Will Cherico

Will Cherico is a writer and filmmaker based in Stamford, Connecticut. He's been writing for as long as anyone can remember, with several short films produced and numerous stories published in print and digital anthology publications. Visible in Will's work is a unique wit, a knack for strange and creative ideas, and an excitement to work with any resources and crew available to him. When he's not reading in his free time, he's either painting miniatures or playing tabletop games, usually with a movie on.

Written and Directed by Will Cherico

Will's first film, Mexican Standoff, was selected for showing at the All American High School Film Festival. By the time he was in college he had transitioned from comedy to horror but still managed to inject his sense of humor into projects like Peep & Chatter, his thesis film which screened at the State Theatre in Ithaca, New York.

Peep & Chatter (2025)
A Method to Her Madness (2024)
Incoming Transmission (2023)
A Roll of the Dice (2020)
At Trail's End (2020)
Meat Lover (2020)
Justice Punch (2019)
Occam's Razor (2018)
Mexican Standoff (2018)

Publications

Will Cherico publishes under his full name, William Edwin Cherico. In addition to many short stories, he has also written modules and supplements for different roleplaying games, which can be found here.

  • Paul & Ron vs. the Crocoman of the Everglades (published in Wish You Were Here! Terrifying Tales of Travel): Lifelong friends Paul and Ron travel to Florida to try hunting for the first time. There's only two problems. One is that they're hopeless old-timer Yankees surrounded by young Floridians. The other is that there's a giant, man-eating monster stalking them through the swamps!

  • Down by the Cemetery (published in House of Long Shadows No. 55: A flash-fiction story about a first love and its disastrous, tragic turn at the local graveyard.

  • Water Slide (published in Easton Tales' Stolen: A Horror Anthology): On her last day of work at Wave Rave before going off to college, Gracie is caught in a night of occult terror at the water park's legendary slide, the Kraken's Revenge.

  • Father Dagon's Overture to the Opening of R'lyeh (published in Lovecraftiana Volume 10 Issue 2): A British explorer and a Wild West showman team up to catch the legendary sea monster, Father Dagon. As they attempt to transport him across the sea, they are set upon by weirdness of the highest order.

  • Johannes Lang's Last Journal Entry (published in Buzzsaw Magazine's Slasher Issue and Dug Up Magazine Volume 3): The confessions of a German deserter captured by Italy during World War I. His story begins as one of wartime horror, but features a much stranger kind of evil.

  • Nidhogg (published in Zoetic 2025): A band of mercenaries are caught in the mountains when the world is pitched into sudden darkness. They must fight for survival as something unseen begins to pick them off one by one.

  • Paene Cogito Ergo Paene Sum (published in Corner Bar Magazine Volume 10 Issue 4): The inner thoughts of a somewhat-sentient AI, pondering how close to human it can get before it is.

  • Unnamed Rabid Aggressor Transformation Tape (published in Buzzsaw Magazine's Disco Issue): The transcript of a pandemic denier's slow turn into a flesh-eating monster in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

  • Letters to a Recluse Playwright (published in Buzzsaw Magazine's Disco Issue): Recovered letters from the owner of the Gilded Greek Theater in the year leading up to the fire that destroyed the venue. Discover the curse behind Crawley Redford's horrible play in this pastiche of Robert Chambers and H.P. Lovecraft.