Authors: A – H
Sam Arlington
Sam Arlington (he/him) is a former civil servant and current unsophisticated wine appreciator who comes from a very short line of semi-accomplished authors. An odd child even by Rust Belt standards, Sam grew up hanging out in cemeteries and was profoundly and permanently affected by the death of Artax, so much so that it features in a three-sentence bio forty-plus years later. Sam’s work has appeared in Epic Echoes Magazine and the President’s Daily Brief (yes, that one) among other publications.
On the web and Bluesky @samarlington.com.
Read Arlington’s short story “Best Seats in the House” in Horrific Scribes.
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.
Jim Best
Jim Best is a lifelong reader and writer whose work ranges from highbrow literary fiction to internet fan fiction. An autistic anarchist, he authors stories that explore the strange and the transgressive, play with genre tropes and above all entertain. He lives in rural Kentucky with his family and has called many places home. When he’s not writing, he’s listening to podcasts, devouring audiobooks, or attempting to impersonate a high-functioning adult. Some of the places you can find his work are Saros Speculative Fiction, Ink Nest Poetry, and the forthcoming volume of Eggplant Emoji. His short story “Haint Seen Nothin’” recently placed in the top three of the Echoes of Appalachia Creative Writing Contest and will be featured on an upcoming episode of the ALPHANUMERIC podcast. Find him on Bluesky at @jmbest.bsky.social.
Read Best’s short story “Dead or Alive” 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.
Tim Brown
Tim Brown writes in a variety of genres but focuses on horror. When he’s not writing, he can be found tending to his plants, kowtowing to his cats, and unsuccessfully attempting to clear his backlog of books and video games. His work can be found in HauntedMTL, Creepy Pod, Roi Fainéant, and Juniper Berry. Tim can be found on Twitter/X (@timbrownwrites), BlueSky (@timbrownwrites.bsky.social), and his website timbrownwrites.com. He currently lives in Queens, NY.
Read Brown’s short story “Calluses” in Horrific Scribes.
Raymond Brunell
Raymond Brunell writes speculative and horror fiction that examines time, consciousness, and the paradoxes of causality. His work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, PulpCult, Flash Fiction Magazine, Literary Cocktail Magazine, Skeleton Flowers Press, Moss Puppy Magazine, TrashLight Press, Australian Writers Centre, and Horrific Scribes, among many others. He lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where he contemplates tar pits, preservation, and the loops we’re already trapped in. More at www.unbound-atlas.com.
Read Brunell’s short story “We Have Not Died Yet” in Horrific Scribes.
Harley Carnell
Harley Carnell (he/him) lives and writes in London, England. His fiction, which has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, appears in Penumbra, the Drabblecast, Riptide Journal and Shooter Literary, among others. His non-fiction appears in Gamut, the Lovecraft Annual, L’Espirit, and Aurealis. Find him at www.harleycarnell.com.
Read Carnell’s short story “Guilt” in Horrific Scribes.
Barry Charman
Barry Charman (he/him) is a writer living in North London. He has been published in various magazines, sites and anthologies, including Ambit, Griffith Review, The Ghastling, and Aurealis. Doom Warnings, his self-published collection of strange and speculative short stories, is available in paperback on Amazon and as a PDF at: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/12079076
Read Charman’s short story “Vote Abyss” in Horrific Scribes, January 2026.
Iluka Chayan
Iluka Chayan (they/them) is an emerging writer whose work blends speculative fiction, memory politics, and quiet emotional depth. Their writing is shaped by a life lived between cultures and by a fascination with how stories preserve what history forgets. Iluka’s work often reflects their belief in social compassion, cultural continuity, and the dignity of marginalised voices.
Read Chayan’s short story “The December Booth” 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.
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Read Christie’s short story “Chrysalis” in Horrific Scribes.
Jon Clendaniel
Jon Clendaniel (he/him) is a writer of speculative fiction from western Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Flash Point Science Fiction, Just Keep Up Magazine, and Shelter of Daylight, among others. When not writing, he can usually be found watching obscure horror movies or buying way too many used paperbacks. He works in communications for a large university, where he fights a losing battle in support of the Oxford Comma.
Read Clendaniel’s short story “And Then There Were Ten Billion” in Horrific Scribes.
David Corse
David Corse (he/him) is a dark fantasy and weird horror author from Ohio. His novelette, “Mother Is Coming Home”, is available in Split Scream Volume 6 by Tenebrous Press. His debut novella, “Cerulean Sky,” is scheduled for release in November 2025 by Polymath Press. You can chat with him on Bluesky at @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social and learn more about him on his website.
Read Corse’s short story “All My Angry Selves” in Horrific Scribes.
Richard Dansky
Richard Dansky (he/him) is the author of 8 novels and 2 short story collections. He’s worked in video games for 25+ years, and has written for franchises like The Division, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Hunt: Showdown. Currently the Narrative Director at Romero Games, he was also a core contributor to White Wolf’s classic World of Darkness TTRPG setting. Richard’s upcoming projects include the horror novel Nightmare Logic, the graphic novel Bridgewater, and The Video Game Writer’s Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You. He lives in North Carolina with a lot of books, a lot of scotch, and a frankly unbelievable number of Sasquatch-themed accessories.
