dawn.vogel | February 12, 2026
My next collection, filled with spooky stories and poetry, will be called This Book Has Ghosts in It, and it’s available for pre-order in ebook now! Ghosts of the modern era aren’t always those of the deceased. In this collection are ghosts of ideas, creatures of death, and creepy plants and places, in addition to the […]
dawn.vogel | February 4, 2026
The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes (Apex Book Company, 2026) is a folktale-inspired horror novella with a fascinating cast of characters and themes of family inheritance and isolation. While Jane is visiting her grandmother, an extreme solar event wipes out power, communications, and even car batteries, stranding her in the semi-rural location. As […]
dawn.vogel | December 3, 2025
T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead (Tor Nightfire, 2022) is, at its core, a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” This novella takes the classic tale and puts a new spin on it, lending something of an explanation to the original while taking it in an amazingly cool direction! Rather […]
dawn.vogel | July 31, 2025
When I titled my collection, Doorways in the Gloom, I was thinking mostly about the idea of shadowy doorways, like the one pictured on the cover. When there’s darkness beyond a doorway, you never know what might be lurking there. As it turns out, though, the title also really fits with some of the pieces included […]
dawn.vogel | March 18, 2025
I’ve published a handful of horror and dark fantasy pieces in the nine months since my last post on my spooky reads! Weathering Youth contains stories featuring younger protagonists, but that doesn’t mean the stories are all light and fluffy. In particular, “Remembrance” (drabble), “A Trail of Apples” (short story), “No Fear” (flash fiction), “Someone […]
dawn.vogel | January 29, 2025
A couple of weeks ago, I read my short story, “Best of Both Worlds,” which originally appeared in Dangerous Waters, for Story Hour. This was my third appearance at Story Hour, which started in 2020 to give authors a venue to read online when we couldn’t read in person. But they’ve kept going even after […]
dawn.vogel | January 3, 2025
Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! Historic UK has a great list of historical events, including that one that changed the beginning of the year from my birthday to January 1st! Just think, we could have been celebrating my birthday right at the beginning of the […]
dawn.vogel | January 1, 2025
Cristina Jurado’s ChloroPhilia (originally published in Spanish as CloroFilia in 2017; English edition, Apex Book Company, 2025) is a dystopian novella with elements of body and post-apocalyptic horror, with a strong focus on the characters. The novella opens with a pair of prologue chapters that introduce the reader to the situation in the world and an unnamed […]
dawn.vogel | December 11, 2024
LH Moore’s Breath of Life (Apex Book Company, 2024) is a gorgeous collection of Black-centered stories and poetry, with a substantial amount of horror and historical fiction, often in the same story! Most of my favorite stories were, of course, the historical ones. “A Little Not Music,” set in 1939 in Washington, D.C., is a dark […]
dawn.vogel | October 1, 2024
If you’re looking for a spooky read for this October, check out my young adult epistolary novella, Camp Haunt. This book tells the story of a summer camp through found documents, including camp administrative materials, diaries, letters, and more. It’s a creepy read that developed out of my fond memories of Girl Scout summer camp, with […]
