Substacks recommended by Nick Winney

Recommended by Nick Winney

Horror and dark stories inspired by fairy tales and folklore straight from the witch's oven with the occasional dash of green magic, tarot, and the terrible beauty of life.

Von’s Substack

Letter exchanges, articles, and fiction that take God and His Law seriously. I post on an eclectic variety of subjects. I LOVE comments, especially well argued negative ones.

Back to Back - Double Features for the Cinephile

By Murphy

Reviews and analysis of two films with similar styles or themes - on the principle that banging random things together sometimes gets interesting results

FicStack's Substack

Here there be monsters, the real life one and the ones imagined. This is a place for speculative fiction, the kind where horror meets heart.

Everyone needs a bit of monster in their lives. There are beasts here that you've never headr of before... expand your mental menagerie

- Nick Winney

Loser’s Fiction

By Keith Long

To love is to lose. To write fiction is to speak truth.

Keith Long writes superb stories - there is no getting away from it...its coming for you....just beyond the light.

- Nick Winney

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike

A newsletter about ideas, wonder and hope - and a romp through the modern sciences in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.

In the Inversion Field

By Sandolore Sykes in the Inversion Field

Suspended just high enough to let the earth do the moving for me. Fiction, Art, Culture, Life & Critters.

SAndalore is one of the world's treasures - bring her into your world - the room will brighten, you will be uplifted. You will smile. You will meet new intriguing friends. And she has a magic telephone, 100% magical.

- Nick Winney

Macabre Monday

By Jeff Kinnard

Lunaediesophobia (Loo-Nay-Die-So-Fo-Bee-A) - an abnormal fear or hatred for Monday. Fear not, you found the antidote. The best of horror can be found here, celebrated by it's community. Recommendations, discussions, contests, and more await you..

Start the week with a big wet slice of horrible pie. The filling is red and thick and it looks like cherry...but is it?

- Nick Winney

THE SHIELDBREAKER SAGA

By Tom Schecter

A people's last hope for survival is a nineteen-year-old kid who may be out of his fucking mind.

Just Wonderin'

By James Worth

Wondering, as in, does anybody know what's going on? Fiction, poetry, essays, I am wandering in the dark toward some future hope. I'd like to find you there.

James has so much talent its really quite unreasonable for the die to have been cast in this way. You simply must experience his stories and his dry laconic wit.

- Nick Winney

kneejerks

By Adam Nathan

Flashpoint fictions and snap opinions.

Writing & Selling Stories with Angelique Fawns

The best PAYING NO-FEE open submission short story call list, plus FREE FICTION. Sundays: Market Information & Lists. Wednesdays: The Chronicles of Roxie Vega. Fridays: Free Reprint Fiction and why it sold!

The Strangeness Kit

By A.P. Murphy

‘There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.’ -------- Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam

DARKLING

By JLG Noga

Home of ANTARA, a literary anthology series set in a fictional East Asian city-state + other assorted short stories and flash fiction + REEL STORIES, an essay series on book-to-movie adaptations.

Emerald City Ghosts

Emerald City Ghosts is a horror and paranormal fiction magazine inspired by life in the gloomy PNW.

Rule 35

By will7christopher rule 35

Rule 35 the heart of darkness is the domain of woman and man not machine.

SUM FLUX

By Sandolore Sykes

Welcome to SUM FLUX, a repository of extraordinary prose.

AN explosive mix of talent - written and visual - be astounded every time!

- Nick Winney

The Palace of Night

By Liz Zimmers

Where the stories are dark, the stars are bright, and anything can happen.

Liz Zimmers writes amazing atmospheric and dark fantasy serials, amongst many other things. She is a writer after my own heart and I admire her work tremendously. So will you!

- Nick Winney

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Substack's biggest and brightest circus of single author short fiction from two-time Best of Detroit Best Author Nominee Jimmy Doom-- "One of this century's master storytellers"

His stories are brilliant and incessant. Some of them will stop you dead.

- Nick Winney

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

DOOM FICTION

By William Pauley III

Psychedelic stories for adventurous readers. Proceed with caution.

William writes stuff that its hard to categorise - gory, gleeful, imaginative, funny, endearing, revulsing envy-making - he's got something all of his own and you should experience it.