Read Danksy’s short story “Scheduling Issues” in Horrific Scribes.
John Davis
John Davis (he/him) is an early childhood educator from Australia. He writes short stories across a range of genres, including horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. His work has appeared in Aurealis and AntipodeanSF.
Read Davis’s short story “It Hungers” in Horrific Scribes.
Nicholas De Marino
Nicholas De Marino (he/him) is a former journalist, neurodivergent poet, and published crackpot. He founded 5enses and is a foofaraw columnist. He likes petting spiders and watching cats. SFPA and Codex, too. More: nicholasdemarino.blogspot.com.
Read De Marino’s pair of poems Living Nightmares in Horrific Scribes.
Christopher Degni
Christopher Degni (he/him) writes about the magic and the horror that lurk just under the surface of everyday life. His short work can be found or is forthcoming in venues such as Flash Fiction Online, Stupefying Stories, 99 Tiny Terrors, 99 Fleeting Fantasies, Deadman Humour: 13 Fears of a Clown, and Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives. He’s also published a novella, Ghostshow Live!, about a reluctant reality-show ghost hunter. He was part of the editorial team for the Stoker-nominated MOTHER: Tales of Love and Terror and the music-horror anthology Playlist of the Damned. He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and currently lives south of Boston with his wife.
Read Degni’s story “Notes from the Dark Web” 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.
Sarina Dorie
Sarina Dorie has sold over 250 short stories to markets like Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, and F & SF. She has over one hundred books up on Amazon, including her bestselling series Womby’s School for Wayward Witches.
A few of her favorite things include: gluten-free brownies (not necessarily glutton-free), Star Trek, steampunk, fairies, Severus Snape, and Mr. Darcy. She lives with twenty-three hypoallergenic fur babies, by which she means tribbles. By the time you finish reading this bio, there will be twenty-seven.
You can find info about her short stories and novels on her website: www.sarinadorie.com
The best way to stay in contact with Sarina Dorie, hear about what she is writing, know when she has a new release, or books offered for free on Amazon is by signing up for her newsletter, https://sarinadorie.com/newsletter-sign-up.
Find her on Amazon in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Read Dorie’s short story “The Virtues and Vices of Vegan Vampires” in Horrific Scribes, May 2025.
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Read Dorie’s short story “Dragon Pox” in Horrific Scribes, October 2025.
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Read Dorie’s story “You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks—But You Can Give Her a Makeover” in Horrific Scribes, January 2026.
J.S. Douglas
J.S. Douglas (she/her) is a horror author living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, daughter, dog, and a growing collection of fish. She has several short stories published by magazines and anthologies, as well as a novella (Terror at Twll Du) and a novel (The Cult of Elle) available on Amazon. Her works most often address the topics she knows best: female rage, existential dread, ghosts, monsters, and the everyday horrors of existence. You can find a complete list of all of her published works on her website, jsdouglaswrites.com.
Read Douglas’s short story “Dysmenorrhea” 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.
H.J. Dutton
HJ Dutton is a Pennsylvania-based writer and Assistant Editor at Horrific Scribes. His work has been featured on Creepy-A Horror Podcast. Alongside L. Andrew Cooper, he co-edited the anthology Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind as well as the upcoming collection Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers.. More of his fiction is forthcoming in Audience Askew, Schlock Webzine, Quotidian Bagatelle, and Cryptic Frog Quarterly.
Read Dutton’s short story “Family of Four” in Horrific Scribes.
Paul Edmonds
Paul Edmonds (he/him) writes horror fiction steeped in grime, bad decisions, and small-town decay. He lives in Massachusetts.
Read Edmonds’s short story “Grand Guignol” in Horrific Scribes, February 2026.
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.
Zary Fekete
Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary and currently lives in Tokyo. He has a debut novella (Words on the Page) out with DarkWinter Lit Press and a short story collection (The Written Path: A Journey Through Sobriety and Scripture) out with Creative Texts. He enjoys books, podcasts, and many many many films. Twitter and Instagram: @ZaryFekete Bluesky: zaryfekete.bsky.social
Read Zekete’s story “My Father, My Father” in Horrific Scribes.
Eric Fomley
Eric Fomley’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Flame Tree Press, and the Black Library for the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universe. More of his fiction can be found on his website ericfomley.com or in his collections, starting with Flash Futures.
Read Fomley’s short story “Traffic Stop” in Horrific Scribes.
Douglas Ford
Douglas Ford’s (he/him) short fiction has appeared in a variety of anthologies, magazines, and podcasts, as well as three collections, Ape in the Ring and Other Tales of the Macabre and Uncanny, The Infection Party and Other Stories of Dis-Ease, and Let’s Cut Up Dad! and Other Stories of Transgressive Madness. His longer works include The Beasts of Vissaria County, Little Lugosi (A Love Story), The Trick, and Who Dies First, and the upcoming The Bloody Bucket. He lives on the west coast of Florida.
