Month-end Recap: March 2025
AUTHORCON 5 BY SCARES THAT CARE
AuthorCon V is next weekend! Books and new swag are in! Copies of the new Uncomfortably Dark Anthology FULL THROTTLE, will be on hand as well as SUBJECT A, the new releases from M. Ennenbach, ROADS TO RUIN by Brian Bowyer, and VIOLENT NIGHTS by Candace Nola!
Authors M Ennenbach, Patrick Tumblety, and Nikolas P Robinson, will be there with me to represent Uncomfortably Dark, sign books, chat with readers and generally have a great time! You may also see newly signed UD authors Amanda Headlee and Aaron Lebold at the event as well. Both will be at other tables selling their current titles and hanging out with fans and friends. Be sure to stop by and say hello!
Hope to see you there! Check out the Scares That Care website for details!
SALES & KDP PAGE READS FOR THE LAST MONTH
Sales continue to work their way up month over month. For the last 30 days, HAVE A BLAST led our sales and orders, (including free promos), followed by SUBJECT A, NUBS, and CUCKOO.
Page reads stayed strong reaching over 15k for the month, and surpassing 40k in the last 90 days! TRANSFOMATION, CUCKOO, SHADOW MANOR, and HANK FLYNN, led the top of the page reads, however every single title that we have on KU experienced an uptick in page reads, which is awesome to see!
2025 - 2026 RELEASE SCHEDULE
Christina Pfeiffer and I were able to hold a couple great Zoom meetings with our new roster of authors last weekend! Everyone got to meet, introduce themselves, and hear what is coming next for their releases and for Uncomfortably Dark!
We did finalize the release schedule with all of them and will be releasing it soon to our readers. Christina is working on some great graphics that we can share for each quarter now so stay tuned. We will share those here as well as on our Patreon and social media!
In the immediate future, work is being done on the new covers for our first round of releases since we cannot promote very well without sharing awesome artwork! Bi-weekly introductions from the authors are being posted to our Patreon first and will be shared to here on our blog starting in May, leading up to the first of the summer releases.
For these next three months, you can expect to see new releases from Brian Bowyer, M Ennenbach, and Candace Nola, as well as the re-release of titles by Aaron Lebold and Mick Collins who are joining us as their new home since Gloom House will be temporarily taking a step away from publishing.
New & Next from Uncomfortably Dark
NEW
SUBJECT A
by M Ennenbach
You've heard the tale of Alice in Wonderland, but never quite like this. Alice has fallen down the rabbit hole, and nothing is as it seems in this strange world.
Welcome to Wonderland.
“Ennenbach is one of the most unique and talented voices in literature today. Every work is provocative with a sort of unusual wildness that is both captivating and suffused with a comforting sense of ‘otherness’ that I think so many of us crave...”—Megan Stockton, author of LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP
Order here:
Released Feb. 28, 2025!
NEXT
FULL THROTTLE: An Extreme Horror Anthology
from Uncomfortably Dark
Uncomfortably Dark Presents Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology.
Award-winning author and editor Candace Nola is back with another Dark Dozen Anthology. This time around, Full Throttle brings you twelve pedal to the metal stories of extreme, hardcore horror sure to knock your socks off! The turbo-charged line-up includes some of the hardest hitters in the industry, both well-known and rising stars of indie horror.
Authors include Wrath James White, Christine Morgan, Kristopher Rufty, Sylvester Barzey, Lisa Vasquez, Eric Butler, R.J. Joseph, M. Ennenbach, Jeremy Megargee, Felix I.D. Dimaro, Angelique Jordonna, and Lucas Milliron. With an introduction from Candace Nola and a foreword by Jonathan Tripp.
These authors were given one guideline only: bring your most brutal stories with no depictions of sexual assault. They delivered in epic fashion!
This one is dedicated to the survivors. I see you.
Pre-Order on Amazon here:
Snag the early eBook release on Godless now:
FULL RELEASE ON AMAZON FOR EBOOK & PAPERBACK IS MARCH 31, 2025!
LIMITED-EDITON HARDCOVERS WILL GO ON PRE-ORDER APRIL 15, 2025!
