📍Argentina
It was supposed to be simple... pick up the tapes, finish the film and make a fortune... But, it couldn't have gone more wrong.
✍️In this tale… by Hernan Salvarezza, a system Administrator in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hernan has published stories in anthologies such as Murderous Ink Crimeoucopia, The Horror Zine, Belanger Books, and Altair Publishing Australia, and has been featured in international short story contests, and has written articles for Convesio, Shell Us, and other private-sector magazines. Hernan has worked as a freelance line and acquisition editor for Blood Bound Books, and dabbles in slush pile reading for lightspeed.com (http://lightspeed.com/) and Crystal Lake Publishing. Here’s his tale…
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23 Oct 2026
Double Feature: The Bellowing & Halloween Lives!
📍USA
✍️ In this week's double feature we first present a tale… by Jeremy Barber an author of weird fiction and psychological horror whose stories are rooted in Massachusetts and the surrounding landscapes of New England. His fiction explores PTSD, trauma, and the unsettling moments when the ordinary turns into horror itself. Jeremy is currently at work on a collection of interconnected short horror stories set in New England. He shares with us today a tale called ‘The bellowing’.
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✍️ Then we’ll join author Nick Swain, who writes dark, strange, and often genre-blending fiction. His stories have appeared in HellBound Books' Shopping List anthologies 1-3, Crime Pays, and Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!, with two more stories forthcoming in Campfire Publishing's Let the Right One Simmer, Volume One. He is currently drafting his first novel. He shares with us his tale, Halloween Lives!
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16 Oct 2026
The Man Who Walks Backward
📍USA
✍️ This week's tale… written by Justin Alcalá, an award-winning Mexican-American horror and dark fiction writer. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives with Bigfoot in the mountains of North Carolina. In the past fifteen years, Justin has published four novels and over sixty short stories in American literary journals, magazines, and anthologies.
He’s won several literary awards, including the Speculative Literature Foundation Finalist Award for A Dead-End Job and Horror Writers Association Grant for The Taming of the Cthulhu. You can find Justin on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, TikTok and Wordpress.
If you enjoy this story, you can visit Justin’s previous Frightening Tale “How the Devil Bargains”
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