Why subscribe?

Welcome to the campfire.

If you love scary stories and dark fiction overall, this is for you. I’m a folk-horror author living in Japan, and I have written 5 full length novels and 2 short story anthologies.

Check them out here.

Free subscribers get:

  • 1 free short horror story a month

  • 1 update newsletter (upcoming books, cover reveals, deals, giveaways, rants about folk horror)

  • a free book: What Dances in the Dark (to be uploaded Jan. 2026 once the Kindle Unlimited contract expires)

Paid subscribers get:

  • an additional horror story per month (usually continuations of serial stories)

  • full access to all of my uploaded books (starting December 2025, there will 6 full length novels under the paywall, once their Kindle Unlimited contracts expire).

Founding Members get:

  • I will write you in as a character in one of my stories (Substack or print) and kill you off how you see fit.

Hope to see you around!

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Hi! I'm Shawn, a folk-horror author of multiple books. Living in Japan. Come sit down by the fire where I offer original horror stories and talk about scary folklore from around the world.

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Folk-horror writer by night, history teacher in Japan by day.