H.J. Dutton
HJ Dutton is a Pennsylvania-based writer and Assistant Editor at Horrific Scribes. His work has been featured on Audience Askew, Creepy-A Horror Podcast, Cryptic Frog Quarterly, Underside Stories, Killer Nashville, Emerald City Ghosts, and Penumbra: Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism. Alongside L. Andrew Cooper, he co-edited the anthologies Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind and Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers. More of his fiction is forthcoming in Schlock Webzine, Quotidian Bagatelle, Awestruck Press, AntipodeanSF, Mobius Blvd, A Curious Moon, The Bleeding Margin, and the Kaidankai podcast.
Read Dutton’s short story “Family of Four” in Horrific Scribes September 2025.
Description: A single father’s kids bring something home with them.
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Read Dutton’s short story “Darcy’s Docks” in Horrific Scribes February 2026.
Description: Every year, Claire revisits an abandoned theme park.
