North Star Horror
David E. KrueggerHi, I'm David E. Kruegger. I write horror fiction about the Upper Midwest. This is a monthly substack dedicated to news, essays, and my fiction. Put up your feet and stay for a while!
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Hello friends, and welcome to North Star Horror’s May 2026 edition. It’s eerily cold out for early May, and I mean that both in the spooky ghost story sense and in the much more terrifying existential sense. I’m about to get...
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Sometimes I worry I talk about film too much as a writer of Horror fiction. When it comes to art, I’ve sometimes described film as my “first love,” so when I write a review for a movie, it can feel like I’m ha...
Do We Want Their Awards? Also, a Story About Turkeys
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Trying something new to get more eyes on this newsletter, leading with a tease of the content rather than the ever-skippable “North Star Horror” label. Who says writers can’t figure out social media? It’s not just for weirdo...
North Star Horror February 2026
My dear friends, I hope you are well in this coldest and most brutal time of year. Here in Minneapolis we’re trying to hold it together, but unless you live under a rock, you know we’re struggling with more than one variety of ice. Let me b...
North Star Horror January 2026
Hello friends, and thank you once again for your support of Krampusnacht. It was a fun experiment to release something like that for the holiday season, and while it didn’t exactly light the world on fire, I had so much fun doing it I might...
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David E. Kruegger is a Minneapolis-based Horror writer. Follow him here for publishing news, Horror commentary, and short fiction.
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