Gothic Horror | Dark SFF | Contemporary Melodrama
C.M. Rosens
C. M. Rosens (she/her) is a genre-bending hybrid author of Gothic Horror, New Weird, and dark SFF, based in the UK. Find her travelling by rail, wandering among lonely ruins and ancient megaliths, and lost in worlds of fiction, music and folklore.She is an active member of the HWA and the British Fantasy Society, a multi-Indie Ink Award nominee, and is published with Canelo Horror (now an imprint/subsidiary of Penguin Random House), as well as having stories appear in anthologies by indie presses like Black Hare Press and Red Cape Publishing.Here you will find the latest news, links to box sets, and the links to all her works.
LATEST NEWSI've launched a new page of Women In Horror features for Women In Horror Month.
Women-In-Horror.carrd.co
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Smashwords eBook Sale 01-07 March: my books are 50% off or free.
International Women's Day Itch Bundle 03-10 March: I have a book in this, it's 32 titles for $32!
A Very Queer March Itch Bundle 01-31 March: I have 2 books in this bundle, 63 titles for $60!
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THE SOUND OF DARKNESS will be a newsletter magnet and downloadable for free in the Occult and Supernatural Giveaway 03 Apr-03 May 2026.
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GIVEAWAY DRAW for the signed paperback of The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre & Other Stories (Ko-Fi Eldritch Family members only). Draw on 13th March.
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BOX SETS
Get the DRM-free eBook Box Set of all stories I retain print rights for.
Get the set of 12 eBooks now for £15.00.
It would cost £34.89 to buy them individually.Ko-Fi also has the audiobook files & eBook files bundle for YELEN & YELENA - £8.99
Pick a genre from the buttons below to view the books - click on the book covers to check out all the links and information for each one.
PAGHAM-ON-SEA BOOKS
Gothic Horror with Tentacles | Eldritch Family Drama
Cosmic Horror with Low Fantasy & Paranormal Elements
Readers have started the series at various points - the novels, novellas and short stories can mostly be read as standalones.
The Crows and Thirteenth are published with Canelo, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
![The Crows by CM Rosens, a gothic horror novel for fans of What we do in the shadows and the haunting of hill house.]()
The Crows - Links & Content Notes
![Thirteenth by CM Rosens, a bubblegum body horror novel for fans of GRIMM (Lovecraftian mythos edition), what we do in the shadows, and Hannibal Rising.]()
Thirteenth - Links & Content Notes
![The Day We Ate Grandad by CM Rosens, a dysfunctional family novel for fans of Arthurian myth, Call of Cthulhu, and The Magnus Archives.]()
The Day We Ate Grandad - Links & Content Notes
![Art by Delilah Monroe of a white woman in her 20s with a scorpion tail standing in front of a throne made of tortured ghosts.]()
Feed - Work In Progress Details
![Overexposure cover. Close up of a human eye with something reflected in it, the cheek below covered in tiny pieces of hexagonal glitter-confetti]()
Overexposure - Links & Content Notes
![The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre eBook cover. Black with red neon line down the middle and a man's face appearing behind the text.]()
The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre - Links & Content Notes
![The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre and Other Stories: a Ricky Porter Collection eBook cover. Black with red neon line down the middle and a man's face appearing behind the text.]()
The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre and Other Stories - Links & Content Notes
![The Sound of Darkness cover. A dark street with a person standing beneath a street light.]()
The Sound of Darkness - Links & Content Notes
![The Reluctant Husband cover. A 1930s vibes man sat on the floor of a bedroom with a dead rat at his feet and astrology symbols overlaying the scene.]()
The Reluctant Husband - Links & Content Notes
Folklore of Pagham on Sea - Links & Content Notes
CONTEMPORARY QUEER MELODRAMA/MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
AU CARRIE & RICKY: Contemporary Queer (Ace/Aro/Bi) Dark-ish but Feelgood Working Class Rom-Com
Get Birds of a Feather in Print & eBook with First Christmas included.
Read a sample in your browser.
First Christmas can also be downloaded from Ko-Fi on its own.Best Friends Bury Bodies is a standalone queer mystery second chance romance.
Read a sample in your browser
![council estate romcom cover of Birds of a Feather by CM Rosens]()
Birds of a Feather Links & Content Notes
![Illustrated cover of two people hugging, sketched outline, over a glittery background of light gold and silver. AU Carrie and RIcky short story book cover.]()
First Christmas Link
![cover for Best Friends Bury Bodies, with a detail of a man playing an acoustic guitar.]()
Best Friends Bury Bodies Link
GOTHICK FANTASIA BOOKS
Stand alone Dark Gothic Fantasy books, set in the same universe.
Yelen & Yelena out now: queer, dark but hopepunk Beauty and the Beast retelling with monster spice & no romance (aromantic MCs).
As Below, So Above coming soon: m/m Rapunzel X Phantom of the Opera but a psychosexual alchemy fever dream.
![Yelen & Yelena by CM Rosens]()
Yelen & Yelena Links & Content Notes
![Cover for As Below, So Above by CM Rosens. Tarot card "The Tower" by @DesignerCandies on Canva, with lightning striking the tower and two male figures falling from it.]()
As Below, So Above - Work In Progress Information
STANDALONES & ANTHOLOGIES
The Snow Child is a standalone short horror story (out now). Also available in the Ko-Fi Box Set.Bone Puppets is a new dark fantasy short, in which two amateur necromancers attempt to raise the greatest necromancer of their age to save their lands from the approaching war. Also available in the Ko-Fi Box Set.F is for Fear from Red Cape Publishing contains my short story "The Sound of Darkness" which you can get above as a standalone.
Occupying Bodies is an anthology from Black Hare Press. My story is called "Along the Xylophone Road" and only available in this collection.
Alone is a flash fiction anthology, in which I have a short piece featuring Katy Porter.
![Black and white screaming child with black hollow eyes and distended mouth. Title is Red Cape Publishing A-Z of Horror: F is for Fear.]()
F is for Fear Links
![The Snow Child by CM Rosens]()
The Snow Child - Links & Content Notes
Occupying Bodies Links
Alone Links
![Bone Puppets cover - a short story by C.M. Rosens. A woman in a tiara, all veiled in black, lifts her limp, red-gloved hands in a gesture like she's caught mid-dance.]()
Bone Puppets
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Ko-Fi Member's Corner
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