Frontier Horror Imprint
Stories with dust on their boots and blood on their hands.
TrueGritPress is where the trail ends and the nightmares begin. We publish dark frontier tales, outlaw horror, and western stories that carry grit under every fingernail. No polished marble, just dry wind and long shadows.
Featured Title by Marc Sercomb
Release date October 13, 2025
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Memory Ranch
When midnight hits, Dusty Bob pours two whiskeys, settles into his worn chair, and starts up his battered reel of Rendezvous in Reno. Right after the famous gunfight, Olivia Del Monte steps out of the quiet like she never left. She downs her shot, then slips into that slow saloon dance they filmed decades earlier, her ghostlike movements matching the flickering black-and-white scene playing behind her.
The truth is, Olivia has been gone twenty-five years. Her death shattered Dusty Bob, and everything he built, the career, the money, the cars, the house in Beverly Hills, crumbled after she was gone. He drowned the pain in whiskey and let the world move on without him.
Now he lives at Memory Ranch, his rundown motel and café on old Route 66. Tourists see a tired stop on the road to the canyon, but for Dusty Bob it’s the only place where the past still breathes. Each night, the projector’s glow brings Olivia back for one last dance, letting him hold her in a way life no longer allows.
But the film is wearing thin. The images fade more each night, Olivia’s outline growing faint, her presence slipping through the reel like sand through fingers. Dusty Bob knows he’s losing her all over again, yet he can’t stop the ritual because those few minutes in the projector’s blue light are all he has left.
Length: 321 pages
Format: Paperback and Ebook
Upcoming Featured Title
Release Upcoming
TrueGritPress Spotlight
Dark Effect: Volume 1
Prospect Ridge is running out of luck and light. When the first dark interval hits, lanterns dim, ink fades, and written truth refuses to hold. The town calls it a glitch. The preacher calls it judgment. The miners call it a lie that benefits the powerful.
Elias Cutter, a railroad scout with ghosts on his map, and Clara Wynne, a telegraph engineer who refuses to look away, trace the intervals to a sealed chamber beneath the ridge an ancient brass-and-crystal engine that feeds on records and witnesses. In Prospect Ridge, memory survives. Proof does not.
Dark Effect: Volume 1 is lantern-lit frontier horror: dust, dread, and a town eating its own paper trail. When reality stops leaving receipts, courage is what you can carve deep enough to last.
Over three hundred pages of nerve-tight suspense, creeping dread, and breakneck chases through corridors where reality forgets to leave receipts. Each story drags the reader deeper into the dark, where proof dies fast and courage runs out even faster.
Length: Over 300 pages of lantern-lit frontier horror
Format: Paperback and Ebook
Submit Your Series or Standalone
We are looking for frontier horror, dark westerns, outlaw epics, and bleak roads through broken towns. If your story carries grit, moral weight, and a pulse that never settles, it might belong here. We also work with ongoing series that can live across any of our story sites, including cross posting on partner brands when it fits.
What we are open to:
- Serialized frontier or small town horror
- Weird west, supernatural trails, and cursed backroads
- Dusty crime stories with a strong sense of place
- Slow burn dread that feels grounded and human
What to send:
- First 3 chapters or first 5,000 words
- Short pitch of your series or standalone work
- Word count, genre lane, and target audience
- Note if you want placement on other story sites as well
About TrueGritPress
TrueGritPress sits inside a wider network of imprints that serve authors who write on the dark edge of the map. We focus on stories that move like a tired horse at sundown. Slow, heavy, and honest. We serve working writers who want a straight answer and a fair shake.
If it smells like dust and gun oil, if the horror grows from human choices instead of cheap tricks, we want to see it. We respect deadlines, clear contracts, and quiet grinding work behind the scenes so the story can do its job in the reader’s hands.