Start Here, Stranger.

Welcome, stranger, to my journal. Penny’s the name, and dreadful tales are my trade. Within these shadowed pages you will unearth everyday and otherworldly fiction, strange tales, and reflections drawn from the eerie, the folkloric, the half forgotten, and even the most ordinary corners of life. If you, like myself, are drawn to such things, then pray, step closer and join me at the edges of lamplight, where memory, place, and imagination meet.

Our acquaintance need not be an entirely passive one. I fancy I recognise in you, dear reader, the telltale signs of authorship: the restless mind, the eye for strange detail, the quiet desire to make something of it. To that end, and only if you wish it, I offer atmospheric prompts to stir the imagination and set the ink in motion. What follows is yours to determine. You may share what rises to the surface, or keep it hoarded close, as once I kept my own dreadful thoughts.

Should any of this prove to your taste, you may browse the archive, take up a prompt, or subscribe and return when the next dreadful emerges from the shadows.