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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]