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The Bone Museum
The studio was empty. The house was silent. But the air was thick, heavy, full of something that had no name. I backed …
Psychological Thriller Southern Gothic
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The Peat Eats Last
The boardwalk was his father’s rebellion — a wooden spine laid across the marsh’s back, saying I walk where I please. …
Gothic Fiction Lovecraftian horror
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The Drowning Glass
The marsh did not want them there. Lucas Lorne had known this since he was seven years old, the year his brother Saul w…
Gothic Fiction Psychological Thriller
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The Last Stand of the Scrub-Jay Two
Gerald T. Fitch drove a silver Dodge Ram so new it still had the price sticker in the corner of the windshield. He wore…
Comedy Crime Eco-Adventure
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The Pelican Prophecy & The Pickle Jar Caper
Outside, the sun was setting the Gulf on fire—orange and purple and the kind of pink that makes you believe in things. …
Comedy Crime Satire
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The Carver of Lost Points
The Sea-Spray Motel was a place where colors went to die. What was left of the aqua paint on the siding had faded to th…
Fantasy Psychological Thriller
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Ghost Gator
The humidity in South Florida wasn’t just weather; it was a lifestyle choice, a conspiracy to turn the air into a tangi…
Comedy Crime Satire
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The Things That Come After Light
The lighthouse at Port Blakeney had been dark for thirty-seven years. Ezra Cole stood at its base on an October evenin…
Gothic Fiction Lovecraftian horror Southern Gothic Thriller
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The Reclamation
In the shadow of the Arcanum Spire, that impossible tower of black glass that pierced the clouds like a needle through …
Grimdark Fantasy
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The Hollowing
"They come at dusk. Just at dusk — that moment when you can't quite tell light from shadow. They come out of the treeli…
Thriller
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The Worst Best Evening
A waiter arrives immediately and asks if we would like still or sparkling water. I say sparkling. Clara says still. The…
Humour Short Fiction / Literary Realism
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The Night Before
The interview is tomorrow at ten o'clock. It is now eleven-fifteen at night and I have read the company's website so ma…
Short Fiction / Literary Realism
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