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Freddie A. Clark 💀🩸
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Cybernetic occultist spawning nightmares through words 🩸✒️
Grimdark, Sci-fi and Horror author.

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https://freddieaclark.com/
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"Caulborn" is a term used in the world of my WIP Making Monsters for those who are born wrapped in the amniotic sac. It's a direct reference to real life Benandanti and Italian folklore.

Stay turned for Part III.

Art by @martinabelli.bsky.social 🖤

A Grimdark SFF novel. NOT a romance.

#Booksky 💙📚
A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text, with a skull frame: SOME FACTS ABOUT NIKO GRIGG, THE PROTAGONIST OF MAKING MONSTERS PART II A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes the artwork depicting the MC of Making Monsters by Freddie A. Clark, Niko Grigg, a beefy, heavily tattooed man in his thirties, wearing leather clothes and spikes. He has short blond hair, light blue eyes, and a cigarette in his mouth. He joins his hands in prayer in a mocking way as he stands against a wall full of graffiti. Angel wings are painted on the wall behind him. The artwork is by the Italian artist Martina Belli. Text: ART BY MARTINA BELLI A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text: Like all Benandanti, Niko is a caulborn. Being born wrapped in his amniotic sac gave him innate shamanic powers and the ability to see the dead. DNA manipulation made him a Nephilim while still in the womb. Explaining this further would be a massive spoiler. A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes a portrait of Freddie A. Clark with heavy cybernetic augmentations, posing like Aleister Crowley. Art by Martina Belli. Text: FOLLOW FREDDIE A. CLARK HORROR, SCIFI, AND GRIMDARK AUTHOR
February 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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It's important to mention that the cover @martinabelli.bsky.social made for this short story is absolutely stunning!

Link, again: books2read.com/doctorswife

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Storygraph: tinyurl.com/yptruds7
The cover for The Doctor's Wife by F.A. Clark, made by Martina Belli. It depicts a woman standing behind a female steampunk robot, who's sitting on a pipe. Abstract clockworks are in the background and the both ladies wear Victorian clothes. The dominant colours are orange, gold and brown.
February 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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I saw this on IG last week and it describes Henry of Skalitz and Hans Capon's dynamic so well I can't stop thinking about it (and cackling)
A picture of a t-shirt with a medieval figure and the text "I do not serve cunt, I am cunt's servant"
February 10, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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More facts about Nicolas "Niko" Grigg, the protagonist of my current WIP Making Monsters.

Artwork by @martinabelli.bsky.social 🖤

THE WITCHER meets ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in MAKING MONSTERS, a Grimdark SFF novel.

NOT a romance or romantasy.

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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text, with a skull frame: SOME FACTS ABOUT NIKO GRIGG, THE PROTAGONIST OF MAKING MONSTERS PART I A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes the artwork depicting the MC of Making Monsters by Freddie A. Clark, Niko Grigg, a beefy, heavily tattooed man in his thirties, wearing leather clothes and spikes. He has short blond hair, light blue eyes, and a cigarette in his mouth. He joins his hands in prayer in a mocking way as he stands against a wall full of graffiti. Angel wings are painted on the wall behind him. The artwork is by the Italian artist Martina Belli. Text: ART BY MARTINA BELLI A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text: Since a young age, Nicolas “Niko” Grigg showed a cocky attitude and disrespect for authority. Aged 17, Niko was jailed for arson and imprisoned in Hellgate, Sulphuria’s maximum security prison. He was released for false accusations not long after. Once free he was trained by the dhampir Artemis Vespershade to the profession of Benandante, a spell-casting monster hunter. A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes a portrait of Freddie A. Clark with heavy cybernetic augmentations, posing like Aleister Crowley. Art by Martina Belli. Text: FOLLOW FREDDIE A. CLARK HORROR, SCIFI, AND GRIMDARK AUTHOR
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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No new pictures. Where are you at mentally.
The low opacity Elrond meme, a screenshot of the scene from Fellowship of the Rings showing a low-opacity Elrond on the left and a passed-out Frodo on the right
February 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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This character has me in a chokehold. He's very '90s-coded and he's giving me Charmed nostalgia for some reason. His brief appearance in Making Monsters makes me wonder if I should write a whole ass spin-off about him because I'll miss him for sure when his storyline is done
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January 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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This post also contains a short list of characters with the same vibe as Niko. Which one is your favorite?

