Cicada Cult

Ritual Horror. Dark fables. Poetry. Words for the marked.

By Aurelian Ashmore
“Weird, dark, gritty and visceral. Ashmore makes my skin crawl in all the right ways. ”...”
M.E. Bartosiewicz, Into the Dark
“Writer of the most painful literature on Substack. I don't think it gets as dark and guttural, earthly and bloody as Aurelian's page. Such a grim descent but so valuable, I love his work too much”...”
Bence Ádók, The Great Beyond
“Aurelian is more than "just" a gifted writer. His writing has a primal, almost otherworldly quality to it, which turns many of his pieces into written occult rituals for the reader to witness. And his Transmissions (audio recordings of his own and other writers' pieces) are superb!”...”
Jan Schlösser, Ph.D., Stories About Love and Death