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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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?
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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
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