Trembling With Fear 01-19-25

Greetings, children of the dark. How’s your 2025 emerging? I’m already berating myself for not sprinting out of the gates, so it feels right to remind you tomorrow, 20 January, is the third Monday of the month which makes it Blue Monday. While this was originally a marketing gimmick for a travel company, it’s ballooned into a global mental health awareness day. January can be dark in more than just weather ways, so check in on yourself, check in on your friends, and keep each other safe. It’s ok to not be ok, and it’s definitely ok to ask for help.
With that, I have some parish notices for you before launching into this week’s edition:
- First, our January short story submissions window is now firmly closed. We will not be taking any more short story submissions until the next window opens in April; find the details over here, and note they’re also on the submission form itself if you need a reminder!
- That said, we are always open for drabbles – those tiny tiny complete stories in 100 words – as well as unholy trinities and serialised stories. You’ll find details for those over in the submissions page as well.
- Finally, thanks to those who’s expressed interest in joining our assistant editor team to help out with the special editions. I’m hoping we have three out of four confirmed now, but are still seeking a volunteer to take ownership of our Christmas special edition. Could it be you? Do you love a bit of festive darkness? Get in touch and let us know!
And so onto this week’s edition. The TWF dark and delicious menu today is centred around Jessie Atkin’s strange growth. That’s followed by the short, sharp speculations of:
- Jane Bryan’s gloomy warning,
- Joshua Ginsberg’s dark omen, and
- Weird Wilkins’s thirst for knowledge.
Over to you, Stuart.
Hi all.
More progress on the overdue anthology. We found a ton of work that had been missed, which is good – because we aren’t missing it now. However, it isn’t good because I think we’re now going to be at two books again.
We were able to get away with one book last year, which was pretty great; however, doing that this year would likely be able to be used as a weapon with how big it would be. We’re still working it out but should be able to get into the final edits, followed by cover creation, in the coming week or two.
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!
- Be sure to order a copy of Shadowed Realms on Amazon, we’d love for you to check it out and leave a review!
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.