THIS NEVER HAPPENED
A hand-made, 100 copy Ltd mini-book.
Containing a new 6000 Word Horror Short.
Free for a limited time with The Aggregate People bundle. (See The Aggregate People Below)
‘Gina has no problem tending to the dying. Hospice work suits her. After all, with a past like hers, she of all people knows there are things far worse than just dying. But even she’s unprepared for the strange evil that’s torturing her patients, and when she tries to stop it she finds herself the target. However, unlike her patients, Gina isn’t helpless—and she has no intention of being anyone’s victim again. Fucking with Gina may not have been a good idea.
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THE AGGREGATE PEOPLE
The New Novel by VM Harrigan is a Mind-Bending Return to the Post-Apocalyptic World of Four Doorways in or near New Orleans.
Available (Offer is ending sometime before March 22nd, 2026) as a low priced bundle which includes:
- ‘The Aggregate People’ paperback
- ‘The Aggregate People’ ebook
- ‘This Never Happened’, a horror short story in a 100 copy ltd ed chapbook.
- The Thaxton Research Institute Dimensional Safety Kit (Sounds fancy but it’s just some stickers and other ephemera.)
The Aggregate People is a harrowing return trip to the mind-bending Post-Apocalyptic world of Four Doorways in or near New Orleans.
Earth is dead, mankind extinct, and the bizarre monsters that ended the world still roam the ruins. Hiding beneath the devastation are the remnants of humanity: manufactured people struggling to survive and make sense of their own existence.
The Aggregate People tells the story of one band of these misbegotten post-humans—how they escape and find each other, and what happens when they undertake the desperate journey to find a place they can live in peace. But does the place they are searching for exist at all? They’ll have to fight to survive while navigating a ruined world that wants them dead at every turn. Time is running out for The Aggregate People.
“..an epic tale of family, survival and hope….that also raises thought provoking questions about what makes us human, what makes us happy and how much of our lives are predestined or the result of choices.” – Jen Read Horror
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FOUR DOORWAYS IN OR NEAR NEW ORLEANS
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What does it mean to be human? Can time travel change the past and fix an Apocalyptic future, or will humanity have to change to adapt? How much can people be changed before they are no longer human?
The Earth is doomed, Tom and his synthetic friend Pan have seen it. The monsters from our nightmares will use the mysterious Doorways, gashes in the fabric of time and space, to invade our world, making mankind their food and the Earth their wasteland kingdom. They know this because they use the Doorways themselves, traveling across history with a desperate plan.
But it’s a race against time, not to save humanity, but to transform it into something else, something that can survive death and the ages that come after.
Four Doorways in or Near New Orleans weaves together interconnected stories, tales of desperate souls struggling to survive an inevitable invasion and the apocalyptic aftermath. Characters move in and out of each other’s lives, their stories finally converging as the world comes to a horrifying end. Those left in the ruins will struggle with the meaning of memory, the nature of time and what it actually means to be human.
A non-linear Science Fiction novel with elements of Cosmic Horror, Time Travel, and Post-Humanism. The first entry in the shared Four Doorways universe, which includes The Aggregate People, You Will Not Be Saved by the God Plutonium and the Thaxton Research Institute Report.
“…a high-octane collision of trippy, philosophical sci-fi and intense, cosmic Lovecraftian horror. Think of the Marvel show What If…but dial the weirdness up by a factor of ten.”
– 5/5, Mari N, Goodreads/Fable.com
“…the ending is absolutely beautiful and haunting… I am not normally an emotional reader, but the final chapters *may* have made me unexpectedly tear up.”
– 5 /5 Ali Levine, Netgalley
“With gorgeous writing and such developed world-building, this was a wonderful story that absolutely broke my heart. Highly recommended.”
4/5 Brooke G., Netgalley
THERAPY
A Free Horror Short
by VM Harrigan
Why do the people that come to Charles’ therapy practice have horrific wounds? Why is the world outside the window on fire and what are the black, tentacled monsters that sometimes come and drag his patients away? Something is very, very wrong, but Charles doesn’t seem to mind. After all, he’s a competent and thoughtful caregiver, he just has to ignore all the screams.
The Isolationist and Other Stories
Out Now
Black Metal, Body Horror, Dire Futures and Dopplegangers, Possession, Telepathy and other disturbing scenarios. Seven bites of Horror-Scifi in a novella-length collection with an eye toward late-60s era New Wave of Science Fiction.
Thaxton Research Institute Report
Sidewalks, Residential Concrete Construction and Extra-Dimensional Combat in Post-War Memphis Tennessee.
Cosmic-Horror comes to the suburbs of 1950s America. An investigative report into the strange incident that resulted in loss of life and the disappearance of several people. Even though witnesses describe nightmarish monsters, things out of an HP Lovecraft tale attempting to enter our world through “holes in space”, the incident is largely unknown, covered up for decades. This report is a full account of the incident, the events preceding it, and the aftermath.
Beneficial Insects
Free Short Story (requires email address)
Bunton Hill Garden and the village up the road are apparently all that’s left of Earth. The antiquated English garden was snatched out of time by the strange, non-temporal beings that observe from the boundaries of chaos-time. Like a zoo specimen, the garden was collected, along with the villagers and anyone unlucky enough to be visiting. The latter includes Dr. Emma Plavik, a botanist, who does her best to keep the garden safe from the irrational villagers and their inscrutable captors. But her hardest struggle is dealing with her own tremendous grief—and trying to forget what’s stuck behind the ancient door in the back of the garden, the one she keeps blocked with a stone, lest someone open it.
YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED BY THE GOD PLUTONIUM
Release Date: Early 2026
Three mysteries, separated by time, begin to unravel—all of them pointing to the same horrifying secret.