Corrupted Files

A Collection

Twelve files, twelve stories, twelve authors. A film reel, a floppy disk, a VHS tape, a radio broadcast, a video game cartridge, and so much more.

In this collection of horror stories and dark literature, media is more than memory or entertainment. It is infection, confession, invitation, and trap. The things we use to record the world begin recording us back. The messages we preserve start to rot. The files we open do not always close. 

Technology doesn't save us from the dark; it gives the dark another way in.  

Deimos Presents

A Digital Literary Magazine

A digital literary magazine publishing horror and dark literary flash fiction and short stories. 

Including the work of authors Norman Clifton, Vincent Black, Alexander J. Richardson, and more.

New issues come out quarterly.

Wet & Wicked

Vincent Black

1982 - A high school party to celebrate the football team's winning season turns into a bloody, gushy, inky mess when the needle is dropped on a mysterious green record, unleashing a nightmare.

Vincent Black's Wet & Wicked is a love letter to splatter flicks, video nasties, B-movies, and pulp horror fiction.

Count Valentine

Vincent Black

When the Cathedral of Saint Burryfield burns to the ground, the Church blames Count Valentine - a leader with a silver tongue and a past soaked in blood. As priests vanish, letters surface, and an ancient evil stirs, the line between faith and madness blurs. Some men serve God, others remind us what Hell looks like.

It Did Not Welcome Us

Norman Clifton

In 1570, ninety-eight settlers tried to found the first great city of the New World. By winter's end, almost all of them were gone. 

Twelve-year-old Thomas Weaver witnesses the slow unraveling of Harkwood: starvation, sickness, a vanished ship, and the shadow of a monster in the trees. As the settlers turn on each other, Thomas learns the truth whispered by the wind:

The forest watched; it did not welcome them.

The King of Mare

Vincent Black

Detective Hollbrooks has been having the same bad dream every night since he moved to Montana. When a young college student is found murdered and nailed to a tree, Hollbrooks finds himself in the center of a series of murders with multiple suspects and very little to go on. Something in the investigation is starting to trouble Hollbrooks, the recurrence of bad dreams.