Dark Fiction Writing Circle Anthology
House at Weaver Point
When does a house stop being a home?
Created as a collaborative project by the Federation of BC Writers’s Dark Fiction circle, The House at Weaver Point is an anthology of location-based horror woven together by an isolated house on the BC coast.
A grumpy lighthouse keeper. A hopeful newlywed couple. A group of free spirits. A paranoid Y2K prepper. Over the course of a century, each new resident is overcome by their worst fears, and at the centre of the madness is an ever-present yellow spider ensnaring them in her perilous web.
* Anthology not yet published. Coming soon!
House at weaver point
The anthology project
The anthology is compiled of delicate threads that have been woven together to create a tapestry that is stronger as a whole. Each group member has contributed a short story in the timeline of the house. One spider. Many characters entangled in her web. The stories exist as stand-alones, but each terrifying tale is better in the context of the others.
House at weaver point
The Stories
A Swithen for Spiders, by Rebecca Cremini
A reclusive lighthouse keeper’s way of life is threatened when a family builds a house across the water. He must stop them from bringing the curse of civilization to his coastal haven or lose his mind trying.
Under the Skin, by Ennis Lucy
A WWII nurse, traumatized by the death and disease she witnessed on the frontlines, succumbs to violent paranoia after making a gruesome discovery just steps from her new house.
Whispering Waves, by Kristyn Pacione
Newlyweds Nancy and Roger gave up stressful city life for the peaceful seaside in the hopes of starting a family. But as Nancy struggles to conceive, something in the house awakens to feed on her perfect domestic fantasy.
Kings of the New Age, by E.J. Klassen
Fleeing the fallout of the hippie movement, a trio of writers seeks refuge in the Pacific Northwest. Unbeknownst to the others, one of them is authoring a gruesome fate for them all.
Deeds, by Louise Dumayne
It's 1975. Mandy is desperate to escape her mother's apartment for a free-spirited life in a remote clifftop house with her charismatic new lover and his awkward best friend. When a group acid trip goes wrong, Mandy must reckon with the violent tensions within the trio and what she suspects is murderous intent.
The Thrall, by Desiree Friesen
Jennifer’s eleven-year-old twin brother entices her into the basement, where eerie events transpire and a sibling disagreement snowballs into malicious compliance and a horrifying outcome.
Sevyn, by Kelli Etheridge
With Y2K fears and ongoing insomnia, tensions are escalating in Fern's already isolated life. She begins to have sleepwalking episodes, accompanied by strange visions, that ultimately drive her to unearth the mystery of Weaver Point’s sinister history.
Bring Friends, by collaboration
Over the years, as the home sits vacant, Weaver Point House welcomes Airbnb guests. The reviews are mixed.
Remember Me Well, by M.R. Goldsmith
Everything is ruined! Now he is stuck in a weird house with a nosey girl and a disgusting spider. What did the brilliant aspiring writer, Evan, do to deserve this?
Dry Fire, by Kim Harbridge
When a young follower of a spider-worshipping cult is cast out for discovering her leader’s plans to hasten his prophesied end-times, she must embark on a solo journey through the climate-ravaged landscape to her community’s holiest of holy sites to prevent the mass killing.