Documenting Dreadful Existences: Volumes 1-3

by Aiden Merchant

This world—and the others that exist on different planes and time—have numerous running stories of treachery, evil, deceit, magic, and exhaustion. Some lines are bending and twisting with others. Some universes are eating away at themselves and opening pathways to other realms. In this series of series, of which I've titled Documenting Dreadful Existences, I have tracked down stories that follow the demons that manipulate us, the dimensional rips that transport us elsewhere in place and time, and the dangerous world that has been taken back by Mother Earth.

This compendium collects the first three volumes of Documenting Dreadful The Blinds, The Corner Masters, and Mother's World.

317 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2024

About the author

Aiden Merchant is the author of more than a hundred stories spanning numerous collections, including Sickness is in Season, Documenting Dreadful Existences, Dead as Soon as Born, Kill for Them, and his extreme horror debut Horrific Holidays. He is also the author of several novellas and screenplays. In late 2021, he published and edited Milk Teeth by Andrew Post, as well as a dark fiction anthology Blackberry Blood, which he worked on with author Julia C. Lewis. His short fiction has appeared in Wild Violence, Pulp Harvest, and Slice of Paradise.

Reviews

[Cassandra Vella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aiden Merchant knows what he's doing when it comes to horror! As graphic as error, per Merchant's style, Documenting Dreadful Existences is a very neat collection. Bouncing between different situations, beings, diseases, and disasters is a reminder of the compendium's documenting aspect which really ties it all together. Merchant included news stories, blog/articles, found footage, found forts, and found poetry among these different eras of ruin that really fit in eerily with the apocalyptic media of today. Love the way this was broken up in its sections / stories, parts, and volumes.

[Aiden Merchant · Rating 5 out of 5]

This compendium collects volumes 1-3, including the stories of THE BLINDS, THE CORNER MASTERS, and MOTHER'S WORLD. Here, you'll experience supernatural horror, cosmic horror, body horror, eco horror, psychological horror, and more.