Fruiting Bodies of Extremely Weird Splatter: Authors’ Other Works, Part Two
Some authors who contributed to the Extremely Weird Splatter anthology (which fuses extreme/splatterpunk and weird horror) are established with hundreds of publications, and some are geniuses at the beginning of their transgressive paths. This series of three articles highlights career landmarks or, where appropriate, career trajectories.
Andromeda Spaceways is a quarterly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine, publishing short stories, poetry, interviews, articles of interest, and book reviews.
Meagan always painted her the same way: nude and spread-eagled on a bed of buttery pink flowers, red feathers sprouting from bare shoulders, cheeks flushed by pollen. The spectre of a sneeze dances in the endless, liminal space between the bridge of her nose and the oval of her lips. She is stunning in her impermanence. A maze of lesions covers her parchment skin, glowing crimson as her body slowly disintegrates in the torrid sunset…
Gather: Grayslake Arts Alliance Writers’ Group Anthology 2024. A collection of short fiction, memoir, essay, and poetry pieces from authors in The Grayslake Arts Alliance Writers’ Group.
Love Me, Love Me Not (contributor). Have you ever been so obsessed with someone that thoughts of them envelop everything in your life, fill your every waking moment with desire, permeate your dreams…make you crazier than a bag of cats?
Have you ever been so devout in your love for another that all rational thought goes out of the window and you’d do everything in your power to keep them close, no matter what? Maybe keep them locked away…? Kill for them…?
Kill them…?
When love or lust hungers you, what would you do?
Let Your Hinged Jaw Do the Talking. The sleep of reason breeds monsters in this collection of terror tales. Some of the most frightening monsters are those that come in human form:
The ex-undercover cop haunted by the dead child whose identity he stole… The abused ex-convent girl who develops an affinity with Medusa… The severed hand that forges literary works… The budding psychopath whose doppelganger takes the rap for his misdeeds… The man in the black suit with boiled jelly eyes who haunts the corridors of a council flat…
These and other horrors stalk the ages, from eighteenth century West Africa to nineteen-fifties Brighton … from the killing fields of the English Civil War to the playing fields of an exclusive school … from the Munster plantation in sixteenth century Ireland to a sugar plantation in nineteen-thirties Haiti…
Read Johnstone’s short story “The Herman Condition” in Horrific Scribes June 2025.
Description: A woman who has escaped domestic violence receives a starter dough for a “Herman” friendship cake. However, she soon discovers that “Herman” is a very garrulous micro-organism and very free with the unsolicited relationship advice…
Carnival of Horror. Ten of the world’s premier wordsmiths have been gathered in the pages of this anthology to bring you tales straight from the midway! This is no sideshow, our anthology is the main event! You’ll hear tales about:
- A cotton candy hawker’s secret…
- Trapeze artists seeking escape…
- What lurks in Kiddietown…
- A lone survivor in a changed world…
- How far someone will go to become a star…
- Small town justice for a slain clown…
- Wishes coming back to haunt their makers…
- Strange creatures brought to dazzle and amaze…
- Being stuck in a place you love…
- A clown with an eating addiction—or is it?…
So get your popcorn and settle in: this is a carnival you don’t want to miss!
Read Lamanna’s short story “The Flesh Factory” in Horrific Scribes September 2025.
Description: “The Flesh Factory” tells the story of a human subject imprisoned in a dystopian medical facility where his body is harvested and rebuilt for profit. Stripped of autonomy, he clings to a fragile hope of escape, confronting what it means to endure when existence itself has been reduced to a commodity.
Suffer the Flesh. Zoey always wished she was thinner. One day she meets a strange woman who informs her of an ultimate weight-loss program, and Zoey is quickly abducted off the streets of Manhattan and forced into this program. Zoey’s enrolling whether she wants to or not.
Held hostage with many other women, Zoey is forced into degrading acts of perversion for the amusement of her captors. With no hope and no means of escape, Zoey must survive by complying with every sick demand and humiliation.
The only thing worse is what Zoey will have to do to get out…
Monica J. O’Rourke and Deadite Press present the classic novel of sex, torture, and just how far someone will go to lose weight.
In the End, Only Darkness. Eighteen horror stories (and a few poems) ranging from quietly subtle to stomach-churning disgusting, this collection features fiction that will entertain or repulse almost anyone. Featuring an Introduction by gore master Wrath James White!
Read about a gynecological visit gone very wrong … a woman’s obsession with a Georgia O’Keeffe painting … a former sheriff forced to hunt children overtaken during a zombie plague … a mohel who performs circumcisions in a most unique way … or a graphic story about three young men who conduct an experiment on a fourth boy—an experiment held in a secret room involving melted metals.
Included in this collection:
Poetry:
Calliope
Armageddon
What She Sees
Short Stories:
Jasmine and Garlic
Attainable Beauty
Huntin’ Season
Vade in Pacem
Five Adjectives about My Dad, by Nadine Specter
The Rest of Larry
Maternal Instinct
The Three Wishes of Henry Hoggan
Not with a Bang but a Whimper
Oral Mohel
Someone’s Sister
Dancing into October Country
Feeding Desire (with Jack Fisher)
Nurturing Type
Cell
Men risk everything to journey across the West, seeking their fortune at Silent Mine. They don’t come back.
In 1879, Dylan Decker rides his trusty steed Skydance across California in pursuit one of those lost men, Thomas Winstanley, whose wife needs to know if she’s been jilted or widowed. In the process, Decker encounters a town full of locals who clam up every time the mine is mentioned, two cutthroat bandits with their own horror stories, and a group of natives who understand what truly lurks in the dark recesses of Silent Mine.
But none of them can deter Decker from keeping his promise to Mrs. Winstanley. He’ll solve the mystery, regardless of cost.Will he survive the horrors in front of him or will he share the fate of the man he seeks in C.M. Saunders’s action-packed western horror novella, Silent Mine?
Read Saunders’s short story “The Screaming Man” in Horrific Scribes April 2025.
Description: Timelines collide when a man returns to his old school before it is demolished and stumbles across the answer to a mystery that has haunted him since childhood.
Etta Wynn is a Nigerian speculative fiction writer whose work explores memory, identity, technology, and transformation through literary horror and the weird. Their stories often combine emotional intimacy with unsettling speculative concepts.
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