by leerozelle | Sep 24, 2023 | horror short stories, the weird, weird fiction
Brian Evenson’s “Windeye” triumphs by leaving things missing. Absent spaces in this story fill the reading mind with puzzles. Original focus and frame of reference in a story (maybe) about overlapping dimensions, a disappearance, and lingering...
by leerozelle | Sep 17, 2023 | ghost stories, horror short stories, southern fiction, the weird, weird fiction
Robert E. Howard’s weird tale “Pigeons From Hell” is an inventive, schlocky, and racially provocative Southern Gothic about two dudes terrorized by a voodoo-mind-control-monster lady killing machine called a ZUVEMBIE. Adapted for a twisted and bizarre episode of Boris...
by leerozelle | Sep 9, 2023 | ghost stories, horror short stories, the weird, weird fiction
In F. Marion Crawford’s “The Screaming Skull,” a sea dog machinates and disassembles to weave together a chilling and wicked “haunted head” tale filled with ambiance, strange clues, and wry humor. You can find a delightful narration of this story on Morgan...
by leerozelle | Sep 4, 2023 | horror short stories, science fiction, the weird, weird fiction
Donald A. Wollheim’s “Mimic” explores unseen parallel worlds, chameleons in our midst that imitate the alpha predator in the streets. The man in the black cloak blends into the bustling city, but why won’t he look women in the eye? Fans of JEEPERS CREEPERS will...
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