A growing collection of grim, character-driven horror stories from British author Terry Wilding, including the Jenny Harlow: Survivor Files series and stand-alone nightmares.
Content warning: graphic violence, psychological horror, and adult themes. These are not cosy ghost stories.
Jenny Harlow came to the Blue Moon Bar looking for a spark, and found one. Eleven years of marriage had rusted her sharp edges, but when Rick and Sharla, confident predators with charming smiles, proposed a night of partner swapping in a remote cabin, the monster inside her woke. What began as a drunken dare turned into a live-streamed hunt until Jenny flipped the game.
At the Sleepwell Institute, science promised salvation for the sleepless. Six desperate volunteers entered its sterile rooms seeking rest, insomniacs, addicts, the guilty, and the damned. But as Nurse Sarah Rooke monitored their dreams through shimmering neural headsets, something else began to wake.
Sweet Dreams, Jimmy by Terry Wilding is a darkly poignant horror tale about a dying man who makes a final online wish, and gets more than he bargained for. When a beautiful, otherworldly woman arrives at his bedside, promising a peaceful death, Jimmy learns that the internet’s reach extends even into the afterlife.
After a long factory shift, Laura boards the last bus home—and wakes to find herself trapped in a deserted terminal frozen at 3 a.m. The exits loop back, the passengers are faceless, and the driver’s grin promises only one thing: this is the final stop.
As you expand the Survivor Files series, keep this list updated. New readers can see at a glance where to start.
Terry Wilding writes modern horror with an old-school edge: direct, vicious, but always rooted in character. When he isn’t tearing lives apart on the page, he works as a university lecturer in computer science, which turns out to be excellent training for imagining worst-case scenarios.