All Hallow's Eve ist Nigh
And you know what that means...
We have one more week until the deadline for Macabre Monday’s Halloween Writing Contest! Our guest judges have already received their first batch of stories, and we expect more to be rolling in over the next seven days. I don’t know about you all, but packing in true terror in 1,500 words or less? It ain’t easy. But if anyone’s up for it, it’s all you wonderful writers out there!
While all you haunted souls were cooking soup or baking cookies or curling up with a good book this weekend, the grave tenders at Macabre Monday were getting interviewed on
’s lovely podcast, Spoken Ward, with special guest of . For those who don’t know John, he is a huge horror fan, tech nerd, incredible artist and illustrator (for hire), and he is currently exploring storytelling on Substack on his podcast.If you ever wanted to know the faces behind the names here (I mean come on…two of us are avatars) feel free to tune in and give it a listen. We talk horror, Halloween, our worst google search histories (for our fiction), and how horror has changed our brains forever. For the better? Well, we leave that to you, our wonderful macabre audience to decide.
The Weekly Digest
A selection of last week’s Macabre Monday posts from our team.
Gather around our campfire as we highlight memorable stories, poems, articles, and notes from last week’s Macabre Monday offerings:
- shared his first Macabre Monday piece. Something tells me he is going to fit right in. Welcome!
- wrote a spooky Halloween poem, sure to get you ready for fright night.
- revealed the new cover art for her upcoming graphic novel
- did a wonderful analysis of his favo(u)rite (looking at you England…and probably the rest of the English speaking world) film, John Carpenter’s, The Thing.
Jimmy Gardner of
wrote an incredible piece of short fiction that made us all want to run out and buy a cat…right? What did I miss?- published an incredible plant horror piece of short fiction
Our very own
published his fourth episode of the horror comedy serial, The Ghost Diaries- wrote a beautiful, haunting (pun intended) poem
Thanks for the callout, Shaina!
Thanks so much for sharing my poem, Shaina <3