book cover of In the Dark it Devours
 

In the Dark it Devours

(2026)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Let them feed, let them devour.

Seventeen short horror stories of hidden places, rotting things, and decomposing nightmares. From unknowable Lovecraftian gods to the spirits that haunt moldy homes, each story will make you uncomfortable and squirm.

In a desert town, all the lights are on, but there are no people. Only hundreds of holes in the ground offer any clue as to what happened.

A woman in Japan gets off at a seemingly abandoned train station where the sun never rises, and she's not alone.

A couple moves into a house with a mold problem, one where the stains take on an oddly human shape.

Her rental cabin has a padlocked crawl space. One night she finds the door wide open and something shuffling below. Where did her dog go?

These brutal, and at times touching, horror stories will keep you up all night.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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