Summer Scare 12!
Winding down summer but not the scares!
See past issues:
Summer Scare Begins | Summer Scare 2 | Summer Scare 3 | Summer Scare 4 | Summer Scare 5 | Summer Scare 6 | Summer Scare 6.5 | Summer Scare 7 | Summer Scare 8 | Summer Scare 9 | Summer Scare 10 | Summer Scare 11
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See the links at the bottom of where to buy my 5 books (so far).
On to the fun part:
Just under three weeks left in summer and heading into the Scary Season! (The Scary Season starts 21 September 2025 at 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. And she’s calling for yours in her chat.
Emerald City Ghosts periodically calls for submissions, so subscribe and follow.
DW Dixon ⚙️⚙️ brings us a list of mystery writers every Monday, and what’s scarier than a mystery?
The Fiction Factory is calling for your spooky stories! (And I will be including them here for just another promotion avenue. Every bit helps.)
E. D. Jones is open for submissions for Write Sinister.
On to the fiction.
Brrr! Quite a Bunch (in no particular order):
Jenna B. Neece brings us this multi-part story:
Tethered by Shadows
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12 & Epilogue
Jennifer Morrow gives us a great fall recipe and goosebumps:
Grace Anderson-Author flexes her horror muscles here:
and an essay about a classic horror trope:
C. Lee McKenzie issues a warning for homebuyers:
R. M. Greta a tale in response to a writing challenge:
Kaci Rigney brings us a tense nature moment with this poem:
Wendy Cockcroft presents a renter’s dream—uh, not quite:
Kailani B. brings us a well-seasoned story from October 2023:
C.P. Night presents a continuation of this series:
Mata Haggis-Burridge pens a quiet ghost story:
Ethan Sabatella continues his series about the town that no longer exists:
Colin Devonshire puts forth another dark story set in England:
along with this crafty mystery:
Saint-Lazare (the literally bare bones writer) begins the Dewayne Hollow story series:
Emerald City Ghosts challenges you to see this:
Newton Webb keeps us apprised of his rather—uh, well, his situation:
J. Michael Thomas continues this dark series:
Scott MacLeod shows how planning a heist can be tricky:
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
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
Leonardo Pasqual Colle – darkinkstories
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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