In the shadows of high fashion, a famous designer orchestrates their masterpiece: The Cut Walk Collection. With garments crafted from human remains and a catwalk set in a moonlit graveyard, Lydia Graves pushes the boundaries of art and morality in Swan Song.
As grotesque creations are unveiled to an audience of wealthy elites, a deadly reckoning awaits. In this chilling tale of obsession and revenge, readers must face the consequences of a macabre vision and a terrifying spectacle of...
It seeps through pores, burrows deep within
Like apple's worm, rotting fruit from skin
Twisting, writhing under feverish flesh
Boring tunnels of longing, wounds still fresh
A squirming hunger, never sated
In sweet pulp, now violated
It writhes and twists in apple's heart
Consuming, as flesh falls apart
Tunnelling deeper, rot expands
Till only withered skin still stands
Core blackened, seeds defiled, undone
The worm's insidious feast - not won, but begun.
Fear increases incrementally with the surge of the wind wrapping itself like a tongue around the pine trees. She closes her eyes to the searing panic as the path winds itself one way and another, up and down, each one into a deeper, darker part of the wood.
The Silent Forest is an atmospheric tale of despair and melancholy as a mother searches for her missing daughter in the neighbouring forest. A gothic-inspired short story with arresting imagery, weaving the everyday with the horror of a...
Lambs’ Tails – Horror Writer’s Association (HWA) Poetry Showcase 2023
Her Bravest Day – Black Spot Books Under Her Eye
Furry Raspberries – Coffin Bell Journal
Ghost Breath and Stay Dead – The Horror Zine Magazine
Survival of an Empath – Dark Winter Literary Magazine
Locked-In With Dreams, Sea Burial, Humming and The Light of Conscience – Pen of the Damned
Sea Burial – Sirens Call Publications
(Writing as Louise Worthington)