Horror and Wholesome
I saw my mother for an hour and a half each day. Half hour in the morning, when she’d wake me at 5:30 a.m. to get ready for school, and then an hour at night, just long enough to make sure I ate dinner and did my homework. The rest of the time, she was... Continue Reading →
My YA fantasy novel, THE KNIGHT’S DAUGHTER, is available for 99 cents on Amazon until September 12th! Fourteen-year-old Mary McThomas is being raised a lady, but she knows she was born to be a knight. It’s an impossible dream, one that almost costs her father his life. After an ambush on their village leaves him... Continue Reading →
Midnight jogs helped clear my head. Or maybe they just numbed me to my own thoughts. Run until it hurts. Run until all you can think about is where your next breath is going to come from. Run until you can’t think at all. The emptiness was welcome. Silence was a stranger to me except... Continue Reading →
The Good House is a horror tale seeped in Vodou religion, grief, and regret. Angela Touissant is still reeling from the suicide of her young son, Corey, two years before. Although she's attempted to move on through therapy and a new career, she continues to blame herself and her ex-husband for Corey's untimely death. It... Continue Reading →
My new collection of short horror stories is now available in eBook and paperback on Amazon! A maiden looking for love in all the wrong places. A mother in an endless search for missing children. A crone whose passing is marked by the tinkling of tiny bells. All That’s Fair is a collection of twenty-two... Continue Reading →
The Ruin of Delicate Things is woven around loss, repression, and pain to a dark fantasy backdrop. After their young son's untimely death, Dan decides to take his wife, Faye, to his childhood home in the countryside. Despite the place stirring bad feelings in him, the reasons for which aren't remembered, he thinks it might... Continue Reading →
My next short horror story collection, All That’s Fair, is themed around women who are made up of anything but sugar, spice, and everything nice. Coming out August 14th! Huge thanks to @Emiru_theyurei for being so fantastic to work with and creating this beauty:
Pretty Marys All in a Row by Gwendolyn Kiste is a short, fun read that follows Resurrection Mary, Rhee to her friends, and her sister Marys, all supernatural beings based on folklore and poems that inhabit a house in an ethereal afterlife. They spend their nights haunting the world of the living before returning to... Continue Reading →
Click here to grab a copy in eBook or paperback! Fourteen-year-old Mary McThomas is being raised a lady, but she knows she was born to be a knight. It’s an impossible dream, one that almost costs her father his life. After an ambush on their village leaves him gravely wounded, Mary is willing to do... Continue Reading →
***MILD SPOILERS*** After seeing so many folks raving about this book on Twitter, I had to give it a read. This was my introduction to Damien Angelica Walters and I was not disappointed. It's part coming of age, part mystery, part thriller, with bits of horror sprinkled throughout. The story is divided between the past,... Continue Reading →
