I was twelve. We had just moved to a new town that August, and I hadn’t yet made any … More
Category: Haunted Passages
An ominous wind circles you in the middle of an isolated woods. Your friends wander into an empty factory, under the cover of dusk, never to be seen again. These are “Haunted Passages,” new features of unearthly delights.
Craft Essay: “Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart” by BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN author Paul Michael Anderson
I want to talk about the limitless possibilities of what horror is and what horror can do. I want … More
Flash Fiction: “The Cable Company” by DARKANSAS author Jarret Middleton
A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the slot of … More
Five Poems by Esteban Rodriguez
Landscape with tree and leg Then you come across a tree, and hanging from its branch you find a … More
“Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You”: A Critical Analysis of APOSTLE, the 2018 Netflix orginal film directed by Gareth Evans
Warning: Spoilers abound!
“In Darkness,” a horror memoir by Craig Wallwork, author of GORY HOLE: A HORROR TRIPLE BILL
Horror has been with me from a very early age. I found several copies of The House of Hammer … More
“Monster Family Portraits”: Fourteen Ghost and Monster Movies that Inspired or Influenced GUIGNOL & OTHER SARDONIC TALES by Orrin Grey
My previous collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, was specifically and self-consciously assembled around an idea of … More
“Halloween Poem” by Lucas Mangum, author of the dark suspense novel GODS OF THE DARK WEB
Halloween, six-years-old: Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, My brother and I Chased by a mummy. The next year I dressed As … More
“The Good Folk” a nonfiction essay by Carrie Laben
It was one of the most grueling scenes of my novel to write. A mother confronts the supernatural family … More
David James Keaton’s “Gasoline Dreams”: A Definitive, Last-word Inventory of Car-Chase Flicks
As I was poking around under the hood of my new collection, Our Pool Party Bus Forever Days: Road … More
“The Colossal Beast Strikes a Match in My Brain”: Lee Widener Introduces His Cosmic Horror Collection UNDER THE SHANGHAI TUNNELS: AND OTHER WEIRD TALES
It all began for me on a Saturday night when I was eight years old. I had awakened thirsty … More
“Proof in the Blood,” a short story by Michael Allen Rose
They say there’s proof in the blood, that something can be in it that you didn’t put there and … More
