Authors: R – Z
Luke Ramer
Luke Ramer grew up in Alburtis, a small town in Pennsylvania and now resides near the beach in South Florida. He is an award-winning filmmaker and podcaster, has self-published novels, and streams video games on Twitch. He also runs DarkFictionFactory.com and the Dark Fiction Factory YouTube channel (youtube.com/@darkfictionfactory) where he posts various types of content. When not working on creative projects, Luke enjoys video games, the beach, and watching sports, especially UFC.
Read Ramer’s short story “Post Op” in Horrific Scribes.
Alistair Rey
Alistair Rey is a writer of dark speculative fiction and the new weird. He is the author of the fiction collection The Art of Ghost Writing (Dark Owl Books, 2023). His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies over the years, including Juked, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Ghastling, and Weirdbook. His short fiction received honorary mention in Ellen Datlow’s annual Best Horror of the Year anthology in 2020 and 2021. He currently resides in Cardiff, Wales.
Read Rey’s short story “Snails” 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.
Mike Rusetsky
Mike Rusetsky (he/him) is a Ukrainian-American author of horror, urban fantasy and speculative fiction. He started out as a playwright, with his original one-act productions Angel of Death and The Plight of Smitty earning critical praise. His recent publications include stories in anthologies by Outsider Publishing, Black Hare Press, Inkd Publishing, Storm Dragon Publishing, Wicked Shadow Press, White City Press, Critical Blast Publishing, and the periodicals Sometimes Hilarious Horror, Tales from the Crosstimbers and Trollbreath Magazine. Mike is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his beautiful wife and their spoiled Alaskan Malamute dog.
Read Rusetsky’s short story “Non-Denominational Office Gathering” 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.
Sydney Sackett
Sydney Sackett (she/her) is a Frostburg State University grad and currently edits full-time. Some of her creative work appears in Etherea, Menacing Hedge, Allegory, and Not One of Us. She can be tracked down to https://sydneybsackett.wixsite.com/website.
Read Sackett’s short story “The Rites of Harry Leitner” in Horrific Scribes.
Nilay Kumar Sarker
Nilay Kumar Sarker (he/them) is a scientist and speculative fiction writer whose work bridges environmental biotechnology and the mythic imagination. He loves folklore that hides unease beneath beauty—tales where devotion curdles into transformation, and the natural world quietly rearranges its laws. His stories explore identity, memory, and the thin, luminous border between what is seen and what insists on being seen. When not writing, he researches algal biotechnology and sustainable systems.
Read Sarker’s short story “The Reflection’s Strike” 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.
Mario Senzale
Mario Senzale (he/him/*) writes fiction that examines power, identity, and the systems that devour us. To this date, he has fourteen short stories accepted for publication, two of them already available in Expat Press and Weird Daze. He believes the most important stories are the ones that refuse to let you look away. Find him at mariosenzale.neocities.org and mariosenzale.bsky.social.
Read Senzale’s short story “The Bull” in Horrific Scribes.
Briar Shannon
Briar Shannon (she/her) resides in Virginia’s wine country under a pile of domesticated animals and livestock. When she comes up for air, you’ll find her writing a lot of speculative fiction or sipping a lot of wine. Sometimes both.
Read Shannon’s short story “The Underground Auction Ride” in Horrific Scribes.
Jeffery Scott Sims
Jeffery Scott Sims is an author devoted to fantastic literature living in Arizona, which forms the background for many of his stories. His recent publications include the novel The Journey through the Black Book, a volume of weird tales, Science and Sorcery IV, and the short stories “The Cross of Xenophor,” “An Ayre by Landor,” “That Hideous Brain,” “Mystery in Egyptian Blue,” “Jules Laval, the Aesthetic Detective,” and “The Iron Bells of Xylinthia.”
Read Sims’s short story “The Artistry of Poteauje” in Horrific Scribes.
Daniel Stride
Daniel Stride (he/him) has a lifelong love of literature in general and speculative fiction in particular. His short fiction has appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, the Lesbian Historical Motif Podcast, and Bards and Sages Quarterly. His first novel, steampunk-flavoured dark fantasy, Wise Phuul, was published in 2016 by small UK press Inspired Quill. Daniel can be found blogging about the works of Tolkien, among other things, at A Phuulish Fellow (https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/). He lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Read Stride’s short story “To Play the Queen of Hearts” in Horrific Scribes.
Kirsty Syder
Kirsty Syder (she/her) lives and writes in Oxfordshire, UK. When not writing, she can usually be found swimming in a nearby lake, practicing Korean karate, or reading while stroking a cat. She regularly indulges her horror addiction at film festivals across the UK.
Read Syder’s short story “Prepped” in Horrific Scribes, January 2026.
K. Thompson
K. Thompson (she/they) lives with her cat in Philadelphia. She enjoys staring forlornly at her unread book pile and eating pad thai. Her work has previously been published in Crow & Cross Keys and Black Sheep Magazine. You can follow her @thompsinator.bsky.social.
Read Thompson’s short story “Worryeater” in Horrific Scribes.
E.W.H. Thornton
E.W.H. Thornton’s work has appeared on The NoSleep Podcast, in the BlazeVOX Journal, Dark Dead Things Magazine, Unorthodox Fiction, and After The Storm Magazine. They maintain a blog presenting magazine content from pre-, mid-, and post-World War Two era America, with a focus on the golden age of pulp fiction. It can be found at https://thegildedcentury.tumblr.com. They also occasionally write about the more bizarre, lurid, and tragic aspects of video game history at https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/lostsol/blog/.
