Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

A Scream Queers Anthology

Welcome to Ravenscar!

A small remote settlement where the only road going in is the only way out. There’s not much to the place. Nothing but a few government facilities in decrepit buildings, a diner and cafe filled with nosy glass eyed locals with blank stares, a church surrounded by vacant graves, a nearby cul de sac full of abandoned houses and lingering screams. Oh, pay no mind to the blood splatters nestled in every nook of the only public school. Hm? What about the old plaza full of stores that appear vacant during the day? That isn’t the most unusual thing here. You can’t miss the old library housing lost articles and footage of vanishing tourists in the basement or the strange beach on the edge of the woods or the camp ground where numerous teens have gone missing over the years.
 
To this day, there are many questionable mysteries, secrets, and untold legends surrounding Ravenscar — a place transformed and manipulated by time. In this Upper YA and adult queer horror anthology, for fans of The Twilight Zone, American Horror Story, Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Fears to Fathom, while playing on the scream queen and final girl tropes, several of the locals share their accounts in the eerie town.
 
From glamorous haunted lighthouses, life altering slaughterhouses, and lovesick shapeshifting monsters to all consuming sacrificial magic, blood soaked Halloween parties, and the horrors of puberty, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are features spine tingling and entertaining masterpieces crafted by Phylicia Walker, L.C. Star, Darshana Sivabalan, Grace E. Ludlow, Jenna Streety, Dyllon George, E.M. Bancroft, Rien Gray, AJ Jones, DC Guevara, Kirsteen Navarro, Ev Datsyk, Elena Greer, R.A. Hunt Jr., Rory G., C.L. Gaines, Alex Abrahams, Alexandra Deianira, Evanaissante, Alx Chan Yee, I.E. Richards, Mike McClelland, and Emalia Hemme.
 
Edited and curated by K. Psych.
 
Releases on October 6, 2026

Included Stories

A Whisper So Lovely by Grace E. Ludlow

Bi Any Means by Jenna Streety

Boldly Human by Dyllon George

Clover by E.M. Bancroft

Dry Fire by Rien Gray

Late Night Delights by AJ Jones

Machetera by DC Guevara

Miss Manananggal by Kirsteen Navarro

Pants on Fire by Ev Datsyk

The Basement of Borrowed Hearts by Elena Greer

The Devil & Billy Bates by R.A. Hunt Jr.

The Morning After My Death by Rory G.

The Shunning by C. L. Gaines

The Slaughterhouse by Alex Abrahams

Three Sparks Set Ablaze by Alexandra Deianira

Tidal Warning by Evanaissante

Unbridled Devotion by Alx Chan Yee

Wolfsbane by I.E. Richards

Yacumama by Mike McClelland

The Devoted by Emalia Hemme

Exodus by Phylicia Walker

Killed by Kindness by L.C. Star

Doctor Killer by Darshana Sivabalan

About K. Psych

K.Psych (they/them) crafts narratives that leave you bleeding and hungry for more while giving hearts to monsters one page at a time. As a queer Black audhd writer and editor, glorifying the perverse and eroticizing the grotesque is their speciality. When K.Psych isn’t embracing their inner demons and twisting biblical stories into macabre tales, they can be found being terrorized by their chaotic doppelganger cat, studying music theory, cosplaying as the local cannibal, and rewatching Constantine or Saw for the millionth time.

 

You can follow them on @carnivoreincosplay on insta/threads and @bloodydevotion on twitter/X/bluesky.

Trigger Warnings

Whisper So Lovely: jealousy, comphet, emotional infidelity, minor period-accurate homophobia (implied), biblically accurate angel, minor blood, murder, stabbing, immolation without body horror

Bi Any Means: Blood, gore, homophobia, removed body parts.

Boldly Human: blood, violence, body horror, death, drinking, religion

Clover: implied death, undetailed descriptions of corpses

Dry Fire: emotional manipulation and abuse, references to societal homophobia and transphobia, forced drugging, death of a parent (car accident/drunk driving), parent with cancer (mention), consumption of alcohol, graphic injury, blood/gore, description of a dead animal (bear and deer), death of a major character on page, childhood bullying, autistic burnout/trauma

Late Night Delights: Missing persons, automobile incident, references to alcohol

Machetera: Xenophobia, slut-shaming, implied sexual content, Latin-American slurs, murder, gore, death of a loved one (mentioned, but off-page)

Miss Manananggal: Parent death, gore, swearing, mild ableism

Pants on Fire: sexual identity crisis, blood/gore, sexual content (consensual)

Basement of Borrowed Hearts: racism (specifically towards Native Americans), mentions of anti-indigenous stereotypes, brief depictions animal cruelty, violence and gore, body horror relating to hearts, surgical horror, graphic depictions of violence, brief depiction of acid burns

The Devil and Billy Bates: light gore

Morning After my Death: racism, Orientalism, police (no police violence, but there are cops in this story), mentioned animal death, mentioned hate crime (past)

The Shunning: suicide, (mentioned) bullying (mention and lightly felt), food tampering/poisoning (mentioned), inflicted burns (not described), physical assault (lightly described, i.e punching, kicking), drugging (mentioned/ lightly described), rape ( the word is mentioned twice but is only a brief suspicion), parental abandonment (character briefly describes disappointment with parents behavior), dismemberment (lightly described/not graphic)

The Slaughterhouse: misgendering and deadnaming, gender dysphoria, transphobia, sexualization, violence, gore, body horror, meat/flesh imagery, allusions to the slaughter of animals for meat, urine, corpses, self-harm, suicide (but not really?)

The Three Sparks Set Ablaze: blood, mentions of a massacre, hints of homophobia within the towns people, death, alcohol, drugs, and hints of sexual events

Tidal Warning: Animal death, body horror, body shaming, blood and gore, cannibalism, description of drowning, dismemberment, fatphobia, suicide attempt, suicide ideation.

Unbridled Devotion: body mutilation, grooming/SA allusion, religious trauma, emotional trauma, being the problem, blood/gore

Wolfsbane: extreme violence, gore, guns, substance use (alcohol and smoking), homophobia, sexual harassment/assault of a woman (groping and manhandling, nothing explicit)

Yacumama: sex, murder, alcoholism, cults

The Devoted: drunk driving, death, blood, drinking, suicide ideation.

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