Read Ford’s short story “Why I’m Running the Spookshow Now” in Horrific Scribes.
Tracy Fritz
Tracy Fritz (she/her) writes horror that’s quiet—until it’s not. Her stories tend to follow one of two very different tracks. The first takes us through Central Texas, where she currently resides. Inspired by the region’s climate and natural beauty, she dramatizes how characters living in claustrophobic situations are transformed by strange encounters with the urban wild. The second path heads back to New England, where she was born—a setting perfect for antiquarian ghost stories and fireside tales. What connects her treatment of these subjects is a focus on interiority and the impact of the uncanny on consciousness. She has been both an academic and a funeral director. Now, when she’s not writing, she’s reading tarot at local markets or chasing chickens around her home in Austin.
Read Fritz’s short story “Mr. Ears Comes to Dinner” in Horrific Scribes.
Katherine Garrison
Katherine Garrison (she/her) is a private chef and baker originally from the mountains of Wyoming, now living in rainy rural Wales. She writes short fiction and poetry from the borders of the literary and speculative, often exploring themes through nature, food, the weird, or some mix of these. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Star*Line, Trashlight Press, Baubles from Bones, fifth wheel press’s effervescent anthology, Horrific Scribes, and others. When not cooking or writing she loves going on long hikes with her partner and their dog, camping, birdwatching, foraging, gardening, and being outside in general.
You can find her on Bluesky: @katherinegarrison.bsky.social and Instagram: @kgwritesstories
Read Garrison’s short poetry collection Approaching Dangers: Three Monstrous Poems 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.
P. N. Harrison
P.N. Harrison is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and dark fantasy based out of the plains of Western Kansas. His short fiction appears in such venues as Starlite Pulp Review, What Lurks: A Cryptid Anthology (Graveside Press), and the Brigids Gate Press anthology Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane. In his day job as an English professor, he has published numerous academic articles on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and books bound in human skin. When not muttering in dead languages, he enjoys watching baseball and going on historic ghost walks with his wife, Ashley. He can be found online on Threads as pnharrison86, Bluesky as pharrison.bsky.social, and at harrisonhorror.wordpress.com.
Read Harrison’s short story “Mari Lwyd” in Horrific Scribes.
Jan-Andrew Henderson
Jan-Andrew Henderson (J.A. Henderson) is the author of 40 children’s, teen, YA and adult fiction and non-fiction books, published in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, and Europe by Oxford University Press, Collins, Hardcourt Press, Amberley Books, Oetinger Publishing, Mainstream Books, Black and White Publishers, Mlada Fontana, Black Hart, Three Ravens, and Floris Books. He has been shortlisted for sixteen literary prizes and is the winner of the Doncaster Book Prize, The Aurealis Award and the Royal Mail Award. Find him at https://www.janandrewhenderson.com
Read Henderson’s short story “Lake Fame” in Horrific Scribes, January 2026.
Marco Herrera (MAHH!)
Marco Herrera is a filmmaker and cultural producer based in Arica, Chile, working under the creative moniker MAHH! He founded Tetrápodo Films in 2010 and has created projects spanning film, graphic novels (Condenados), and interactive media. “Brisket” is from Enough is Enough!, his first short fiction collection currently being written.
Read Herrera’s short story “Brisket” in Horrific Scribes.
Joseph Hirsch
Joseph Hirsch (he/him) is the author of several published novels and novellas and many short stories, articles, and essays. His new horror novel, Church of the Last Lamb, is available in print and eBook from Underground Voices. His nonfiction has appeared in Fight Hype and Film International. He holds an MA in German Studies from the University of Cincinnati. He is online at www.joeyhirsch.com
Read Hirsch’s short story “Red in Tooth” in Horrific Scribes, June 2025.
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Read Hirsch’s short story “Mama Bear” in Horrific Scribes, August 2025.
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Read Hirsch’s short story “Teufelsrad” in Horrific Scribes, February 2026.
Matt Hollingsworth
Matt Hollingsworth (he/him) is a neurodivergent human and an award-winning color artist for Marvel, DC, and Image Comics. He’s collaborated with such fine specimens of humanity as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, and Mike Mignola on titles including Tom Strong, The Filth, Preacher, and Hellboy. He’s a degenerate American but has tainted Croatia with his presence since 2006. In his free time he pets kitties. His prose has appeared in Interzone, Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories from Ruadán Books, and Tales to Terrify. His work has previously appeared in Horrific Scribes and is forthcoming at Uncharted and Bourbon Penn.
Find him online at matthollingsworth.com
Read Hollingsworth’s short story “Hush” in Horrific Scribes
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Read Hollingsworth’s short story “A Witch’s Envy” 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.
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Read Hunter’s short story “The Train” in Horrific Scribes.