Welcome to Beware! Dark Seas Halloween showcase, an annual author & artist showcase that features talented creators. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Prepare for dark stories, myths & legends, and creepy creations that will make the hair on the nape of your neck stand up straight. May the water have mercy on your soul. A full posting schedule can be found here. helluva rail BY ruthie jones I entered my silent house in a secluded suburb outside of Austin, Texas, and looked forward to a relaxing nightcap after a tediou[...]
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1 Welcome to Beware! Dark Seas Halloween showcase, an annual author & artist showcase that features talented creators. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Prepare for dark stories, myths & legends, and creepy creations that will make the hair on the nape of your neck stand up straight. May the water have mercy on your soul. A full posting schedule can be found here. SIREN BY M.L. SATKIN The sea is not my home. I belong elsewhere. I know it in my very bones - tugging at the back of my mind. The humans think I belong here.[...]
"...When we die, we become the foam on the ocean." - The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen WHAT IS BEWARE! DARK SEAS? Welcome to the open submission call for the 6th annual author and artist showcase! Beware! Dark Seas is an author & artist showcase of short stories and art that are dark in nature, macabre, or horror themed. All submissions are connected by one common theme—the sea! This could be above the water—think boats, ghost ships, things found floating on surfaces, washing up on the shore, or even a mysterious island surrounded by wate[...]
Get the entire story posting schedule here! Shadow lake by cait greer “It’s just a story, Cam. It’s not like there’s actually a monster in the lake.” Everly hops on one foot, adorably trying to pull her other sneaker on without untying it. “Everyone knows that’s just something the counselors made up years ago to scare the kids so they wouldn’t try to go swimming at night.” Camryn snickers behind her. “You mean exactly like we’re doing?” “Exactly.” Everly’s shoe finally slides on just as she tilts too far to the side, but[...]
Welcome to day TWO of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #314. Walking through the shabby hotel hallways with the luggage-toting bellhop in tow, Ray Martin assumed that the Thornewood Hotel had to have once seen better days. But he’d been coming to the quietly moldering New England hotel for going on forty-five years now, and it had always vaguely reminded him of the setting for Poe’s “Fall of t[...]
