Articles, interviews and short stories for our interbnational readers.
December. Sunday. 19:35 The very devil made me go shopping to Carrefour at this hour. The place is packed, we’ll be stuck here until fucking ten o’clock. I told her all right – let’s go in the morning, we wake… Continue Reading
Night descended on Interstate-90 as I crossed over into the Badlands. Real raw weather for October. Snow dusted the asphalt and picnic tables of the deserted rest area. The scene was virginal as death. I parked the Chevy under one… Continue Reading
There was a game we used to play when we were kids—the hanging game, we called it. I don’t know where it started, but I talked to a girl down in Lawford once, and she remembered playing it with jump… Continue Reading
The drone of the machine resembled the heavy breathing of the old woman, and the distilled water swashed into the concentrator’s bottle. Alexandra Filotti took care of changing the oxygen bottle for her upper floor neighbor daily but, at the… Continue Reading
Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu – Moartea semnează indescifrabil Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011 hardcover, 288 pages Mystery, noir and crime fiction have a permanent place within my heart and the reason for this fact cannot be owned exclusively on the value of… Continue Reading
Horror-comedy is a concept I was never able to fully grasp, there is something quite not right with this association of genres in my mind. Perfectly aware of the grey area of things and with a known preference for boundaries… Continue Reading
I set the jug down on the table and clenched my fists; I’d barely sat on the chair and already started to get angry. The coffee was tasteless. The movements of my wife were getting quicker and more chaotic over… Continue Reading
In the past few years Halloween became quite an important part of the modern Romanian society. An imported holiday, it was adopted quickly, but somehow pushed a local tradition away from the central spotlight. In Romania, a tradition and celebration… Continue Reading
Angela Slatter is an Australian writer of dark fantasy and horror currently living in Brisbane. She has a Master and PhD in Creative Writing and is a graduate of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006 and Clarion South 2009.… Continue Reading
You push aside the cast-iron sewer lid and force yourself out on your scraggy arms. A wild, unknown light lashes your eyes while car horns pierce your ears like shards of glass. You don’t dodge them, nor do you roll… Continue Reading