My short eco horror story, ‘The Beating of a Hideous Heart,’ is free to read now in the January issue of The Dread Literary Review.

Inspired by Poe’s ‘The Tell-tale Heart,’ my story imagines the cursed beating occuring on a world wide scale, not from beneath the floorboards, but from deep within the dirt.

How long does the world survive when all of humanty is driven to madness by the sound of our Earth’s heartbeat?

Read the issue for free here: https://the-dread-literary-review.ghost.io/january-2026-sounds-and-music/