A Free Horror Short Story
It all started with a Twitter post: “Your weird fears and personal phobias are great material for powerful horror stories.
The Winged Things
The Winged Things – Caleb Casey Meagan is holed up in a house with her neighbors, trapped as creatures scuttle across the roof, climb up the sides of the house, and scratch against the windows, peering in malevolently. She had been watching a late-night movie, enduring the unseasonable heat, when a freak power outage brought […]
Frostbiten
Frostbiten – 2006, Director Anders Banke Tired of those sparkly, emo vampires? The brooding ones that would rather play hide the salami than bite someone in the neck? Journey beyond the confines of Hollywood and experience a Swedish film full of dark humor, and more chewed up bodies than a tank of piranhas. The movie […]
A Rat Tale to Curl Your Tail
I belong to a writer’s research group on Yahoo, hosted by the fabulous Rayne Hall (I reviewed her book here). Even when I don’t have an open question for the group, or the topic isn’t one I can contribute knowledge to, I still read the posts. That’s how I came across the following story, courtesy […]
Thinking Outside the Blood
There was a lively (and somewhat heated) discussion on Twitter this past week concerning vampires and their choice of food. The discussion took an abrupt turn when I opinioned that blood was probably a better source of life-essence then, say, toenails. And down the rabbit hole we went, my Twitter friends and I, conjecturing on […]