Amanda Cecelia Lang is a horror author and aspiring recluse from Colorado. As a die-hard scary movie nerd, her favorite things are meta-horror, ‘80s nostalgia, and the rise of a fierce final girl. Her stories haunt the dark corners of many popular podcasts, magazines, and anthologies, including NoSleep, Cast of Wonders, Dark Matter, Flame Tree’s Darkness Beckons, and Dread Machine’s Mixtape: 1986. Her short story collection The Library of Broken Girls will debut in the Spring of 2025. You can stalk her work at amandacecelialang.com—just don’t be surprised if she leaps out at you from the shadows.
I don’t remember my birth-town. But as this road unwinds its final miles through an autumn-spiced forest of crimson oaks and golden locusts, a sense of returning home rises in me like shivery warmth and candy-corn bile. A signpost waits in the overgrowth ahead. Welcome to Locust, Maine, population 1,313 The splintered sign slumps sideways […]
Deep in the Valley of Unwanted Souls, at the dreariest end of a narrow gravel road, the colorless fog parts and a wagon pulled by a lone, clip-clopping mule arrives with the midnight deliveries. The wagon stops between two monstrous structures built of shadows and cloud-reaching stone spires. The Asylum and the Library. Both sanctuaries […]