Trembling With Fear 5-25-25

Greetings, children of the dark. I’m writing this to you just before I head off to explore another of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries. What on earth is that, I hear you ask? Well, it was a programme in the Victorian era to create cemeteries that were also nice place to escape and relax, and so we have a bunch of “garden cemeteries” around the outskirts that once not only were home to the dead, but to picnicking Victorians. And yes, it’s as weird as that sounds.
However, I do love a good graveyard, and when I discovered my evening plans were around the corner from this one, I couldn’t resist: my day was rearranged so I could do this. And I cannot wait. The sun is sort-of out, it’s sort-of a nice day, so why not take myself to catch a vampire on a Thursday afternoon?
Before I can let loose, though, I must present to you this week’s menu of short, dark, speculative fiction. Our main course is a Black Mirror-esque tale of prisons and forgiveness that might not be so rosy, straight from the brain of Kidron Grifter. That’s followed by the short, sharp speculations of:
- CK Butcher’s childhood warning,
- SG Perahim’s prophetic publishing, and
- Jean E McIntosh’s diving diva.
Over to you, Stuart
Hi all.
The Trembling With Fear physical releases that we should have released last year are in the final sprint. Covers are being finalized; all copy text is done. We’re so close I can taste it! (I’m thinking we’ll be able to launch pre-orders next week if all goes well!)
I’m having one small bug with the new newsletter layout that I’ll be troubleshooting this next week. If it all goes well, we’re probably 2-3 weeks away from switching to it. I need to work out some other settings on it as well, just to be sure everything is working as expected.
With those two pieces done, I’ll be able to put all of my focus on the new layout and this year’s anthology. More details to come!
Now, for the standards:
- Thank you so much to everyone who has become a Patreon for Horror Tree. We honestly couldn’t make it without you all!
Offhand, if you’ve ordered Trembling With Fear Volume 6, we’d appreciate a review!
For those who are looking to connect with Horror Tree as we’re not really active on Twitter anymore, we’re also in BlueSky and Threads. *I* am also now on BlueSky and Threads.