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Horrific Scribblings is the independent publishing imprint run by L. Andrew Cooper. We launched in November 2024 and as of this writing are finding our footing in social media, so expect us to ramp up activity... soon...
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! J. M. J. Brewer joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Saint Jackal," a tale of wandering through abandoned places amidst conspiracies and paranoia and discovering wonder so powerful it's terrifying. horrificscribblings.com
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BOOK LAUNCH! Our second anthology, _Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers (26 Works of Order and Chaos)_ is available today wherever fine e-books are sold!
The best place to download? It's FEATURED ON GODLESS!!!
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To help with your celebration of women in horror, I made a little video (under nine minutes!) in which I discuss how women pretty much launched and defined Gothic/horror in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. youtu.be/i-K2kyrjiCU?...
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! J.S. Douglas adds another harrowing tale to the HORRIFIC SCRIBES archive, "Like and Subscribe," about children who rebel against their parents' online exploitation and abuse. horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Andrew Welsh-Huggins returns with his third terrifying tale for the HORRIFIC SCRIBES archive, "Patty Perkins, Nine Years Old." Maybe Patty should have stayed away from the basement... horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We continue celebrating our birthday by welcoming Kyle Rader to HORRIFIC SCRIBES. He brings the #postapocalyptic #survivalhorror (but no, you haven't read anything like it) story "Cloud Nine." Free to read (but we do pay writers): horrificscribblings.com
As of today, HORRIFIC SCRIBES has been publishing for a year! Birthday horror party! horrificscribblings.com
#shorthorrorstories #darkfiction #darkpoetry #transgressivefiction #callforsubmissions
In Horrific Bloggings! I interview Thomas C. Mavroudis, discussing the delightfully #weirdhorror #shortstories in his collection RABBIT FACE AND FURTHER AWFUL ENCOUNTERS and his tales in HORRIFIC SCRIBES. horrificscribblings.com
#quiethorror #cosmichorror #urbanlegends #cryptids #authorinterviews
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! H.J. Dutton returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Darcy's Docks," an atmospheric chiller that follows siblings as they venture into an abandoned amusement park. horrificscribblings.com
#shorthorrorstories #amusementparkhorror #psychologicalhorror #familyhorror #hauntingstories
Horrific Scribes, Exhibit Five, "They F**k You Up," is now open! #Horror about parents f**king up their kids and vice versa. horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Michael Hessel-Mial joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Pseudodisplay for Voice and Captive," #experimentalpoetry that blends #darkscifi with #cosmichorror. Like a passage from the Necronomicon... but it's from the future. Free at horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Paul Edmonds joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Grand Guignol," a tale that lives up to its title when a group of small-town guys decide to watch a naughty video that has nasty surprises. horrificscribblings.com
#grandguignol #extremehorror #analoghorror
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NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Joseph Hirsch returns with "Teufelsrad." Two young women research the "Devil's Wheel" of the title, a park ride, and earn a four-heart extremity rating. horrificscribblings.com
#extremehorror #shorthorrorstories #devilswheel #folkhorror #occulthorror #supernaturalhorror
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Sarina Dorie brings HORRIFIC SCRIBES "You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks—But You Can Give Her a Makeover," which does #horrorcomedy while still satisfying our "scary" requirements. Impressive! horrificscribblings.com
#shorthorrorstories #horror #vampires #werewolves
HORRIFIC SCRIBES needs your most unconventional short dark fiction and poetry, mind-blowing, bone-freezing, WTF terrifying and bizarre...
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NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Devin James Leonard brings HORRIFIC SCRIBES a new #horrorstory, "Squatters," about a man tasked with clearing out whoever, or whatever, lies in a derelict house. horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Grigory Lukin joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with #darkscifi #horrorstory “To Dream of Better Worlds." Two scientists in a space station that has served as a time capsule discover a #postapocalyptic Earth, but they might have a solution. horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES welcomes Jan-Andrew Henderson along with his #darkscifi #horrorstory “Lake Fame,” which takes place immediately #postapocalypse and focuses on two families as they try to survive bizarre circumstances. horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Edward Newton joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with his #apocalyptichorror tale “Sleepwalkers,” a dive into a world that has become a nightmare where everyone is a threat. horrificscribblings.com
#apocalyptichorror #postapocalyptic #dystopianhorror #shorthorrorstories
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES welcomes Barry Charman, who brings “Vote Abyss,” #cosmichorror, #apocalyptichorror in a classic #darkfantasy vein that involves people who may be #cultists and other signs of something… wrong… with the universe. horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Adam Murray joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “January,” about mass, surreal, cosmic, destructive phenomena. Humanity’s presumptuous and the reassertion of ancient, divine powers are on full display in dazzling prose. horrificscribblings.com
#apocalyptichorror #shorthorrorstories
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Lene MacLeod brings a second tale to HORRIFIC SCRIBES, “Smashing in the New Year.” It begins New Year’s Eve 1999, but reality goes off the rails. The apocalypse may be personal or global. horrificscribblings.com
#apocalyptichorror #shorthorrorstories
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Kirsty Syder joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “Prepped,” a throwback to the fears of New Year’s Eve 1999 and the “prepper” phenomenon that was all the rage... but it takes a sharp turn. horrificscribblings.com
#apocalyptichorror #shorthorrorstories
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The NewYear: at HORRIFIC SCRIBES, we think of The End. horrificscribblings.com
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES welcomes Vampirlibido, who brings _The Monstrous-Feminine: Eighteen Horrorku_. poems with shocking imagery that depict abjected femininity from mythology and history. horrificscribblings.com
#monstrousfeminine #darkpoetry #horrorku #haiku #horrorpoetry #horrorgram
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! "The Tree People" combines #folkhorror, #domestichorror, and #bodyhorror. It finishes a trilogy that Scribe Shawn Montgomery calls HELL IS FOR CHILDREN. Aptly named and brilliantly written. Read for free (we have the whole trilogy) at HORRIFIC SCRIBES): horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! SJ Townend returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “When One Door Closes,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com
#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Thomas C. Mavroudis returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “In the Bleak Christmas Market,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com
#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Lene MacLeod joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “Slippers from Hell,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com
#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies