Year: 2023

“Grief is a demon we all fear but that needs to be faced if we don’t want to be swallowed by it.” Davide Tarsitano Can you tell us a couple of lines about yourself? Writing, […]

Poets, you can now book your spot in this year’s The Author’s Journey online workshop for poets. Crystal Lake Publishing is at it again. After an amazing Author’s Journey workshop last year, we’re hosting a workshop focusing […]

“There’s always been an urge to create. As a young man, I tried to satisfy that urge through music. I wasn’t good enough as a guitarist to go anywhere, but I think I wrote some […]

“I simply want the person to enjoy the tale.” Can you tell us a couple of lines about yourself? I’m an old fart who was six hours shy of becoming a criminal psychologist, and instead […]

Hayden moves himself into Ashleigh’s house and takes over her life. Unfortunately, she can’t afford the online necromancer he demands. He’s convinced that Michael Jackson is communicating to him from beyond the grave. Nothing he […]

Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent-looking flea market booth, something malicious crossed dimensions.  An alien, nigh unknowable presence passed through the Furore, and it thought alien thoughts.  Sort of.          It is difficult to […]

Misanthropy. Monstrosity. Morons. The end of the world came suddenly and without warning, ruining an otherwise pleasant day off for billions of people. An incomprehensible, voracious evil has invaded the aisles of Duke’s Flea Market, […]

“You think we can’t match him? I’ve had three children, and some man who’s never felt his baby crown is stronger than me? Is tougher than me? He thinks we’re what we look like on […]

“But she remembers when the word “friend” could draw blood. She and Gretchen spent hours ranking their friendships… buzzed on the dopamine high of belonging to someone else, having a total stranger choose you, someone […]

A social-strife conscious dark thriller author who spent much of his secretive career focused on investigating hidden crime and mass or targeted killings. Writing style takes from the pontification and story telling style found in […]

There are witches in the woods. These are the words the reverend of the Lilin Assembly of Our Lord repeats to his parishioners each week. Steve and Nicole Warby think it’s just a metaphor, until […]

The day is finally here. Our trans body horror anthology Bound in Flesh is available wherever books are sold. An Anthology of Trans Body Horror brings together 13 trans and non-binary writers, using horror to both explore the […]