Category: Horror

Hansel and Gretel 2018

Modern witches design their huts differently to attract small children.  

The Giants

Were they being created, or destroyed? Punished, or enhanced? Monitored, or forgotten? They look caught in motion, yet perhaps the liquid medium just holds them in stasis. Don’t ask the worker at the lower right. He’s just doing his job.  

A Medical Student’s Nightmare

This isn’t the only antique photograph I’ve come across of a doctor surrounded by cadavers intent on dissecting him. It says a lot about gallows humor in the profession. The ghostly legs below the table add to the spooky feel, but it’s likely they were the result of a double exposure used to create the …

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The Sea Has Many Secrets

Venture an ocean journey and you may run into entities like this beyond the reach of land.

The Mutter Museum [Review]

The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Gretchen Worden Blast Books, 2002 It’s getting close to Halloween, and thus the time for creepy thrills. You can find them at the Mutter Museum in the city of Philadelphia. The Mutter Museum was the brainchild of physician and educator Dr. Thomas Mutter. He …

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Wolfmistress

Speak only when you are spoken to. Excuse me, howled to.  

My Serpent Heart

It’s alive and hisses with passion.

The Shadow Glass [Review]

The Shadow Glass by Aly Fell Dark Horse Books, 2017   The Shadow Glass is filled with some wonderful artwork. The first page shows a view from the Tower of London overlooking a lovely harbor by the river Thames, a red and blue pennant flying, as a traveler named Thomas Hughes arrives. In night-muted colors …

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Throat

  I’m trapped in an old anatomy textbook with my throat cut open. Help?

Say What?

Say, what? The content is made even more inexplicable by being labeled in Japanese and set against those pop-art patterns.