Indie Horror Authors You Need to Read: Women in Horror Month
March is Women in Horror month, so for this section, I want to link the Women in Horror daily blog spotlights and posts that I have been sharing on my personal blog as well as the UD blog on recent Saturdays. More than 40 women authors have been featured so far, with another 40 to come as we wrap up March, and this is only a fraction of the amazing ladies writing horror today!
Please be sure to check out these posts, seek these authors out, and get to know the incredible range and variety of horror that these ladies are creating! From veteran authors that forged the way, to the new wave of women writing extreme, splatterpunk and more, there is truly something for every voice and identity within their works!
As an added bonus, Christina Pfeiffer was able to snag an exclusive interview with Saskia Nislow, the incredible author of ROOT ROT! Check that out below along with the other posts!
UD Special Report: Women in Horror-Splatterpunk Edition
UD Special Report: Women in Horror-Quiet Horror Edition
Women in Horror Spotlights from Candace Nola
In Case You Missed It
Check out these horror happenings from around the industry!
DREAD POP MAGAZINE has been launched by indie sensation Gage Greenwood! Don't miss the auction on Facebook this weekend to snag some cool books and merch to help fund his passion project!
VORTEX BOOKS & COMICS owned by Brian Keene and Mary San Giovanni keep a full roster of events going at their store from book signings, game nights, and more. You can visit the shop in person for these great events or purchase signed books online!
MEMENTO MORI INK MAGAZINE by Crystal Lake Publishing combines the amazing talents of Lisa Vasquez and her team to bring you one awesome publication. Be sure to grab your copies today!
Indie Movies You Need to See
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD By Adam Cesare has just announced its movie release!!
Read all about it here and be sure to snag the books before the movie comes out! Massive congrats to Adam on this fantastic news!!
Clown in a Cornfield Trailer:
Grab the books here:
Sea of Madness: Siren's Revenge movie dropped to streaming on Jan. 11, 2025. Based on the book from indie author Jonathan Tripp. Be sure to check this out and support this incredible talent in the community!
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Book Link:
For the Gamers
This month, we have a new author joining the Uncomfortably Dark blog team! Help me welcome Besu Tadesse to the team! He will be sending us some video game reviews that are either horror, or horror adjacent for all the gamers out there!
We also welcome guest reviews or suggestions, so send us those game recs to check out or share your thoughts on a recent game you're playing and loving!
FEARS TO FATHOM GAME REVIEW BY BESU TADESSE
Fears to Fathom is an episodic psychological horror game developed by indie
developer and publisher rayll. In each episode, you play as a different character retelling
their experiences with unknown forces over user-submitted Reddit stories. The stories
involve the character, generally a teenager or younger adult, placed in a vulnerable
situation with one or more “stalkers”, grayish humanoid entities that skulk around during
your character’s mundane routine until you are stalked by your “true” enemy, typically a
real person that terrorizes you.
Every episode feels like you have been transported into an alternate reality. The
controls are halting and the graphics are generally low-res as if you are playing inside a
VHS tape. This adds to the sense the potential dread from each person you interact
within every story. Each episode is short, but packed with tension from the very
beginning. Narration is provided in text with the grammatical errors that only a Reddit
story can provide. This adds to the authenticity of the experience and immerses you in
each story.
What really makes the game terrifying is its sound design and visual cues.
Characters wait in darkness or shuffle behind you, even as they don’t pose any threat.
The environment adds to the tension, with plenty of places for NPCs to creep near, and
there is very little information on each person’s intentions until it’s too late. Some
eventually become your allies, while others continue to torment you. When you’re
caught, the sound that emanates shakes your nerves, even when you know what’s
coming. Combined with their nondescript faces and jolting motions, everything about the
series makes for one of the most visceral horror experiences in gaming.
The first episode, “Home Alone”, which was released in July 2021, is available for
free on Steam. The other four chapters are available for purchase, both individually and
as a bundle, so if you like the game and have a strong nervous system, I highly
recommend giving the series a chance.
Check it out here:
More about Besu Tadesse:
Besu Tadesse is an emerging horror author and musician. He enjoys reading works of his favorite comtemporary colleagues, as well as performing as a musician. He currently resides in Maryland.
Check out his books here:
NEW, NEXT, AND COMING SOON!!
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