SCREAMS! It's the noise we hear when we close our eyes at night. The sound that pounds through our skulls as we toss and turn, praying for daylight, worrying each breath will be our last . . . Gathering together some of the darkest voices in modern horror, Judith Sonnet is proud to present . . . SCREAMS! A celebration of all things morbid, grotesque, and disturbing! A failed actress working for a shady director finds herself trapped in a cave . . . As Halloween approaches, a man finds himself face-to-face with cosmic horror . . . An obsession with a celebrity brings out the worst in a person . . . A social media influencer takes a hike right into the mouth of a monster . . . SCREAMS! If you feel a cold hand on your shoulder . . . don't turn around . . . Keep reading!
Authors
Lucretia Stanhope is a relentlessly optimistic crone who refuses to let her growing collection of rare illnesses steal her sparkle. She prefers to think of herself as medically fascinating as opposed to disabled. Seriously, half of these diseases sound less realistic than her most fanciful novels. Powered by the support of an amazing husband and family, when she isn’t cuddling with her rescue chi-mixes, Thor and Moxie, she spends her days in creative pursuits that range from drawing and painting to crochet and writing. This is the landing page for all the pen names that include solo and collaborative novels. Please note genres and content advisories as these novels range from YA friendly, to adult only romances and graphic horror, with a touch of everything in between.
Larry Hinkle is the least famous writer you’ve never heard of. A copywriter living with his wife and two doggos in Rockville, Maryland, when he's not writing stories that scare people into peeing their pants, he writes ads that scare people into buying adult diapers so they’re not caught peeing their pants. "The Eris Ridge Trail," his new cosmic horror road trip novella (with dogs!) was released in March 2025, while his debut collection, “The Space Between,” came out in February 2024. His work has also appeared in "October Screams: A Halloween Anthology," "The Rack: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks," and The NoSleep Podcast, among others. He's an active member of the HWA (his short stories made the preliminary Stoker ballot in 2020 and 2022); a graduate of Fright Club and Crystal Lake’s Author’s Journey program; an HWA mentee; and a survivor of the Borderlands Writers Bootcamp.
Tejaswi Priyadarshi is a dreamer in the crime-thriller/horror genre. He derives inspiration from Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Takashi Miike, Alexandre Aja, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, and the Ramsay Brothers. His first book - The Psychopath, The Cannibal, The Lover is a splatterpunk thriller and India’s first recipient of the Horror Writer Association Diversity Grant. It released in July 2020, and has since remained on multiple bestselling charts, scaling its way up to be one of India’s highest rated Horror Thrillers. Bhang Milkha Bhang is his second novel, and his attempt to transcend genres - working with Crime, Thriller, Social Satire, and Horror. Tejaswi is a marketer and an engineer and is currently based out of Bangalore. Outside of work, you can find him writing fiction at a bar counter, appreciating Independent Pop music gigs, and holding screenings of all subgenres of horror/thrillers. However, nobody knows why he adamantly screens Purani Haveli so often. E -mail him at tejaswi.priyadarshi@gmail.com if you want to discuss anything under the sun; “How to Prep for a Zombie Apocalypse” is his favourite topic, because, what if!
