as a haunt actor. She was born and raised in Flint, Michigan and now lives in Cumberland, RI close to her adult daughter and son.

Her first novel, Jhator, was published in 2014. It is a spiritual fantasy in which a grieving woman’s conversations with animals help her find joy again. Her collection of horror short stories, Erring on the Side of Calamity, and a horror novel, Bonebelly, were published in 2018. She has had short stories published in Dark Tales, Sanitarium, The Flash Fiction Press, Siren’s Call, 34 Orchard, Crystal Lake Shallow Waters and the anthologies A Shadow Over Deathlahem, The Misbehaving Dead, A Bird In The Hand and Still Waters (poetry), Wicked Women (New England Horror Writers), and Dancing in the Shadows: A Tribute to Anne Rice.

Website: https://www.christinemlajewski.net

Author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christine-Lajewski/author/B00P1TCBS4

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CLajewskiauthorpage

Read Lajewski’s short story “The Indignities” in Horrific Scribes.

Susan L. Lin

Susan L. Lin (she/her) is a Taiwanese American storyteller who hails from southeast Texas and holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Her novella Goodbye to the Ocean won the 2022 Etchings Press novella prize, and her literary/visual art has appeared in nearly a hundred publications. She loves to dance. Find more at https://susanllin.com. 

Read Lin’s short story “No Vacancy” in Horrific Scribes.

Pamela Love

Pamela Love (she/her) was born in New Jersey. After graduating from Bucknell University, she worked as a teacher and in marketing before becoming a writer. Her dark speculative fiction has appeared in the anthologies Bitter Become the Fields and Havok: Animal Kingdom, as well as the magazines Tales from the Moonlit Path and The Lorelei Signal. She lives in Maryland.

Read Love’s short story “We Read by Rot” in Horrific Scribes.

Trisha Ridinger McKee

Trisha Ridinger McKee (she/her) is a multi-genre author of seventeen novels and over 100 published short stories. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Chicken Soup for the Soul, Crab Fat Literary, Deep Fried Horror, Myslexia, and more.  While her novels are romance/women’s fiction, she indulges in her darker side with short stories in the genres of horror and sci-fi.

Read McKee’s short story “The Inheritance” in Horrific Scribes.

Jen Mierisch

Jen Mierisch’s dream job is to write Twilight Zone episodes, but until then, she’s a website administrator by day and a writer of odd stories by night. Jen’s work can be found in The Arcanist, NoSleep Podcast, Scare Street, and numerous anthologies. Jen can be found haunting her local library near Chicago, USA. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.

Read Mierisch’s short story “Kitty’s Hobby” in Horrific Scribes.

Shawn Montgomery

Born and raised in upstate New York, Shawn (he/him) watched John Carpenter’s Halloween for the first time when he was seven years old. Although utterly terrified that Michael Myers would kill him in his sleep that night, he became forever hooked on horror. It also helped that his aunt and uncle’s house was haunted by a generally innocuous ghost named “Flo,” who seemed to particularly enjoy watching Shawn play with his cousin’s trove of action figures in the toy room.

Shawn was fortunate (he thinks) to have lived near a cemetery, and he often rode his bike with his older brother through the grounds’ winding, intersecting roads, ultimately finding themselves among the children’s tombstones. He liked to read the various epitaphs, wondering how these children had found their way to this serene, shady hill.

Mesmerized by a mélange of horror movies throughout the 1980’s, Shawn began writing scary stories when he was eleven years old and hasn’t stopped. He has had stories featured in Disturbed Digest, Thirteen Podcast, Hellbound Books’ Anthology of Suburban Horror, The Horror Zine, Death Head Grin, Deadman’s Tome, and others.

Shawn self-published his first novel, The Buchman, and has been tinkering with several subsequent novels, as well as shorter works. He lives in the mighty Pacific Northwest with his wife and two daughters.

Read Montgomery’s short story “Burn the Witch” in Horrific Scribes.

Jason Frederick Myers

Jason Frederick Myers (he/him) suffered from horrible nightmares as a child, so the irony of growing up to write dark fiction is not lost on him. As a young adult, he became obsessed with the writings of Shirley Jackson, Clive Barker, and Stephen King, authors from whom he draws inspiration today. When not reading or writing, he is likely exploring a secluded mountain or forest, as he only goes to town to acquire new Halloween decorations. A member of the HWA, he has fiction in or forthcoming at DarkWinter Lit, Black Sheep Magazine, Exquisite Death, Dark Harbor Magazine, Black Petals, The Horror Zine, and various anthologies.

Follow him on X:  https://x.com/jasonfmyers

Read Myers’s short story “Of Gnarled Roots and Rot” in Horrific Scribes.

Eric Nash

Eric Nash (he/him) is a short story writer from South West England. His dark tales have been published in numerous venues including Horror Library 8 by Dark Moon Books, Coffin Bell Journal, Dark Horses magazine, and Demain’s Short Sharp Shocks! series. His work also made it onto Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year recommended list vol 16.

His short fiction collection, Corpse Road Blues: an exploration of contemporary hauntings, is out now from Demain Publishing (here for the UK link).

Find out more: https://eric-nash-inked-up-and-earthbound.com/

Connect on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ericnash.bsky.social

Read Nash’s short story “The Imposter Syndrome” in Horrific Scribes.

