Summer Scare 11!
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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:
Harold Ember examines friendship:
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:
C. Lee McKenzie presents part one of a stony story:
and wraps up with part two:
Honeygloom reigns supreme in the horror/eerie category:
Mata Haggis-Burridge joins in with an unearthly visitor:
Emerald City Ghosts presents part 2 of this story (couldn’t find part 1, sorry):
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):
Jessica Maison explains vampires:
Grace Anderson-Author presents a fishy tail—uh, I mean, tale:
and dresses up a bit here:
Andrew Heard does reviews and dives into the shivery world of ZOMBIES!
Tony Mills strikes again and again and again:
and tells of a place you don’t want to go:
Ethan Sabatella tells of a town you wouldn’t want to visit, even if you could:
C. James Desmond will keep you awake with this one:
R. M. Greta engages in a chat of a different kind:
Colin Devonshire puts forth another dark story set in England:
along with this one:
Saint-Lazare presents part 2 of Dewayne Hollow (see the whole thing here):
Jane Dougherty shows how paradise isn’t:
Newton Webb presents a contemporary comic horror short story:
and sprinkles in some cosmic horror:
Wendy Cockcroft has a homey tale (ignore the cheesy AI image):
Bill Hiatt’s haunting series goes on (and he provides a handy episode list); the latest:
Andy Futuro has a summer horror story; start here:
Nicole Paton again makes us squirm and rush to the sink for a good wash-up with part 2:
and part 3:
Frederick Fullerton wraps things up with this rather poignant seasonal poem (and not a bit scary):
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)





























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