Horror Memoriam
Remembering horror villains from days past
Did you know that Memorial Day started as a day set aside to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers with flowers and flags? Here in the Macabre Monday realm, we like to remember and honor our favorite horror villains.
Walk with us to the graves of terrifying monsters past. Reflect on their stories and the fear they conjured in the hearts of their victims. Be careful not to plant a shovel in the dirt or call out their names at a specified hour. You don’t want to wake the dead and take their place, do you?
Tell us, your faithful cryptkeepers, which dead horror villain lingers in your thoughts on this day devoted to remembering the dead. Share with us in the comments below or our weekly chat thread.
Announcements
If you’re searching for inspiration on crafting your next horror tale, or you just want to devour a bunch of new scary stories, you’ll want to bookmark The Halls of Pandemonium directories that Bradley Ramsey is curating weekly in his Substack newsletter. These directories offer daily prompts and linked lists of stories and poems inspired by those prompts from emerging and seasoned authors from around Substack.
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Featured Stories
Standout posts from last week.
A one-eyed magpie doll is a conduit for omnious things in Nils — Sean Thomas McDonnell’s latest chilling tale.
Maurice finds a pulsating lump on his chest one morning. This is only the beginning of a frightening ordeal with The Thing Inside, a body horror story from M. Brandon Robbins.
This prose poem, from Coral Evermore, centers on a girl whose trauma manifests as invasive flowers. Floral Revenant is an appropriate horror tale for springtime.
Community Recommendations
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Recent Publications
Do you love scary stories? Then you won’t be able to put down Eye See You — a terrifying new anthology from some of your favorite Substack authors.
Eye See You features 18 chilling horror stories centered on eyes and what they see and experience. These stories have been collected and edited by Erica Drayton of Top In Fiction (with a forward from John Coon, one of the resident Macabre Monday cryptkeepers.) Each story is designed to haunt your nightmares and make you see all sorts of things you were afraid to see.
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Eighteen horror and dark speculative fiction writers came together for a shared creative challenge centered on the concept of watching eyes. What those eyes witness, who they belong to, and why they watch varies wildly from story to story — yielding a collection as imaginative as it is disturbing. From quiet, creeping dread to moments of outright terror, these tales examine surveillance, perception, obsession, and the horrifying consequences of being noticed when you least expect it.
This anthology invites readers to peer into worlds where sight itself becomes a weapon, a curse, or a doorway to something far worse. The result is a haunting exploration of fear that lingers long after the final page-best read with the lights on, and perhaps the curtains drawn.
Have a book or a story in a magazine or anthology published recently?
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New Voices
New to the Macabre Monday community?
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The chat is open. Bring your stories, your poems, your freshly published pieces, and your works-in-progress. Bring the thing you wrote that you’re not sure anyone will understand. Someone here will. Come say hello.
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Thanks for featuring my story! MM <3!!