Horrific Scribes and Scribbles, March 2025
Lena Ng
Joined March 4, 2025
Lena Ng (she/her) shambles around Toronto, Canada, and is a zombie member of the Horror Writers Association.
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“Darkly Dreaming from the Abyss”
He was nice at first, but he turned into a pig.
Read “Darkly Dreaming from the Abyss” (~2100 words)
Read Seven Horrorku (85 words)
Author Keywords: noir, femme fatale, mystery, Lynchian, horroku (for the poems)
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): butchery, murder
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Emmanuel Komen
Joined March 10, 2025
Emmanuel, a naturally tame guy, but wild in your dreams!
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Whispering Walls
and Other Haunting Verses
Dare to read—but beware what may be reading you.
Read Whispering Walls and Other Haunting Verses (~400 words)
Author Keywords: Eerie Art
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Enter these verses at your own risk!
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Laura DeHaan
Joined March 11, 2025
Laura DeHaan is very quiet and definitely not behind you.
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“It Gets Worse If You Pick At It”
“You’ll never conquer Earth, you fungal freak. We’re stuck here on your lousy planet, and this hellscape is all you’ll ever know.”
Read “It Gets Worse If You Pick At It” (~2000 words)
Author Keywords: Horror, Body Horror, Fungus, Aliens, Mars, Space, Sci-Fi, Zombies, B-Movie, Anti-Colonialism
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Fungal body horror.
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Angelique Fawns
Joined March 11, 2025
Angelique Fawns has been a fixture in the Horror Short Story world since 2018. If you dare, read her latest bit of dark fantasy magical realism.
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“Final Rites Fan”
More than just cool air comes from the bent blades of this possessed fan.
Read “Final Rites Fan” (~1500 words)
Silas’s Keywords: dark fantasy, magical realism, absurd, animated objects, vengeance, vigilantism
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): necrophilia, murder
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Eric Nash
Joined March 11, 2025
Eric Nash resides with ghosts and dead things in deepest, darkest Somerset.
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“The Imposter Syndrome”
It’s about living with yourself afterwards, isn’t it?
Read “The Imposter Syndrome” (~4000 words)
Author Keywords: Blessings, Spells, Witchcraft, Fae, Doppelganger, Changeling
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): n/a
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Robb White
Joined March 13, 2025
A genre-fiction writer who prefers the dark side of human nature.
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“The Revenge Room”
An abandoned pump station in a marshy grassland on the outskirts of a small town becomes a hideous death trap as, one by one, their own greed lures them to their demise.
Read “The Revenge Room” (~5000 words)
Author Keywords: horror, noir, crime, pulp, thriller
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): None explicit, all violence is implied
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(implied violence can be extreme, too)
“The Ghost in the Casement”
Marta isn’t that into the Goth scene. But what if the Goth scene is anxious to get into Marta?
Read “The Ghost in the Casement” (~4700 words)
Author Keywords: Ghosts, gothic, horror, contemporary, castle, museum, Walpole
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): [silence]
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M. Brandon Robbins
Joined March 17, 2025
M. Brandon Robbins writes to get the monsters out.
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“My Mother’s Way”
The wounds of trauma never heal.
Read “My Mother’s Way” (~4900 words)
Author Keywords: ghost, ghost story, haunted house, trauma, mental abuse, emotional abuse, aging, LGBTQ+, queer
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Mental and Emotional Abuse, Childhood Emotional Trauma
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(But heed the specific warnings)
Pamela Love
Joined March 18, 2025
Her dark speculative fiction has appeared in the anthologies Bitter Become the Fields and Havok: Animal Kingdom as well as the magazines Tales from the Moonlit Path and The Lorelei Signal.
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“We Read by Rot”
“The last of our devices’ batteries died when our last Tenor did, so we learned to read by rot.”
Read “We Read by Rot” (~1500 words)
Author Keywords: Dark Fantasy, Music, Nature
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): Body horror, death
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Fendy S. Tulodo
Joined March 19, 2025
A writer and musician in relentless pursuit of something greater—one haunting tale at a time.
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“Beneath the Boards”
The knocking started—soft, rhythmic, and coming from beneath their feet.
Read “Beneath the Boards” (~1500 words)
Author Keywords: Psychological horror, haunted house, paranoia, unseen terror, creeping dread
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): None.
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(Silas warns you that it’s kind of intense, though)
Christine Lajewski
Joined March 20, 2025
Working at a haunted attraction, imagining terrible ways to die.
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“The Indignities”
Everyone grows old and diminishes, even the monsters.
Read “The Indignities” (~4000 words)
Author Keywords: predator, body horror, old age and legacy
Author Trigger Warnings (if any): violence, body horror
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