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Favorite books
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Corvin E Blacke
Lantern After DarkOctober 2026 event author
How it was earned: Participated in Lantern’s October 2026 After Dark event.
Dark roads, old secrets, and the things that wait just beyond the headlights.
HorrorSupernatural HorrorFolk HorrorDark FictionParanormal Suspense
6,124published words across 1 Lantern story
Behind the byline
About the author
Corvin E. Blacke writes dark, atmospheric horror rooted in forgotten roads, isolated places, old warnings, and the uneasy feeling that some things are better left undisturbed. His stories favor slow-building dread over shock for shock’s sake, following ordinary people who discover that the world is a little stranger, older, and more dangerous than they believed.
From roads that should not exist to legends that refuse to stay buried, Corvin’s fiction lives in the space between what can be explained and what probably shouldn’t be. He is drawn to folklore, supernatural mysteries, remote landscapes, and the moment a familiar place becomes something else entirely.
Some roads remember.
⌖ Between the known and the unexplained
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The fun stuff.
The little things readers always want to know after the last page.
In the headphones
Writing soundtrack
- M83 — Solitude
- Dark cinematic scores
- Rain and distant thunder
Tiny author lore
Things to know
- Will always choose the road everyone else avoids
- Keeps a notebook full of strange local legends
- Doesn’t trust roads that aren’t on the map
On Lantern
Stories by Corvin E Blacke
Horror
The Road That Found Her
Some roads are meant to take you home.
Others are waiting for you to remember them.
When Mara Ellison takes a wrong turn on a road that shouldn’t exist, she finds herself at an isolated motel with eight rooms, a guest register full of names, and a past no one seems willing to explain.
The longer Mara stays, the more the place begins to feel familiar.
A room she doesn’t remember entering.
A name that shouldn’t be there.
A road that refuses to stay where she left it.
And somewhere in the darkness, something remembers Mara far better than she remembers it.
Because this isn’t the first time she’s been here.
Some places are haunted by the dead.
This one is haunted by what was forgotten.
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