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INTERVIEW WITH LAUREN CURTIS Above is Lauren’s newest piece in her x-ray series. She is a freelance illustrator and fine artist. She has been involved in the Wiccan/Pagan and Gothic communities for many years. Her work reflects her interests in mythology, (especially Egyptian, Celtic, and Greco-Roman), spirituality, the Occult, and dark fantasy. Lauren works in many mediums, such as pen [...]
WARNING: ADULT SEXUAL CONTENT GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING The heavily tattooed bouncer at the Ass-U-Like-It strip club stood outside the entrance squeezing tightly on the nozzle of a hose. He held it close to his beer belly and aimed downward, in a hurry to spray a mix of beads, plastic cups, and other Mardi Gras debris into the street. The bulldozer [...]
I’m off prompt today, trying to catch up on stories I’ve written but not edited. This week I’m posting my Undead New Year’s story and earlier this week I posted 4 and 20 Clowns (Part 1), which really goes with this week’s theme, but part 2 won’t be ready until next week. -W.J. Howard I don’t know what I was [...]
This is last week’s #fridayflash for Vamplit, but unfortunately I’m starting the new year behind on editing. Part 2 will come next week with a story about Mardi Gras. -W.J. Howard On their way home from fishing in their favorite pond, Kevin lagged back behind his older brother Matt and Matt’s friend Joey. He had stopped to slip out of [...]
Welcome to week 3 and 4 of the holiday horror movies reviews by Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard. Apologies for two weeks in one post. Illnesses got in the way last week. Don’t forget to leave a comment in the current week’s post to enter a weekly drawing to win a free Vamplit novel of your choice. You can also [...]
Welcome to week 2 of the holiday horror movies reviews by Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard. We are reviewing movies as we find time to watch them through the holidays. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Leave a comment and enter a weekly drawing [...]
This week we’re sharing our Thanksgiving traditions and recipes. Add a comment and share you own traditions and recipes. Below are our author’s and contributor’s. Sue Mydliak Growing up my mother and father would be preparing the Thanksgiving dinner while my twin and I would watch the parades still in our jammies. Then as it got closer to dinner time, [...]
ABOUT THIS PIECE SkullXBones (in red) was taken in the Kutna Hora Bone Ossuary outside of Prague…it’s a small church with the entire interior decorated in human bones! Lauren shot this B&W image of the skulls and cross-bones that line the doorways, and enhanced it in Photoshop. Purchase for $50 (price is for a signed, matted 8×10 photo not including [...]
Welcome to week 1 of the holiday horror movies reviews by Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard. This marathon is less structured than the Halloween marathon in that we are reviewing movies as we find time to watch them through the holidays. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in [...]
ABOUT THE ARTIST Neilan Thunblom is a 4th grader at Meadow Point Elementary. He enjoys listening to music, playing on his computer, and playing the piano. He also enjoys taking photographs and drawing pictures of nature. For the above picture, Neilan used the fall leaves to set the background for his dad’s art pieces. The brain piece looks like it [...]
Gaynor and I are at it again, this time watching holiday season themed horror movies. We won’t be watching a movie a day thought, instead our intent is to watch as many movies as we can between now and the first of next year. For this marathon I’ve searched the Internet for lists of Christmas and New Years horror movies, [...]
Birds of Sacrifice was originally released last month for Tuesday Tales, a 100 word flash fiction challenge that is based on a photo and a word. They expanded the word count to 1000 words that week and asked Vamplit to contribute one of our photos for this month’s Horrific Visions event. The word was spectrum and Sue Mydliak’s amazing Hell’s [...]
Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard are embarking on a mission. Our goal is to watch a zombie movie a day during the entire month of October. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Twenty-four days of zombie movies down, seven to go. Here’s what we [...]
I got a little busy and didn’t finish last week’s costume story in time, so I’m making up for it this week. This is another children’s tale I wrote for my young friend Avery. A few months ago I promised to write her a story about her favorite thing, shoes. So be careful what you wish upon your shoes, Avery. [...]
Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard are embarking on a mission. Our goal is to watch a zombie movie a day during the entire month of October. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Twenty-four days of zombie movies down, seven to go. Here’s what we [...]
Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard are embarking on a mission. Our goal is to watch a zombie movie a day during the entire month of October. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Seventeen days of zombie movies down, fourteen to go. Here’s what we [...]
“C’mon, they’d do it on jackass.” Kyle stood with his camera in hand; ready to film his latest daredevil stunt creation. He, Ned and Ward were hidden twenty yard inside the cornfield owned by Kyle’s family. Beside them was a three foot pile of stolen pumpkins, some whole, some carved, some smashed. It had taken the three thieves two days [...]
Gaynor Stenson and Wendy Howard are embarking on a mission. Our goal is to watch a zombie movie a day during the entire month of October. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Ten days of zombie movies down, twenty-one to go. Here’s what we [...]
Our first prompt for Halloween inspired me to write a tale for my three nephews and a close friend’s son and daughter. It’s also dedicated to all the greedy little children who come to your door every year and try to take more than their fair share of the candy. There was only one lesson Hansel and Gretel hadn’t learn [...]
Hugh Hall awoke suddenly from a bad dream, only to be reminded his reality was worse than any nightmare. His mother was dying in her hospital bed beside him. He had meant to remain awake, but it was late, and the flickering light from the television screen accompanied by hushed background noise had lulled him to sleep. The doctors had [...]
Gaynor Stenson and I, Wendy Howard are embarking on a mission. Our goal is to watch a zombie movie a day during the entire month of October. Every Tuesday we’ll tell you what we’ve watched and what we thought about each of the movies here in the Vamplit Blog. Here’s our initial list, but it’s subject to change based on [...]
