by leerozelle | Jul 26, 2023 | horror short stories, speculative fiction, weird fiction
Stephanie Ellis’s “Skin to Skin” is posthuman speculative horror at its most unsettling. It delves into our need for human touch, the tissues that hold together family, and the horrors of our holographic selves. Really gets under...
by leerozelle | Jul 23, 2023 | horror short stories, weird fiction
Francesca Maria’s “The Circus” glimmers with nostalgia, state fair rides, and big top oddities. Step right up, reader, there are mute clowns, clowns in g-strings eating chicken, monkeys in clown suits, and gorillas in fezzes. Just don’t go into the House of...
by leerozelle | Jul 21, 2023 | horror short stories, weird fiction
Stephen Graham Jones’ “Little Lambs” feels like Lem’s novel SOLARIS, an enigma to observe that captivates, leaves traces, gets deep into you. You never quite touch. A prison appears, a bedraggled crew watches. A labyrinth opens and closes, the mind...
by leerozelle | Jul 19, 2023 | giallo, horror short stories, weird fiction
E. Catherine Tobler’s “The Threshold of Waking Light”…Phantasmagorical futuristic noir? Spectral allegory? Don’t ask. Just soak in the brilliant, enigmatic, and captivating...
by leerozelle | Jul 18, 2023 | horror short stories, weird fiction
Irvin S. Cobb’s “Fishhead” pits multiracial outcast and catfish whisperer Fishhead against the Baxters, a couple of low-down dirty racists out for revenge for an ass-kicking they sorely deserved. Lush, Gothic descriptions of the watershed. Fish horror at its...
by leerozelle | Jul 17, 2023 | horror short stories, weird fiction
Ray Bradbury’s “The October Game” is wicked, twisted, disconcerting, concerning, excruciating, immoral, evil…and a lot of fun. It’s the late 1940s and Daddy really, really wants to hurt Mommy on Halloween, and he thinks of the most dreadful way possible to do...
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