Work samples

  • The Satanic Rites of Phoebe Toombs (chapter one)

    Phoebe Toombs is a loner who trouble always seems to find, even when she’s actively avoiding it. Brutal, ritual-like murders start to pile up around her small town, and she finds herself at the site of one of these, making law enforcement and the town think she’s the one who did it. With the help of other high schoolers, she tries to uncover the real culprit and accidentally reveals a darkness throughout the town.

  • Soft Tissue

    Two cannibals find each other on an online forum...

  • Wax and Wane

    Something strange is going on with Darlene and Rosemary's neighbors...

  • Terrible God (ending)_0.pdf

    The very ending of a larger (unfinished) short story called The Terrible God, about a domineering father who turns his violence outward towards his family.

About Banshee

Banshee Blackwell (They/Them) is a writer of long and short stories, as well as poems and scripts, living and working in Baltimore. They graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art, majoring in General Fine Arts and minoring in film. Their writing, though majority fiction, is a reflection of modern neurosis, panic, and dread, wanting to find meaning and tenderness through the chaos.
Their love of horror in any medium (and tendency to be or feel othered in real life) leads them to… more

The Satanic Rites of Phoebe Toombs (chapter one)

Phoebe Toombs is a loner who trouble always seems to find, even when she’s actively avoiding it. Brutal, ritual-like murders start to pile up around her small town, and she finds herself at the site of one of these, making law enforcement and the town think she’s the one who did it. With the help of other high schoolers, she tries to uncover the real culprit and accidentally reveals a darkness throughout the town.


 

  • The Satanic Rites of Phoebe Toombs (chapter one)

    (15 pages) Phoebe Toombs is a loner who trouble always seems to find, even when she’s actively avoiding it. Brutal, ritual-like murders start to pile up around her small town, and she finds herself at the site of one of these, making law enforcement and the town think she’s the one who did it. With the help of other high schoolers, she tries to uncover the real culprit and accidentally reveals a darkness throughout the town.


     

Soft Tissue (A Good Ghoul is Hard to Find)

(24 pages) Two cannibals find each other on an online forum...

  • Soft Tissue (A Good Ghoul is Hard to Find).pdf

    Two cannibals find each other on an online forum...

Wax and Wane

Something strange is going on with Darlene and Rosemary's neighbors...

  • Wax and Wane

    (6 pages) Something strange is going on with Darlene and Rosemary's neighbors...