As part of the Read an Ebook Week I’m reading Satan’s Toy Box an anthology of short stories and poems inspired by one of our #fridayflash prompts and published by Angelic Knight Press. The author of the poem below is Blaze McRob and he has given us permission to reproduce it here. Many of our
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Read an E-book Week is here again and this year on Vamplit Blog it’s bigger and better than ever before. This year we’ll be celebrating the ebook with events and competitions throughout March. For those readers who have never heard of Read an Ebook Week it’s a worldwide promotion of electronic books which aims to
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February is Women in Horror Month and Wendy suggested to me we celebrate some of the women writers, directors and artists who have contributed to our love of the genre in a series of posts. My offering celebrates the writing of the author Angela Carter through her short story The Lady in the House of
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‘How much for this?’ Sadie asked, handling the purple, green and yellow coloured-glass bead necklace. ‘That, my dear, it’s nothing but a cheap glass trinket of no real value. If you’re looking for jewellery, we have some beautiful jet necklaces or pearls.’ The woman moved across the junk shop with a grace and speed that
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She saw the circus flyer pinned to a lamppost on the corner of the dilapidated street where she lived. She paused, only for a moment, it wasn’t the kind of neighbourhood it was safe to pause longer in, but she was hooked. Now, all they had to do was wait and one thing the damned
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Armando Venzinie had been a very bad man when he’d been alive. When he was a child, he’d tortured animals and other children, as an adult he committed crimes against property, stealing from the rich and poor, beating any who stood in his way. Everyone around him, including his parents, knew he was evil, but
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‘Will they come, do you think?’ I ask my beloved bonded other. He smiles and shrugs his shoulders in an obvious gesture of resignation. He and I have come a long way from our childhood on Earth, so far in fact, that we’ve become famous, become freaks. ‘You know they’ll come, Astrid, they always come.’
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