Your cure for the Sunday blues.

What are Sunday Scaries?

Sunday Scaries are the anxiety that sets in on Sunday nights with the impending return to the office, school, or work.

About Will deFries

Will deFries is a writer and photographer living in Austin, Texas.

He started Sunday Scaries in 2013.

Ultimately, many of us have anxiety because we feel alone,” says Will deFries. “If we’re all scared together, we’re less scared collectively. You want to know that you’re not alone in your anxieties, and that there’s always something to look forward to.
— Blackberry Magazine, January 2025

The history of

Sunday Scaries

2013

Sunday Scaries begins as a blog.

2015

Hired to write full-time in Austin.

2019

The Sunday Scaries Podcast debuts.

2021

Acquired the ‘Sunday Scaries’ trademark for scented candles.

2022

Sunday Scaries launches on Substack.

2024

Sunday Scaries introduces travel.

2026

Sunday Scaries reaches 1 million followers on Instagram.