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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes photos of a few characters: Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher, Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, Dante from Devil May Cry, Gabriel De León from Empire of the Vampire. The title reads: CHARACTERS WITH THE SAME VIBE AS NIKO A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes a portrait of Freddie A. Clark with heavy cybernetic augmentations, posing like Aleister Crowley. Art by Martina Belli. Text: FOLLOW FREDDIE A. CLARK HORROR, SCIFI, AND GRIMDARK AUTHOR
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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A very brief introduction of Nicolas "Niko" Grigg, the protagonist of my current WIP Making Monsters.

More info about him will be added to a future post 🌝

Artwork by @martinabelli.bsky.social 🖤

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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text, with a skull frame: INTRODUCING NIKO GRIGG, THE PROTAGONIST OF MAKING MONSTERS A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes the artwork depicting the MC of Making Monsters by Freddie A. Clark, Niko Grigg, a beefy, heavily tattooed man in his thirties, wearing leather clothes and spikes. He has short blond hair, light blue eyes, and a cigarette in his mouth. He joins his hands in prayer in a mocking way as he stands against a wall full of graffiti. Angel wings are painted on the wall behind him. The artwork is by the Italian artist Martina Belli. Text: ART BY MARTINA BELLI A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture contains a trimmed version of Martina Belli's artwork depicting Niko Grigg from Freddie A. Clark's book Making Monsters. Text: AGE: 37 OCCUPATION: Benandante GENDER: Male SPECIES: Nephilim CRIMINAL RECORD: Drug possession, disorderly conduct, vandalism, drunk driving, public intoxication, arson (formerly jailed for this crime, then released)
January 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Post a photo of yourself from 2016.

In my early 20s, deep in the closet, but at least I had style 😌
A picture of pre-transition Freddie A. Clark, aged 23. A young person in a steampunk outfit with round shades, a little hat, a corset, and holding a teacup.
January 15, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Subscribe to my newsletter to receive a copy of GIOELE, my philosophical body horror short story featuring a priest in Vatican City during the End of the World.

Besides, you'll receive monthly updates about me, my books, my WIPs, and stuff I don't share on social media 🌝

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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text, with a skull frame: HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO MY NEWSLETTER? I HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU... A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes the cover of Freddie A. Clark's short story GIOELE, depicting a shirtless priest in the arms of a flayed creature. The pose mimics Michelangelo's Pietà. The artwork is by the Italian artist Martina Belli. Text: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO GET A FREE COPY OF MY SHORT STORY GIOELE! JOIN THE CHRYSALIS. EMBRACE THE METAMORPHOSIS. A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture contains a screenshot from a website, showing a newsletter form. Text: TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER, HEAD TO MY WEBSITE FREDDIEACLARK.COM. YOU'LL FIND THIS FORM. SUBSCRIBE NOW! A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture includes a portrait of Freddie A. Clark with heavy cybernetic augmentations, posing like Aleister Crowley. Art by Martina Belli. Text: FOLLOW FREDDIE A. CLARK HORROR, SCIFI, AND GRIMDARK AUTHOR
January 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Also I've never seen a more medieval cat in my entire life
A photo from the game KCD2 showing a medieval cat with a weird face and clear signs of strabismus
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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🗣️ MY LAST NEWSLETTER FOR 2025 WILL BE OUT TOMORROW! 🗣️

Don't miss out! Subscribe now if you haven't yet 🌝

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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text, with a skull frame: MY LAST NEWSLETTER FOR 2025 WILL BE OUT TOMORROW! DON'T MISS OUT! A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. The picture contains a screenshot from a website, showing a newsletter form. Text: TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER, HEAD TO MY WEBSITE FREDDIEACLARK.COM. YOU'LL FIND THIS FORM. SUBSCRIBE NOW! A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. An artwork depicting a cybernetically augmented version of Freddie A. Clark in a menacing dark robe is framed by skulls. The artwork is by the Italian artist Martina Belli. Text: Art by Martina Belli FREDDIE A. CLARK HORROR, SCI-FI AND GRIMDARK AUTHOR
December 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Silksong DLC announced and it's going to be free
Marco from One Piece crying and saying "it's peak"
December 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Happy holidays from one of the main antagonists of my next novel MAKING MONSTERS, the demonic gang leader Corpsetoucher!

