Summer Scare 8!
All hail the scare!
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It’s once again Summer Scare Time! (Began 20 June 2025, Summer Solstice, and will last to the Autumn Equinox when the official Halloween Season begins).
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!
Oh, and at the very bottom of this post are links to where to buy my 5 books (so far), including the latest: From the Files of Fontaine Investigations.
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.
Emerald City Ghosts is working on Issue One. Watch for it coming out soon!
Janine Eaby is open to your fantasy and sci-fi submissions.
On to the fiction.
Brrr! Quite a Bunch:
Jennifer Morrow slays with this one:
Grace Anderson-Author continues her paranormal serial:
and presents another short horror story:
and a modern fairy tale:
C. Lee McKenzie brings us another of her tingly tales:
Jenna B. Neece doesn’t let her health stop her with this short drabble and a very neat image, all human created (I contributed my own drabble in the comments, feel free to contribute yours):
Bryan Beal brings us some rather LOUD sounds:
Jane Dougherty presents another creature feature:
Colin Devonshire brings us a short dark story that quacked me up:
D. A. Kelly Author brings us a sci-fi tale with some – urp! – odd aspects:
Mary Catelli takes a look at forests as backdrops for fantasy, scary stuff, and more:
Frederick Fullerton presents a poem about fear:
FranB presents some chilling reads, whether your at the beach or huddled under the bed covers with a flashlight:
Wendy Cockcroft brings us something that I sure hope is fiction:
Ian Patterson, award-winning author, brings us this tidbit:
Terry A. Fries presents an eerie tale:
S.L. Stallings shows the dark side of tech – bwahaha:
Josh Tatter has thoughts on the scary side of life (and shows why it’s not a good idea to laugh at a name):
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
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…")
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
Michael B. Morgan – AroundSciFi - Read - Imagine - Discover
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
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 Black Knight – Shadows and Space
The Dread Legacies – Reimagining classic monsters
Theo Priestley – Tales of the Unexpected
Travis Blake – Dracula’s Ghost
Wendy Cockcroft – Wendy Cockcroft’s Writings
And links to my 5 books:
Where to Buy:
Amazon & Audible | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org
BookBub | Apple Books | Kobo | Smashwords
Angus & Robertson | Fable | Everand
Thalia (German) | Vivlio (French/English)
Thank for always being a cheerleader for us, A.C.!
That quacked me up! Loved it.