Lena Ng

Lena Ng (she/her) roams the dimensions of Toronto, Canada, and is a monster-hunting member of the Horror Writers Association. She has curiosities published in weighty tomes including Amazing Stories and Flame Tree’s Asian Ghost Stories and Weird Horror Stories. Her stories have been performed for podcasts such as Gallery of Curiosities, Creepy Pod, Utopia Science Fiction, Love Letters to Poe, and Horrifying Tales of Wonder. “Under an Autumn Moon” is her short story collection.

Read Ng’s short story “Darkly Dreaming from the Abyss” as well as seven horror haiku (or “horrorku“) in Horrific Scribes.

Jennifer Peaslee

Jennifer Peaslee’s (she/her) work has recently appeared in Breath & Shadow, Every Day Fiction, BarBar, and Moonday Mag. She lives outside Atlanta with her mischievous cat, Trouble, and runs The Bleeding Typewriter, a creative writing advice blog and online community. Her religious horror short story collection, Divine Dread, is available on Amazon. Her upcoming novella, Sorority Zombies in Space!, will be released in 2025.

Read Peaslee’s short story “Dinner and a Show” in Horrific Scribes.

M. Brandon Robbins

M. Brandon Robbins is a writer, gamer, and librarian who lives in Goldsboro, NC. His work has appeared in Trembling With Fear and various short story and poetry anthologies. His novel Mr. Haunt is forthcoming from Sley House Publishing in 2028. Brandon blogs at Writing Screams, is on Bluesky, and has a just-launched Substack. His short story, “Heart of Stone,” is available as a chapbook from Demain Publishing.

Read Robbins’s short story “My Mother’s Way” in Horrific Scribes.

Robert Runté

When fantasy author Dave Duncan passed away, he left his incomplete manuscripts to Robert to finish. The first two of these were The Traitor’s Son and Corridor to Nightmare, available now from Shadowpaw Press.  Robert is Senior Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and freelances at SFeditor.ca. A former professor, he has won three Aurora Awards for his literary criticism and currently reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books. His own fiction has been published over 100 times. 

Read Runté’s short story “The Ghost in the Casement” in Horrific Scribes.

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar (she/her/hers) is a writer and associate English professor who teaches creative writing, composition, and composition theory courses. A member of the Horror Writers Association, she holds a Doctorate of Education with a Literacy Specialization from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in horror fiction from Wilkes University. She is the author of the Regal Summit Book Award-winning dark suspense novel Darkness There but Something More (Wicked House Publishing, 2024), the short horror story collection Keeper of Corpses and Other Dark Tales (Velox Books, 2024), the middle-grade mystery The Hidden Diary (Baynam Books Press, 2024), the horror novella Close the Door (Baynam Books Press, 2025), and the young adult thriller Lake of Secrets (Horrorsmith Publishing, 2025). Additionally, she is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of the multi-author volume of horror scholarship No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes (Vernon Press, 2024) as well as the editor of Wicked Universe: A Wicked House Publishing Anthology (Wicked House Publishing, 2024). Her shorter work has appeared in more than fifty creative publications including The Horror Zine, The Stygian Lepus, Wyldblood Magazine, and Tales from the Moonlit Path. She has traveled to almost sixty countries and enjoys incorporating diverse settings into her work … when she’s not writing about Pennsylvania, her favorite state. Read and find out more about her work at https://cassandraosullivansachar.com/

Read Sachar’s short story “Squish” in Horrific Scribes.

C.M. Saunders

Chris Saunders (he/him), who writes fiction as C.M. Saunders, is a writer and editor from New Tredegar, Wales. After teaching English in China for several years, he worked extensively in the publishing industry, holding desk jobs ranging from staff writer to associate editor, and is currently employed at a trade publication. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, ezines and anthologies around the world including The Literary Hatchet, Crimson Streets, 34 Orchard, Phantasmagoria, Burnt Fur, and DOA volumes I and III, while his books have been both traditionally and independently published. His latest release is the horror western Silent Mine on Undertaker Books.

Read Saunders’s short story “The Screaming Man” in Horrific Scribes.

Fendy S. Tulodo

Fendy Satria Tulodo (he/him) is a writer and musician who enjoys exploring the boundaries of storytelling. Whether through words or music, he seeks to create experiences that linger—sometimes unsettling, sometimes thought-provoking. His work often delves into the unknown, uncovering the hidden layers beneath everyday life.

He has a background in content creation, strategic communication, and storytelling, and he is fascinated by the eerie and the unconventional—stories that linger in the reader’s mind long after the last sentence.

Read Tulodo’s short story “Beneath the Boards” in Horrific Scribes.

Robb White

Robb White is the Derringer-nominated, Midwest author of genre fiction and three series detectives: Thomas Haftmann, Raimo Jarvi, and Jade Hui. Betray Me Not was selected for distinction by the Independent Fiction Alliance in 2022. His 2024 publications include a collection of noir tales: Fade to Black: Noir Stories of Grifters, Drifters, and Unlovable Losers and a crime novel: Danse Macabre in New Orleans.

Read White’s short story “The Revenge Room” in Horrific Scribes.