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
(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
(SinisterSolutions) to the list of writers. Get started with his tales here: brings us this creepy tale (and some book recommendations):
and another here:
entreats you to submit your stories: presents some real life horror: revs up a dark story to give you shivers:
and keeps you awake with this one:
brings us a ghost story: gets beastly: brings up part 3 of her spooky tale:’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.
– Victorian Vignettes – Exploring eerie elegance of Gaslamp Horror in Victorian era – Turn on the Light – Murder, mystery, sex, romance, sci-fi, horror – Monsters & Mystics – Fantasy, paranormal romance – Cyberpunk, horror, dirtbag literature – Sinister Solutions – horror, science fiction – My Head is Unraveling – Horror writer, book reviewer – Horror Weekly – Dead Heretic – Cyberpunk, Science fiction – SwampWitch – Tales of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary fiction, humor, horror, Science fiction, host of Wednesday House of Haiku – Colin’s Dark Stories – Ars Corvi – Gothic, noir – Dungeon Mistress Chronicles – The Eye of the Storm – Romance, erotica, horror, gamelit – Tales at Twilight – Speculative stories with dark edge, humor – Grace’s Spook Show – Jane Doughtery’s Bestiary – Autumn Lives Here – Monster of the Week – Strange New Worlds – Science fiction, horror, humor/satire – Worlds of Kummer Wolfe ("Oh, by Crom is it human written…") – Halcyon Horror – Poison Ivy House – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover – Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald – Darkly humorous Science fiction & horror – Plotted Out – Cornish fantasy & dark humor – Speculative Fiction and Dark Tales | Nocturnal Narrator – Dark speculative fiction, builds interactive worlds to tell strange stories – Twisting the Myths – ReddOscarWrites – Fantasy, science fiction, and horror – Ghost Stories – Paranormal fiction, tech horror, dystopia – Ghost Notes – Scrawls of Dread’s Substack – Matte Black – Science fiction, dystopian, horror – Reimagining classic monsters – Tales of the Unexpected – Dracula’s Ghost – Wendy Cockcroft’s WritingsAnd 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 ❤️
A little something for the weekend, I can’t wait.