I knew I was lost as soon as I passed the exit to Stage Road. My sister Gwen had assured me her email directions would lead me to her bridal shower out in the boonies without fail. She was wrong, as usual. Gwen was marrying a chicken farmer. What was she thinking? We were city girls after all. Then again [...]
Britney sneezed and the mugger shot her in the chest. She died instantly. It happened late at night, in the alley behind a movie theater. Her father Kevin had parked there so they were on time for the start of the Twilight premier. The nervous mugger approached as soon as they got out of Kevin’s truck. Kevin was prepared to [...]
I wrote this story ten years ago, but never edited it. I apologize that it’s over 1300 words. I just couldn’t get it down any further from the original 4000. Geneva danced her way through the small cabin in the woods for the first time as a home owner. She twirled past rustic furniture, more suitable for a man, and [...]
I’ve been like a kid a Christmas, waiting for this month’s Death theme to begins. This week took me some time to think through though. I didn’t want to write a story about the popular undead of today, so I did a little research and fell in love with the draugar. Draugar were believed to live in the graves of [...]
WARNING: ADULT CONTENT GRAPHIC BUT NOT TOO DISTURBING For the first time since I was a little girl, I sat at Aunt Trudy’s vanity, a place we had once spent hours painting each other’s faces and adorning ourselves with costume jewelry. Back then, a young and beautiful vision reflected in the mirror, but that time in my life has been [...]
WARNING: ADULT CONTENT INCLUDING INCEST GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING Leon sat in his delivery truck outside the local City Market. He had just finished his last delivery of the day for his mother’s sausage company. He had also made an ass of himself fifteen minutes prior when he asked Betty, a daytime checker out on a date. She had not only [...]
WARNING: ADULT CONTENT GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING Cries have been echoing from the forest behind the restrooms for the past hour. It’s Baby and it’s reminding me it’s hungry. Monday nights, turning tricks here at the rest stop are always quiet though. In fact, I haven’t seen a man come through in nearly three hours. All of the sudden Baby quiets, [...]
Max waited for Dr. Krause beside the gate leading into St. Mary’s Cemetery. The Doctor had promised to meet him there at six o’clock, and it was already twenty minutes past the hour. Max hoped he wouldn’t have to reschedule because the sooner he dealt with his fetish, the better. At least that’s what his brother told him after Max [...]
“Filipe called in sick, again?” Rachel pursed her lips and glared at Bill where he sat in his cubical. “I know what you’re worried about, but stop it,” Bill said. “We’ll finish the first phase of the experiments by the end of the week,” “Not likely. We’re too far behind schedule.” “You know you only have yourself to blame for [...]
Four-year-old Amy had become quite a handful for her mother, Emily while the family moved into their new home. Emily, seven months pregnant with twins, quickly lost patience with her daughter. “Amy, go to the playroom and unpack your toys,” said Emily after Amy sang her ABCs for what seemed like the hundredth time. “Okay,” replied Amy. She eagerly left [...]
Amber whisked her lab coat backward and stood with her hands on her hips. “Professor Cale, how long are we going to keep Alex’s condition a secret?” She intended to stand firm until he gave her a definitive answer. “Do I have to remind you who’s responsible for his condition?” he snapped back at his lab assistant. “If we tell [...]
“I’ll tell you my husband’s story,” Enid said from across her kitchen table. “It’s what I read in his journal twenty years ago, his only belonging found at the Seguin Lighthouse after his disappearance.” “Couldn’t you just give me the journal to read, Mrs. Crane?” “I’m afraid not. It was lost a year later, when we moved from Maine to [...]
Suzie struggled to straighten the plastic legs on the three-foot-tall doll, then adjusted the torso, turned the head and swung the arms to just the right balance. “To bed, Miss Suzie.” Across the room her mother held up the quilt on the five-year-old’s bed, inviting Suzie to slip under the covers. The Patty Play Pal doll finally stood on its [...]
Alan stopped at the edge of a cliff, and we all halted in line behind him. He stared across the valley for several seconds, then pointed the tip of his riffle at a distant cave, several feet up from where a trail passed beneath it. “How long before we reach the other side?” I asked Alan. “Five miles.” I looked [...]
I wrote the first section of this week’s part as an afterthought, when it occurred to me that you readers needed to know the history of The Bone Festival going into the story. So this first section actually belongs at the beginning of last week’s part. I really hate explaining a scene, or in this case the history, but for [...]
The 45th Annual Bone Festival begins Saturday, April 24th at 12:00 P.M. with the Parade of Coffins led by Mr. John Walker, Pine Creek Museum Curator. The parade starts at Main Street and 1st Avenue and ends at the top of Bone Hill, followed by the coffin races an hour later. Each decorated coffin will contain three riders dressed as [...]
Sometime in the future They sleep. In a deep unwakable hibernation, and nearing a third of our world’s population, they are everywhere. For nearly twenty long years, the number of sleepers continue to increase with no sign of a cure. The only hope for humanity, a device. The Somnambulist Device to be exact. Invented ten years ago by the young [...]
Welcome to our showcase of #fridayflash out on Twitter. Every Thursday, the Vamplit authors and blog contributors share our favorite #fridayflash horror stories and continue to add links throughout the weekend. You get to recommend your favorites too by adding links to them in the comments. We’ll read as many of your recommendations as we can, time permitting, and retweet [...]
Fallen chairs and shattered wineglasses, scattered across the wine tasting room floor, told of a hasty retreat. No invited guest would dare re-enter after they witnessed the pouring of the first varietal. Still, the party had just begun for the undead, who once lay contorted and buried beneath the hearty vineyard that covered their mass grave. * * * Earlier that [...]
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