Gothic Stories

In the Gothic, atmospheric world of Blood and Moonlight, power, passion, and peril intertwine as two fated souls are bound by destiny. Lord Caspian, a centuries-old vamp...

ꜱʜɪᴠ·ᴇʀ /ˈꜱʜɪᴠƏʀ/ ᴠᴇʀʙ (ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ᴏʀ ᴀɴɪᴍᴀʟ) ꜱʜᴀᴋᴇ ꜱʟɪɢʜᴛʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴜɴᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟʟᴀʙʟʏ ᴀꜱ ᴀ ʀᴇꜱᴜʟᴛ ᴏꜰ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴄᴏʟᴅ, ꜰʀɪɢʜᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ, ᴏʀ ᴇxᴄɪᴛᴇᴅ. -- Short stories and poetry that heav...

From misusing writing prompts to poetry to infodumps to trolling, I drop my ideas here! PREVIOUS DESC FOR CONTEXT: When I have an idea for a dark entry to a writing con...

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬. When sixteen-year-old Elara Blackwell is sent to live with her estranged aunt in the eerie t...

Some islands don't let go. Mallory came to Sorrow Island to stop her sister, Brynn, from turning their inheritance into a haunted tourist trap. But the locals warn of so...

Some houses keep their ghosts. Some men bury their past. And some whispers were never meant to be heard. When Evelyn Carter arrives at Blackthorn Manor, she only seeks r...

At Blackmoor Academy, the rich rule, secrets are currency, and betrayal is deadly. When Riley Monroe, a sharp-tongued scholarship student, arrives at the prestigious sch...

My entry for the ONC 2025

A rusty key whispers for help after 50 years by my side, its voice frail and cracking. I feel its decay mirroring my own. With oil and a file, I smooth its edges, easing...

Dom is a worldly man who has managed to carve out a path for himself despite his humble origins: He has traveled throughout the Duchy, studied under the tutelage of monk...

Layla Hart thought she was just another college student-until a brooding werewolf claims her as his fated mate and a seductive vampire hungers for her blood. Caught betw...

Former priest Zion Fitzwilliam never planned to return to the place that broke him. After fleeing Gracepoint, he and Rosemary head north, back to the Commune-the isolate...

A horror romance unlike any other-dark, haunting, and steeped in mystery. Dare to enter the Royal University, but beware... not everyone leaves alive. Love & Blood - A T...

The DRAGON KING was feared, not meant to love. but he loses the one thing he never knew needed. his grief sets the world ablaze. the supreme offers him a chance --- A pa...

In the chilling streets of Edinburgh, Kalynda walks the thin line between existence and oblivion. She feels the world but remains untouched by it-immune to the cold, ind...

In a realm where the night rules and ancient laws dictate every aspect of life, a forbidden love blooms between two souls destined to change the world. "Eternal Vow...

**"Hollow's End** clings to its dead. When Clara Mercer inherits her family's cursed land, she awakens the Judge-a century-old hungerspirit bound to the town's rott...

In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by the undead, Winter Ransom, a young and fiercely determined survivor, embarks on a perilous journey to escape the oppressive colony...

Drawn to a doctor's dark secrets, a sensual vampire investigator finds herself entangled with his disfigured assistant in a gothic London teeming with paranormal horrors...

Victor Theodore Vance, a demonic entity in guise of a wealthy mechanical engineer roams the fog-woven late victorian streets while living by unspoken subtle norms agains...