Summer Scare 4!
The chill gets chillier!
Summer Scare is still in the air! We’re into the third week (it started 20 June 2025, Summer Solstice, and will last to the Autumn Equinox when the official Halloween Season begins). 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 your 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!
Oh, and at the very bottom of this post is a third excerpt from my new book From the Files of Fontaine Investigations, a paragraph or two to give you a clue as to some of the lesser known goings on in the U.S. capital city. I will be including excerpts in the weekly scary posts.
Note: Don’t miss Haunts You Later (a lifelong horror obsessive) for horror movie reviews.
Brrr! Quite a Bunch:
We have quite a lineup here from some very human authors (no AI generated globules of text).
Adding Brett (SinisterSolutions) to the list of writers. Get started with his tales here:
Jennifer Morrow brings us this creepy tale (and some book recommendations):
and another here:
Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️ entreats you to submit your stories:
Paranormal Casefiles presents some real life horror:
Colin Devonshire revs up a dark story to give you shivers:
and keeps you awake with this one:
Travis Blake brings us a ghost story:
Jane Dougherty gets beastly:
Grace Anderson-Author brings up part 3 of her spooky tale:
Kummer Wolfe’s eerie series starts here:
and don’t miss this tale:
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
Brett – Sinister Solutions – horror, science fiction
Brian B Baker – My Head is Unraveling – Horror writer, book reviewer
Brian Schell – Horror Weekly
Bryan Beal – Dead Heretic – Cyberpunk, Science fiction
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
FranB – Tales at Twilight – Speculative stories with dark edge, humor
Grace Anderson-Author – Grace’s Spook Show
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…")
Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror
Lyndsey Resnick – Poison Ivy House
Michael B. Morgan – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover
M.P. Fitzgerald – Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald – Darkly humorous Science fiction & horror
Natalie Phillips – Plotted Out – Cornish fantasy & dark humor
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
Redd Oscar – ReddOscarWrites – Fantasy, science fiction, and horror
S.L. Stallings – Ghost Stories – Paranormal fiction, tech horror, dystopia
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
Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost
Wendy Cockcroft – Wendy Cockcroft’s Writings
And speaking of scary, an excerpt from my latest book:
From the first case file (“The Divorce”):
The door opened slowly, and a head peered around the corner. Zachariah recognized the man immediately, swallowed the bite of donut, and stood.
“Come in, Senator Caswell,” he said. “I’ve been expecting you. Have a seat.”
The man pushed the door open further, looked around to be sure no one else was in the room, and stepped in.
“Just call me Ed,” he told Zachariah.
At that moment, Edward Caswell, U.S. Senator and Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, looked like a frightened rabbit. He held his hat in his hands, wore a heavy wool coat over his suit, and was small in stature, balding, and with a graying mustache—far from the image he put forth to the news hounds when they gathered with their cameras and microphones at the Capital Building to hear every word he uttered.
Read the rest in ebook or paperback (hopefully, audio will be available soon). And check out my other 4 books:
Where to Buy:
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org
Apple Books | Kobo | Smashwords
Angus & Robertson | Fable
Thalia (German) | Vivlio (French/English)
I love these! Also, thank you again for always including me. I really do appreciate it ❤️
Another wonderful collection of stories! Well done everyone... 😎