Silas Faulk writes horror about bodies under pressure, communities built on silence, and the terrible things people do when care becomes control. His fiction is visceral, claustrophobic, and psychologically charged, blending extreme horror with literary atmosphere and emotional consequence.
He is the author of The Settling, Blue Fire, and Gross Neglect. Across his work, Faulk is drawn to hidden rooms, damaged bodies, moral compromises, and the ordinary places where something monstrous has been waiting all along. He lives somewhere between the beautiful and the unbearable.
Silas Faulk writes horror about bodies under pressure, communities built on silence, and the terrible things people do when care becomes control. His fiction is visceral, claustrophobic, and psychologically charged, blending extreme horror with...
“The first living man I ever fed to the lake was still screaming when I carried him down.”
So begins the confession of Slamet Darsawening — a name that means safe, given by a father who died coughing sulfur, spoken over a son the mountain would claim anyway.
In the Tirtawangi highlands of eastern Java, the volcano called the Rahang — the Jaw —...
Renata Vasquez is twenty-eight, a nail technician from Hialeah with steady hands, $1,100 in savings, and a body she fought for — 122 pounds lost, and loose skin left hanging where the woman she wanted to be should have started. The clinics quoted her surgery at more than she makes in a year. The...
Francesca Ravelin has spent her career caring for people other clinicians struggle to reach. A home visit in the Nevada desert should take one afternoon.
The referral describes an elderly woman, suspected hoarding, and a son who has finally asked for help. Wendell Brask answers the phone promptly. He knows his mother’s medications. He is waiting...
