The Reaper guards the gate. 🕯
Write 350–500 words inspired by the image.
Submit and vote inside the ShadowSphere.
Only the worthy rise into Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond.

⏳ Deadline: 25th
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/group/microhorror-writing-contest/discussion

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🎃 Halloween is the season for stories best read in the dark

Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond is a monthly horror magazine featuring flash fiction, eerie art, and indie nightmares.

🕯️ Subscribe: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe

🕯️ Also on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing

Perfect for long October nights.

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The House Remembers

Some settings don’t forget.
They hold echoes, regrets, and names spoken long ago.

Today’s challenge:
Let your setting remember something your characters don’t

https://tasarlaromaney.wordpress.com/writing-series-setting/

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One wish.
Twenty-one candles.
And a secret that burns brighter than the flames.

https://open.substack.com/pub/wordsbyjaneeng/p/the-candlelight-directive?r=3yy386&utm_medium=ios

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🎃 This Halloween, the fog settles over a convent where faith is thin and the soup is screaming.

Mother Mercy by Dan LoBrace — one of 100 + short horror stories from Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond (2025 Anthology) — is a slow-burn nightmare of obedience, sin, and whatever’s bubbling beneath the surface.

📖 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CY9QZH5K

📚 Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies

Would you stay for supper—or flee before grace?

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The nights are creeping in, and so are the nightmares. 🎃

Three volumes of horror—one haunting collector’s edition.
A new story and author confessions from the dark.
Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy is the perfect Halloween read.

📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1

🖤 Paperback: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy

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