The fire in front of them crackled and roared and warmed them despite the crisp autumn air.It was their annual Halloween night ritual and had been since they were pizza faced and still in braces and giggling about the latest...
Horror
What Happens In The Cornfield Stays In The Cornfield
"Mary Jo and Luke find out if rumors of a haunted cornfield are true."
Growing up in a small Iowa town wasn’t easy. You had to be careful of what you said and did as everything was game for gossip and rumors. By the time my girlfriend Mary Jo McKenzie and I turned seventeen, we...
Lo! Baphomet! I. Cult As Fuck
"Trapped between Nazis and an obscure cult at an underground black metal gig — Chris is fucked!"
Naked, on top of a crumbling castle tower, gazing down on leafless winter woodland, with another’s hand around my throat — this was not how I had envisaged the night ending.“Choose, Christian,” he urged. His words drifted past my face...
I glared at the broken elevator every time I passed it, cursing my landlord as I hauled another box up to the tenth floor. I wasn’t necessarily out of shape, but the workout made me seriously reconsider my new apartment....
Hollywood Forever
"A sociopathic police detective investigates text messages from her long dead lesbian lover."
Detective Erica Vargas wore her gender like a uniform. She looked at the younger woman across the table. The faint gulp told as much as the perky yellow sweater with bright greek letters. Vargas's favorite tell was the makeup marred...
Attack Of The Loving Dead
"She died under mysterious circumstances—or did she?"
“Dude, you gotta see this,” Pat said. “Fresh meat.”I rolled my eyes. There were several ways of coping with being constantly surrounded by death and putrefaction, the perks of working in the morgue-slash-autopsy of the forensics department. Pat just had...
Bloodlust
"He goes to inspect a property he's interested in and finds more than an abandoned house!"
The decrepit old house stood alone high on the hill outside of town. Known as the Connelly mansion, it had become the stuff of many rumors, scary tales, and legends.Some said the place was the scene of a gruesome family...
What have I woken up? Part I
"Something is in the house with me"
It was a time before midnight when I woke up from a window banging open downstairs in my still to-be-tamed country home. It was a dilapidated building, with lots of rot to be replaced, lots of cracks to be repaired....
The Fucking Plague
"The Fucking Plague comes and goes."
As he walked across mostly barren streets, Jim ruminated on his current situation. The corpses left behind by the plague had mostly been either cleaned up or rotted into nothing. Used to be you could hardly pass a region without...