Kari Kilgore on strange undercurrents, Appalachian ground, and writing Fantastic Shorts for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles—an author interview.

DeAnna Knippling on writing The Fold Magic Stories for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles—an author interview from Blackbird Publishing.

DeAnna Knippling on writing The Fold Magic Stories for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles—an author interview from Blackbird Publishing.

Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip packs ten monsters into cars, trains, and trouble—and we pulled three of its contributors aside to talk about

Ten monsters hit the open road, and not one of them remembered to fill the gas tank. Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip—the second issue of the

Two of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most acclaimed novels share one StoryBundle-exclusive volume. In Snipers, a bestselling crime writer and a detective’s

Douglas Smith on refusing the easy version of a time-travel idea — remote viewing, particle colliders, a dinner that takes three lifetimes — across the four award-finalist stories of Into the Time Sli...

Michael Warren Lucas on singularities, the almighty power of last year’s Taco Shop, and why the soil interests him more than the seed — across the five stories of Tiny Time Wars in the Escape from 202...

Jason A. Adams on Appalachian yarn-spinning, time that misbehaves on its own, and the second chances that keep turning up across the five stories of Misbehaving Time — his contribution to the Escape f...

Annie Reed on writing the goofy and the grave side by side, the accuracy only a Nevadan can bring to 1883 Virginia City, and her author-preferred edition of “Comstock” — in Unexpected Timelines, part ...

Kari Kilgore on time’s one-way dominion, traveling back through your own DNA, and the small, intimate justice of mending a broken heart — across the five stories of Making Time for Justice in the Esca...

Bestselling SF author Ron Collins on baseball, time travel, Casey and Don-o as Nick and Gatsby — and his contribution to the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle, For the Heart of the Game.

Urban fantasy author Leslie Claire Walker on hope at the heart of dark stories, ghosts who just want to be seen, and her time-travel collection Time Out of Mind — in the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.

Romance author Kathryn Kaleigh on time-travel love stories, writing every day since 2019, and her contribution to the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle: Last Stop: Yesterday.

For the final interview of the Write Stuff StoryBundle, Blackbird publisher Jamie Ferguson flips to the other side of the questions to talk about collaboration, Kickstarter, and what first-time organi...

StoryBundle founder Jason Chen on what fourteen years and 2,000+ authors have taught him about indie publishing, curation, and the long view.

Tracy Cooper-Posey on sustainability, systems, and playing the long game in indie publishing — her contribution to the Write Stuff StoryBundle.

Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada’s most original writers of speculative

J. Daniel Sawyer has spent over forty years studying how language and sound affect human psychology—starting with his first choir and his first radio

T. Thorn Coyle is a writer, creator, and teacher whose work spans essays, fiction, and poetry. Kris Rusch, the curator of the 2026 Write Stuff StoryBundle,

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a New York Times bestselling author who has sold more than 35 million books worldwide. She’s also the curator of the Write Stuff

Dean Wesley Smith has published hundreds of novels and thousands of short stories across multiple genres. He’s a former editor of Pulphouse Publishing and the

Ron Collins is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author with around thirty years of writing under his belt. His book in the Write Stuff StoryBundle

Darcy Pattison has been writing and publishing children’s books for decades. She’s published over seventy books, both fiction and nonfiction, and has earned

Three miles down, in the crushing dark of the Pacific, a submarine wreck taps out a message no one should be able to hear. In James Pyles’ “The Wreck of the

In “Whispers of the Drowned,” Charles Eugene Anderson plunges readers into a 1941 Atlantic convoy, where a mysterious artifact recovered from the sea carries

Somewhere in Virginia’s Mournful Mountains, fifty miles east of Boring and forty west of Tenebrous, sits a town called Dismal Notch—where the librarian talks

In “Above Us, Hell,” Alicia Cay sends a treasure hunter and his grandfather into the Caribbean deep, where a WWII submarine has risen from the

In “Final Walkthrough,” Lou J. Berger sends a man back to his family’s old farmhouse to settle an estate—and settle a score with the past. What begins as a

November 1941. A British convoy pushes through the storm-tossed North Atlantic, and somewhere in the hold sits a relic that should have stayed at the bottom

When bone witch Nariah Boyd is called to a haunted parking lot on the city’s edge, she expects another ghost, another forgotten dead. What she finds

In the quiet hills of Ireland, beside a sacred spring that no one visits anymore, a goddess waits. Dideacea is the last of her kind—ageless, alone, forgotten.

When Annie Griffith visits her great-uncle’s mountain home, she discovers that the nearby creek is more than just lively—it’s crying out for help, and someone

In Robert Jeschonek’s “Aye, Plank,” the most feared instrument of pirate justice becomes the narrator of its own strange, mythic story—a tale of

In Meyari McFarland's “Echoes of a Forgotten Day,” Marie sets out alone on a storm-battered hike along the Oregon coast, determined to honor a promise made to

This is Southern Gothic at its most intimate—not a crumbling mansion full of strangers, but a family farmhouse where every warped board and rusted hinge

In “The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour,” Steve Vernon spins a salt-soaked fable of pride, punishment, and the price of a bargain struck with

In Alicia Cay’s “Above Us, Hell,” a down-on-his-luck treasure hunter and his grandfather chase a salvage score in the Caribbean—and surface something from the

When Harwood is pulled beneath the waves by the cursed ship Merry Mermaid, he must face not only the monstrous Milady who rules the abyss, but the truth of

In P. D. Cacek’s “By Still Waters,” a son drives his aging father to a funeral—and straight into the dark heart of a secret that's been drowning them both for

In “The Wreck of the USS Hollander,” a deep-ocean recovery crew descends on a sunken Cold War submarine—and wakes something that's been waiting in the dark.

In Annie Reed's “The Code,” a ghostly enforcer bound to the ocean's will haunts a dying seaside bar, waiting for a man who broke the oldest law of the sea.

In “Drip, Drip, Drip,” nine-year-old Tommy wakes to find his little brother standing alone in the dark kitchen, staring into the sink. Something is talking to

In Steve Vernon’s “The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour,” a desperate sea captain makes a deal with a witch who sells the wind by the knot. But some debts

In "A Dismal Death," Debbie Mumford blends wit, warmth, and ghostly mystery as a seer, her stubborn ancestor, and a dashing sheriff uncover murder and magic

Step into Haunted Places — an anthology of spectral stories shaped by memory, magic, and the haunting spaces we never truly leave behind.