In “Above Us, Hell,” Alicia Cay sends a treasure hunter and his grandfather into the Caribbean deep, where a WWII submarine has risen from the Cayman Trench—and brought its ghosts with it. What they find below the surface is older, stranger, and far more dangerous than sunken treasure. Interview Questions Did a real place or…
In “Blue Bride,” Alicia Cay pulls us into a chilling Christmas Eve in Berwick-upon-Tweed, where a man searches for his missing brother—and finds instead a house steeped in vengeance, memory, and ghosts that refuse to stay buried. On the storm-lashed northern coast of England, Nathaniel Throne returns to the Wright Mansion—the last place his brother…
A coastal mansion, a missing brother, and a legacy of violence—some doors are locked for a reason. In “Blue Bride,” Alicia Cay reimagines the classic Bluebeard fairy tale through a gothic, gender-flipped lens. When Nathaniel Throne arrives at a secluded coastal mansion searching for his newly married and now missing brother, he steps into a…
In Alicia Cay’s “Campbell County Cook-Off,” the oldest of three elderly witch sisters always wins the County Fair’s chili cook-off…but this year, things are going to be different! Rebecca and Leah steal their sister’s prize-winning recipe, whip up their own batch of chili, and head off to the competition ready to surprise their sister—and win…
