Mind Food.
Welcome to my corner of the written world, where shadows tell secrets, starlight watches from the rafters, and truth sometimes hides just outside the firelight.
I’m Shelly, author, storyteller, and lifelong collector of strange thoughts.
I write horror that lingers, poetry that feels a little too much, and the occasional exploration of this wonderfully bizarre human experience.
My latest book, A Heaping Handful of Horror, is a collection of twenty original short stories, newly revised and published by Velox Books. Available now in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
You’ll also find years of original fiction, poetry, and narrated stories scattered throughout this little corner of the internet.
Stay curious.
Things get strange around here.
Latest from the Desk:
- Hear Me Out, Guillermo del Toro: An Entirely Unsolicited Horror Film Proposal 🤓🫣Twenty years after Pan’s Labyrinth changed my imagination, I’m a published horror author making an entirely unsolicited film proposal to Guillermo del Toro. Naturally, I’ve prepared evidence.
- I Self-Published My Horror Book… Then a Publisher Found It 🖤I self-published A Heaping Handful of Horror in 2021. Then a publisher found my collection, offered me a contract, and gave my twenty strange little horror stories a brand-new life.
- A Heaping Handful of Horror — My Weird Little Bastard Has a New Home | Book ReleaseGhosts. Killers. Cosmic dread. Psychological fractures. The end of the world. Twenty strange little exits from reality await in A Heaping Handful of Horror, now published by Velox Books.
- “Starve the Sea” | short story (literary horror · gothic fiction · supernatural folklore)On a lonely island beneath a watchful lighthouse, an old keeper wages a quiet war against the sea—a giver, a taker, and something far more alive than it should be.
- Unwell | poemA poem about what happens when the things we bury refuse to stay buried – and begin asking for a place of their own.
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Hi.
I’m Shelly Moore, a published author, storyteller, and the creator of Limitless Stimulus. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, I now call the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts, home.
Before I started putting strange things on paper, I spent nearly a decade investigating them in person as a paranormal investigator – exploring places most sensible people would happily avoid.
Today, I’m the author of A Heaping Handful of Horror, a collection of twenty original short stories published by Velox Books. I also write poetry, essays, and whatever else my overactive imagination decides to throw at me.
I’ve never been particularly interested in fitting neatly into one box. I write to entertain, to explore, to question, and occasionally to make people a lil’ bit uncomfortable.
Hence the name: Limitless Stimulus.
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