- Nick Winney

the velvet

By will seven christopher

the sleep that plays at death

Automatic Writer

By Sean Thomas McDonnell

Horror | Noir | Speculative | Westerns

Sean writes some of the best, most visceral fiction you can ever hope to read.

- Nick Winney

Entropic Absurdity

By Inzani D'Arpeggio

Random essays, prompts, and micro fiction from five ducks in a trenchcoat. Results may vary, viewer discretion is advised, please leave your message after the beep.

Zani is some kinda shamanic entity - you will wonder where her powers and prose come from - some of the most affecting personal stories and biting fiction you can hope to find. AND DUCKS... no, really. check 'em out.

- Nick Winney

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack.

SUbmit yourself to the challenge; read amazing work by writers that know what theyre doing; share ideas amongst supportive artists. Its what Substack is all about!

- Nick Winney

Andy Futuro

This probably isn't for you, but if it is you're going to want to subscribe right away. Science fiction, horror, and dirtbag literature.

Writes seriously inventive shit and is frequently hialriously funny. Not to be missed.

- Nick Winney

D.W. Davison

Speculative fiction by Daniel W. Davison

Some very well written horror can be found slithering about here, just beyond the ring of light...

- Nick Winney

Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

The circus is here, and you forgot to lock your door: M.P. Fitzgerald writes dark-humored sci-fi for dream criminals.

Something To Bury

By George Kalantzis

Essays. Fiction. Words as survival. This is where you choose.

SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM

By Gloria Horton-Young

This is my playground: rules rewritten daily.

Gloria writes simply stunning poetry. She inhales the world and exhales in verse.

- Nick Winney

Keye Martin

Things you write at the end

For poems so good they hurt. Ouch.

- Nick Winney

Ink After Dark

By Erica Drayton

Horror and mystery fiction told in many forms: 100 Word Stories, short stories, & serials.

NOPE Journal

By Mac Sitko

It should really be called YEP YEP YEP Journal - full of stuff that makes you go YEP, MORE!

- Nick Winney

They don't all have to be good

By Ian Patterson

A publication of my daily writings, mostly fiction, primarily bullshit.

Talebones ✨

By S.E. Reid

Home of the Ferris Island Tales! Short and serialized fiction from S.E. Reid: speculative stories with a spiritual, supernatural, or uncanny twist.

A fabulous world brought to life with fabulous prose.

- Nick Winney

The Midnight Vault

By J. Curtis

Unlocking worlds of sci-fi, horror, and the unknown.

A superb collaborative call, full of nostalgia. Drawing out the creative threads of the weird, macabre and horrifying.

- Nick Winney

A Bunch of Fives

By James Roderick Burns

Stories by James Roderick Burns

Mr Burns writes touching, strange, and down right weird stories and he writes them very well.

- Nick Winney

In A Different Place

By Evelyn K. Brunswick

A glimpse into the better worlds you have lost, starring a girl from a parallel world called Katrina

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Stunningly beautiful prose which will make you think about what is important, and read in a restful sublime voice to make every Sunday morning a delight

- Nick Winney

Burnt Tongue

By Emil Ottoman

Fiction is Culture. No gods, just authors. Underground lit. Ritual crit. The gospel of the broken sentence and the fractured narrative, dissected by the "Official Unofficial Editor" of the Fiction tab.

The fingers of his fiction slide through your flesh, grip you and rattle your bones. His advice is worth your time to read.

- Nick Winney

The Literary Salon with Thaddeus Thomas

From literary fantasy author, Thaddeus Thomas: discover fiction and improve your prose style. "I've finally found the deep dive, line-level craft essays I've been craving." -- Gemorabilia

A very wise and generous man. His prose is perfection, his stories are to die for and he gives a hell of a lot to the community here - read and learn.

- Nick Winney

Honeygloom

Necromancer dancing in the abyss. I write horror of all kinds.

Heavy is the Headset

By Will Boucher

Weird fiction for weirder times.

Skyforge News

By Haly

Skyforge is where writers learn the deep architecture of their worlds—the pressures and invisible forces that shape every story long before a character appears. This is upstream craft: structural, mythic, and uncompromising. Welcome to the forge.