Summer Scare Time Is Coming!

Getting a head start on the scary season

May 21, 2025

While many of us don’t get into ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night until October, some here on Substack keep that shiver going up and down our spines year round. Time to acknowledge their efforts a bit more and perhaps add in our own howls and screams. Starting on 20 June 2025, Summer Solstice, I will be posting a selection of scary postings from the team below and others. Get ready to hide under the covers with a flashlight while you read. And rest assured that the writing is ALL human (well, maybe a zombie or two, a werewolf, a wendigo…).

The Scare Team (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.

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

Caroline Barnard-Smith – SwampWitch

Chris J. Franklin – Tales of the Zeitgeist – Contemporary fiction, humor, horror, Science fiction

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

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Jennifer Morrow – Autumn Lives Here

Jessica Maison – Monster of the Week

John Coon – Strange New Worlds – Science fiction, horror, humor/satire

Leigh Parrish – Halcyon Horror

Lyndsey Resnick – Poison Ivy House

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

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