Kraken Press

Publisher of Dark Fiction and the AGHAST journal.

[Kraken Press @KrakenPress]

@kylecassidy yup

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

Heyyy does anyone have any recs for sword & sorcery SHORT stories? Must be free to read online, contemporary, and do something original with the genre. Ty!

[Aquino Loayza: Monologing Jabroni @AquinoAuthor]

🚨🚨 Cover Reveal and Book Announcement🚨🚨

DEEP is a very personal project of mine. I have lived with this story for three years and excited to share it with you on 2.17.2023.

Cover Art: @ravenkult

WEATHER THE STORM ⛈️ ⛈️🌊
2.17.23
#bookannouncement
#Halloween
#writing

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

Tonight is not a safe night.
Tonight is not a safe night for traveling.
Tonight is not a safe night for sleeping.
Tonight is not a safe night for dreaming.

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 ��🇮 @ravenkult]

#PortfolioDay? Portfolio day.
My name is Yorgos and I work mostly in the publishing industry but have dabbled in ttrpgs and board games. Always on the lookout for interesting projects!

👀https://t.co/5MriMKkNlS

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

“Tell us a ghost story,” said one of the women, the pouty one, the one named Melissa.

Wish You Were Here by Nadia Bulkin (@nadiabulkin). Read it for free over @NightmareMag: https://t.co/T2VR8i7h1X

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

It’s my fourth Black Friday. On my first, a man from Connecticut bit a hole into my tricep. His slobber hot.

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (@NK_Adjei). Read it for free over at: https://t.co/SKtrF45DC5

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

"...as we drove out to the edge of the state forest to hunt mushrooms, we all kept a hand on each other, in case someone vanished."

We Came Home from Hunting Mushrooms by Adam R. Shannon (@AdamRShannon). Read it for free over @NightmareMag https://t.co/e00vv6khbV

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

At 2:25 a.m. on a quiet Friday night on a deserted country road in southeastern Pennsylvania, the first dead girl climbed out of her refrigerator.

eyes I dare not meet in dreams by Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry). Read it for free over @tordotcom https://t.co/hrxbyOlYVK

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

“Am I going to die?” I asked, transfixed on this small stained porcelain object that once kept me whole.

Tooth, Teeth, Tongue by Ai Jiang @AiJiang_ over @thedarkmagazine: https://t.co/Zu14wq2YSA

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

“Do you remember The Uncle Bob Show?”

Which of course he didn’t, nobody did, she had made it up on the spot, like she often did.

Two Truths and a Lie by @SarahPinsker. Read it for free over @tordotcom https://t.co/2NPuvYLmvX

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

"It was then I’d relented, finally started running a headlight. And the headlight was how I saw them. The bodies."

The Night Cyclist by Stephen Graham Jones(@SGJ72). Read it for free over @tordotcom: https://t.co/xYIxXsgkvh

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

"1247 Sawtuck Road. Haunted by a boy with the face of a stillborn Janus kitten and scissor blades protruding from under his eyelids. When he cries, he goes snip-snip."
Gordon B. White is creating Haunting Weird by @GordonBWhite. Read it over @NightmareMag: https://t.co/g2k0WsBzR3

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

Requesting recs for my 🎃Days of Halloween🎃short story list! I'm posting a tale every day that I thought was either really good or really scary. Send me your recommendations if you have something great in mind and please RT far an wide!

[Kraken Press @KrakenPress]

Spooky little story for October!

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

"But we were kids and we couldn’t shoot bears, so for us it was the hanging game. That was the kind of crazy we got into. Bears and hanging."

The Hanging Game by Helen Marshall (@manuscriptgal). Read it for free over @tordotcom: https://t.co/NkCecR9hc0

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

"Again that little hissing sound, abruptly cut short. Then just silence except for the crackling of the flames. How long, wondered Karsten, until morning comes?"

"The Blood Drip" by Brian Evenson. Read it for free over @GrantaMag: https://t.co/MKTCFm6Tgl

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

I never really do nudes but I wanted to try something different, perhaps inspired by the work of Tom Bagshaw. Anyway, I'm trying to get to 7k, help me out so I can keep making dubious art choices.

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

Salem's Lot is trending, so I might as well post this little homage I made a while ago.

[Yorgos Cotronis 🇬🇷 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 @ravenkult]

Alternative version of last week's piece that's more of a Tiefling vibe. I couldn't decide which one I liked more.