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The Currency of Survival
Surviving a horror movie always requires payment. Modern horror often confuses survival with a reset button. The price the survivor pays is the difference between good and great horror.
The Toll: Amanda Young
Amanda is remembered becau...
Dead Blood, Dark Shine
Thursday night, the mountains washing away the sins of her sons.
Thursday night, the mountains washing away the sins of her sons. We were behind Vic’s, a little dive bar that was about to be under new management. “Goddamn, Thurston, will y...
Macabre Monday: July 22, 1979
July 16, 1979. The Ba’ath Party has held Iraq in its grip for a decade, installed by a bloodless coup that crowned Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as president. But the stability is a facade.
For the past year, al-Bakr has been quietly orchestrating...
The Architecture of Dread: Why Your Horror Needs Boundaries
Cheryl Williams
Every horror world runs on an internal rule book. It’s quiet, no bullet points, no numbered list. It’s a logic so thin, the moment you break it, you lose the reader’s trust.
Fear is not the supernatural, it’s the boundary....
The Obsidian Hour: New Black Dahlia Info
Last night’s live broadcast of The Obsidian Hour went completely off the rails in the best way possible. What started as a tactical briefing on local anomalies quickly fractured into an unfiltered, two-hour deep dive into our community’s fa...
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Your weekly pour of the macabre — dark fiction, true crime, and the unsettling corners of history.
LGBTQ writer, adult industry writer, food critic, freelance writer. Vampire with a sun allergy who doubles as a Demon Vixen. Non-binary. Pinup/Fetish/Adult Model.
Hello to all. I'm shawn, your friendly comic artist starting his journey. Always welcome feedback. So come on by and hope you like what you see.
Cottage crone with pods for Wise Women and Gen X, and a travel journal with prose, poetry, and photography. I give 0 fucks and have 0 tolerance for hate...except when it's directed toward those who promote it.
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