Claytemple Fiction

Just saw this on Twitter and thought people here would be interested. Free PDF to read about Victorian alchemy, which might be good research or prompts for writing. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/155986

A Nightmare By Charles Gillingham Hunger is the motivation for most actions, I understood this best while the family, the wife and the daughter and I, were racing together towards our salvation. We had decided together to defeat that most ancient of enemies, together. My self-appointed task in this

Hey! I have a thousand-ish word flash fiction piece in this anthology, with an illustration by a real comic artist. It's just your usual blend of squabbling immortals, time travel, impossible physics, and dumb jokes. It's free to download, so please take a look. https://www.comicbookschool.com/8-

This one is right up everyone's alley. Let's get those occult detective stories in! Again, I just saw this on Twitter; don't know anything about these folks, though I trust the person who retweeted it not to be steering me too far wrong. YMMV. Ready to get your noire on? We will be open for occu

Here's a very short story about Artificial Intelligence I wrote a couple years ago, published in Aphelion webzine. http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2018/07/AEIOU.html A discussion on Twitter reminded me of it, so I looked to see if it was still available.

Let us know what you thought of the Uldon novella The Quality of Mercy.

Let us know what you thought of the Barrow School novella The Lion that Stalks by Night.

Saw this on the news today and figured someone could use it as a story prompt: https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/maravillas-bahamas-shipwreck-treasure-scn/index.html

“Some people say this old cemetery is haunted by evil spirits.” “Really? Evil spirits?” “You must have noticed. Some cross the road or walk by really fast.” “Some people are stupid.” “Couple of weeks ago, I heard a boy tell his friend his mum would be furious if she knew he was there. She won’t eve

I originally wrote this for a Hundred Word Crime story contest. It didn't get selected and I have no idea where else to place a hundred word story. Nothing weird, creepy, or spooky, sorry. “It’s easy,” says Eddie, “the bank makes you wear a mask.” “Yeah. There’s an epidemic.” “Exactly. You walk

Maybe Glenn's too polite to mention it, but one of his stories, Goodbye To All That, is narrated as episode 299 of the Tales to Terrify podcast. It's a good story and well-presented. Recommend you check it out. I enjoyed it. It's an investigative story with some weird elements, but nothing obvio

Share your weird-fiction plague stories with us!

Let us know what you thought of the Uldon story "An Idle Dream, Quite Gone Now."

Was going through books I have in storage and ran into two that are full of weird fiction story prompts. Myth: Myths and Legends of the World Explored by Kenneth McLeish. This has a big alphabetical list of mythical people and creatures from all around the world, with entries from paragraph to a c

FWIW, I am on Twitter at @StinkenderKase and try to follow along with @horrorprompt. Over the last couple of weeks, I've patched together the below Gothic/Weird pastiche. I have no idea where this is going, since I've somehow roped in vampires, werewolves, mad scientists, and Lovecraftian artifact

I hope it's okay to use this forum for asking help regarding my own weird stories. So, here it is: In 2020 my Dutch debut 'Gepelde aarde' (Peeled Earth) was published: a collection of sixteen thematically related weird/horror/magical-realistic/absurdist stories. Because English speaking people kept

Saw this on Twitter. Might be of interest to some people here: From Mystery Weekly Magazine: Call for submissions ... Sherlock Holmes or other pastiche stories ... deadline September 1, 2021 to be in the October issue. I don't know anything about this magazine or their style/preferences. I've neve

It looks like it's OK to post our own work here? I do so because the short work I wrote was aiming for a narrow audience of readers who like weird fiction which aims to be read twice. It might be inscrutable to folks not familiar with stories attempting to approach something like Gene Wolfe's puzzl

"Well, here you go." said the award presenter. by Charles Gillingham "How long has Dylan been in there?" Lloyd asked. "Since yesterday morning." Julie answered. "Yesterday morning?" Lloyd puzzled for a second over how anyone could possible do that. More than twenty four hours. Did he sleep in th