These are not poems meant to comfort. They are rooms that never air out, breath that lingers after the body is gone.
Malachai Blackthorn’s Stitched in Shadow is a collection of extreme horror poetry that weaponizes language into lasting trauma. Each piece is a chamber of dread—haunted by silence, stitched with grief, carved from memory that refuses erasure.
Grout in bathroom tiles whispering names. Dolls sewn with human hair. Mirrors that fracture into faces not your own. These are not symbols to decode; they are nightmares pressed into bone.
For readers drawn to Jack Ketchum, Kristopher Triana, Wrath James White, and extreme psychological horror, this book offers no reprieve—only the unflinching truth that trauma warps, repeats, and lingers.
Stitched in Shadow is horror without exit. The poems stay long after the last page, waiting in the dark corners of your own reflection
Malachai Blackthorn is a creator of extreme and psychological horrorwhose work merges literature, music composition, and immersive storytelling.
Founder of Nightmare Factory Productions and published under Dark Dreams Press, he crafts narratives of human fracture and irreversible trauma.
Operating fully independently, Blackthorn measures success by resonance over reach, delivering uncompromised works that shape the future of horror culture.