SPLIT SCREAM Volume Two

A Horror Novelette Double Feature


Praise for Volume Two

Featuring: Cynthia Gómez & M. Lopes da Silva

Cover Illustrations: Evangeline Gallagher
Interior Illustrations: C. Paul Ramey

Release Date: November 15, 2022
Print ISBN: 978-1-7379740-4-8
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-7379740-5-5

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“The Shivering World” – Cynthia Gómez
Nayeli’s brilliance should be enough to outshine the darkness she longs to leave behind, but she fears she’ll never get further than what her unstable mother can provide: a sofa bed in a garage. She’s determined to transfer to a good college and get out, but the men in her life-a violent neighbor, a greedy landlord, her mother’s predatory boyfriend-stand in her way. Only once she encounters the supernatural, a being she suspects to be La Llorona herself, does Nayeli begin to truly see the power she is capable of. But at what cost? “The Shivering World” is a Faustian bargain in a place of poverty and gentrification, where supernatural terrors meet the horrors of escaping to a new life.

Illustration by C. Paul Ramey
Illustration by C. Paul Ramey

“What Ate the Angels” – M. Lopes da Silva
Non-binary ASMR artist November discovers the sound of a giant heartbeat beneath Los Angeles, which only they seem to hear. When their vore-loving partner Heather, a City Hall archivist, grows ill and can’t get the healthcare she needs, they believe they will find a solution through the thrum. November journeys underground, through abandoned Prohibition-era tunnels, to the den of a creature born from the fabric of the city itself: oil, bones, chemicals-and souls. “What Ate the Angels” is queer body horror full of dread and pulpy, throbbing filth. 

Cover Art by Evangeline Gallagher

PRAISE FOR “SPLIT SCREAM VOLUME TWO”

SPLIT SCREAM has something for everyone. Gómez offers a haunting of bleak hopes and grim specters, where every sentence breathes a fresh ghost story. Lopes da Silva scratches another itch with their fast-paced conflict of demanding modern milieu and gut-churning body horror. An entrancing duet of nightmare.”
—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth

“The combined stories are a beautifully organic Latinx experience. Both are very different in writing style and storyline, however, each kept me wanting more. Cynthia Gómez does a fantastic job with the tale of La Llorona. I loved everything from the characters to the development of the mythology. Fresh takes on oral tradition are a must read for me. M. Lopes da Silva slides into your imagination like a French kiss. This story is delicious and terrifying as it takes you to literal depths you won’t expect!  And yes to more non-binary writers and characters in horror. Great duo of stories I hope you will check out.”
—V. Castro, author The Queen of The Cicadas and Goddess of Filth

PRAISE FOR “THE SHIVERING WORLD” by CYNTHIA GOMEZ

The Shivering World empathizes with people pushed to the margins and left with little choice but to lash out. Exploring the monstrosity of both humans and supernatural beings, Gómez fills every page with a quiet, aching dread.”
—Eric Raglin, author of Extinction Hymns

PRAISE FOR “WHAT ATE THE ANGELS” by M. LOPES DA SILVA

“In What Ate the Angels, the physically toxic and romantically toxic collide. Lopes da Silva’s bizarre body horror story is at once grotesque and tender in its exploration of messy queer love.”
—Eric Raglin, author of Extinction Hymns