Short Story Features
Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic
Story Title: "Abaddon, 1861"
Teaser: The first appears an inch beneath the heel of her palm, and the twins fancy they can see themselves off its surface.
Publisher: Cosmic Horror Monthly
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Body Horror, Implied Abuse, Implied Arson
Notes: The proceeds from this anthology are being donated to the Chicago Abortion Fund! Also, "Abaddon, 1861" was shortlisted for Tenebrous Press's yearly best-of anthology, "Brave New Weird," and the anthology as a whole won a Shirley Jackson Award!
Draw Down the Moon
Story Title: "Synesthesia"
Teaser: Love brings color to one's world.
Publisher: Propertius Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Implied Sexual Content
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Story Title: "Which I Plunge"
Teaser: Kafka once wrote about love being a knife. Maybe that’s where this one came from.
Publisher: ergot.
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Body Horror, Knives, Dysphoria, Mention of Drugging Someone
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Nafallen University: 2022-2023 Course Catalogue
Story Titles: "AGR 222" & "REL 108"
Teaser: Two of the many fine courses offered at Nafallen, one of the nation's foremost eldritch universities, during the 2022-2023 school year.
Publisher: Madness Heart Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Existentialism, Death, Cults
AaNX̅ Issue #2
Story Title: "The Black Queen"
Teaser: I have never seen my mother.
Publisher: Air and Nothingness Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Implied Murder, Manipulative Parent, Child Abuse
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Musings of the Muses
Story Title: "Requiescat"
Teaser: Gods do nothing like mortals do.
Publisher: Brigids Gate Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Assisted Suicide, Talk of Death, Existentialism, Spiders
Love Bites
Story Title: "In, Cues, Business"
Teaser: When your boyfriend won't take "no" for an answer, there's only one thing to be done: summon an incubus.
Publisher: Mischief Publishing
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Implied Aphobia, Implied Sexual Harassment, Manipulation, Bullying, Murder, Gore
Because That's Where Your Heart Is
Story Title: "FPS<tag>"
Teaser: Canace is the first to go missing.
Publisher: Sans. PRESS
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death
Notes: This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!
Women of the Woods
Story Title: "The Magpie"
Teaser: Family is what you make of it.
Publisher: Fabled Collective
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death
Wrong Turn
Story Title: "Report Card"
Teaser: You have never been in love before. You have, however, been re-educated.
Publisher: Blunder Woman Productions
Other Iterations: An award-winning audiobook is available!
Highlight for CW: Implied Violence/Abuse
Upon a Once Time
Story Title: "Strings That Ought to be Pondered, Even in Urgent Times"
Teaser: It is the hair that caught his eye.
Publisher: Air and Nothingness Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Implied Murder/Death
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American Gothic Short Stories
Story Title: "Bibliosmia"
Teaser: Within this library is kept a great body of work. How unfortunate that this body has died.
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death
Kyoto Cryptids: Volume 1
Story Title: "The Picnic"
Teaser: Summer is the season for horror in Japan. Coincidentally, it is also the best season for picnics.
Publisher: Kyoto Cryptids
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Implied Murder/Death
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The Monsters We Forgot: Volume 1
Story Title: "How Crow Became a Scavenger of Corpses"
Teaser: The trees on Kumuhtuqunônak Island are monstrous things.
Publisher: Soteira Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death, Violence
Haunted House Short Stories
Story Title: "Sparrow"
Teaser: "Who killed Cock Robin?" asks the nursery rhyme. "I," said the Sparrow, for she had need of a body.
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Other Iterations: This story also featured in episode 18 of the podcast "Monsters Out of the Closet!"
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death, Stillbirth
Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories
Story Title: "Umibozu"
Teaser: “This is the part where you try to escape,” It says. “I think you are the reason I am here,” I reply.
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death
Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (No. 30 / Omnibus 9)
Story Title: "On a Front Porch on a November Afternoon"
Teaser: It would be easy to say that it starts with a lost phone. But actually, it started long before that.
Publisher: Holt Smith Limited
Other Iterations: An audiobook is available! And if you happen to be going to the moon...
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death
Mrs Rochester's Attic: Tales of Madness, Strange Love and Deep, Dark Secrets
Story Title: "Revelation 2:17"
Teaser: Revenge is a dish best served cold, and there is little colder than a dead body.
Publisher: Mantle Lane Press
Other Iterations: This story also featured in episode 451 of the podcast "Tales to Terrify!"
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death, Consumption of a Human Corpse (by a Non-Human Entity), Implied Sexual Content
The Myriad Carnival
Story Title: "Boxes"
Teaser: For good or for ill, reality is a series of boxes that people contort themselves into.
Publisher: Lethe Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Transphobia, Dysmorphia, Suicide, Murder/Death, Animal Cruelty
Shadows at the Door: An Anthology
Story Title: "Deep"
Teaser: Take a deep breath.
Publisher: Shadows at the Door
Other Iterations: An audiobook is available!
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death
After the Happily Ever After: a Collection of Fractured Fairy Tales
Story Title: "Ashes"
Teaser: The size of someone's feet tells you little about the state of their mind.
Publisher: Transmundane Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Implied Violence, Brief Sexual Coercion, Blood/Gore
Chilling Ghost Short Stories
Story Title: "Almost"
Teaser: Whenever you breathe, you exhale a small piece of your soul.
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Other Iterations: “Almost” was first published in Gustavus Adolphus College’s Firethorne (Fall 2011). In addition to Chilling Ghost Short Stories, it was reprinted in “Living Paranormal Magazine,” Issue 8. It can now also be read by clicking the "Story Title" hyperlink above!
Highlight for CW: Murder/Death, Dying, Implied Sexual Content
Notes: The final segment should be italicized and credited to "Unknown" in Chilling Ghost Short Stories.