Three Volumes of SMALL TOWN HORROR
Wicked Shadow Press is proud to present three Small Town horror compilations, each collection featuring 28 original stories of creeping dread, rural darkness and the particular horror that only close-knit communities can breed.
(SMALL TOWN SHADOWS) From a Ukrainian village haunted by a slaughtered boar’s vengeance to a West Virginian hill where a monstrous entity abducts children, from a lakeshore where a siren traps men’s souls in a glowing orb to a cemetery town that claims its own dead, every story is rooted in a place that feels achingly, uncomfortably real.
(SMALL TOWN SECRETS) From a preacher who turns a dying congregation into a vigilante army, to a cursed hill that absorbs the hearing of the village, to a quiet lake house that literally eats a family alive, every story is rooted in a place that feels achingly, uncomfortably real. Watch as a small town Halloween ritual goes horribly wrong, a photography trip traps a woman in a surreal family of monsters and a gated community hides a literal Minotaur.
(SMALL TOWN SILHOUETTES) From a Bengali village where the earth itself swallows the lonely, to a Norwegian hamlet where the moon holds its sinners, to a Kentucky neighbourhood where a mother’s herb garden hides more than the neighbours know, every story is rooted in a place that feels achingly, uncomfortably real. You will find ancient entities beneath towns that have kept their secrets for centuries. You will find cults dressed as congregations, predators dressed as saviours, and curses woven so deeply into a community’s foundations that tearing them out might bring the whole town down.
There is a particular kind of dread that belongs to small towns. It hides behind lace curtains and behind the eyes of neighbors who smile just a little too knowingly. It lives in the soil, sometimes literally. It waits in wells and fields and the dark edges of forests that press in too close. It is the horror of community: the terrible intimacy of a place where you cannot hide, cannot run, cannot pretend the darkness isn’t there, because everyone can see you.
AUTHORS OF SMALL TOWN SHADOWS
Featuring the works of Andrea Tillmanns, Andrew Kurtz, Celeste Kerspuy, Chad Anctil, Charlotte Poitras, Cliff Hansen, D. A. Cairns, Daniel DiQuinzio, Dawn DeBraal, Gabriella Balcom, Gabrielle Munslow, Gail Sosinsky, Igor Antoniuk, J. Rocky Colavito, Karen Keeley, Kate Bergquist, Kevin Hopson, Lawrence Dagstine, Linda Sparks, Olivia Arieti, Rathin Bhattacharjee, Ria Cabral, Ricardo D. Rebelo, Rob Hugger, S. Y. Coffelt, Simon Mohsin, Taylor Hagood AND Tom Folske
SMALL TOWN SHADOWS
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AUTHORS OF SMALL TOWN SECRETS
Featuring the works of Alondra Sanchez, Brian J. Smith, BW Bloodlust, Celeste Kerspuy, Charlotte Poitras, Christopher Woods, Elijah Frost, Greg Patrick, Heddy Johannesen, J. Rocky Colavito, John Reti, Joshua Dyer, Katarina Fiamengo, Keith Hoerner, Marc Phillips, Mark Nuzzi, Michael Sawecki, Mike Taylor, Nenad Kojčić, Nick Young, Ria Cabral, Robb T. White, Rodney Hatfield Jr., Sheri White, Simon Mohsin, Soter Lucio, Val Roberts AND Vanya Schroeder
SMALL TOWN SECRETS
AUTHORS OF SMALL TOWN SILHOUETTES
Featuring the works of Andrea Tillmanns, Atlas Wilder, Celeste Kerspuy, Ciaran McLarnon, Denise Landry, Donna Marie West, Gabriella Balcom, Henry Vinicio Valerio Madriz, JB Corso, John Timm, Julie Brandon, Kevin Patrick McCann, Lanson Wells, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Linda M. Crate, Louise Gillespie, M. M. Saint, Marc Watson, Michael Washburn, Nathan Poole Shannon, Rasiika Sen, Rich McFarlin, Shannon Hatch, Siamul Islam, Simon Mohsin, Solape Adetutu Adeyemi, Stephen Lang AND W. J. Manares
SMALL TOWN SILHOUETTES
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