All Hallow's Eve ist Nigh

And you know what that means...

Photo by Mark Tegethoff on Unsplash

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!

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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

John Ward

’s lovely podcast, Spoken Ward, with special guest

S.E. Reid

of

Talebones ✨

. 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.

Surprise Bonus Episode

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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:

• Shane Bzdok
  shared his first Macabre Monday piece. Something tells me he is going to fit right in. Welcome!

  15 Seconds

• Mata Haggis-Burridge
  wrote a spooky Halloween poem, sure to get you ready for fright night.

  The Ghosts Have No Witnesses

• Jessica Maison
  revealed the new cover art for her upcoming graphic novel

  The Killing Stone Cover Art Revealed

• Daniel O’Donnell
  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.

  I Know I'm Human

• Jimmy Gardner of

  Clean Chaos
  wrote an incredible piece of short fiction that made us all want to run out and buy a cat…right? What did I miss?

  Domesticated

• Kathrine Elaine
  published an incredible plant horror piece of short fiction

  Ferns

• Our very own

  John Coon
  published his fourth episode of the horror comedy serial, The Ghost Diaries

  The Ghost Diaries: Episode IV

• Iris Shaw
  wrote a beautiful, haunting (pun intended) poem

  Ghost-ridden