The final two days - and my top 5 from the whole list!

You can find all the list and links on romancingthegothic.com and individual daily posts on my Ko-Fi and at cmrosens.com.

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My top 5 #AScareADay stories:

October 27th – Helen Stubbs – ‘Uncontainable’ (2016) – Read it here

October 28th – Nibedita Sen – ‘Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnibar Island’ (2019) – Read it here

October 15th – Conrad Aiken – ‘The Vampire’ (1916) – Read it here or listen here

October 18th – Everill Worrell – ‘The Canal’ (1927) – Read and listen to it here

October 8th – Rhoda Broughton – ‘The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth’ (1868) – Read it here

League of its own: October 24th – Lisa L Hannett – ‘Sweet Subtleties’ (2012) – Read it here

There are so many from this year's list that I loved.

I also go into my top 10 films for the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge, which I've now completed!

Intro/Outro music credits: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Only 2 days to catch up with now, so this is a shorter episode! I tried my hand at fragment writing, and also a web comic style story with photos I took, and stock photos I found in Canva. So these two days are both a bit experimental! You can find them on cmrosens.com and all the challenge stories listed on romancingthegothic.com if you want to find them.

CW for body horror

Intro/Outro Credits:

"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I loved these stories/poems, and highly recommend them. Get ahead or do the challenge day by day: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the-scare-a-day-challenge-october-2025/

My creative responses vary from Changelings to Beverley Wend & Eglantine Pritchard, and more...

Intro/Outro Music Credits: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Have a read of the stories for these days and join in with your own thoughts - here are mine, along with media recs, and creative responses! Go over to cmrosens.com for all my #AScareADay posts, and to find all the links mentioned in this episode.

Intro/Outro Music Credits: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today we've got more vampire fiction, sapphic fiction, and domestic horror. Let's dive in!

Follow the challenge list: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the-scare-a-day-challenge-october-2025/

Read the posts on my website and on my Ko-Fi.

Intro/Outro Credits:

"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I share my thoughts and creative fiction and nonfiction responses on the 3 poems and stories on the #AScareADay 2025 challenge list for Oct 14-16. Check the full list out on www.romancingthegothic.com and check out the daily posts on my Ko-Fi and my website.

Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

More new-to-me poets and authors, courtesy of the romancingthegothic.com A Scare A Day reading challenge running through October. Join in on social media with the tag #AScareADay.

Here are my thoughts on, and creative responses to, the next few days of the challenge.

You can find all my posts so far on cmrosens.com - I'm posting every day of October at 6:30PM UK time. My Ko-Fi posts, open to all, go live 10:30AM UK time.

MINI SEASON!

Catch up with the reading challenge list on romancingthegothic.com and all my posts on cmrosens.com and ko-fi.com/cmrosens.

Days 08-09 are here, with my thoughts on the 2 stories for these days, but beware as spoilers abound - I give full summaries of these 19thC short tales. One is a new-to-me author (Rhoda Broughton), the other is not new to me, but I've never read this short story before (Margaret Oliphant).

For Day 08, I have some recs for you, and also I have folklore of unseen horrors haunting a room - the vampire furniture of Glamorgan is back!

For Day 09, I've got an unseen draft chapter of my new Gothic Fantasy novel - currently a work in progress - As Below, So Above.

Intro/Outro Music Credit: "Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/