From a plague of grackles and a spiral of creepers to a scavenging of gulls and a watch of shrikes; beautiful, resourceful, and impressive birds can also nest in the scariest parts of your worst imaginings. Twenty premier horror authors take flight in this anthology of bird horror.

Authors include: Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, Kristy Park Kulski, Zachary Kellian, Die Booth, Ernest Ògúnyẹmí, Leen Raats, Elaine Pascale, Lee Andrew Forman, Nicola Kapron, Selah Janel, Nikki Kallio, C. O. Davidson, Hideki Nakazono, Robert Francis, Robert Mayette, Holley Cornetto, C. F. Page, V. Castro, Geneve Flynn, & L. E. Daniels.

If you are in the D.C. area August 8th & 9th:

Friday morning at Otakon: Getting Real About Fantasy Writing.

Saturday night at Otakon: Getting Real About Horror Writing.

Bring your writing. Get feedback.

Link: otakon.com

A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora edited by Bram Stoker Award-nominee Kristy Park Kulski.

Silk & Sinew features some of the most acclaimed authors of the Asian Diaspora. Stories and poetry by Ai Jiang, Nadia Bulkin, Christina Sng, Rena Mason, Lee Murray, J.A.W. McCarthy, Geneve Flynn, Bryan Thao Worra, Ayida Shonibar, Yi Izzy Yu, Angela Yuriko Smith, Kanishk Tantia, Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Saba Syed Razvi, Christopher Hann, Audrey Zhou, Seoung Kim, Rowan Cardosa, Gabriela Lee, Shawna Yang Ryan, Priya Sridhar, Jess Cho, and Saheli Khastagir; foreword by Monika Kim.

Link: badhandbooks.com

Stop by Reading Fiction Blog where you can read free short stories or novellas by over 170 famous contemporary and classic storytellers (listed in the INDEX) of mystery, Gothic, suspense, supernatural, ghost stories, crime, sci-fi, horror and quiet-horror, fantasy, and mainstream fiction.

This is a compendium of nearly 400 stories. This week is "The Haunting in The Old Bedford Oak," a flash fiction excerpt from my novel.

Link: paulacappa.wordpress.com

Newly re-released by Brigids Gate Press and available wherever books are sold!

From Mia Dalia, the CWA-nominated author of Estate Sale, Haven, and other literary nightmares, comes a uniquely terrifying debut collection of dark psychological fiction, featuring novelettes and short stories that range from horror to suspense to mystery to coming-of-age to thrillers.

Go on. Turn the page. Pick a nightmare. I dare you.

Link: amazon.com

Reading series at the KGB Bar.

Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading series held on the second Wednesday of every month at the famous KGB Bar in Manhattan (and during periods of high Covid, broadcast live on YouTube ), hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel . Admission is always free.

The monthly series, which has been running since the late 1990s , serves as a salon, where writers, editors, agents, and fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror can co-mingle in a shared event space. The series also served a vital social function during multiple Covid lockdown periods, when we featured authors from all over the globe on our live YouTube channel, and people who were isolated due to the lockdown could keep in contact with the writing community. We also release a free podcast, where we post audio recordings of the monthly readings.

Running the series costs us money. We pay a stipend to our guests, we pay for their drinks at the bar, and we also take them out to dinner after the readings. At present, the series costs about $3,500 per year to run. Unfortunately, we are almost out of money. We hope to raise an additional $15,000 ($25,000 total), which will fund the series for four more years. It would be great if we could raise more!

The continued survival of the series depends on your help!

Disclaimer: no raffles, sweepstakes, giveaways, or returns on investment are offered in exchange for any donations made to Fantastic Fiction at KGB.

Link: gofundme.com

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Warned by a soothsayer that something evil is about to come to Maryneal, sixteen-year-old Delah Nix chalks it up to carnie theatrics. But then her sister is savagely attacked & Delah's best friend, Hardy, is wounded trying to save her. He survives but is marked with the coyote curse. The full moon is approaching and no salvation in sight, Delah is faced with an unconscionable decision: If she can't find a cure, she'll have to kill the boy next door.

