It’s Scaretember with Team Halloween #1
Scaretember is here!
If anyone doesn’t wish to be tagged here, please let me know. The tagging is meant to help writers be seen, not annoy them.
This time of year is all about colors, scents of spices, and things like pumpkin pie (actually, pumpkin everything). It’s also a time for ghosts, goblins, creepy creatures, and more. I have scoured Substack for tales suitable to the occasion, focused on those from Team Halloween members, and have listed a few. Hope you enjoy them and will take time to check out more writings by these writers and the rest of the team. (If you know someone who should be included in the list, please let me know in a comment.)
NOTE: Starting in September, I will do these posts every other Wednesday, listing articles, poems, stories, etc., that catch my eye. For September and October that will be anything in line with Team Halloween. In November and December, I’ll focus on things related to that holiday season. After that, well, who knows! On the other Wednesdays, I will post my list of other writers (it helps my tagging efforts by splitting the list).
Posts
The Thin Man by A. B. Frank – Victorian Vignettes (dhw)
Autumn Cranes (not scary, but a lovely feel of autumn) by Adam Kozak – Adam Writes (dhw, seen on Soaring Twenties)
Wicked Love by Amanda V Shane – Monsters & Mystics (dhw)
The Old Woman in the Wheelchair by Daniel W. Davison – Lamp Post in the Marsh
The Pest Stops Here by Honeygloom – Honeygloom (dhw)
Call Me Tex by Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here (dhw)
Onryō – This Week’s Monster by Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week (dhw)
Season of the Witch (a freebie from the archives) by John Coon – Strange New Worlds (dhw)
Every Day is Halloween – a Substack chock full of great Halloween stuff by Lisa Morton
The Winter Wraiths by Newton Webb – Newton's Tales of the Macabre
Book Review: Ghost Host by Nicolina Torres – Books and Boos, with Nicolina Torres
The Soundtrack to Your Demise - An Introduction by sleightsofheart – The Horror! The Horror!
“Air, Water, Bread!” (technically sci-fi but definitely scary) by The Black Knight – Shadows and Space (dhw)
The Empty House by Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost
And if that’s not enough to whet your appetite for stories that thrill, scare, or just make you want to sleep with the lights on, check out the authors below.
And don’t forget that from now until midnight on October 31st, it’s Team Halloween time! Post your scary stories any day of the week!
The Rest of the Team in alphabetical order:
dhw=definitely human written (might be using AI-generated images, though)
Please let me know if you wish to be designated as “dhw.”
A. R. Crocker – A.R. Crocker
Aaron Gillies – Unsettled Mind
Alec Worley – Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic
Alexander Ipfelkofer – Tales from the Defrag
Andy Futuro – Andy Futuro (dhw)
Author Michele Bardsley – Pretty Evil Fiction
Bill Adler – Fiction by Bill Adler (dhw)
Bill Hiatt – Everywhere and Nowhere: Explore Fantastic Worlds (dhw, with help from faerie ancestors)
Blake Liddell – Blackthorn Witch
Brian Martinez – Telegrams from Bloodstream City
Brian Schell – Horror Weekly
Buck Weiss – It's the Devil
Caro Henry – Caro’s Writing Perspectives (dhw)
Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch (dhw)
CB Mason – When in Doubt, Walk in a Circle (dhw)
Charlotte Pendragon – The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon
Chris Well – Chris from Monster Complex
Colin Devonshire – Colin’s Dark Stories (dhw)
Cyndi Gacosta – Cyndi’s Dark Fiction
Dan Blakely – detect magic (dhw)
Daniel O’Donnell – Dan’s Deliberations
David Perlmutter – Made from What’s Not Real (dhw)
Dirt Boots – Dirt Boots | A serialized novel by Australian Foodie
Dungeon Mistress – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles
E.A. Colquitt – Exploring the Eyrie (dhw)
EternalArt – EternalArt’s Substack
Fiona Tate – Vampires & The Vapors
Franco Amati – Garbage Notes (spec fic, poet)
Ginger Cook – Ginger’s Substack
Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show
H. Dair Brown – Editor, Disturb Ink Books | Co-Founder, Unsettling Reads
H. H. Duke – H. is for Horror
Hanna Delaney – A work of fiction
Heidi Zawelevsky – Conversations with Critters (dhw)
Jean Marie Bauhaus – Through a Glass, Darkly (dhw)
Jenna B. Neece – Jenna B. Neece - Author & Podcaster (dhw) - check out Magical Manifestations podcast
jonasT – Substack von jonasT (in German) (new here - stop by and say "hi")
Joyce – Joyce's Place (dhw)
Katelynsam – The Fantastic and Mundane Chronicles of a Fantasy Writer
Lauren Salas – Cobwebs and Candles
Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror (dhw)
Liz Zimmers – The Palace of Night
Lucas Mangum – Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed
Mark Watson Books – The Traveling Circus (dhw)
Mary Sonny – Wannabe Vampire
Mata Haggis-Burridge – The Inciting Incident with Mata Haggis-Burridge (dhw)
Matthew Christian – Targeted Nightmares
Michael B. Morgan – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover (dhw)
Norman Crane – The Norman Crane
Paige Garland – Macabre Curiosities
Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️ – Twisting the Myths (dhw)
PC3 – PC3 Horror
Robert Garron – Robert's Substack (dhw)
S. Dumont – S. Dumont’s Corner
S.E. Reid – Talebones
Scrawls of Dread – Scrawls of the Dread’s Substack
Sean Thomas McDonnell – Automatic Writer
Slow Burn Horror – Slow Burn Horror’s Substack
Snowyteller – Snowy Hearts, host of Menagerie Morning! (dhw)
Susan Earlam – The Wild and the Quiet
V Kelly-Sibley – Pandora’s Box of Infinite Stories
William Linares – Horror & Comics Unlimited
William Pauley III – DOOM FICTION (dhw)
Wyatt Werne – Wyatt Werne (dhw)
Xander Royle (YA horror, thrillers, urban fantasies)
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Keep writing! The readers are out there, anxiously waiting.
Please check out my author website. And thanks for reading.
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Thanks for reading. Please check out my first book of recently published eerie short stories (ebook, paperback, audio), and my new book of eerie Sci-Fi stories (Kindle and paperback), both from Wordwooze Publishing. (I even designed the covers.) My third book is now out in ebook and paperback: The Wiccan Tales. A real Halloween treat.
See them all here:
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | Kobo | Thalia (German) ebook & print | Smashwords | Angus & Robertson: | Mondadori (Italian) | Vivlio (French/English) | Fable | Palace Marketplace






Thanks for including me in your list of authors! It's great to be part of team Halloween 🎃 I'm finding so many great substacks here!
Thank you for the honorable mention. Much appreciated.