Perry Ruhland's Blog

"InterIterant", a haunted story, is up now in Whisk(e)y Tit Journal issue 12.

Read it here: https://whiskeytit.com/article/interi...

"The Illuminated Tower", an investigation into the content of and community around an uncanny CD-ROM game, is up now at minor literature[s]. Read it here: https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/...

Here is a list of 50 Horror stories close to my heart as of Halloween 2025. Going on a personal definition of the genre. Listed by author's last name.

The Anankastic Syndrome (Monika Angerhuber)
The Book of Blood (Clive Barker)
The Beak Doctor (Eric Basso)
The Man Whom the Trees Loved (Algernon Blackwood)
The Corpse Exhibition (Hassan Blasim)
The Man Who Collected Poe (Robert Bloch)
Shed His Grace (Michael Blumlein)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges)
The 7th Floor (Dino Buzzati)
The Scar (Ramsey Campbell)
Skin Crawlers (CCRU)
In the Court of the Dragon (Robert W. Chambers)
Manta Red (David Conway)
Normal Porn for Normal People (CosbyDAF)
The Magician’s Garden (Géza Csáth)
Younger (Brian Evenson)
The Spider (Hanns Heinz Ewers)
The Fashionable Tiger (Jean Ferry)
Wormwood Votaries (Richard Gavin)
The Animator’s House (Adam Golaski)
The Area (Stefan Grabinski)
The Clock (W.F. Harvey)
Three Drops of Blood (Sadeq Hedayat)
The Thief (Georg Heym)
The Town Without Roads (Junji Ito)
Night of Lead (Hans Henny Jahn)
Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
One Arm (Yasunari Kawabata)
Pastoral (Tommaso Landolfi)
Basement Angels (Joel Lane)
The Tower of Moab (L.A. Lewis)
Severini (Thomas Ligotti)
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood (Billy Martin)
The Call of Cthulhu (H.P. Lovecraft)
The White People (Arthur Machen)
Origami Dreams (Jon Padgett)
House of Abjection (David Peak)
Strange Signals from the Center of the Earth (David Peak)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Mysterious Crimes of Doctor Mera (Edogawa Rampo)
Gun (Astrid Anne Rose)
My World Has No Memories (Mark Samuels)
Xélucha (M.P. Shiel)
The Figurine (Christopher Slatsky)
No One is Sleeping in this World (Christopher Slatsky)
The Gardens of Adompha (Clark Ashton Smith)
City Fishing (Steve Rasnic Tem)
The Screwfly Solution (James Tiptree Jr.)
The Sea Was as Wet as Wet Could Be (Gahan Wilson)
The Number’s Up (Cornell Woolrich)

What follows is “Mouth”, a ghost story written by myself, after artwork by the great Trevor Henderson (trevorhenderson.com). We’ve been trying to do something together for ages, and I’m very happy with the result!

"Mouth" is up on my website and Instagram:
https://perryruhland.com/2025/10/13/m...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwSTG0DbBn/

"Movements on a Moonless Night" , a hard-boiled nightmare, is up now at Keep Planning. Read it here:
https://keep-planning.net/text/021

"Nowhere People", my new story of the city's other life, is out now in issue 4 of Magazine1.
https://www.magazine-1.com/perry-ruhl...

"Tonight I Will Split His Heart With a Knife", my story of a telepathic flâneur, is out now in Chthonic Matter Quarterly's Summer 2025 issue. Copies available via the link below:
https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/...

"End Screen of Your Life", my latest story, is up now at Marrow Magazine. Grief, video game architecture, and the melancholy of technology. Read it here:
https://marrowmagazine.com/end-screen...

GOUGER, an internet gothic, is up now on ergot. It's the most extreme story I've written, and it might be my favorite. Read it here:
https://www.ergot.press/authors/Perry...

‘Islands’, a violent story, is live on the new publication Keep Planning.
https://keep-planning.net/text/005