The Hauntings Back Home, Undertaker Books, 2025
Modern ghost stories with classic atmosphere
Thirteen ghostly manifestations haunt the pages of this book. Some, you may recognize–a woman spurned too soon, a basement entity with no mercy. Others are less familiar: a giant black dog that won’t go away. An orchard with no exit. Dancers who will not be shamed. Turn back the cover and meet them.
Foreword and thirteenth story by Jonathan Gensler.
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Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales, Watertower Hill Publishing, 2025
Transformations, magic, and uncanny horrors
In Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales, you’ll meet a struggling bartender who swears the frogs outside are calling her name. A greenhouse worker lulled by an unlikely psychopomp. A twenty-something screw-up who turns to his widowed neighbor, and a ghost, for redemption.
Some of these characters deserve rough justice; others, a second chance. Open these pages to curse them, to cheer them, to cry with them at what they’ve lost or gained. Just be careful… the waters of these stories run deep and the path through is both treacherous and dark.
Foreword by Lindsay Merbaum.
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Down in the Dark Deep Where the Puddlers Dwell, AEA and Malediction Press, 2024
An all-ages creepy picture book
Down in the Dark Deep Where the Puddlers Dwell takes the audience on a stroll down a deserted lane, much like the one right around the corner from you now. But down the lane, there are things perhaps better left alone. Things we should not learn more about. Will you heed the caution?
This book features never-before-seen art beautifully crafted by Dakota Marquardt, in a style that brings to mind the soft watercolors of 1960s animated serials.
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Self-Made Monsters, Alien Buddha Press, 2024
Feminist horror stories, vignettes, and poetry
Women don’t just make great victims, survivors, and final girls in horror stories–they make great villains, too.
A woman cursing her murdering husband from the grave. A restaurant hostess literally falling apart as she tries and fails to be a complete, competent adult. A startlet turned wax figure. A mother ready to do battle with a creature she can’t describe in order to save her daughter. A dockside sex worker who sailors would die for. Meet these ladies and more in SELF-MADE MONSTERS, a collection of 19 feminist horrors in story and narrative verse.
Foreword by Laurel Hightower.
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Creep This Way: How to Become a Horror Writer with 24 Tips to Get You Ghouling, Seamus & Nunzio Productions, 2024
Memoir & Writers’ Guide
“Cuthbert’s Creep This Way is part autobiography, part defense of horror, and part writer’s guide. Rather than tell you how to write horror, Cuthbert’s goal is to teach you the tips and tricks of being a horror writer in the 21st century. With chapters about social media and presentations, time management and writing goals, Cuthbert isn’t out to teach her readers how to write better work, but how to engage in all the other work of writing that isn’t creative. […] Cuthbert has expertise in both the non-genre world, the academic world, and the genre world, and this experience has been distilled into twenty-four manageable chapters for writers to explore.” -Joshua Gage, Cemetery Dance Online
Free Companion Worksheet for CREEP THIS WAY Readers!
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In Memory of Exoskeletons, Alien Buddha Press, 2023
Dark and speculative poetry
“Words are magic, and Rebecca Cuthbert is a sorcerer, conjuring beautiful, sometimes heartbreaking, images found in the quiet moments of women’s inner worlds. Her poetry captures life’s smallest moments and imbues them with immense meaning. A wonderful work.”
-Lisa Kröger, author, Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction and Toil & Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
“Cuthbert’s chapbook celebrates the domestic, seemingly delicate spheres of women’s lives. From house witches to cryptids to body horror, this collection probes the edges of the speculative poetry genre. Supple and lyrical, these poems are cunning, intelligent, and tender.”
-Holly Lyn Walrath, author, The Smallest of Bones
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