Tenebrous Press

Brave New Weird
Series: The Best New Weird Horror, Book 2. Pre-release—available June 26, 2024. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 71,020. Language: English. Published by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
The World is Weird. You will be discouraged from participating in it. However, your participation is not optional. Zip up your human suit and set sail, imbibing every perspective you can in order to perfect the persona. Push to the outer edges. Document your travels, and forget to return. There will be a test. Learn what it means to be human. Forget what it means to be human. Learn what it...
From the Belly
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 80,880. Language: English. Published: May 30, 2024 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
NEW WEIRD HORROR ON THE HIGH SEAS The whaling vessel Merciful has just made its strangest catch yet: a massive whale containing a still-living man secreted within its stomach lining. Sailor Isaiah Chase is tasked with keeping the enigmatic man alive. As their relationship grows, a series of accidents, injuries and deaths quickly befall the ship and its crew. Isaiah is plagued by strangely...
Mouth
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,170. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2024 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
After a stranger leaves him a secluded property, drifter Rusty finds himself the caretaker of a massive, tooth-filled mouth in the ground…and it's hungry.
Split Scream Volume One
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 32,000. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2024 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The first volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: The Guts of Myth – Carson Winter It's 1973. British-American thug Byron is tasked with finding the occultist Allosaurus D'Ambrosere, given only handwritten instructions and two hateful associates. Where they're going, they'll find blood red...
Split Scream Volume Two
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 22,450. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2024 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino
SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The second volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: The Shivering World – Cynthia Gómez Nayeli's brilliance should be enough to outshine the darkness she longs to leave behind, but she fears she'll never get further than what her unstable mother can provide: a sofa bed in a garage. She's...
Split Scream Volume Three
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 26,320. Language: English. Originally Published: January 5, 2024 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The third volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: So Quiet, So White – Patrick Barb Roger Grimsby, a small-town curmudgeon known for his '80s horror paperback cover art, believes an ancient, bloodthirsty entity with ties to his family may have reemerged. But how does this connect to his...
Lumberjack
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 31,290. Language: English. Published: December 5, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Historical » General
Nebraska city, 1901. There's a curse on Arbor Lodge—an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie—and its owner, J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate. It couldn't be more fortuitous for lumberjack Neville, whose greatest desire is to prove himself a true man to the world. Morton offers respect, security, pride, even the father figure Neville never had...
Thank You For Joining the Algorithm
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 41,130. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
DEATH TO THE ROBOTS! This Zero Issue of Tenebrous' upcoming quarterly magazine has arrived to wrest the controls of artistic endeavor from the clutches of A.I. thieves and restore it to the rightful hands of human creators. This collection of Sci-Horror short fiction, comics, poems, and art celebrates the connection between humanity and creativity in the face of ever-increasing pressure to...
Split Scream
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 27,830. Language: English. Published: October 31, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! Editor Alex Ebenstein brings his acclaimed split-novelette series back for a fourth round featuring: Nonsense Words by D. Matthew Urban An aging professor of ancient history strikes up a friendship with her new colleague, Dr. Paul Duncan, a scholar of undecipherable inscriptions. As she finds herself drawn into Dr. Duncan's life—his brilliant wife...
Posthaste Manor
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 46,810. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Gothic
NEVER TRUST A HOUSE WITH A NAME Everyone has a story about Posthaste Manor. None of the stories end well, but that doesn't stop the hopeful from hoping and the desperate from trying. This composite novel stands as both history and eulogy of one very haunted house, as recounted by artists, real estate agents, and beloved family pets; by the debauched, the dead and the dying, and anyone looking...
The Black Lord
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 37,430. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
New Weird Folk Horror intertwines with a troubled family history in the debut novella from Colin Hinckley! Eddie's parents may be arguing about the disappearance of his infant brother Danny, but Eddie's facing a terror all of his own. There's a strange figure outside that claims it has Danny safe and sound—all Eddie needs to do to get his brother back is open that window. Eddie's father is...
