Novellas

Daniel Prescott’s novellas explore the darker reaches of Gothic Horror, psychological terror, the macabre, and grimdark fiction, combining atmospheric storytelling with intimate character perspectives and an enduring fascination with fear, grief, obsession, mortality, and moral decay.

Written predominantly in the first person, the stories draw readers directly into the minds of their protagonists, where memory, guilt, desperation, madness, and survival become as threatening as the horrors surrounding them. This close narrative style gives each novella a confessional quality, placing the reader inside the experience rather than safely beyond it.

Prescott’s work blends the traditions of literary Gothic Horror with contemporary and mythological settings, allowing the genre to extend far beyond the familiar boundaries of haunted houses and ancient crypts. Ruined temples, desolate coastlines, fractured worlds, supernatural punishments, human cruelty, and the collapse of civilisation may all become settings for stories concerned ultimately with the same darkness: the one carried within.

Atmosphere and psychological dread remain central throughout. Horror is allowed to unfold gradually through character, environment, memory, and consequence, with macabre imagery and moments of brutality serving the emotional heart of each story rather than existing for spectacle alone.

The result is dark, character-driven fiction in which beauty and horror frequently occupy the same space, innocence offers no guarantee of safety, and survival may carry a price of its own.

This page contains Daniel Prescott’s published Gothic Horror novellas, with further information on each title and links to available editions through Amazon.

Explore the published novellas below.

Bitten

One year after the dead rose, Leah Daniels is still keeping her children alive.

Hidden in an abandoned coastal caravan park, Leah has taught Noah and Michael to survive in silence while the Hollows wander the ruined winter world outside.

When one of the dead comes too close, Leah kills it before it reaches her sons.

But when she washes the blood from her hands, she finds a bite.

As fever rises and the wound begins to whisper beneath the bandages, Leah must leave her children locked inside the caravan and search the dead seaside town for medicine before the infection reaches her heart.

Bitten is a first-person Gothic zombie horror novella of maternal terror, brutal survival, body horror, infection, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of keeping love alive in a world of the hungry dead.

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The Gorgon's Lament

Cursed with a living crown of serpents and a gaze that turns flesh to stone, Medusa now dwells amongst the petrified dead within the ruins of the sanctuary she once loved.

On the final night of her life, Perseus enters the passages beneath the temple carrying a sword, a polished shield, and Athena’s blessing. He has come to sever Medusa’s head and return home a hero.

But the temple is no helpless monster’s lair. It is Medusa’s grave, fortress, memory, and wound.

As the hunters climb towards her, Medusa must relive the betrayal that created her and decide how much of her humanity she is willing to sacrifice in order to survive.

The Gorgon’s Lament is a darkly poetic first-person Gothic horror novella blending Greek mythology, psychological terror, body horror, divine cruelty, brutal combat, feminine rage, and tragic fantasy.

History remembers the monster Perseus defeated. This is the lament of the woman he killed.

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