The simple version: What Lies Within is a dark, gory family drama about serial killers. I mean this in the most loving way possible, this was fun to read and dissect. Those are words I never thought I’d write about a book but here we are and boy am I happy about it. What Lies Within is the […]
Author: Shawn Lachance
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Two Stories from Philip W Kleaver
One thing we like to ask people is how they go about the arduous process of creating characters for their stories. While we’ve never had the same answer twice there have been a few standout answers and I’d like to discuss one of them today. It comes from our friend Charity Langley and it’s called […]
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An Interview with Jackie Sonnenberg
*How long have you been writing for?* Since I was literate! It got me at an early enough age where I was learning to read and write. Soon I was that kid that did more reading and writing on my own time for fun outside of school work. *How many rejections did you receive before […]
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The Chimney by Baylea Hart
The Chimney It was the smell of soot that woke her – thick and smoky, like a fire left burning for too long in a closed room. On any other evening Ethel might have been frightened, and may have forced herself through the oily darkness of her bedroom into the comfort of her parents […]
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Paper Cuts: 12/19/16
Tales from the Suicide Forrest #1 (Amigo) You may have not read the original “Suicide Forest” published by IDW, but you may be familiar with the story, which was turned into the 2016 movie entitled, The Forest. It is all based around Aokigahara – or The Suicide Forest – a real area in Japan, where […]
Certain Dark Things is a short story collection by M.J. Pack. When doing a collection of short stories, it can be difficult to find balance. A lot of time the story placement seems almost random and the book will have no flow. Each story in Certain Dark Things seems as though it were meticulously picked […]
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Review: The Mind’s Eye
The Mind’s Eye Director: Joe Begos Starring: Graham Skipper, Lauren Ashley Carter, John Speredakos Runtime: 87 minutes Rating: Not Rated Do you remember when body horror was dark, sexy, and too gory for children? Joe Begos remembers. In a DePalma-laced throwback to 70’s/80’s horror, Begos creates an alternate universe in the early 90’s […]
I’ll start by saying that while this isn’t 100% horror, it has enough of the themes that I’ll count it. Being steampunk doesn’t hurt either. And now for the review Clockwork Universe was a very fun read. It’s full of action and John’s writing style suits the genre very well. The characters were well written […]
Frederick stood 50 feet from the entrance of the haunted house while his teammates pleaded with him to go inside. He rattled off a bunch of statistics of mechanical failings in these kinds of pop-up carnivals while they rolled their eyes. “Just 3 years ago in Iowa, the roof came loose and injured 5 people. […]