Horror & the Uncanny
Dark, supernatural, and psychologically unsettling work.
Fiction
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Jun 1, 2026
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4 min read
Torturer // Part 3
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. Another week, another instalment in my ongoing series about a freelance interrogator. This time he's sharing some insight on his trade, so you know, proceed with caution.
Fiction
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May 25, 2026
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4 min read
Torturer // Part 2
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. Last week I shared the first part of my current project, Torturer. This week we're back with the next part, and it's your bog-standard workers lunch, just a trio of freelance torturers brown baggin' it, having some fun discourse in cheery environs. Hope you enjoy.
Fiction
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May 11, 2026
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4 min read
Torturer // Part 1
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. This week I'm doing something completely different. For the first time, I'm sharing something that hasn't been already published to V13.net. Instead, I'm sharing my work in progress, my upcoming book, Torturer. Erin reminded me that Dickens used to serialize fiction, and Chris encouraged me to embrace it wholeheartedly. And so here we are, the first part of what is going to be the series of Torturer.
Fiction
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May 4, 2026
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2 min read
Rosie
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly literary newsletter. This week I'm sharing a bit of flash fiction from another one of our writers, Michael Wilson. And I've also got the latest episode of my podcast MAKE // BREAK to share with you, this one with Mark Winters, a Texan aerospace engineer turned singer-songwriter.
Fiction
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Apr 27, 2026
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3 min read
The Sculptor (feat. Trivium)
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press's weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. The last few weeks have been genuinely hellish on my end — thank you for your patience. This week's lead story is a horror short where a serial killer called The Sculptor turns song lyrics into death puzzles, and forces a metal frontman to solve them before someone he loves dies.
Fiction
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Apr 6, 2026
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6 min read
Polite Conversation
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s Lowkey Hellish features a short story I wrote years ago, and was the thing I wrote to bring myself out of the terror of moving across countries.
Fiction
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Mar 23, 2026
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8 min read
Haunted Smoke
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s Lowkey Hellish features a short story .
Essay
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Mar 16, 2026
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7 min read
The Threshold Doctrine
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s Lowkey Hellish is all about vampires, Terms of Service, and the ancient conviction that the most dangerous things in the world can't get in without your permission.
Essay
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Mar 2, 2026
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3 min read
Can't Scream In Fear
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week's lead story follows the body's oldest betrayal: why your voice disappears at the exact moment you need it most, and what that silence has been trying to tell you.
Essay
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Feb 23, 2026
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8 min read
The Face in the Void
Lowkey Hellish is V13 Press’s weekly newsletter at the intersection of culture, literature, and meaning making. This week’s lead story follows the brain’s oldest paranoia glitch: why we keep seeing faces in the dark, and why it still scares us.
Essay
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Feb 17, 2026
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7 min read
Following the Wrong Footprints
This week: a monster every culture seems to recognize. Backward feet. Wrong tracks. The kind of warning you notice too late. Today’s feature is Following the Wrong Footprints: When Every Culture Dreams the Same Monster, and what it reveals about the oldest fear: realizing you’ve been reading reality wrong.
