Slick Tentacle Press
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.
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.
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. The next one is already underway.
He also runs Nerd for Words, a YouTube and TikTok channel about books, writing, and the underexplored corners of literary history.
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Books, writing, and the weird corners of literary history — no gatekeeping, no polish, just the real stuff. New videos on YouTube and TikTok.