Ark Book VII: Matrilinium – Story Two: Queen
It’s been said the first person on Earth who will live to be 150 years old has already been born. It’s also been said, the way we are fouling the Earth, we may have just…
Tag: Horror & Supernatural
Ark Book VII: Matrilinium – Story One: Welcome
It’s been said the first person on Earth who will live to be 150 years old has already been born. It’s also been said, the way we are fouling the Earth, we may have just…
Breathless Horror: Frankenstein and the Monster Within
In Mary Shelley's classic novel, "Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus," Victor Frankenstein wishes to create life using a sewn-up body made from pieces of corpses as the shell. Though Victor manages to actually bring it…
Daughters of the Phantom: A Phantom of the Opera Story
Katherine woke in the familiar darkness, sleeping on a bundle of old theater curtains. She felt comfortable in the dark; ‘it was friendly,’ her father always told her. The only light came from dim candles…
Lanyon: A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Poem
~ by Linda Fay ‘Have you got a graduated glass?’ three-quarters filled with melting crystals dissolve like snow. It shivers between shrunken fingers clinging like malformed insects sucking to the light liquid surface wrinkles, ripples…
A Tale of Peg Powler: A North Eastern Myth
Young men had begun to spend more time than was usual down by the river. Mothers would tut, looking out, hands on hips, across the fields in search of their boys. Sometimes, even husbands, who…
Ankou: A Breton Tale
“Ankou is the name given to a messenger of death in Brittany. Each area has its own, who comes to fetch the souls of those called away. He wears a long cloak and a broad…
The Last Labyrinth
I'm not afraid of the dark, or of the crumbling, sand-colored walls, and I'm not perturbed by being alone. In fact, my step is almost bouncy as I wander the ruins, the remains of the garden walls…
Death Imitates Art: Looking Darkness and Humanity in the Eye Through Fiction
Teaser for Blood Chain: They Say Life Imitates Art, But Sometimes Death Imitates It Better When 9-year-old Eric Holden discovers a murdered boy at a New Jersey beach, Detective Julie Martel is as moved to…
