Stories from the
Dark End of History
Fiction Scott Kennedy couldn't find anywhere else — where history gets strange, faith turns violent, and the monsters are uncomfortably human.
Algernon's Orphans
She thought she was there to save them. She was wrong about who needed saving.
Dark Revival
Faith demanded blood. He had plenty to give.When a young priest uncovers fragments of a forbidden ancient text, what he glimpses isn't a warning — it's a mandate. The faithful weren't meant to await the apocalypse. They were meant to orchestrate it.
Miles away, a shell-shocked WWI veteran crosses the country carrying a dead comrade's journals, drawn toward a family whose evangelical fervor runs deeper and darker than he could imagine. The war forged him into a weapon. He's about to discover what he was made for.
Scott Kennedy's debut novel — where devotion becomes fanaticism, and a quest for inhuman purpose unleashes very human horrors.
Scott Kennedy
Half-crazy. Fully committed.
Scott Kennedy writes at the intersection of history and horror — in the shadow of the things humanity would rather forget. His debut novel, Dark Revival, is available now. His second, Algernon's Orphans, arrives this December.
He also runs Nerd for Words, a YouTube and TikTok channel about books, writing, and the underexplored corners of literary history.
Read Scott's StoryNerd for Words
Books, writing, and the weird corners of literary history — no gatekeeping, no polish, just the real stuff. New videos on YouTube and TikTok.