Novel
The Last Sounding
A historical psychological horror novel of piracy, obsession, command, and the abyssal thing waiting beyond charted waters.
By Edward Rooke.
Author · Curator
Edward Rooke
Historical horror rooted in faith, folklore, obsession, violence, and the long shadow of inherited belief.
Edward Rooke is a historical horror author based in Wichita, Kansas, and Curator of Black Anchor Publishing Group. His fiction explores faith, folklore, obsession, and violence. He is the author of The Last Sounding and curator of Yuletide: A Very Black Winter, and is developing The Tying Tree.
With Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Scandinavian ancestry, his interest in European history is personal. He is drawn to inherited beliefs, religious traditions, and stories whose origins have been forgotten. Historical research is a lifelong passion and a foundation of his writing.
His love of horror began watching Tales from the Crypt with his grandmother and reading alone in the dark. He retains a love of old pulp horror, gothic atmosphere, and the grotesque. Away from work, he spends time with his three daughters and grandchildren and carries the memory of Nora, his late childhood sweetheart and true love.
Books & anthologies
Current work
Curated anthology
Yuletide: A Very Black Winter
The holidays were never meant to be safe.
In the longest nights of winter, old traditions stir, familiar songs turn strange, and the warmth of home hides something waiting just beyond the firelight. Across these pages, holiday rituals become bargains, gifts come with terrible prices, and the dead are not always willing to stay gone.
Yuletide: A Very Black Winter gathers twenty-five tales of holiday and winter horror, spanning folklore, supernatural dread, grotesque pulp, dark comedy, and psychological terror. Cruel, strange, and unsettling, these stories may make you look twice at the empty chair, or the tracks outside your door.
This year, keep the home fire burning.
And when something starts scratching at the walls, do not let it in.
Curated by Edward Rooke.
In development
The Tying Tree
Edward Rooke is currently developing The Tying Tree.