There's no better way to introduce this character than posting a stunning and absolutely wild holiday artwork by the amazing @martinabelli.bsky.social 🖤

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Holiday artwork by Martina Belli, featuring the character Corpsetoucher from Freddie A. Clark's WIP Making Monsters. A red-haired bearded man dressed as Santa stands in a crumbling street filled with debris and broken neon lights. He's covered in blood and wearing mirror shades. The bag he carries is filled with severed human limbs. Three flayed heads are floating above him, with cameras where their eyes would be. They wear elf hats and the third head smiles happily.
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I turn 33 this week and I couldn't miss the opportunity of referencing Expedition 33 and performing a strange combo 🥖

You can get all my short stories in a free bundle on Payhip.
Umbra: Tales of a Shadow is going to be only 0.99 everywhere until December 7.

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Picture of the mime from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in its Frenchest outfit. On its hand, Freddie A. Clark's books are badly photoshopped. The text reads: FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER Get all my short stories in a FREE BUNDLE on Payhip and UMBRA for only $0.99 to celebrate my (gommage) 33rd BIRTHDAY! VALID UNTIL DEC 7!
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Early bday present from my partner: the rare EMPIRE vinyl with hand-drawn art by one of my favorite people and artists, @czarinaofficial.com 🥹🖤

I'm blessed and lucky to have this wonderful man by my side and to know and support the incredible artist CZARINA is. We're fans of her art in this house 🖤
A picture of the rare EMPIRE vinyl by CZARINA with hand-drawn black&white art on it
October 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text: Freddie A. Clark writes Science Fiction, Grimdark and Horror with a Cyberpunk and biomech twist. Based in Milan, Clark lives with three cats, their partner, and a massive collection of Venetian masks. They draw their creativity from ‘80s aesthetic, movies and pop culture, and from an endless pile of books, graphic novels, manga and video games. The art of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński influenced them immensely, took over their mind, and gave them the ability to spawn nightmares through words. A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text: WHAT IS CHANGING? 💀 My stories are going to be darker and my worlds harsher. That's why I updated the genre Adult SFF as Grimdark in my bio. The world of MAKING MONSTERS is basically hopeless and the story is mostly set in a prison. Nobody is innocent and not even the MC is a hero. 💀 I will NOT write romantic subplots until it's 100% clear what my genres are and I feel comfortable enough to add them again. The only exceptions are the stories I write and publish as F.A. Clark. Follow @faclarkmonster on Instagram if fairy tale-ish, hopeful stories are more up your alley. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text: WHAT IS CHANGING? 💀 I'm going to have more fun and conform less and less to publishing rules, because I'm an artist and writing is self-expression to me. There's no point in being a writer if I can't be creative. I might make strange choices such as music comps, weird formatting, and chaotic asides/interludes. 💀 When MAKING MONSTERS is finally done and ready to be published, I'll finish CHRYSALIS and focus on my next novel. I won't share anything about my next WIP until the final draft is done. A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. Text, framed by skull-shaped dividers: WELCOME TO HELLGATE. ENJOY YOUR STAY.
October 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Spawning monstrosities in my most powerful form.
Art by the always incredible and amazing @martinabelli.bsky.social 🖤

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A rusty background with hexagonal shapes. An artwork depicting a cybernetically augmented version of Freddie A. Clark in a menacing dark robe is framed by skulls. The artwork is by the Italian artist Martina Belli. Text: Art by Martina Belli FREDDIE A. CLARK HORROR, SCI-FI AND GRIMDARK AUTHOR
October 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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This snippet will make it into the final version because I'm proud of it! It sounds like the opening to an '80s action movie and that's exactly what I hoped for.

THE WITCHER meets ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and DEVIL MAY CRY meets THE MANDALORIAN in MAKING MONSTERS, a Grimdark SFF novel.

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A dark background splattered with red stains, outlined in white barbed wire. Text: When the government of Sulphuria decided to turn the island of Meropis into a maximum-security prison, its main goal was gathering all the worst criminals who had set foot in the city and isolating them from society. Meropis was renamed Hellgate, a heartless pit which only had one rule: A dark background splattered with red stains, outlined in white barbed wire. Text: THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. A dark background splattered with red stains frames a collage with 9 pictures, outlined in white barbed wire. The pictures are: a crumbling abandoned city, blood, a leather jacket with sharp metal spikes, a mannequin surrounded by flames, text reading “THIS IS THE END" on a red wall, hanging metal chains, a pile of guns, a bloody hand dripping liquid, another ruined cityscape. Text: Who’s the real monster?
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Evolving, growing, embracing the Metamorphosis.

Quotes from CHRYSALIS, my philosophical body horror short story series.

