Home of transgressive dark fiction author Rebecca Rowland

Recent Raves

"The quality of the writing is excellent...a very enjoyable read and so I highly recommend getting a copy of Pieces"

-Karen Ruffles, Scream Fix

“What Rowland does best is get into the minds of the characters who border on insanity…she shows the reader that the mind and humans are truly the scariest thing in the world”

–Horror After Dark

"Writer/editor Rebecca Rowland proves herself a wily curator of the macabre"

-Shawn Macomber, Rue Morgue

"Rebecca Rowland’s 'Bent' wins the Most Cringe-worthy Story honor with her twisted tale of extreme body horror. Her well-drawn characters seem to come off the page but God forbid they do."

-Randy Chandler, The Year's Best Hardcore Horror

"[Rebecca Rowland] should be applauded for producing such a solid and wide-ranging collection which bravely avoids supernatural horror; she has a wicked sense of humour, explores surreal situations with panache and tackles some tough uncompromising areas of everyday horror"

-Tony Jones, HorrorDNA

The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight and

Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness both made Ellen Datlow's list of The Best Horror of the Year (2018)!

Books:

Pieces

Dennis Sweeney did the unthinkable: he stalked a local woman, abducted her, divided her body into thirty pieces, and mailed the sections to random people. Eighteen of the deliveries were reported to authorities. Pieces is the story of the twelve that were never recovered, the possible reasons why their recipients never told anyone about their grotesque discoveries, and the cat-and-mouse game that developed between Dennis and the jaded reporter to whom he chose to document his sick game.

The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight

Come to life in seventeen stories of psychological horror, the residents of Rebecca Rowland’s universe dwell in the everyday realm of crime and punishment tempered with fixation and madness. There are no vampires, zombies, or magical beings here; instead, what lurk in this world are even more terrifying. These monsters don’t lurk under the bed or in the shadows, but they will unsettle you more than any supernatural being ever could.

Collections Curated by Rebecca:

Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness

Featuring twenty-one different voices hailing from five different countries and eleven states, this anthology of Halloween-themed stories provides a wide-angle lens at what comprises the unique expanse on horror fiction today.

Includes Rebecca's story "Small Bites"

Shadowy Natures

September 10, 2020

"The boundary line between instinct and reason is of a very shadowy nature"

-Edgar Allan Poe (1840)

With its twenty-one stories of serial killers and sociopaths, fixations and fetishes, breakdowns and bad decisions crafted by authors as diverse as their writing styles, Shadowy Natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treacherous roads to destinations they will be too unsettled to leave.

Preorder available now!

The Half That You See

March 15, 2021

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

-Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

Twenty-six writers from around the globe share their literary optical illusions in never before seen stories of portentous visions and haunting memories, altered consciousness and virulent nightmares, disordered thinking and descents into madness.

Preorders begin December 2020

Unburied

June 2021

A bloody twist on "burying your gays," this dark fiction anthology features LGBTQ+ characters and themes and boasts brand new short stories by sixteen established authors from around the globe. A cornucopia of chilling horror, sci-fi terror, and dark fantasy.

Currently in progress