Summer Scare 10!
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Wow! We’re at the tenth Summer Scare! (Began 20 June 2025, Summer Solstice, and will last to the Autumn Equinox when the official Halloween Season begins). The thrills and chills keep coming.
Writers: Gather up your tales guaranteed to give readers a shiver. Can include, but doesn’t need to, any or all of the following: ghosts, goblins, things that go bump in the night, maybe a zombie or two, a werewolf, even a wendigo. Readers await you r efforts as they sweat in the heat and crave that chill that only your scary tales can convey.
And, for you readers, rest assured that the writing is ALL done by humans, but not necessarily alive or in one piece!
NOTE: For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, we guarantee these tales will give you a hot time!
See the links at the bottom of where to buy my 5 books (so far).
First, a few folks to note:
Haunts You Later (a lifelong horror obsessive) continues to bring you horror movie reviews.
Brian Schell and team bring you their Horror Weekly.
Emerald City Ghosts is working on Issue One. Don’t miss it! And they’re calling for more submissions.
Janine Eaby is open to your fantasy and sci-fi submissions.
DW Dixon ⚙️⚙️ brings us a list of mystery writers every Monday, and what’s scarier than a mystery?
Lyndsey Resnick has been on hiatus but now has her serial Flames of Indigo available in paperback.
On to the fiction.
Brrr! Quite a Bunch:
Starting you off with this haiku from Frederick Fullerton that portrays another side of a critter that has often been vilified in horror fiction and movies:
Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️ posted this last week, and I missed it, so here ya go:
Jennifer Morrow presents another spine-tingler:
Jessica Maison tells us about some creatures to avoid:
Grace Anderson-Author brings us a dark fairytale (while continuing her time-travel serial):
and explains about unicorns in this flash fiction:
Tony Mills deals with an issue that’s bad enough on Earth, but in space is, well, as shown here:
and brings us a rather, uh, interesting road trip:
and brings out the animal instinct here:
C. Lee McKenzie presents part one of a story that shows why we shouldn’t dream:
R. M. Greta presents the end of the world—uh, that is, a story about the end of the world:
and gives us another reason not to eat candy apples:
Wendy Cockcroft dips again into horror:
Colin Devonshire puts forth another dark story set in England:
along with this one:
Travis Blake talks of marital, uh, well, unbliss:
Bryan Beal produces a bloody mess (literarily but not literally):
Jane Dougherty continues her creepy house stories:
Emerald City Ghosts presents a spirited story:
The Man Behind the Screen presents a well-seasoned tale from last year (sometimes, aging makes things much better):
D. A. Kelly Author’s ongoing series is more science fiction than horror but very intriguing:
Ken Flyingheart gives us food for thought:
FranB enhances our feelings of claustrophobia:
James Kenwood brings us more science fiction horror:
Nicole Paton makes us squirm and rush to the sink for a good wash-up with this:
Mike Kay brings us melancholic sorrow:
These should keep your thirst for the scary sated until the next update. (If I’ve missed anything from the past week, please let me know and I’ll get it next time.)
More Writers Who Produce Scary (and Sometimes Cute) Stuff (in alphabetical order):
Some writers on here who, as far as I’ve seen, write stories in that scary arena. If I’ve missed adding you here or have tagged you in error, please let me know.
NOTE: Every writer named here has assured me they don’t use AI in any aspect of their writing. I don’t knowingly promote AI-generated junk. Thanks for reading.
A. B. Frank – Victorian Vignettes – Exploring eerie elegance of Gaslamp Horror in Victorian era
Adi Out Here – Turn on the Light – Murder, mystery, sex, romance, sci-fi, horror
Amanda V Shane – Monsters & Mystics – Fantasy, paranormal romance
Andy Futuro – Cyberpunk, horror, dirtbag literature
Brian B Baker – My Head is Unraveling – Horror writer, book reviewer
Brian Schell – Horror Weekly
Bryan Beal – Dead Heretic – Cyberpunk, Science fiction
C. Lee McKenzie – A Weekly Dose of Fiction – Writing for teens and sometimes adults
C.P. Night – C.P. Night’s Myriadu– Science fiction/fantasy
Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch
Chris J. Franklin – Tales of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary fiction, humor, horror, Science fiction, host of Wednesday House of Haiku
Colin Devonshire – Colin’s Dark Stories
Connor McGwire – Ars Corvi – Gothic, noir
Dungeon Mistress – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles
Emily S Hurricane – The Eye of the Storm – Romance, erotica, horror, gamelit
Ethan Sabatella – Senchas Claideb
FranB – Tales at Twilight – Speculative stories with dark edge, humor
Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show
Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️ – Moonlight Bard’s Rhapsody in Realms
James Kenwood – Grim Acres
Jane Dougherty – Jane Doughtery’s Bestiary
Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here
Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week
John Coon – Strange New Worlds – Science fiction, horror, humor/satire
Kummer Wolfe – Worlds of Kummer Wolfe ("Oh, by Crom is it human written…")
L.L. Ford – The Trials of Astra
Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror
Lyndsey Resnick – Poison Ivy House
M.P. Fitzgerald – Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald – Darkly humorous Science fiction & horror
Maximilian Siddell – Mythscape
Michael B. Morgan – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover
Natalie Phillips – Plotted Out – Cornish fantasy & dark humor
Nick Buchheit – Nick After Normal – Short creative fiction, humor
Nikki | Nocturnal Narrator – Speculative Fiction and Dark Tales | Nocturnal Narrator – Dark speculative fiction, builds interactive worlds to tell strange stories
Patricia J.L. 👻🧶🖊️ – Twisting the Myths
R. M. Greta – In a Room
Redd Oscar – ReddOscarWrites – Fantasy, science fiction, and horror
S.L. Stallings – Ghost Stories – Paranormal fiction, tech horror, dystopia
Saint-Lazare , Writer
Sam Bartol – Ghost Notes
Scrawls of Dread – Scrawls of Dread’s Substack
Shane Bzdok – Matte Black – Science fiction, dystopian, horror
The Black Knight – Shadows and Space
The Dread Legacies – Reimagining classic monsters
Theo Priestley – Tales of the Unexpected
Tony Mills – Naughty Bits
Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost
Wendy Cockcroft – Wendy Cockcroft’s Writings
And links to my 5 books:
Where to Buy:
Amazon & Audible | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org
BookBub | Apple Books | Kobo | Smashwords
Angus & Robertson | Fable | Everand
Thalia (German) | Vivlio (French/English)
Thanks for the shout out!
Thank you! Now for some reading!