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Halloween Fiction: The Halloween Decorations Looked At MeAs is our tradition around here, we’ve got an extra short story for you, delivered by me, your humble Fictionmonger. And written by our usual...
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Creature Feature Reviews: “Big Bad” by Chandler Baker“Big Bad” made for an interesting end to the Creature Feature collection. It’s the only story in it that fits within any of my preconceived...
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Unspeakably Scary Things Issue #8I stared at the adult person, or adult person-shaped thing, standing there. They didn’t do anything at first. I risked glancing back to make sure...
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Creature Feature Reviews: “Best of Luck” by Jason Mott“Best of Luck” is pulling as my favorite story in the collection. Although “Ankle Snatcher” is the only one that scared me, this one was the most...
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Creature Feature Reviews: “In Bloom” by Paul Tremblay“In Bloom” just kept missing. Each time the horror felt like it was going to build to something, each time I thought the concept was going to hit...
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Unspeakably Scary Things Issue #7The open door of The Phobia Box filled my vision. The idea that I could fall into the damn thing occurred to me, and I stepped back from it.
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Creature Feature Reviews: “It Waits In the Woods”If there was an award for the most middle-of-the-road story in this collection, “It Waits in the Woods” would currently win.
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Creature Feature Reviews: “Ankle Snatcher” by Grady HendrixI’m not that easily scared, but “Ankle Snatcher” genuinely freaked me out. The night I read it, I obeyed all the rules outlined about how not to...
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Friday Fiction: The Cold ArrivesThe seasons are changing. It will only get colder. Autumn, and all it brings, is here to stay. And, as we cross that threshold, a pair of mystical...
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Creature Feature Reviews: “The Pram” by Joe HillAs odd as it is for a horror fan to say, “The Pram” is the first thing I’ve read by Joe Hill, the son of the most famous horror writer in the...
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Friday Fiction: The Possibly Magical Bird (Part 3)Timothy has one chance to make a wish. But is this “magic bird” even real, or just some robot playing a prank?
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The Call of the Flame: An Interesting PremiseThe Call of the Flame initially worried me that it would be a repeat of my usual concerns with Epic Fantasy. In my very recent review of The Legacy...
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It Came From The Archives! “The Storage Papers: As Scary As The Magnus Archives?”Before listening to The Storage Papers, I never thought a podcast could scare me as much as The Magnus Archives. That the mind-melting, the...
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Friday Fiction: The Possibly Magical Bird (Part 2)Last week, Timothy met a strange bird. But now we’ll get to find out what the bird wants from him.
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5 Reasons Fiction Podcasts Are AmazingIf you’ve been reading some of the more recent reviews, then you know we’ve pivoted to basically only looking at podcasts and books until the...
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The Legacy Saga: Generic Epic FantasyThe Legacy Saga taught me an interesting lesson about tropes, genre conventions, and storytelling methods that I simply cannot enjoy. In the grand...
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Friday Fiction: The Possibly Magical Bird (Part 1)We said this story would be whimsical, and let it never be said we don’t deliver on whimsey. Unlike last week’s tale of magic and a lost cellphone,...
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It Came From The Archives! “Black Tide: A Self-Contained Apocalypse”Black Tide was a different sort of book than I expected. The premise of a cosmic horror-style alien invasion was interesting by itself, but Black...
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A Charming Deck Tech With ErietteMuch like last set’s Tom Bombadil, Eriette of the Charmed Apple begs for someone to build around her. But there was a problem right out the gate:...
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Friday Fiction: Shape Painter’s LamentThis is a silly one, folks. We’ve done many serious, intense, or frightening stories, but this is resolutely not one of them. This is a low...
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Campfire Radio Theater Might Be Too ScaryCampfire Radio Theater is an anthology horror series tied to no apparent central themes, no reoccurring characters, and as a bit of foreshadowing:...
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Civilized: Improv Sci-Fi FunCivilized is a first for me as a reviewer: it’s an improvisational podcast. Meaning the actors are just playing off each other. And as such, I...
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Unspeakably Scary Things Issue #6I screamed for longer than I thought I ever could. I screamed until I was sure I was about to die from suffocation if the bugs didn’t take me out.
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It Came From The Archives! “Harrow Lake: A Metaphor That Looks Like A Horror Novel”Calling Harrow Lake a disappointment is perhaps too strong a phrase, but the book does fail to deliver in a few key aspects. There was a missing...
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Top 10 Best Wilds of Eldraine CardsThe Wilds of Eldraine arrives very soon. It will go live on Arena less than a day after this post goes up. And I’ve looked over every single card,...
