Tag: Gabino Iglesias
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“Halloween Memories: The Dark,” a short memoir by Scott Cole, author of Triple Axe, for Haunted Passages
Halloween Memories: The Dark I was twelve. We had just moved to a new town that August, and I hadn’t yet made any real close friends in the short time we’d been there. Two Halloweens earlier, when I was ten, we’d just moved to a different new town. That year, I made plans to go…
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Craft Essay for Haunted Passages: “Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart” by Bones Are Made to Be Broken author Paul Michael Anderson
Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart I want to talk about the limitless possibilities of what horror is and what horror can do. I want to rail against the mainstream critics and dilettantes who deride the genre every time something major comes along—the release of an IT, the…
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Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “The Cable Company” by Darkansas author Jarret Middleton
The Cable Company A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the slot of the front door. She picked up the envelope marked “urgent” in red and unearthed a manila slip with a single typewritten line. “mechanism operational,” it read. “ascent at 0600. signed, the cable company.”…
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Five Poems by Esteban Rodríguez for Haunted Passages
Landscape with tree and leg Then you come across a tree,and hanging from its branch you find a leg—long, pale, severed cleanlyat the thigh. You walk beneath it, study the chain bolted to its knee, studythe way the sun—searing the edges off the leaves—cauterized its flesh.And even though its nails are broken, even though its…
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“Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You” for Haunted Passages: Sean Oscar’s Critical Analysis of Apostle, the 2018 Netflix orginal film directed by Gareth Evans
Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You Apostle follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) on the hunt for his sister, Jennifer (Elen Rhys). He is told that she has joined a religious community living on a remote Welsh island. The community practice a form of goddess worship, led by the self-declared prophet Malcolm Howe (Michael Sheen). Thomas, a former…
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“In Darkness,” a Haunted Passages horror memoir by Craig Wallwork, author of Gory Hole: A Horror Triple Bill
In Darkness Horror has been with me from a very early age. I found several copies of The House of Hammer comics in my parent’s bedroom when I was around seven years old. I would sit in the bathroom reading titles such as Shandor: Demon Stalker and Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, their paper scented with…
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“Monster Family Portraits” for Haunted Passages: 14 Ghost and Monster Movies that Inspired or Influenced Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales by Orrin Grey
Monster Family Portraits My previous collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, was specifically and self-consciously assembled around an idea of tracing the history of horror cinema through short stories inspired by films from different eras. Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales has no such underlying modus, but movies are a huge part of my mental…
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Haunted Passages: “Halloween Poem” by Lucas Mangum, author of the dark suspense novel Gods of the Dark Web
Halloween Poem Halloween, six-years-old:Stephen King’s Silver Bullet,My brother and IChased by a mummy.The next year I dressedAs the Devil in red,And a Catholic friend said,I shouldn’t do that.Trick or treating broughtReese’s and 3 MuskiesAnd fun-sized Milky WayAnd candy corn I only sawOnce a year.Halloween is a dentist’s nightmare,But I’ve still got perfect teeth. Halloween of…
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“The Good Folk” a Haunted Passages nonfiction essay by Carrie Laben
The Good Folk It was one of the most grueling scenes of my novel to write. A mother confronts the supernatural family horror that has possessed her child, driving it out with cries of “No! She’s my daughter! Not yours!” as the little girl’s sister looks on. It sounds heroic, doesn’t it? In most stories,…
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David James Keaton’s “Gasoline Dreams”: A Definitive, Last-word Inventory of Car-Chase Flicks for Haunted Passages
Gasoline Dreams As I was poking around under the hood of my new collection, Our Pool Party Bus Forever Days: Road Stories, gathering up stories and realizing that a theme had miraculously begun to emerge, I also understood that, at some point, a reader might find the book’s supposed connection to the road a little…
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