For New Zealand Horror Books Month I’m adding another free story here. This one is perhaps more “eco-horror” found-footage with some slasher vibes. I love the idea of being connected / entwined with nature, and what a formidable force it can be. © T.L. Wood, first published in “Midnight Echo, 19”, 2024. And I Will
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New Zealand Horror Books month
Calling all NZ horror folk! Denver Grenell and I have long bemoaned how New Zealand horror often gets overlooked, both nationally and around the world. This October, we want to change that. Our plan is to show why more readers should look to the Southern Hemisphere for fresh and exciting new horror. If you know us
Salt of the Earth
© T.L. Wood, 2024. First published in LEARNING TO LET GO, Wild Wood Books, 2024 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is
Trauma Box
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This story is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair review, no part
In Blood
New story? New story! It’s been a while. Content warning: includes language that talks about sex and revenge / violence and teen pregnancy. You are ten years old when the first one slithers down your leg while you’re taking a shower before bed. You don’t know what it is at first. You watch it curiously, eyes
Marian
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This story is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair review, no part
“Little Teeth” (short story, body horror)
First published in Twisted Anatomy, Sci-Fi & Scary, 2021 https://www.amazon.com.au/Twisted-Anatomy-Body-Horror-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08TGCND39 Republished in Reflections, Wild Wood Books, 2022 eBook free to download at: BookFunnel: BookHip.com/HCZWBQWSmashwords: bit.ly/TWreflections Content warnings: depicts body horror, dental trauma and self-harm, profane language Her tongue finds it first, by accident, as she runs it, absentminded, across her gums. It feels massive, a gigantic protrusion. An
Short Story: “Long Drop”
To celebrate SEEDS receiving its (amazing!) third award nomination of the year, this time from the Ladies of Horror Fiction for Best Collection, I have decided to make one of the most talked about and much-loved stories in the collection free-to-read for a limited time. Edit: this story was also selected at the very end
Breathing Room
This story is copyright. Except for the purpose of fair review, no part may be stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording or storage in any information retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. No reproduction may be made, by any means, unless a licence
The Path Between the Trees
As a Christmas and Friday 13th gift to my readers, I wrote this very short, seasonal tale. A Victorian-themed, vaguely dreadpunk, Penny Dreadful kind of offering set in a cold, dark wintery night in the northern hemisphere… “M’lady, if it pleases you, your carriage awaits.” The manor doors were flung wide open to expose the