Horror Stories & Dark Fiction

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Mummy Brown

Artemis lives on the streets of London, getting by on her wits, her light fingers, and part-time work cleaning up crime scenes. She thought she’d seen it all, but her latest clean-up is brutal: an artist has been torn apart in his studio, and his limbs used to paint strange symbols on the walls in blood and gristle.

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Cover of Escape Island, a horror novel by Robyn Fraser

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Escape Island

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Just when you think you know where it’s going—boom, another twist! If you love fast-paced thrillers with a survival element, this book is a must-read!

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About Robyn Fraser

Robyn Fraser writes atmospheric horror shaped by folklore, isolation, and psychological tension. Her work favours slow-burn unease over shock, creating mental images that linger beyond the final page.

In her past, she placed in a national short story competition judged by Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee and Robyn continues to write novels and short fiction that explore memory, survival, and the darker edges of human experience.

From the Blog

The Strange History Behind Mummy Brown

One of the most unsettling details in Mummy Brown is not fiction at all. For several centuries, artists in Europe used a pigment known as “Mummy Brown.” The name was not poetic exaggeration—it was literal. The pigment was originally made from ground-up Egyptian mummies , mixed with oils or resins to create a rich, translucent brown paint. The practice began as early as the 16th century. At the time, powdered mummy was already traded in Europe as a supposed medicinal substan

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