Nightmare Novellas
Put down your tablets and gather ‘round the campfire, kiddies! We have an entire evening’s worth of Nightmare Novellas lined up to pluck at your nerves and pique the imagination. You can always reach out for a hand to hold if you get scared… just check to make sure it’s actually attached to the person next to you!
We’re pleased as punch to present the following Drew Rausch illustrations for spooky stories that never were, in hopes that they might serve as story prompts during the long, dark nights ahead. Who are these creeps, and what do they want? Where do they go when the Halloween season ends and everyone’s rotted pumpkins are turned to compost?
That’s for you to know, and for us to find out!
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A Boy and His Zombie Perfume Oil
Add to cartJonas grinned, but his playmate’s grin was wider.
Zombie-green lime hard candies with a glob of marshmallow white matter and a splat of cherry viscera. -
A Melancholy of Goths Perfume Oil
Add to cartComparing agonies, their amused voices rose and fell like a fluttering veil.
Clove smoke, champaca incense, plum velvet, and hairspray. -
An Autumn Stroll for a Pumpkin Man Perfume Oil
Add to cartIt had cost so much to come this far; there was no turning back now.
Russet dried maple leaves crunching around a jack o’lantern splashed with bay rum, curling with cigar smoke. -
Butterscotch and Gummy Candy Witch Perfume Oil
Add to cartShe blinked but remained silent, clouding the glass with her sticky breath.
Butterscotch brittle, burnt coffee beans, and sour apple gummies. -
Don’t Play Fetch with a Teenage Werewolf Perfume Oil
Add to cartAn object landed at his feet with a thump. It was not the one he had thrown.
Honey biscuits, warm auburn fur, and a squished chocolate nougat bar.
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Halfway to Halloween Perfume Oil
Add to cartThese, she knew, were inappropriate thoughts to have in the springtime.
Sweet fig and golden almond with buttery amber and a flutter of autumn leaves. -
Halloween Cat Perfume Oil
Add to cartThe tail lashed furiously, contradicting the cheerfulness of its smile.
Cacao and coconut husk dusted on shining black fur, illuminated by electric green mandarin and raw amber. -
Headless Perfume Oil
Add to cartTo the extent that it still had a mind, or a face, both glowed with an unholy menace.
Black leather and brimstone alight with red peppercorn and blood amber.
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It Jittered Out of the Woods Perfume Oil
Add to cartIt had done (perhaps too well) exactly what it was made to do.
Corn husks and freshly uprooted gourds in a rustle of twigs, dead oak leaves, and a faint whiff of myrrh. -
Make a Face Perfume Oil
Add to cartWhat was the harm in trying? Everything would go back to normal by morning.
A surrealist swirl of ethereal yellow bergamot, white pomegranate rind, lemon peel, and white musk. -
Man With a Haunted House for a Head Perfume Oil
Add to cartPeering out through the sagging shutters, he waited for guests to arrive.
Creaking oak floorboards coated in dust. A trembling sandalwood spiderweb writhes with long-buried memories. -
Slumber Ghoul Perfume Oil
Add to cartThe air in the room chilled, then soured. The children exchanged a glance, as if to say: It’s here.
Sleepy lavender bud, the memory of warm milk, a splinter of bone dust, and a clawful of upturned grave loam. -
The Harvest Haunt Perfume Oil
Add to cartThe ledger’s page for that year contained just one sentence, written over and over: ‘Every penny in, every penny out.’
A thick, viscous blackened pumpkin incense.
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Wayfaring Stranger Perfume Oil
Add to cartTraveling on foot was always a gamble; according to locals, this crossroads was a sure bet.
An offering of footstep dust and rusted keys, raw tobacco and whiskey, coconut shells and candle wax.
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Witch in the Woods Perfume Oil
Add to cartThe incantation had worked: suddenly there were holes of light punched in the darkness all around them.
A tangle of blackthorn, mandrake root, and myrrh scratching through cypress boughs, blackberry resin, and incense smoke.