Link: a.co

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NM Scuri reading Debbie Does the Apocalypse

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Gevera Bert Piedmont is now a Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Editor offering developmental editing services after six months of study. She specializes in horror and dark fiction and finding plot holes and inconsistencies.

Link: GeveraBertPiedmont.com

Canadian author Emily A Weedon will be hanging out at the Dundurn Press tent talking up Hemo Sapiens at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday Sept 21. If you're in the neighbourhood, please come by and say hi!

"This book is cutting, beautiful, unsettling, and leaves you slightly off balance and thinking long after it ends. Weedon uses vampirism as a feral and deliberately discomforting metaphor for feminine power. Pregnancy is portrayed not as vulnerability, but as a mark of strength and status, granting mothers the same reverence once given to warriors.

Unnerving and thought-provoking, Hemo Sapiens is a bold, intelligent book that might seem almost unsatisfying in its moral ambiguity at first, but rewards further reflection on its themes." Jennelle, Goodreads reviewer.

Hemo Sapiens releases in the US on October 28th

Link: amazon.com

Randee Dawn & Bruce Bennett talk about tarot, music videos, and horror.

Link: youtu.be

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It's a horror Rom-Com novel about a necrophilic gravedigger who steals his high school sweetheart from his graveyard and gets her pregnant.

He spends the entire novel trying to make her an honest woman out of her. But even that goes horribly wrong, with bloody consequences for everyone involved.

It's available for ebook on Google Books, Amazon Kindle & Barnes and Noble Nook.

It's available for hardcover and paperback editions on Amazon. But the physical copies will be available on Barnes and Noble on August 1st.

Link: play.google.com

Link: barnesandnoble.com

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Ef Deal is open for Editing, Writing, and Video Editing gigs.

Link: efdeal.net

The first volume of a chilling military-horror collection from Wicked Shadow Press. It delivers over twenty stories that fuse supernatural dread with war’s brutality—from spectral soldiers and cursed trenches to eldritch evils lurking amid gunfire

It includes stories like “Experiment 13” by Chad Anctil. Set during World War II, it unfolds as a bizarre, speculative nightmare in which Nazi adversaries meet gruesome fates in a scenario of eldritch experiments with the darkest of magics. The tone blends gore with dark fascination, subverting familiar wartime tropes into twisted horror—a visceral, unnerving “feel‑good” of dark delight.

Released in July 2025, Shell Shock is available now in paperback and ebook formats.

Link: chadanctil.com

Experience a dramatic reading of “Bruised and Battered Nevermore”, my love letter to Poe at Horror Stories Daily.

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Darkness hides many things—secrets, fears, and horrors waiting to be uncovered. In Shadows Without Light, Charles Barouch weaves a chilling tapestry of terror that will leave you questioning what lurks just beyond the edge of the light.

From creatures that defy explanation to nightmares that seep into reality, each story in this haunting collection drags readers into unsettling realms where the ordinary twists into the macabre. Whether it's the eerie presence of the Gibberlings, the sinister allure of Mother’s Kiss, or the psychological unraveling in Drink the Ink, these tales grip the senses and refuse to let go.

Barouch’s mastery of suspense and dread ensures Shadows Without Light is a must-read for fans of unsettling horror. Step into the dark—if you dare.

Link: hdwp.com

What happens when a ghost discovers his corpse is a brain-eating zombie? He merges with it to become Dirtnap, investigator of occult crimes!

Teaming with his ex-girlfriend, Celina Flores, Dirtnap faces the horror of sideshow vampires, werewolves, and even a mermaid or two.

Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows is the nefarious mastermind who has planned it all! Don’t miss this fun-loving monster romp by popular parody writer/artist Kerry Callen.

Collects comics issues 1 through 5 for a complete story!

Link: amazon.com

This is the capstone, the big finish for the Sunken books. And it has major nods to the Ebony Shrike books. A must read for fans of seabeast horror.

Link: amazon.com