Horrific Scribblings
@horrificscribs.bsky.social
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 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
#extremehorror #splatterpunk
#philosophicalhorror #medicalhorror
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 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
#extremehorror #splatterpunk
#philosophicalhorror #medicalhorror
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 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
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
#horrorstory #supernaturalhorror #cosmichorror #underwaterhorror
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 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
#horrorstory #supernaturalhorror #cosmichorror #underwaterhorror
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
#horrorstory #timeloop
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 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
#horrorstory #timeloop
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
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
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @ericfomley.bsky.social enters the HORRIFIC SCRIBES archive with his #horrorstory "Traffic Stop," which presents a traffic stop gone horribly #weird, toward the sort of brush with #cosmichorror that can eat away at your mind forever. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! @ericfomley.bsky.social enters the HORRIFIC SCRIBES archive with his #horrorstory "Traffic Stop," which presents a traffic stop gone horribly #weird, toward the sort of brush with #cosmichorror that can eat away at your mind forever. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Nenad Mitrović joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with #horrorstory "An Advertisement," which starts with an ad placed to lure a stranger to a painful death and gets ghastlier. Feel the power of the page! Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
#cursedobjects #eviladvertising #serbianhorror
#cursedobjects #eviladvertising #serbianhorror
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Nenad Mitrović joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with #horrorstory "An Advertisement," which starts with an ad placed to lure a stranger to a painful death and gets ghastlier. Feel the power of the page! Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
#cursedobjects #eviladvertising #serbianhorror
#cursedobjects #eviladvertising #serbianhorror
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We gladly welcome Nick Porisch to the HORRIFIC SCRIBES parade. He adds his trip to Hell "The Rivers Styx," a #horrorstory that gets scarier the more you wrap your mind around it. Let yourself be pulled in! Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
#underworld #hellisotherpeople
#underworld #hellisotherpeople
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We gladly welcome Nick Porisch to the HORRIFIC SCRIBES parade. He adds his trip to Hell "The Rivers Styx," a #horrorstory that gets scarier the more you wrap your mind around it. Let yourself be pulled in! Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
#underworld #hellisotherpeople
#underworld #hellisotherpeople
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Jeffery Scott Sims joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES! His #horrorstory "The Artistry of Poteauje" explores the relationship between murder and art and indulges in a #ClassicHollywood setting. Fun for all, especially #cinephiles. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
#artmurder
#artmurder
October 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Jeffery Scott Sims joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES! His #horrorstory "The Artistry of Poteauje" explores the relationship between murder and art and indulges in a #ClassicHollywood setting. Fun for all, especially #cinephiles. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
#artmurder
#artmurder
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We welcome @mavrikm.bsky.social into HORRIFIC SCRIBES with his bleak #weirdwestern of intense #cosmichorror "This Sickness Will Not End in Death." Feel the #existential hammer fall at horrificscribblings.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We welcome @mavrikm.bsky.social into HORRIFIC SCRIBES with his bleak #weirdwestern of intense #cosmichorror "This Sickness Will Not End in Death." Feel the #existential hammer fall at horrificscribblings.com
A well-timed and wonderful review of THE SKINNER EFFECT from @lisaleetone.bsky.social at BIBLIOPHILIA TEMPLUM!
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#splatterpunk #bookreviews
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#splatterpunk #bookreviews
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A well-timed and wonderful review of THE SKINNER EFFECT from @lisaleetone.bsky.social at BIBLIOPHILIA TEMPLUM!
bibliophiliatemplum.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/t...
#splatterpunk #bookreviews
bibliophiliatemplum.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/t...
#splatterpunk #bookreviews
NOW AVAILABLE! L. Andrew Cooper's splatterpunk novella THE SKINNER EFFECT is finally here, and you're ready to be brutalized! Get to your nearest web browser, go to the 'zon, and order THE SKINNER EFFECT immediately!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ2YM9GB
#splatterpunk #extremehorror #novella #booklaunch
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ2YM9GB
#splatterpunk #extremehorror #novella #booklaunch
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NOW AVAILABLE! L. Andrew Cooper's splatterpunk novella THE SKINNER EFFECT is finally here, and you're ready to be brutalized! Get to your nearest web browser, go to the 'zon, and order THE SKINNER EFFECT immediately!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ2YM9GB
#splatterpunk #extremehorror #novella #booklaunch
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ2YM9GB
#splatterpunk #extremehorror #novella #booklaunch
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Sarina Dorie returns with #darkfantasy tale "Dragon Pox," alarmingly cute... a little girl plots to steal a baby dragon... while deeply disturbing, as the "pox" of the title is not cute at all. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
#horrorstories #dragons #pandemichorror
#horrorstories #dragons #pandemichorror
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! Sarina Dorie returns with #darkfantasy tale "Dragon Pox," alarmingly cute... a little girl plots to steal a baby dragon... while deeply disturbing, as the "pox" of the title is not cute at all. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
#horrorstories #dragons #pandemichorror
#horrorstories #dragons #pandemichorror
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! @stevetoase.bsky.social, who joined HORRIFIC SCRIBES with the #surreal "Dental Hygiene," returns with "Húsið Mitt," a story about rarefied dining that won four hearts for extremity. Very imaginative! Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
#horror #foodhorror #extremehorror
#horror #foodhorror #extremehorror
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
NEW SCRIBBLING ALERT! @stevetoase.bsky.social, who joined HORRIFIC SCRIBES with the #surreal "Dental Hygiene," returns with "Húsið Mitt," a story about rarefied dining that won four hearts for extremity. Very imaginative! Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
#horror #foodhorror #extremehorror
#horror #foodhorror #extremehorror
Just a reminder... submit! Send us your most twisted nightmares!