Ebook (free):
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Paperback:
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A red background with white decorations. Text: “The old Margaret was gone, but a new one had taken her place. Part of the world, part of the future. Part of the Metamorphosis.” A red background with white decorations. Text: “Accept change and embrace it, or cling into Earth’s destructive past and meet your end. Do it before the Chrysalis reaches its conclusion and the actual Metamorphosis begins. I may be thoughtful and compassionate, but Earth is not.” A red background with white decorations and the covers of the short stories MARGARET and GIOELE by Freddie A. Clark. Text: CHRYSALIS: A SERIES OF STORIES ABOUT HUMANITY FACING THE END. WHO’S NEXT? GET YOUR FREE COPY OF MARGARET AND GIOELE HERE: ko-fi.com/freddieaclarkauthor payhip.com/FreddieAClarkAuthor PAPERBACK ON 'ZON A red background with white decorations. Text: A NEW ERA IS COMING.
September 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Available here:
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A purplish background with gold decorations and alchemical symbols. Text: “The Reddening is the last stage. You went through death, purification, awareness. Your body, soul and spirit are reunified and now you’re reborn as a perfect being. Your whole self is now manifest.” A purplish background with gold decorations and alchemical symbols. The cover of the book Umbra: Tales of a Shadow is in the middle. Text: QUOTES FROM UMBRA: TALES OF A SHADOW Available on all major retailers A purplish background with gold decorations and alchemical symbols. Text: A NEW ERA IS COMING.
September 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Faithful to myself, embracing my innermost side, I am evolving and growing. Writing new stories, staying true to my vision.

Quotes from UMBRA: TALES OF A SHADOW, available everywhere 🎭

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A purplish background with gold decorations and alchemical symbols. Text: “Your old self, someone else’s shadow, a pawn persuaded to be free, must die. It’s the Blackening, the first stage. Putrefaction is the first step. Without death, rebirth can’t take place.” A purplish background with gold decorations and alchemical symbols. Text: “The Whitening is the second stage. The purification, the ablutio. Your old self is reaching the light of clarity.” A purplish background with gold decorations and alchemical symbols. Text: “The Yellowing is the third stage. The sun, the strength, the awareness. You understood, you know who you are.”
September 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A steampunk story of love, overcoming abuse, and finding happiness against all odds, THE DOCTOR'S WIFE is a F/F monster romance short story set in an alternative history Victorian London.

Out SEPT 16 and available for preorder on all major retailers!

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A brown background with brocade and gold decorations. Text: Dr Abel Blackwood’s happiness collapses when his wife Olimpia, a former singer of renowned beauty, falls ill. Abel pushes the boundaries of ethics to save her life, but his obsession turns to madness. Olimpia becomes a grotesque construct made of flesh, clockwork, and steam-powered technology. Horrified by his creation, Abel attempts to kill the monster, but Olimpia and Abel’s assistant fight back. Secretly in love with Olimpia for a long time, Rowena vows to protect and take care of her in Blackwood’s mansion. The Doctor’s Wife is a sapphic monster romance short story set in an alternative history Victorian London, featuring steampunk and biopunk technology. A brown background with brocade and gold decorations. The characters Rowena and Olimpia from THE DOCTOR’S WIFE by F.A. Clark is in the middle of the picture and it features a human lady and a clockwork lady sitting on a tube and surrounded by clockwork machinery. Text: F/F HUMAN X CLOCKWORK CONSTRUCT - Steampunk Victorian London - Abusive husband who gets what he deserves - Forbidden love - HEA A brown background with brocade and gold decorations. The cover of the book THE DOCTOR’S WIFE by F.A. Clark is in the middle of the picture and it features a human lady and a clockwork lady sitting on a tube and surrounded by clockwork machinery. Text: AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR RETAILERS PREORDER NOW! BOOKS2READ.COM/DOCTORSWIFE
September 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I'm pleased and happy to show you the cover of THE DOCTOR'S WIFE by F.A. Clark, my alternative pen name focusing on sapphic love stories! Artwork by the incredible and amazing @martinabelli.bsky.social 🖤

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A brown background with brocade and gold decorations. The cover of the book THE DOCTOR’S WIFE by F.A. Clark is in the middle of the picture and it features a human lady and a clockwork lady sitting on a tube and surrounded by clockwork machinery. Text: COVER REVEAL THE DOCTOR’S WIFE ART BY MARTINA BELLI OUT SEPTEMBER 16
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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September 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM