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S.M. Shrike
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Gay, disabled Horror Fantasy Writer. Lover of all things strange.
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My first fiction piece is available on Kindle unlimited exclusively until December. After that it will be on other platforms. It's a Gothic body horror about a queen, a talking head and the will of the gods.
Cover for the novellete A Crown Atop A Skull by S.M. Shrike.
October 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Moodboard for my current vampire WIP. it follows two vampires and a human trapped together in a remote cabin.
Images of bloody hands and mouths. In the center of the collage there is a painting of a remote cabin, someone looking out a red window and a person laying in water.
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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What would you do if you were gifted a severed head... And it began to speak?

A Crown Atop A Skull is available on Kindle unlimited now!
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A Crown Atop a Skull - my debut novellete will be coming to Kindle on August 31st!
A blue tinted background image of a stone castle. In yellow text it reads "a crown at a skull." In smaller yellow text there is dialogue from the short story.
July 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A short essay I wrote about the witch!
Photo of the family from Robert Eggers' the witch. The title reads "when the land rejects you: the witch, the rabbit and puritanism."
June 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Do you gothic horror? Or fantasy? Then I have a story for you! A Crown Atop Skull will be coming out in August 31st. It's the story of new queen who starts getting prophecies from an unlikely source, and she must decide if she listens to them or not.
Picture of the cover of the novellete A Crown Atop a Skull by S.M. Shrike. Around the cover small blurbs say "debut author", "gothic fantasy", "body horror", "pagan horror", and "horrific prophecies."
June 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Quote with a fantasy that is not vampire or werewolf.

My debut novella is a dark fantasy about nobility, horrific predictions passed down from the gods and a healthy dose of body horror.

Coming out this August!
Cover of "A Crown Atop a Skull" by S.M. Shrike.
May 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Im a debut author! My novellete A Crown Atop a Skull is coming out in August! It's a dark fantasy with cosmic and body horror.

Kofi - ko-fi.com/dasbiestperf...

Nonfiction writing on my substack - substack.com/@cryptidcaba...
A dark image of a hallway leading to a medieval window. Silver filagree borders the image. Text reads "a crown stop a skull. A novellete by s.m. shrike."
April 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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I'm really excited to announce that my debut novellete, A Crown Stop a Skull, will be coming out in ebook in August! This story is a strange, anti-imperialist dark fantasy.
Book cover. A long hallway leads to a medieval style window. Silver filigree adorns the edges of the image. Text reads "A Crown Stop A Skull. A novelette by S.M. Shrike."
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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First 5 star read of the year. This is a fantastic high fantasy that I am going to be thinking about for a long time. A modern classic in my very humble opinion.
Photo of the cover of the book titled "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon.
March 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM