Horror - Written Tales

Jungle Thoughts

November 22, 2020 Chris Bunton

He thumbed one of the ears laced through the braided cord around his neck. Heavy rain poured through the darkness … Read more

A Cento poem from “The Husband Stitch” in Carmen Maria Machado’s In Her Body and Other Parties I am her … Read more

November 3, 2020 Ramta Warrier

Finger on lips, Hushing the devil Hips that sync, The music I fear Sins of the past, My skin she … Read more

November 3, 2020 Deep Naskar

I shouldn’t have bought this. I shouldn’t have bought this queen-sized four-poster bed. I was just a single person. I … Read more

October 29, 2020 Kaci Skiles Laws

Corn syrup is filling each grout-line of the salmon, tiled table; the fizz is subsiding as the room bubbles up. … Read more

October 29, 2020 John Kaniecki

Crimelda was the fairest of the fair A vixen with whom none could compare Many a dark night in musing … Read more

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Oliver Rose Brown

The Vicar plucks a crisp curl of witch skin from the pyre. He nibbles, clasping the charred flake between his … Read more

October 26, 2020 Devasena R

As bubbles caress my skin Thoughts where darkness dwells Jostling towards heat Twisting and turning in his embrace And pain … Read more

October 18, 2020 David Procaccini

Tick-Tock. Tick-Tock. The blood on the clock trickles the hour I once recalled. The death knell commenced with the intentional … Read more

October 18, 2020October 2, 2020 Josh Balerite Acol

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare Tonight the moon’s a-shining, So full … Read more

September 2, 2020 Doug Hawley

Locals from Igaluit on Baffin Island north of mainland Canada found what appeared to be odd pebbles which were exposed … Read more

April 1, 2020 Raymond Walker

Rob; Hey Margaret, how are you today, I hope that all is good with you and that, fuck, I cannot … Read more