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Last Summer Scare of August! (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.

S.L. Stallings has a whole section devoted to ghost stories.

Emerald City Ghosts is working on Issue One. Don’t miss it! And they’re calling for more submissions.

DW Dixon ⚙️⚙️ brings us a list of mystery writers every Monday, and what’s scarier than a mystery?

A. B. Frank has his ebook In Plain Sight Unseen up for pre-order.

On to the fiction.

Brrr! Quite a Bunch:

First, a couple I missed including last week:

K. L. Brooks makes your worst hotline experience look like a lovely day in spring:

ISSUE 5: Infernal Hotline

Harold Ember examines friendship:

I Will Always Be Your Friend . . . Always

And from this week:

Jenna B. Neece brings us this multi-part story (up to 7 so far):

Tethered by Shadows
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8

Josh Tatter warns about trading that office job for getting close to nature:

Please Clap

C. Lee McKenzie presents part one of a stony story:

Gargoyle

and wraps up with part two:

Gargoyle

Honeygloom reigns supreme in the horror/eerie category:

Firing the Bracken

Mata Haggis-Burridge joins in with an unearthly visitor:

Cute terror: 6 Foot Jesus Plushie

Emerald City Ghosts presents part 2 of this story (couldn’t find part 1, sorry):

The Haunting of Swinomish Channel EP 1.2

Jennifer Morrow scares the Dickens out of you (and presents a neat photo from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – old black-and-white classic movie with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison):

The Town That Dreaded Charles Dickens

Jessica Maison explains vampires:

Why'd it Have to Be Vampires

Grace Anderson-Author presents a fishy tail—uh, I mean, tale:

The Catfish

and dresses up a bit here:

The Costume That Wouldn't Come Off

Andrew Heard does reviews and dives into the shivery world of ZOMBIES!

iZombie Season 1: Decay (early access)

Tony Mills strikes again and again and again:

Murder and Over Again

and tells of a place you don’t want to go:

The Wrong Cantina

Ethan Sabatella tells of a town you wouldn’t want to visit, even if you could:

Have you ever heard of Lamibogish?

C. James Desmond will keep you awake with this one:

THE STANHOPE DILEMMA

R. M. Greta engages in a chat of a different kind:

In Poor Condition

Colin Devonshire puts forth another dark story set in England:

Love Heart?

along with this one:

A Storm With A Shadow

Saint-Lazare presents part 2 of Dewayne Hollow (see the whole thing here):

13 Canal Street – Part 2

Jane Dougherty shows how paradise isn’t:

Paradise

Newton Webb presents a contemporary comic horror short story:

The Dead Man's Trousers by Newton Webb

and sprinkles in some cosmic horror:

What Came Down by Newton Webb

Wendy Cockcroft has a homey tale (ignore the cheesy AI image):

The Squatter’s Nightmare

Bill Hiatt’s haunting series goes on (and he provides a handy episode list); the latest:

The Haunting of Guaritori Diolco, Part 48

Andy Futuro has a summer horror story; start here:

Rat Boy Summer 1

Nicole Paton again makes us squirm and rush to the sink for a good wash-up with part 2:

A Bacterial Dystopian Parody (not a very subtle one) - Part 2/3: The Bigwigs

and part 3:

A Bacterial Dystopian Parody (not a very subtle one) - Part 3: The Bubble

Frederick Fullerton wraps things up with this rather poignant seasonal poem (and not a bit scary):

Slip Slidin' Away

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

Ken Flyingheart – Echoes from the Well

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

Mike Kay – A Shadow of Yew

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 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 (so far):

Where to Buy:
Amazon & Audible | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org
BookBub | Apple Books | Kobo | Smashwords
Angus & Robertson | Fable | Everand
Thalia (German) | Vivlio (French/English)