The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter
The door is a rich red wood, heavily carved with improving scenes from the trials of Job. An angel’s head, cast in brass, serves as the knocker and when I let it go to rest back in its groove, the… Continue Reading
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Elizabeth Massie: “To become classic and memorable, horror fiction should not just scare for scare’s sake”
Elizabeth Massie is an American author of mainstream, horror, and historical fiction. Her first story appeared in The Horror Show magazine, in 1984. She won two Bram Stoker Awards: for novel, with Sineater, and for novella, with Stephen. She also… Continue Reading
Donald Meets Arnold
Donald traveled by wheelchair. Not because he was infirm or arthritic or legless, but because he was very fat. He didn’t like to run. He didn’t like to walk. It made him wheeze, and wheezing was uncomfortable. He didn’t like… Continue Reading
Through Heavy Veils of Dreaming
P.S. My dearest brother, I left this at the end, something I feel I should finally reveal to you, because I only had you that close to me so you wouldn’t find me insane – anyway, not before you would… Continue Reading
The Past as a Gate to Hell
Elizabeth Massie – Hell Gate DarkFuse, 2013 360 pages During a career that spans almost thirty years, Elizabeth Massie managed to build for herself a unique voice which, in turn, helps her more easily create almost any kind of… Continue Reading
Ty SCHWAMBERGER: “The need to be scared is already deep inside you, wanting to escape”
Ty Schwamberger is an award-winning author & editor in the horror genre. He is the author of a novel (Deep Dark Woods), multiple novellas (The Killing Club, 2013, Grave Intentions, 2012, DININ, 2012 etc.), collections (For After Midnight, 2011, A Warped 6yh Grade… Continue Reading
The Archangel
The signs we get from the market say that the hysteria induced by Ion Biceanu’s books will continue throughout this year, too. The publishing houses boast thousands of copies press runs, sold out in days. As the writer died leaving… Continue Reading
One Brew Too Many?
It was well past midnight when Linda started on her way home from one of her girlfriend’s houses. She had drank a few while they watched a scary movie, ate popcorn and talked about the boys in their class. She… Continue Reading
Looking for Campbell’s Faces
Ramsey Campbell― Holes for Faces Dark Regions Press, USA, 2013 256 pages British author Ramsey Campbell shouldn’t need a word of introduction anymore. Not anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, the Romanian reader is still in waiting to meet with his… Continue Reading
To Virgin Mary, With Love
The hill, like a fur cap plaited from the tendons of a giant, murmured in protest through the whispered thrill of the wind towards the one who plagued him with the burden of the hollow trees, ever so bent from… Continue Reading