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Horrific Scribblings
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Horrific Scribblings is the independent publishing imprint run by L. Andrew Cooper. We launched in November 2024 and as of this writing are finding our footing in social media, so expect us to ramp up activity... soon...
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! SJ Townend returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “When One Door Closes,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Thomas C. Mavroudis returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “In the Bleak Christmas Market,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Lene MacLeod joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “Slippers from Hell,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! P.N. Harrison joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “Mari Lwyd,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Mike Rusetsky joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “Non-Denominational Office Gathering,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Iluka Chayan joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “The December Booth,” now part of the Holiday Hurlyburly Special Exhibit. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #IndianGothic #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The holiday season is all about horror, and HORRIFIC SCRIBES has opened its first Special Exhibit, HOLIDAY HURLYBURLY, to celebrate! Six new, original tales, nine attractions in all. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#holidayhorror #Christmashorror #horrorstories #shortstories #anthologies
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Zary Fekete joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "My Father, My Father," based on a poem by #Goethe but an unconventional blend of #darkscifi and #darkfantasy. Deeply personal and soaringly mythic. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com

@zaryfekete.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Thomas C. Mavroudis returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Revelations of a Shadow Person," a dramatic monologue that unfolds a legendary terror through evolving ideas and imagery. Read free: horrificscribblings.com

#horrorstories #shadowpeople #urbanlegends #cryptids #nightmares
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! The halls of HORRIFIC SCRIBES shake as @mariosenzale.bsky.social joins with "The Bull," about race, gender, sexuality, and American politics. Hardcore, offensive, thought-provoking. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#transgressivefiction #extremehorror #racehorror #horrorstories
December 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Launch day for the radically revised version of the provocative horror novel DESCENDING LINES! Dark and twisted, with shocks from first page to last. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPY794YJ

#newnovels #newhorror #extremehorror #domestichorror #occulthorror #monsterhorror
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @katherinegarrison.bsky.social joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with _Approaching Dangers: Three Monstrous Poems_, which includes "Trolls!," "Bloodlust," and "The Spread of Incurable Things." Revel in the imagery! horrificscribblings.com

#darkpoetry #monsters #trolls #vampires #spores
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! @awhcolumbus.bsky.social returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Sharp Enough," a read like a slap in the face. A festival, some lore, a scary outhouse... it's all quite sharp. Free at horrificscribblings.com

@awhcolumbus #horrorstories #urbanlegends #newhorror #outhouses #frenemy
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @pammerdrums.bsky.social joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Rite of Passage," a #horror story from the POV of a child who does something very bad and is awfully afraid of getting into trouble. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com

#witchhorror #evilchildren #sociopaths
December 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Maxim Volk joins the HORRIFIC SCRIBES archives with the queer erotic dark tale "The Canvas." Only for adults! Free to read at horrificscribblings.com

#lgbtqhorror #lgbtqiahorror #horrorstories #tattoofiction #queerhorror
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Alistair Rey joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Snails," a small horror story about a big problem. Icky. Slimy. With absurd humor, if you can laugh at that sort of thing. Great fun. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com

#horrorstories #snails #creaturefeatures #absurdist
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
HORRIFIC SCRIBES announces #Pushcart Prize nominations!
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! J.S. Douglas joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with her #horror story "Dysmenorrhea," an experience known to many yet seldom explored in #darkfiction... and Douglas makes you feel it before she ups the magnitude with a #surreal twist.

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November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Fendy S. Tulodo returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with a _third_ story, "Genesis in Reverse," the creepiest and most mind-boggling yet. Read slowly--let its defiance of reason sink in. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#horrorstories #uncanny #experimentalfiction #surrealfiction
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Marco Herrera (MAHH!) joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Brisket," about a surgeon with an appetite for meat that gets philosophical... and extreme. Go ahead. Gobble it up. Free at horrificscribblings.com

#extremehorror #splatterpunk
#philosophicalhorror #medicalhorror
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Nilay Kumar Sarker joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with #darkfantasy #mirrorstory "The Reflection's Strike." In his words, it "unfolds as #modernfolklore... where #horror emerges not from monsters but from meeting one’s own echo too late." It's like #prosepoetry at horrificscribblings.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Jason Frederick Myers returns to HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "Death is a Local Term." A salvage diver investigates mysterious sightings of a fallen plane and unfortunately sates his curiosity. horrificscribblings.com

#horrorstory #supernaturalhorror #cosmichorror #underwaterhorror
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @raymondbrunell.bsky.social joins the HORRIFIC SCRIBES with his story "We Have Not Died Yet." The story is a gloriously #darkscifi mindf**k delivered with powerful and eerie prose. It begins on a Tuesday in October... horrificscribblings.com

#horrorstory #timeloop
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @douglasford.bsky.social joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with a perfect tale for #Halloween2025, "Why I'm Running the #Spookshow Now." Stage blood! Real blood! Are those organs really being ripped out? Is that really an extended reference to #HerschellGordonLewis? horrificscribblings.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM