Cailynn's Blog

Green-skinned children, raw beans, and a world of eternal twilight—Woolpit’s strangest guests still haunt our folklore. 🌿👁️👻

They didn’t just write horror—they rewrote my nightmares. Meet the women who haunt my shelves, my thoughts, and my prose. 🕯️📚🩸

M.R. James didn’t just write ghost stories—he let them follow you home. Discover the scholar who made libraries terrifying. 📖👻

Haunted by memory, not ghosts—Rebecca is gothic horror at its most elegant and eerie. Manderley never forgets… and never forgives. 🕯️🏚️

Six million bones, whispered legends, and miles of tunnels beneath Paris. The Catacombs aren’t haunted—they’re hospitable. If you’re dead.

In horror, the setting isn’t just scenery—it’s a threat. From jealous mansions to towns rotting under fog, atmosphere builds fear before the monster ever shows. In this post, we dive into how to make your setting bleed dread, mirror your characters’ fears, and become the most terrifying part of your story.

Anne Radcliffe built the haunted house. The rest of us just moved in. Gothic horror owes its bones—and its dread—to her. 🕯️🏰

A baby in a crib. Three dead bodies. A house that hasn’t spoken in years—until now. Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs is a chilling domestic thriller that blends cult-like control, inheritance horror, and psychological dread in a way that lingers long after the last page.

If you like your horror personal, psychological, and permanently lodged in your spine, Ania Ahlborn is required reading. From Appalachian killers to demonic legacies and haunted children, her stories aren’t just scary—they’re scarring. In this spotlight, we explore her darkest tales, including Brother, Seed, and her upcoming novel The Unseen.

I dislocated my shoulder and turned it into fiction. Pain may heal, but horror plots live forever. Here’s how to write yours. 🖋️🩼

A decaying mansion, fungal horror, and a fierce heroine—Mexican Gothic is this month’s must-read for lovers of lush, eerie dread.

Fear isn’t always found in shadows—it lingers in the echoes of the past, waiting for someone to listen.

There’s something undeniably captivating about the eerie, the unsettling, and the unexplained. Maybe it’s the ghost stories whispered in...

Some folks swoon over romance, others crave the rush of adventure. Me? I’ve always been drawn to the things that lurk just out of...