horrificscribblings.com/submissions/
#callforsubmissions #transgressive #darkfiction #horror #darkscifi #darkfantasy #darkpoetry #quiethorror #splatterpunk
horrificscribblings.com/submissions/
#callforsubmissions #transgressive #darkfiction #horror #darkscifi #darkfantasy #darkpoetry #quiethorror #splatterpunk
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just a reminder... submit! Send us your most twisted nightmares!
horrificscribblings.com/submissions/
#callforsubmissions #transgressive #darkfiction #horror #darkscifi #darkfantasy #darkpoetry #quiethorror #splatterpunk
horrificscribblings.com/submissions/
#callforsubmissions #transgressive #darkfiction #horror #darkscifi #darkfantasy #darkpoetry #quiethorror #splatterpunk
An alien creature stows away on a spaceship because it wants to give the human crew members hugs. As it turns out, the creature’s definition of “hug” is quite different from our own… horrificscribblings.com
Horrific Scribes
Horrific Scribes is an expanding archive of provocative, scary, and strange fiction (and some poetry) by various authors.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An alien creature stows away on a spaceship because it wants to give the human crew members hugs. As it turns out, the creature’s definition of “hug” is quite different from our own… horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES introduces Briar Shannon, whose unusually short, #darkfantasy #horrorstory "The Underground Auction Rule" wastes no words in conjuring a world that might amuse as deeply as it disturbs. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES introduces Briar Shannon, whose unusually short, #darkfantasy #horrorstory "The Underground Auction Rule" wastes no words in conjuring a world that might amuse as deeply as it disturbs. Read for free: horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Nicholas De Marino joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with his #surreal and pleasantly distressing beach-themed #darkpoetry "a swollen metallic dolphin" and "Beach Body," which together make up _Living Nightmares_. Enjoy the experience free at horrificscribblings.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Nicholas De Marino joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with his #surreal and pleasantly distressing beach-themed #darkpoetry "a swollen metallic dolphin" and "Beach Body," which together make up _Living Nightmares_. Enjoy the experience free at horrificscribblings.com
Now open! Horrific Scribes, Exhibit Four: Pests and Puppetmasters, about parasites and parasitism, arranges dark, transgressive stories and poetry in galleries devoted to Barnacles, Leeches, Tricksters, and Controllers. Provocative, scary, strange... a free online anthology! horrificscribblings.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Now open! Horrific Scribes, Exhibit Four: Pests and Puppetmasters, about parasites and parasitism, arranges dark, transgressive stories and poetry in galleries devoted to Barnacles, Leeches, Tricksters, and Controllers. Provocative, scary, strange... a free online anthology! horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! #Weird #western, #westernhorror, #horrorwestern, whatever you call it, it's a phenomenon, and new Scribe @jmbest.bsky.social does it with #cosmic intensity in his story "Dead or Alive." Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! #Weird #western, #westernhorror, #horrorwestern, whatever you call it, it's a phenomenon, and new Scribe @jmbest.bsky.social does it with #cosmic intensity in his story "Dead or Alive." Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Jon Clendaniel joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "And Then There Were Ten Billion," #scifi / #horror with #darkcomedy about an #alien that's out for hugs. One of those rare gems that prove a horror #parody can still be horrifying. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Jon Clendaniel joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with "And Then There Were Ten Billion," #scifi / #horror with #darkcomedy about an #alien that's out for hugs. One of those rare gems that prove a horror #parody can still be horrifying. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Leonardo J. Lamanna has joined HORRIFIC SCRIBES! He brings "The Flesh Factory," a tale of #bodyhorror in which a ray of dark hope shines into an even darker, #dystopian world. Sometimes we're #bleak. Revel in it. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Leonardo J. Lamanna has joined HORRIFIC SCRIBES! He brings "The Flesh Factory," a tale of #bodyhorror in which a ray of dark hope shines into an even darker, #dystopian world. Sometimes we're #bleak. Revel in it. Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
COVER REVEAL! Behold the cover by @ruthannaevans.bsky.social of the forthcoming revised second edition of my #horrornovel DESCENDING LINES!
"The whole book was unhinged in the best way possible." - ARC Reviewer
Coming Dec. 9! Available for pre-order now!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPY794YJ/
"The whole book was unhinged in the best way possible." - ARC Reviewer
Coming Dec. 9! Available for pre-order now!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPY794YJ/
September 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
COVER REVEAL! Behold the cover by @ruthannaevans.bsky.social of the forthcoming revised second edition of my #horrornovel DESCENDING LINES!
"The whole book was unhinged in the best way possible." - ARC Reviewer
Coming Dec. 9! Available for pre-order now!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPY794YJ/
"The whole book was unhinged in the best way possible." - ARC Reviewer
Coming Dec. 9! Available for pre-order now!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPY794YJ/
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We welcome @awhcolumbus.bsky.social into the company of HORRIFIC SCRIBES! His #horrorstory, "The Basement," is about a young man who must #meettheparents of his girlfriend, and the evening turns when he goes into the #basement... Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! We welcome @awhcolumbus.bsky.social into the company of HORRIFIC SCRIBES! His #horrorstory, "The Basement," is about a young man who must #meettheparents of his girlfriend, and the evening turns when he goes into the #basement... Read for free at horrificscribblings.com
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Please join me in welcoming H.J. Dutton into the company of HORRIFIC SCRIBES. He brings a charming, happy story about a family that takes in a stray dog. It's all cheery and innocent. Honest. Really. horrificscribblings.com
#baddog
#baddog
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Please join me in welcoming H.J. Dutton into the company of HORRIFIC SCRIBES. He brings a charming, happy story about a family that takes in a stray dog. It's all cheery and innocent. Honest. Really. horrificscribblings.com
#baddog
#baddog