Daniel Mowery
Writer of dark and beautiful fiction
“If you don’t have a website, how the hell are they gonna find ya? On social media? Because you know how much you love being on that.”
- Me to myself
News
My storry, “Here We Be Monsters,” is appearing in Of Beasts & Bones: An Anthology of Horrors by Inky Bones Press. Coming 2026!
Go to their website for updates on more info on the press!
Photo credits (left column): Rat Creatures from Bone by Jeff Smith. Five Night Auto LED Light, etsy.com/shop/sosickwithit/. “cracked road concrete close up,” IStock by GettyImages. Abandoned Pool House, John Potts (jpotts104), flickr.com. 425472067, golubovy, IStock by GettyImages (right column): “They Always Come Out at Night,” PeopleImages, GettyImages. 1210358179, ShutterStock. 176806804, chuntise, IStock by GettyImages. "Beast," James Smart, https://500px.com/photo/118177941/beast-by-james-smart. (background): 2198797487, mkfilm, IStock by GettyImages. The Walls Come Tumbling Down: A Novel (Querying 2026)
Nightmarish monsters
Blurring of dreams and reality
Psych horror
Multiple POVs, including childhood/adulthood (like structure of King’s “IT”)
Family drama, anxiety, toxic masculinity, and feminism
They’re back, the monsters that plunged Tristan’s childhood into terror. An unending nightmare that eradicated the boundaries between dream and reality. He had given them what they wanted, and banished them back underground, putting the years and his memories into the darkest corners of his mind.
But as he and his wife, Elaine, begin their new lives together, and the stresses build, the money tightens, and it seems like there is danger coming from every side, the nightmares begin to return. Tristan will have to keep his sanity and resolve if he is to remember how he beat them before, and what they want this time, if he is to survive, or lose everything he loves.
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