Dehiscent
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 26,780. Language: English. Published: August 1, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Horror
As the world's climate swings rapidly between oppressively hot and freezing cold, the remnants of civilization huddle in small communities to scrape together what they can to survive. All except the Zhu family. DEHISCENT is an Eco-Horror tale of a future that has practically arrived, and the humanity that lurks in the most inhuman of places.
House of Rot
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 30,360. Language: English. Published: June 14, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
About HOUSE OF ROT: The pink mold growing on the walls isn't the worst thing about Elenya and Myles' brand new fixer upper. There's also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can't be bothered to help. Soon, there's no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It's practically become a second...
Crom Cruach
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 23,000. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
About CROM CRUACH: A family is found slaughtered in their home, yet their corpses still move; committed to the routine of their daily lives, heedless of their own grisly deaths. A local occultist commune is suspected of the crime. The bloody legacy of Catholicism and the dark roots of ancient paganism intertwine in the aftermath of a recent national revolution. Welcome to the Ireland of...
Agony's Lodestone
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 30,830. Language: English. Published: April 14, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
A grave could be visited. Ashes could be scattered. But simply vanishing? That ripped a hole in the world the size of a life, and through that hole sighed a terrible wind repeating a single note: Gone. For years, Aggie had forgotten the real Joanne, the way her sister had laughed, fought, been. But now that the videotape made her real again—no matter how many times the recording changed, no...
Soft Targets
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,850. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
You know that office bromance: two of a kind, always taking their lunch together, always wearing the same sly grin. Only ever a hair away from a cold joke about how spreadsheets are a living hell; about taking a bullet if it means going home early on Friday. Sometimes in these fantasies, they're heroes being hauled out on a stretcher. Sometimes they're the ones pulling the trigger. Now, say...
In Somnio
Series: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 48,400. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist, Fiction » Gothic
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOTH Twenty-five Women from the worlds of Horror Fiction and Illustration drag the blackened heart of Classic Gothic Horror out into the open, sculpting a sleeker, fiercer beast and recasting the legacy of our original Gothmothers in a chilling contemporary light. Within the walls of an arcane modern art gallery...into the blackest burrows of the animal kingdom...
Green Inferno
Series: The World Celebrates Your Demise. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,880. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Graphic novels & comics » Horror
Earth is singing our requiem. You just haven't been listening. Corruption, injustice, rage and contagion have carved the remaining shreds of mankind's naïveté into cruel focus. Lurking on the periphery of our collective vision is a stark realization: our planet's tolerance for the human pest has reached a burning point. Earth is at the end of its rope. The world celebrates your demise...
Your Body is Not Your Body
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 64,990. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses. A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club. Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways. A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness...and abundant body horror. A stellar cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star...
Brave New Weird
Series: The Best New Weird Horror, Book 1. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 74,160. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
The End is Weird. In the event of cosmic fallout, it is vital that you adhere to the following: Secure your own persona, and a backup if available. A neighbor's is acceptable. Your skin may attempt to abscond. This is normal in these situations. Do not panic. Ignore all notifications from your mobile devices. They are not to be trusted. Pay no mind to the details of that photograph. Yes, that...
Lure
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 34,780. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
About Lure: In the chapel of a forsaken fishing village on another world's shore, the seawashed bones of old gods hang from the rafters. When a new god drifts into the bay, the menfolk fear nothing as they reach for their spears; but capturing Her may be their last act of reckless bravado. Her very presence brings dissent and madness. Her voice threatens to tear the starving, angry community...
One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 34,320. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2023 by Tenebrous Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Horror
About One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve: Two halves of a human cadaver awaken on a cold morgue slab. The two distinct personalities, Left and Right, remember nothing of their previous life as a singular body. Bound by necessity to carve out an existence on the fringes of society, the two brothers have very different ideas of the life they want. Their impending schism will lead each on his own...