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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 Love. When I started to [...]
‘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 belied her obvious age as [...]
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 are good at is waiting. [...]
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 could do nothing to stop [...]
‘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.’ ‘Why us, Adonis?’ I raise [...]
The world of horror writing is a struggle. There are millions of time-worn cliché ideas to fall back on and many writers do just that. Taking a chance means taking a risk and that’s a dangerous idea. Selling the cliché is far easier. Editor Frank Hutton has put together a collection of stories that take chances in his anthology Tattered [...]
I’m afraid my #fridayflash is a little bit of a cheat as I wrote this poem some years ago. When I accidentally entered the artwork I produced for this poem in this months artwork for horrific visions I decided to give the poem a quick edit and add it to the painting.
As any of my regular readers know, gore and violence is not my thing. Most horror today however, is just an excuse for torture, graphic violence, and bloodshed. Every now and then though, an author throws out the Horror 101 handbook and really digs into terror. Robert Dunbar’s Willy is one of those no rules novels. Dunbar opens the novel [...]
A Baroness’s Tale Arguably, one of the greatest exorcists the UK has ever known was the late, Reverend Christopher Neil-Smith who sadly left us in 1995. Reverend Neil-Smith was a High Anglican Priest and a very respected man in both his church office and within the community at large within which he worked. In his memoirs he speaks openly about [...]
This Competition is now closed and the code for a FREE copy of Music Box Sonata will be sent to: Carole Gill Andrew Vallee T. K. Millin NEW RELEASE MUSIC BOX SONATA By Timothy C. Hobbs At the top of a steep cliff a derelict church serves its congregation of dust, cobwebs and birds roosting in the rafters. One human [...]
She heard the music, Danse Macabre, and then she knew, she wasn’t alone… Sadie Gray entered the competition by accident really; she was having coffee alone after a long morning shopping for a new, but cheap, sofa when she heard someone at the next table reading an article from the local paper. When they’d left, she noticed they’d left the [...]
I wasn’t at all certain as to whether or not I should stay at the Borden Bed and Breakfast in Fall River, Mass–scene of the brutal Borden murders. I mean ugh! The axe and the chop! chop! stuff. You know the song: Lizzie Borden took an axe…! Well I stayed there with some friends. They stayed in the other rooms; I however [...]
Part I Jarom Myers stood shivering in Zuccotti Park while Mary searched out “a decent bathroom.” While he waited, he cursed the power that a woman could have over a good man. Not that he necessarily considered himself a good man, but he figured if they couldn’t resist the temptation, what chance did he have? ABOUT THE AUTHOR BLOG Paul [...]
Sometimes the old rules and laws of the world do not die simply because of a progressive society or sciences that abolish the dark and give comfort to our fears as we are given a lit path to show us the way. Primal forces merely grow clever; finding new places to stash themselves until the moment or time is right [...]
‘Shut up, woman,’ he snarled at the thing, his wife, who sat on the bed sneering at him as usual. He’d spent a lifetime listening to her, before her it had been his father carping and griping day after day about his shortcomings. He sat at the dressing table mirror putting the last touches to his Halloween costume under her [...]
Imelda Watson sat looking out of the window, this and nothing more. She never spoke or looked directly into the eyes of the people paid to look after her. Hour after hour, she stared at the woods surrounding the house, her wood, filled with memories and so much more. Rich, but old, what use was money to Imelda when she [...]
The vampire strolled down the nursing home hallway. He wore a fuchsia polo shirt and tan khakis. A pair of brown loafers covered his bare feet. His alabaster skin gleamed under the dimmed lights, his pale beautiful face markedly outlined in a cave of black hair falling loosely to his shoulders. Most of the aged and infirm residents were deep [...]
The Comte Claude Louis de St Germain “The other day they seized an odd man, who goes by the name of Count St. Germain. He has been here these two years, and will not tell who he is, or whence, but professes [two wonderful things, the first] that he does not go by his right name; [and the second [...]
Alice could smell it again and she almost heaved as the acrid stench of decay filled her senses. Everyone told her the last months of pregnancy were the worst, but at least her friends hadn’t still been hurling chunk on a regular basis in their last trimester. She was, but only when she entered the baby’s room, only when she [...]
There’s power in superstition. I’ve never been too superstitious, but I can tell these three kids out hiking in the middle of the night got a strong streak of it running through ‘em. Why else would they be going out to the mesa on a full moon? Well, for one, they’re hiking out there to try and scare the new [...]
“The demolition crew found the corpse, right?” Detective Mike Brandon asked his partner. It was almost seven pm. “No,” Mason Phelps answered, glancing at the paperwork spread out on his desk. “Remember how the city started sending crews in to make sure a condemned house was empty of any living thing?” Mike grinned. “Yeah. That raccoon family got wiped out [...]
Introduction The Wandering Jew Not many people are aware that the British Isles are as abound with tales of vampires as are the countries of Eastern Europe. Given Britain’s long and diverse history, this has always surprised me. Surely a nation, whose very past is drenched with the blood of millions, must have at least, one vampire type tale? [...]
I’ve been a fan of horror for as long as I can remember. I started on reruns of Buffy and moved into the blood, splatter and gore as I got older. But last October, after a terrible accident, my life changed radically; suddenly the blood and guts didn’t have quite the same appeal. I had to relearn everything about my [...]
