E.W.H. Thornton
E.W.H. Thornton’s work has appeared on The NoSleep Podcast, in Adventures Bookzine, BlazeVOX Journal, Horrific Scribes, Unorthodox Fiction, After The Storm Magazine, Dark Dead Things, Liminal Tales, This Exquisite Topology, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, the Dreams Divine collection, and the meat4meat anthology. They maintain a blog presenting magazine content from pre, mid, and post World War Two era America. 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://giantbomb.com/users/16006/articles.
Read Thornton’s short story “The Slide” in Horrific Scribes July 2025.
Description: The refuge of beauty and truth becomes a trap as the creatures lurking within the lies we tell ourselves emerge to feed.
[Silas adds: On a more literal level, a college professor lectures about photography and death, but what she reveals through a series of dark images is far more than academic.]
Read Thornton’s drabble “TALK SHOW HOST PROVOKES AUDIENCE” in Horrific Scribes September 2026.
Description: A talk show’s new format goes awry.