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Author Spotlight: Donyae ColesHow many articles do we read about how doctors don’t take women’s pain seriously? How many stories have we all heard of women getting diagnosed...
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The Ascension of MagdaleneIt felt a little like fucking. Reminded Magdalene of the first time she’d ever let a boy get a hand up her skirt, long before Ben but he didn’t...
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The H Word: The Fear Horror of ChangeJorōgumo, a spider that shapeshifts into a woman (there’s something for your nightmares). Zombies in every form. The making of a vampire. These...
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Student Living“Student Living” is something of a love letter to the makeshift nature of living on a budget as a student. It’s bleary-eyed mornings and caffeine...
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Editorial: September 2023I don’t need to dig into Lovecraft’s backstory. If you don’t know that he’s a deeply racist person who let his problematic ideas bleed cruelty all...
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Author Spotlight: Pedro IniguezSometimes we are at the mercy of things that scare us, and those things become our voice and they control our lives until we are destroyed by those...
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Nightmare of a Million FacesWhen the sun plunged beneath the horizon, the striations of red clouds looked like gashes raked across the sky; flayed wounds ready to rain blood...
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de•crypt•ed—Flanagan on VanderMeerScreenwriter and author Jamie Flanagan discusses the impact of Jeff VanderMeer's works on their own writing, with a special emphasis on Veniss...
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Tropical Fish“Tropical Fish” is a relic from my childhood and mostly true. I had an aquarium in my bedroom, and my dad and I spent a lot of time staring at...
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Author Spotlight: J. ChoeThe best horror stories are a gateway to another world, another life. You are no longer just reading, but feeling that dread alongside the main...
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The Girls That FollowWhen he tells me to feed her, I do. And I do despite her cries, and despite the rattle of her chains echoing through the basement. The basement of...
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The H Word: The Un-manored GothicI’ve always loved gothic romances and horror. Darkness, melancholy, and intense emotion have long been my siren calls, and I gravitated to these...
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Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching BodyONE: I told them it was stupid to rent the same cabin in the woods where that other slaughter took place, twenty years ago. I said I knew of a...
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Author Spotlight: Nuzo OnohFor me, characters, more than anything else, have always driven my appreciation of fiction. When I, the conduit, manage to portray my characters...
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OyiliKachi stroked the yellow python-eye hidden between the cheeks of his buttocks with a distracted finger. The familiar round smoothness of the hard...
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Book Review: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-GarciaAre you ready for Silver Nitrate , the new novel from Silvia Moreno-Garcia? Let horror expert Emily Hughes tell you why it's a must-read this summer!
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Why Are You Haunted?I first wrote this poem back in 2020. I've been a lifelong fan of horror and was helping a friend start to get to know the genre. One of our...
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Author Spotlight: Adam R. ShannonI spend about a third of my life in a fire station, which is about as close as I can imagine to a haunted house. It’s a lot like a home, with a...
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First in Fear and Then in PainI wouldn’t describe it as waking up. If you’ve been in a car accident, you know the violence. One moment, your life feels the size of your body,...
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The H Word: My Journey into Jewish HorrorLike many a ’90s kid, my first true foray into horror was R.L. Stine, with his Goosebumps and Fear Street series. The first book I picked up was...
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Anatomy of a Haunted HouseThis story came from a writing prompt about how “kitchen spirits are the friendliest ghosts,” which of course made me think about the other,...
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Editorial: July 2023Those early years of my life have given me a deep appreciation for a genre of fiction you might call “Financial Horror.” Stories in this genre...
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Author Spotlight: Isha KarkiThe kernels of this story began with a few interlinked ideas: capitalism as a devouring force; the commodification of identities and the...
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Sell Your Trauma for SalvationWhen you get to the body, it’s still warm. Maybe because you’re exhausted, because your joints are feverish and your chest feels like it’s scraped...
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Book and Media Review: June 2023You can reduce the vampire to a snarling beast who slits throats, but---the energy invested in any fresh iteration aside---the trope is much more...
