Hopeful Horror
Gothic ghosts, daylight horror, and a light at the end of the tunnel
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🌿 What is Hopeful Horror? 🌿
Love reading horror but like to be left with your heart full of hope? You’re in the right place.
No matter how dark it gets, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel in the stories from the Hopeful Horror series.
Hopeful Horror is a series of standalone ghostly gothic novels by Sara Crocoll Smith. The novels are interwoven with flora and fauna folklore, daylight, and rich, atmospheric prose.
Several standalone short stories and poems are also part of the Hopeful Horror universe, including Sara’s newsletter exclusive “The Strangle of Ivy” (which is also a short film!). More stories and where to read them are listed at the bottom of this page.
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“I busied myself to think of a story, — a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. If I did not accomplish these things, my ghost story would be unworthy of its name.”
Mary Shelley, Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
🌿 Hopeful Horror Short Fiction & Poetry 🌿
“The Strangle of Ivy”
“The Devour of the Saddle Flower”
“The Hallowing of Pumpkins”
“The Swallowing of Graves”
“Trials and Tibialations”
“Peach Cobbler for Communing”
