Tag: Horror

Mar 23

The THING!

Oopsie!

Mar 18

To Sleep with the Angels
[Reading Challenge 2020]

To Sleep with the Angels by David Cowan and John Kuenster Ivan R. Dee, 1996 [Challenge # 47 : Nonfiction on any subject.] The 1958 Our Lady of the Angels Catholic school fire traumatized a generation of Catholic schoolchildren. To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire, by David Cowan and John Kuenster, …

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Mar 11

Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/11/20: Vampire Novels

Here’s the book that started the erotic vampire story trend. Released in 1994, at the height of the Splatterpunk trend, Love in Vein mixed vampires and sex in a new, explicitly adult way. Featuring fantasy and horror heavyweights like Kathe Koja, Gene Wolfe, and Charles de Lint, with an opening essay by Poppy Z. Brite …

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Mar 09

Well Suited for a Fetish

What was this nightmarish latched rubber bodysuit used for? Whatever it was, it’s been junked and forgotten.

Mar 02

Sigue Sigue

This charming picture of Russian village life turns into a nightmare when you notice the burning figure in the background.

Jan 06

Turn to the Left

FASHION! Turn to the left… no, right… aw hell with it.

Dec 23

Santa’s Strange Appetite

HO-HO-HO  no.

Nov 11

Rat Dance

Even rats like to dance.

Nov 04

Skeleton Dreams

What do skeletons dream about when Halloween has passed? A Night on Bald Mountain parade of damned souls and evil witches, of course!  

Oct 30

Worldbuilding Wednesday 10/30/19: Witches!

Witches are a staple of fantasy and horror fiction. In their broad definition, they mean any kind of magic-using female. But for this list I’m going to use a more narrow definition: the Halloween type of witch, evil, cackling, out to do no good. The kind that brews potions in a big black cauldron and …

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