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Our Very Best Selves!I like car journeys in the passenger’s seat. They give me time to think and rethink things beyond the shape of my life. I’m not allowed to play...
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The H Word: Scream & the Joy of Cheap Thrills“What’s your favorite scary movie?” It’s a question I’m often asked, and, for the longest time, I never had an answer to it. In a genre as...
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A Guide to Camping in the ForestBefore we left camp, we were informed about the dos and donts for living in our respective communities, considering we were strangers. Happenings...
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Editorial: March 2024Sometimes people just suck . Let me clarify. Lest you think I’ve been mainlining cable news or perhaps just reading a lot of Sartre (who hurt you,...
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Second DeathsChuck was wire-sick again, so he hobbled up onto Jerome’s porch one sunny afternoon, need curling his spine like a bent clothes hanger. Jerome was...
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de•crypt•ed: Moraine on KingLet me begin as simply as I can: It’s really weird to revisit Stephen King’s The Stand in late 2023. Here’s where the simplicity stops, because...
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The Mourning of Sam Lillow, the GardenerI used to have this illustrated version of Beauty and the Beast when I was little, which more often than not I used to retrace the drawings than...
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Author Spotlight: H.B. MenendezI’m pretty sure I still have a Post-It somewhere in my bedside table on which is scribbled in near-indecipherable handwriting “the witch falls in...
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Preamble to the Death of a Small GodHer fingers, then, had folded around the clay, her mind entranced. Her fingers traced the soft wetness, pressed gently, pressed firmly, bent,...
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The H-Word: You Can’t LeaveIt’s a quiet night at home. A woman watches a scary movie in a darkened room when a real-life killer appears. Screaming, she jumps from the couch,...
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First GirlsI wouldn't survive a slasher film. When the killer comes to town and starts popping off fresh-faced coeds, I’d eat it before we hit Act II. I have...
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Author Spotlight: George SandisonExtreme wealth seems to function as mental illness for many people, as it depends on a dehumanisation of everyone else to normalise the excess...
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The Cut Cares Not for the FleshAs Annie slips into the club, she grins at Robert, all trepidation and excitement. She hardly disturbs the velvet curtains with her passing, so...
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Interview: V. CastroV. Castro is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated Mexican American writer from San Antonio, Texas now residing in the UK. She writes horror,...
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In Our Bodies, There Is HeatI was inspired by my body, and bodies in general. What it means for a body to exist in spaces that find it unworthy, unholy. And how sometimes, we...
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Author Spotlight: Andrew SnoverTo live in the world today means accepting horrors as a matter of course, and the narrator certainly does that. I wanted it to read as if it’s all...
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The ForgetterI work in a tall brick room with peaked cathedral ceilings. At one end of the room there is a brick-lined chute, chimneylike, that opens up out of...
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The H Word: All the Missing MothersShe might have siblings, cruel or kind, and a neglectful father wooed by the most wicked of stepmothers. Perhaps she’s a princess stuck in a...
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Chase SceneI've been marathoning classic horror movies with my teenage daughter. Talking with her about how we both came to love the genre set off a...
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Editorial: January 2024Welcome to another year celebrating horror and dark fantasy fiction! We’re excited to scare, unsettle, nauseate, amuse, and depress you---because...
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Author Spotlight: R.A. BusbyThe other part was the frustration many of us feel if we’re able to become pregnant and our period is late, or we’re trying not to get pregnant...
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Ten Thousand Crawling ChildrenPregnancy is an infestation. A hidden invasion. An invisible operative sneaks inside you, planting a package of foreign genetic material and...
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Book and Media Review: December 2023Adam-Troy Castro dives into Stephen King's new novel Holly, then goes on to recommend a dark Chilean film ( El Conde ) and the latest adaptation...
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dreadSome time ago, I woke from a dream in which I had gone missing. Over the course of the ensuing sunlit hours, I could not rid myself of the...
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Author Spotlight: Ashlee LhamonBeing a teenager is horrifying! There is the horror of your body suddenly being outside of your control, for one, and it’s so messy and gross and...
