2025-10-25 13:23:25Halloween Haunts: A Modest Defense of “Trick or Treating”by Darius Jones By now, my Fellow Americans, I’m certain that many of you are aware of a fast-moving pestilence sweeping the land. A corrupting tendency, most un-American, among many of…
2025-10-24 23:07:32Halloween Haunts: SPIDER SEASON By Evan Baughfman Recently, I picked Arachnophobia for our Family Movie Night, and my kids (over)reacted as if I’d told them we’d be bobbing for egg sacs inside a squirming tub of tarantulas. They…
2025-10-24 19:00:42 Players by Lee Murray six players assembled to play a traditional game of cloak and dagger on the table, token representations pawns of all colours, players as young as eight you’ll be the cook, they decide and…
2025-10-24 14:03:11Halloween Haunts: Married to Horror: Perspectives of a Collaborating Couple By Stephen H. Provost Writers often approach horror from one of two perspectives: Either they’re writers who discover horror, or they’re horror lovers who find an outlet in…
2025-10-23 19:01:53 Inside Out by L. Marie Wood Inside out what’s inside bared to the air tender to the touch red and slick hothouse musk. Voice loud my mind Loud in the sky Loud Because it can be Private for…
2025-10-23 13:51:14Halloween Haunts: In Adolescent Clouds of Gloom By Sumiko Saulson 16-year-old Sumiko Saulson standing on the lanai of their apartment at Atkinson Plaza in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1984. Photo taken by their father, Robert Saulson. I landed at the…
2025-10-22 22:49:41Halloween Haunts: This Haunted House Will Save You By Henry Corrigan Everything we do, tends to have a purpose behind it. We humans might be weird, but we don’t really do random. That’s because randomness is risky. It…
2025-10-22 20:11:03 Newsfast: Menu for the Machine by Angela Yuriko Smith Thoughts are deadly gossamer, silvery filaments breaching the vacant void to reach me. Dangers tremble along my neural networks, each tentative vibration a warning that there is a ghost…
2025-10-22 13:42:55Halloween Haunts: An Australian Gothic Haunt… Leanbh Pearson I’m an Australian horror author which means our celebrations for Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos occur in Fall in northern hemisphere. But for us Aussies and Kiwis the…
2025-10-21 18:58:55 The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End By Pedro Iniguez This poem originally appeared in Star*Line #45.3, 2022 Their atoms dust the floors of every school in the country; those frightened children we can…