Okay, where do I start? I guess I should admit that when they first announced a Fright Night remake, I nearly spit blood. I mean, how could they take something sacred and re-do it?! Especially in this day and age, when many films seem to be brain candy and vampires have lost their bite (literally — the Meyer vampires have [...]
Louis’ scent preceded his arrival, wafting around me, pulling me close into a seductive, perfumed embrace. Deeply inhaling, I allowed the pleasure of his presence to fill me. “Bonjour, Louis.” His voice caressed my ear the way his scent engulfed my senses. “Ma petite, you knew it was me?” Turning from the window, I graced him with a coy smile. “Of [...]
She had hopes and dreams. Dreamt all of her childhood away, sitting in the movie theater with her mama watching Jean Harlow. Someday I’ll be a big star. So she moves out to L. A. but her dad doesn’t like her, she can’t please him or maybe she isn’t trying. She starts to drift. Jobs and men and dance clubs, [...]
My mother and father were always out a lot, or at least it seemed that way because I was alone most of the time at night. The most terrible thing about being all alone at night was the mirror that stood like an enormous centurion above the fireplace in my parent’s sitting room. I never liked being alone, nor have [...]
For Alice to stop at a yard sale was a rare event, but there was something that appealed to her about the old house down the street with the estate sale sign in the front yard. She got out of her car and milled with the scant customers there, coming upon the most remarkable phonograph sitting on a mahogany table. [...]
The night enclosed Dash G. Chandler like the grip of an overzealous broad and pulled on him, making him inhale deeper on the gasper he’d just lit, but didn’t really want. His eyes never left the red light that held his car at bay for what seemed like forever. The wipers scraped across the windscreen, joining in the intermittent cacophony [...]
Serena was driving too fast for the narrow, winding route across the moor. She was tired and could think only of being tucked up against the cold, autumn night in a warm bed with a cup of hot chocolate. Maurice was already asleep, snoring in the reclining passenger seat beside her. ‘Just like a husband when she needed him,’ she [...]
Gretchen opened the door expecting to see the paperboy, not an intriguing stranger. Staring at him gave her a rush of excitement she’d never experienced as his eyes intensely bore into hers. His voice beguiled as he spoke, its rich and smooth sound as enticing as his stare. “Excuse me; is this the home of Professor John Phoust?” Gretchen’s mouth [...]
Joe always appeared to be a strange sort: a short, pot-bellied, balding guy obviously under the thumb of his domineering wife, but this . . . this I didn’t expect. The man always seems to hide within his own shadows, afraid to do anything meaningful. Yet now his mind is releasing its secrets to me, screaming out the horrors he [...]
Regal is death personified and all kindness, she cried as they died. She took their souls to an ancient sleep beneath the earth, to lie so deep. Her face holds beauty, horror and despair, her fate to kill and still to care. Satan’s daughter and his bride, she wanders the earth bound to his side. Cursed to kill at [...]
The pain dulled after the fifth tequila shot. “Mas tequila,” Parker ordered. A skinny cadaverous faced bartender poured another shot. “What brings the senor to Guanajuato? The mummies?” “Mummies?” Parker asked. “Si, The Museum of the Mummies.” Parker shook his head no. “It’s a secret,” he whispered. “I’m on the run.” Parker held a finger to his lips. “Ssshhh. Parker [...]
A Report By Jevron McCrory Confession upfront; (one I think I already made in my debut novella, Swan Song’s Author Notes) I’m absolutely obsessed with the 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys. Ridiculously so. This isn’t news to anyone who knows me. (Honestly, it may not even be news to those that don’t). So when my friend’s girlfriend casually announced that not [...]
This week I started out by researching hopping vampires in the mythology of China, but as often happens I was side tracked by a link to wiki that appeared in my search. I’ve put a link to the article at the end of the quote for any one who’d like to read more about the mummies being found in China. [...]
Cottonwood, Texas 1890 The soulful cry of a whippoorwill floated on the wind. Lonnie sighed in his sleep and reached across to hold his wife only to find a vacant, cold spot. Lonnie opened his eyes. A figure holding a candle approached. “Paw Paw’s outside,” Lonnie’s ten-year-old son Jacob said. Lonnie slid from under the covers and pulled a robe [...]
Sadie felt the breeze on her face and smiled, it wouldn’t be sensible to be seen without her mask. Only a few, a privileged few, from the village had been invited to the ball and she didn’t want to be sent home in disgrace. The invitation had stated categorically that masks must be worn at all times, but it was [...]
She pulled the van by the curb and assessed the modest, frame home. The yard was covered by weeds and wild flowers with thin traces of Bermuda grass. “It’s hard to find someone to deliver meals to Mr. Adams,” the supervisor at Meals on Wheels had explained. “He has leprosy, but it’s not contagious. It came from research on mutant [...]
Welcome to Vamplit Blog Ryan and thank you for agreeing to talk to us about the making of Zombies from Ireland, your Indie zombie film made here in Wales. Anyone who has read my blog post earlier this week will know I’m a fan even before I’ve seen the film. I loved your whole approach to making your film and [...]
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