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Congrats to Anthony Crowley

Our friend Anthony Crowley who has previously had a short story published with us is featured in the newest edition of Sanitarium Magazine. We couldn’t be more proud of Anthony for his new success. You can find him on twitter here  

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Standards of Living movie review

Standards of Living is a 2013 film written and directed by Aaron Mento. The entire film was shot on an iPad2 which is pretty incredible considering the final output. As a personal note, I couldn’t take a clear video with my iPad if my life somehow depended on it, so to see an ambitious little […]

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Thank You

Hello Friends, I just wanted to say THANK YOU! to all of our guests for making Women of Horror Week 2013 a huge success for us. In no particular order I would like to thank Danica Deering Suzanne Bell September Carrino Chassity Merritt Tabitha M Kim Culpepper L.C Fremont Dusty Evely Charity Langley Renfield Rasputin. […]

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Women of Horror Week- Details

Greetings Friends, Starting Monday August 19th we will be doing a Women of Horror Week. All week we will be featuring guest articles written by Women about the horror genre and why they love it. We will also be reviewing horror movies featuring lead Female characters. Here are some of the movies we have planned […]

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Horror as an emotion

Recently, the great Renfield Rasputin wrote a piece in which he mentioned Horror as an emotion. I had never considered this before and found it to be a beautiful concept. I will touch on this some more today while sharing some examples from my life for context.   I previously mentioned that Evil Dead was […]

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The Beautiful Marriage of Science Fiction and Horror part 2.

I ended the first part by mentioning how a masterful blend science fiction and horror themes can make for an intriguing and beautiful story. Today I am going to talk about a story where these conventions have been put together perfectly. Dead Space- FORMAT: Video Game Dead Space tells us the story of Isaac Clarke […]

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The Beautiful Marriage of Science Fiction and Horror part 1.

As you may well be aware, Horror is my first love in fiction. I did start this website afterall. What I don’t talk about often enough though is my second love, Science Fiction. Before there was Horror in my life there was Sci-Fi. I grew up an avid fan of the Star Wars films (before […]

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Indy Short of The Week Fallout Nuka Break: Red Star

Greetings All, I return with another Indy Short of the Week. This week I bring to you Red Star, a stand alone to the Fallout Nuka Break series. This short film is about the journey of our mysterious Ranger as he decides whether or not to leave his quiet and solitary life behind in order […]

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Indy Short Of The Week

Greetings and Salutations friends, It’s been a while since I’ve contributed an article to this section of the website so I am rectifying that right now. Every Sunday I am going to be posting what I feel is the best Indy short I’ve seen during the week. This week I am starting off with Seizure […]

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The Zombie Story Checklist

Despite the relative young age of the website, I have received more Zombie stories than anything else. I have unfortunately not accepted any of them because of how generic they were. I appreciated how hard the authors worked on their stories, and there were some very interesting parts in them, but Zombies in general are […]