Read Thornton’s short story “The Slide” in Horrific Scribes.
Steve Toase
Steve Toase lives in the Frankenwald, Bavaria, Germany. His fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Analog, Three Lobed Burning Eye, and Shimmer amongst others. To Drown in Dark Water was published by Undertow Publications, and his archaeology themed horror collection Dirt Upon My Skin is out now from Black Shuck Books. He also likes old motorbikes and vintage cocktails.
Read Toase’s short story “Dental Hygiene” in Horrific Scribes.
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Read Toase’s short story “Húsið Mitt” in Horrific Scribes.
SJ Townend
SJ Townend (she/her) is a single mother, a teacher, and an author of dark fiction. She has had stories published through Tenebrous Press, Vastarien, Eerie River Publishing, Dark Matter Magazine, Penumbric Magazine, and a few other places. Her first horror collection, Sick Girl Screams, was published in 2024 by Brigid’s Gate Press, and her second horror collection, Your Final Sunset, was published earlier this year (Sley House Press). She is currently querying her third collection, Unfamiliar Stories.
Twitter: @SJTownend
Read Townend’s short story “QVC” in Horrific Scribes.
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Read Townend’s short story “When One Door Closes” in Horrific Scribes.
Mark Towse
Mark Towse is an English horror writer living in Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he could write full-time. Alas, he left it very late to begin this journey, penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of forty-five. Since then, he’s been published in over two hundred journals and anthologies, had his work made into full theatrical audio productions, and has penned fifteen novellas (Nana, Gone to the Dogs, One Last Shindig, etc.) and two novels. The Sound of Suffering, his second novel, was released in February 2025.
Read Towse’s short story “Ash-Ray Wednesday” in Horrific Scribes.
Fendy S. Tulodo
Fendy S. Tulodo (he/him) is an art worker from Malang, Indonesia. He works with words and music to study how time feels different to people and how connections linger even when they’re gone. By day, he sells motorcycles. By night, he makes moody music as Nep Kid and writes stories in different forms. His art lives in the gap between words and true feelings. Follow him on Instagram at @fendysatria_
Read Tulodo’s short story “Beneath the Boards” in Horrific Scribes, March 2025.
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Read Tulodo’s short story “Postmarked for My Bones” in Horrific Scribes, July 2025.
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Read Tulodo’s short story “Genesis in Reverse” in Horrific Scribes, November 2025.
Vampirlibido
Vampirlibido (he/him) is a splatterpunk short-story writer, macabre poet, pornographer (lit), and vampirologist. He was published by Otoroshi Journal, Memento Mori Ink Magazine’s Morsus Vitae, and Mortem Magazine Mexico. He lives in Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida, Venezuela. Find him on his Facebook individual page and author page and on X @Vampirlibido. You can also email vampirlibido@gmail.com.
Read Vampirlibido’s poetry selection The Monstrous-Feminine: Eighteen Horrorku in Horrific Scribes, January 2026.
Maxim Volk
Maxim Volk (they/he) is a queer horror author from the Midwest. They write horror, erotica, and all the filthy stories in between. They have publications in Macabre Magazine and an upcoming issue of Carnage House. They are not in a cult anymore.
Read Volk’s short story “The Canvas” in Horrific Scribes.
Pamela Weis
Pamela (she/her) writes weird little (and big) stories during those few moments of clarity between her day job as a web developer and the rest of her life. This is challenging. But it keeps her sane. She has a background in Evolutionary Anthropology and Theater and a mountain of debt to prove it. Her work has been published in Not One of Us Magazine, This Exquisite Topology (Angry Gable Press), and produced for Creepy’s Patreon-only podcast. She lives in Northern Indiana in a decrepit old house with her husband and their two black kitties, Nyxie and Shuri. Visit her at www.pamelaweis.com.
Read Weis’s short story “Rite of Passage” in Horrific Scribes.
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Andrew Welsh-Huggins, he/him, is the author of the critically acclaimed Mercury Carter thriller series, including The Mailman and the upcoming sequel, The Delivery; the stand-alone crime novel, The End of The Road; and the Shamus Award-nominated Andy Hayes private eye series. Andrew also edited the anthology Columbus Noir, and his mystery, horror, and sci-fi short stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021, 2024, and 2025. His nonfiction title, No Winners Here Tonight, is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio.
Read Welsh-Huggins’s short story “The Basement” in Horrific Scribes.
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Read Welsh-Huggins’s short story “Sharp Enough” 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.
Abby Nicole Yee
Abby Nicole Yee (she/they) is a Filipino neurodivergent writer of speculative fiction and poetry born and based in Cagayan de Oro. Her work can be found in Penumbric, Clarkesworld, Philippines Graphic, among others, and has been longlisted in the YA OPEN contest by Voyage YA/Uncharted Magazine. She is currently taking up Complete Weirdo and Conduct (Creative Writing) at University of the Philippines Diliman. When not writing your problematic faves, she’s squinting at the world at large, or trying to make sense of some astonishing absurdities, like her fried cheese brain. Find links to her other work at abbynicoleyee.com.
Read Yee’s poem “Before I Grew Nettled Skin” in Horrific Scribes.