by leerozelle | Feb 25, 2024 | horror short stories, weird fiction
Tamika Thompson’s “She By the Sea” magnificently blends nightmarish images of the Black Lagoon’s Gill-Man, a dead basketball star, and an unhinged, unhoused woman in a stabbing on the Pacific Coast Highway. As the police make a dragnet for Colleen, the ocean and...
by leerozelle | Feb 18, 2024 | horror short stories, the weird, weird fiction
In Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s “Hell Screen,” a sociopathic painter creates an all-too-real artwork for his psychopathic Lord. Takes Poe’s “The Oval Portrait,” Wilde’s DORIAN GRAY, and Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” in diabolical new...
by leerozelle | Feb 11, 2024 | horror short stories, the weird, weird fiction
With deft and bitter genius, Shirley Jackson’s “The Summer People” teases layers of privilege from an unwitting wealthy couple. When the snobby Allisons stay at the lake house longer than expected, relations with the rural folk get...
by leerozelle | Feb 4, 2024 | ghost stories, horror short stories, the gothic
THE STORY: “His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” uses pet abuse and mariticide to explore PERVERSENESS, described as the “unfathomable longing of the soul TO VEX ITSELF,” or the inner drive to self-destruct. Unusual genital metaphors in...
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