Category Archives: horror short stories
Creep out your Halloween drive time tomorrow with me on I-95 Rock!
THRILLED to announce I’m going to be on I-95 Rock (WRKI 95.1 FM) tomorrow—yes, HALLOWEEN!—at 8:20 am to talk about Candlewood Lake’s creepy legends with Ethan & Lou (The Ethan & Lou Show)! This is very exciting!! Tune in on your drive-time at 95.1 FM on your radio dial, listen through the app, or you can listen LIVE at this link: https://i95rock.com/listen-live/
Ethan Carey, in particular, is really interested in Candlewood Lake—its history, its culture, and its legends and lore. I hope to get the chance to shed some light on the origins of some of its creepier campfire tales.
Read more at the links below!
“The Lost Souls of Candlewood Lake: Did they make it out alive?”
https://i95rock.com/the-lost-souls-of-candlewood-lake-did-they-make-it-out-alive/
“The Tale of the Lost Souls of Candlewood Lake”
http://i95rock.com/those-that-stayed-behind-beneath-candlewood-lake/
“Stories of Candlewood Lake Monsters that are Obviously Urban Legends”
http://i95rock.com/dont-panic-stories-of-a-candlewood-lake-monster-are-simply-urban-legends/
“The Ghosts of Candlewood Lake’s Chicken Rock”
https://i95rock.com/the-ghosts-of-candlewood-lakes-chicken-rock/
Tuesday Night Terrors via Zoom: October 24!
This Tuesday, October 24, at 6:30 pm, come join me, Trisha J. Wooldridge, Scott Goudsward, Rob Smales, and Ken Vaughn on Zoom for SHOCK WAVES III: HORROR WRITERS OF NEW ENGLAND with the Swansea Free Public Library, where we’ll be discussing all things that go bump in the night, wander up your stairs and tap on your windows. This virtual bookfest is FREE, but you must register at the link below. Hope to see you there!
Here’s that link to register:
Announcing 34 ORCHARD’s Table of Contents for Issue 8, Autumn 2023 – Coming November 10!
I’m thrilled to announce 34 Orchard’s Autumn 2023 issue’s Table of Contents!
Teeming with unreliably-narrated ghost stories, Issue 8 includes many burgeoning and experienced voices as well as special surprises. We’re privileged to bring you a brand new tale by Read the rest of this entry
Announcing the ToC for 34 ORCHARD ISSUE 7, SPRING 2023 – Coming April 25!
I’m thrilled to announce the Table of Contents for 34 Orchard Issue 7, Spring 2023! Heralding the coming of spring and the concept of the fresh start, Issue 7 has another winner from Nigeria’s Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí (Issue 1’s “Christmas Chicken,” about which we STILL get mail!) and a few other 34O alums, as well as work by others familiar and brand-new.
Plunging into the visceral rip tides of lost love, medieval history, personal agency, folklore, witchcraft, grief, motherhood, Read the rest of this entry
My 8-minute flash fiction “It Can’t Rain All the Time” free on SUDDEN FICTIONS PODCAST!
Hello, all! Been a while because I’ve been buried (as usual).
So…what happens when your fortune cookie only gives you bad news? Find out in my flash fiction, “It Can’t Rain All the Time,” now available on the Sudden Fictions Podcast. It’s beautifully read by Richard B. Wood, and it’s an eight-minute listen. Here’s the direct link:
Sudden Fictions Podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcasts, and if you like quick fictions, Wood publishes a lot of cool stuff. Here’s his schedule for the month of March, the theme of which is PROPHECY:
3 MAR: Episode 9 – Eden Bailey “Life in the Air”
10 MAR: Episode 10 – Kristi Petersen Schoonover “It Can’t Rain All the Time”
17 MAR: Episode 11 – ****SPECIAL GUEST****
24 MAR: Episode 12 – Jason McIntyre “Train Car Six”
31 MAR: Episode 13 – Andrew Butters “The Prophecy”
I have enjoyed ALL of the stories on this ‘cast so far. To listen to all of these and the archive all the way back to January, visit R.B. Wood’s site here: https://rbwood.com/dir/category/podcasts/sf-podcast/
I DO have a few more announcements—progress on the Candlewood: Jerusalem screenplay is being made, and TWO other short stories were just published…but I’ll get to those, so watch this space! Right now, I’m still playing catch-up, as we’re putting the finishing touches on the Wicked Sick anthology and Issue 7 of 34 Orchard.
We’re still making decisions — and announcing our SPRING 2023 Cover!
We haven’t made our final selections for the Spring 2023 issue of 34 Orchard yet–we’re finishing those up in the next few weeks. HOWEVER, I’M THRILLED TO SHOWCASE OUR COVER, featuring Optic Nerve by Page Sullivan. We’re only three months away from release!
I wanted to take a moment, also, to thank all of our supporters–writers who send in work, those who donate, our reading volunteers, those who have jumped in to save my ass whenever I’ve needed it, and our incredibly loyal readers. When I founded this publication back in 2019, I was going to be happy if I just had a little magazine that ten of my friends read. Never would I have dreamt that so many people would read and enjoy it. It has completely blown past all of my expectations, and we plan to continue to deliver quality experiences for many issues to come.
New story and essay, novel excerpt AVAILABLE NOW in FREE SIRENS CALL EZINE ISSUE 60!
BIG NEWS!! I’m ecstatic to announce that Sirens Call eZine Issue #60—FREE to download—not only contains my story, “What the Ocean Knows,” but, because they honored me with being featured author, also contains an essay, “Whispers Beneath the Lines: Dark Fiction’s Power to Heal” and a longer excerpt from my novel, Bad Apple! This giant issue also features Read the rest of this entry
PERFECT STOCKING STUFFER! “Sea Legs” available in Lovecraftian Microfiction Vol. 8!
How CUTE is this tiny book on a Christmas tree?
I’m thrilled to announce that my piece, “Sea Legs,” is now available in Lovecraftian Microfiction Volume 8!
“Sea Legs” is one of thirteen winners in the 2022 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon Microfiction Contest, and the collection makes the perfect stocking stuffer (tiny trim size is so cute too!!). It’s also two books in one, with Tales from the Tainted Inkwell—stories from the past that are out of print, including by cosmic favorites Cody Goodfellow and Peter Rawlik—on its flipside.
In “Sea Legs”: On a North Sea island, villagers are grateful for what the sea goddess gives—until what She tries to take in return may force one of them to go to unusual extremes. I was trying my hand at a cosmic/folk horror blend, something about which I learned at this year’s Necronomicon in Providence, RI in August.
Fill a stocking, put it under the tree, or treat yourself. You can get it here:
