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Goth to Goth: Up Close and Personal with Peter Murphy

by Alex Scully (Firbolg Publishing): In every art form there are those artists who touch upon something that rips the door from its hinges and changes everything. Bauhaus was one of those bands. As the first recognized Goth band, they helped [...]

Music

Shop Till You Drop [Locked Up In The Dark]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Jeffrey Hollar: When you don’t have much else to do but sit and wait for the end to come, a dark room is really a pretty good place to do [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

All the Little Children [Classic Adaptation]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Rob Smales: The screams went on for a long time. They had woken him, and it seemed the shrieks were well underway by the time they yanked him from sleep. [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

Tribe [Down in a Dark Alley]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Rob Smales: Eddie pulled hard against the weight of the full bag, his own body a counter balance, pivoting on the balls of his feet like some half-assed Olympian doing [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

Spelunking [Eaten Alive in the Dark]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Lisa McCourt Hollar: The lights had burned out but Samuel didn’t mind. He’d seen the creatures that dwelled down here and he didn’t care to see them coming. Thomas was [...]

Arts and Literature, Friday Frights, Short Fiction and Poetry

The Void

by Alex Mcdermott: Brett Talley’s debut novel, That Which Should Not Be, was basically a prequel to Lovecraft’s masterpiece short story “The Call of Cthulhu.” It relied heavily on the plot, suspense, and action of its inspiration. Lovecraft’s story has become a [...]

Arts and Literature, Reviews

Wood

by Alex Mcdermott: Climate change. Global warming. Dying polar bears. Mass extinction. You can’t go anywhere without hearing about Man’s damage to the planet. We are killing the Earth. But are we really? We are destroying it. There’s no doubt [...]

Arts and Literature, Reviews

The Cold Spot (Delirium Novella Series)

by Alex Mcdermott: Horror monsters seem to go through trends. When I was little, it was the vampire. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire found a new audience, Poppy Z. Brite gave us Lost Souls, and Francis Ford Coppola (with a major casting [...]

Arts and Literature

Short Sips: Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection 2

by Alex Mcdermott: In the horror world, there are two camps out there. There are the gore/ splatter/ violence fans and the dark, Gothic fans. Short Sips: Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection 2 is definitely for the literary horror community. [...]

Arts and Literature