Macabre Monday Rises!

A thriving community built on horror

Jul 01, 2024

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It’s fun to watch what Macabre Monday has evolved into on Substack in only a few months. Our collective love of horror has given birth to a thriving community where authors can share their stories and find readers.

A note

Cobol

posted this past week inspired me. Their note credited the Macabre Monday community with giving them a chance to be seen and heard. Building an audience for their fiction met with major obstacles until they started sharing stories with the MM crowd. Fast forward a few weeks and Cobol’s newsletter is thriving. New stories are eagerly consumed by devoted fans.

Macabre Monday is truly a rising force within the horror community, and — like the proverbial undead zombie horde — our ranks are swelling daily.

Sepulchral Roots

We’ve enjoyed seeing stories tied to our Sepulchral Roots community project roll in throughout June. You all possess incredible imaginations and found fresh and original ways to skillfully weave Lovecraftian and eldritch horror into your narratives.

Stay tuned later this month to see a selection of our team’s favorite Sepulchral Roots stories. I encourage you all to check out these dark tales on Substack if you haven’t read them yet.

Weekly Digest

A selection of last week’s Macabre Monday Posts from our team

Gather around our campfire as we highlight memorable stories and notes from last week’s Macabre Monday offerings:

Fans of gaslamp fiction will want to check out this clever crime story from
A. B. Frank
. Definite shades of Poe in this tale.

Victorian Vignettes

Lies in the Looking Glass

The man stood in a gloomy and decaying lodging house. To the world, he was an obscure and wretched figure, an embodiment of ugliness and misery. But within the confines of this small room, he fancied himself a paragon of beauty and charm. Golden brown brandy cascaded from the bottle. He tapped the bottle on the rim of t…

5 months ago · 9 likes · A. B. Frank

A duck hunting excursion turns into a hunt for what is behind a rash of disappearances in a town in a new chilling tale from
Travis Blake
.

Dracula’s Ghost

The Duck Hunters

I. The autumn sun is low in the sky when I pull into the grocery store parking lot. “It would be easier if he just came to the house,” my wife says, but Sully’s pickup is a behemoth, and the camping trailer hitched to the bed makes navigation difficult on the narrow streets of our subdivision. Besides, the parking lot meet-up is part of the ritual. I lay…

5 months ago · 11 likes · 9 comments · Travis Blake

If you’re wondering whether or not to check out The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski,
Susan Earlam
shares a detailed 30-minute video review on the book. Go watch it.