John Leahy
John Leahy is the author of three novels–Harvest, CROGIAN, and Unity. He has received three Honourable Mentions in Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest, and his short story “Singers“ appeared in Flame Tree Publishing’s 2017 Pirates and Ghosts anthology alongside works by writers including Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. Lovecraft, and H. G. Wells. A past prize-winner at Listowel Writers’ Week, his story “Do You Dream of Oil?” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Killarney, Ireland.
Read Leahy’s short story “Flowers” in Horrific Scribes August 2025.
Description: The crew of pirate ship The Black Zephyr find a man clinging to flotsam in the ocean after his ship has been wrecked. The man’s name is Anton Lammers, and his ship was the Coen, a well-known ship in the Dutch East India company. Lammers tells the pirates the story of the demise of the Coen, a truly terrible tale indeed. So terrible, in fact, that it borders on the unbelievable.
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Read Leahy’s short story “”Smaller Lives” in Horrific Scribes June 2026.
Description: “Smaller Lives” is a horror short story set after a global possession event known as the Break. At a Survivors’ Circle, Wyatt Price recounts how an entity named Eshra entered his life–not by force, but by easing his anxiety and making him feel seen. But when the meeting unravels, the group discovers that some presences do not leave willingly.