by leerozelle | Aug 30, 2023 | ghost stories, horror short stories
M.R. James’ “The Haunted Doll’s House” uses one family’s scandalous life in miniature to tell a wicked little ghost story that weaves together antiquity, research, and foul play. Written in stark, witty detail. Out collecting antiques and odd curios? Be...
by leerozelle | Aug 24, 2023 | horror short stories, werewolf story
Jonathan Janz’ “The Kiss of Divna Antonov” delves into tenure track terrors as nerdy professor Clark considers suicide. But a stunning woman, a steamer massacre, werewolf sex, and his colleagues getting their genitals ripped off help “Clarky” get his wolf...
by leerozelle | Aug 20, 2023 | horror short stories
Todd Keisling’s “Saving Granny from the Devil” is a satanic-coming-of-age story rich with talking devil dogs, belligerent bullies, animated toy monkeys, and a lot of eldercare guilt. When Granny starts going downhill, Toddy makes a deal with Lucifer…and gets...
by leerozelle | Aug 16, 2023 | horror short stories, science fiction, speculative fiction
Octavia E. Butler’s novelette “Bloodchild” twists the mind and keeps twisting. Space colonizers get colonized in this gory tale about parasites, male rape, talking egg-infesting centipede-scorpion creatures, and sacrifice. Incomparable! A...
by leerozelle | Aug 12, 2023 | horror short stories, southern fiction
THE STORY: Robert McCammon’s “Nightcrawlers” uses gothic conventions like materialization to examine the Vietnam experience. The customers at Big Bob’s Diner will never truly understand Price because they only experience war as media...
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