The Devils You Know
And the ones you've yet to meet...
Each week I’m blown away by this community. Your love for the genre, the warmth and generosity you extend to the other writers here, and the outstanding writing and creativity that you deliver week after week never ceases to amaze and inspire me. Read the variety of posts that get put out. Serials and poems and short stories and movie reviews. Monsters and vampires, C’thulu and warring gods, vengeful plants and serial killers, ghosts and werewolves.
You write the devils you know, those old fears that crept in some time between 3 and 12, the ones that stuck around and matured into something so disturbing, you had to write about it. What was that first inspiration? Maybe it was a horror movie at a friend’s house, or a book purchased out of curiosity? A sick parent or a bad relationship that put that wound in you and brought you to the page? Whatever it was, I am grateful that you all are putting your work out there for all of us to read. The world needs your stories.
Last month we tied up a community writing project, Sepulchral Roots, a Lovecraftian community project. The guidelines were simple: write a contemporary story about a character who witnesses the call of C’thulu. Bring us cosmic, indescribable horrors, ones that leave the witnesses insane, forever changed by forbidden knowledge. Some of you answered the call. If you did, would you do us a favor and leave a link to your story in the comments? We don’t want to miss a single one.
Others continued serials or published short stories, each with their own flavor of darkness. Some new monsters for your closet, a half-dozen shadowy figures down the hall, waiting for you to get thirsty enough to head to the kitchen and grab that glass of water. Here are a few for your reading pleasure.
Here’s mine: https://travisblake.substack.com/p/sepulchral-roots-point-nemo
Here's my Sepulchral Roots story as requested! Thanks, Shaina!
https://gibberish.substack.com/p/the-call