Horror and Wholesome
You can hear my story, The Tiny Pumpkin, on a very special Halloween podcast for the little ghouls and goblins in your life, The NoNap Podcast! Created and curated by Erin B. Lillis and featuring stellar voice work and sound design. So gather your children and listen in to tales ranging from the sweet to... Continue Reading →
I have an addictive personality. It can be a problem. Thankfully I manage to channel it in things that aren’t, on their own, terrible for you. In particular, video games. Not the kind you play on your own, but the co-ops and the multiplayers and the MMOs. The social stuff. It’s how I make friends.... Continue Reading →
My new short story collection, ALL THAT’S FAIR, and her horror book sisters, THE CORPSE GARDEN, FROM TWISTED ROOTS, & THE FESTERING ONES, are all available for only 99 cents through Oct. 7. Never a better time than Halloween season to check them out! Find them all on Amazon by clicking here! Pippin says, "Whenever... Continue Reading →
The Girl from the Well is the tale of a vengeful ghost who becomes acquainted with a tattooed boy harboring a dark spirit. As they grow closer, and she learns more about his life, family, and the creature dwelling within him, she becomes determined to help save him, no matter the cost. I loved the... Continue Reading →
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 →
Stories By S.H. Cooper 