2026-07-19 18:50:15The Horror Writers Association is pleased to announced the full table of contents for this macabre and mysterious 13th volume of the Horror Writers Association’s Poetry Showcase. The Showcase features 50 poems of dread-filled dark verse, including the featured…
2026-04-03 23:24:56 Terrors of Today – “Bedlam In Flesh” by Devin M. Anderson Originally published in The Horror Zine Spring 2026 issue He stands before you Five foot nothing Eyes ablaze Handcuffs dangling from Fingers bent at Impossible angles Made…
2025-10-28 19:00:52 The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised, and Neither Is the Effect of the Hurricane on Cuba by Denise Dumars Auctober Apocalypto The blossoms are red and the cat is white but ashes darken his fur (what do…
2025-10-27 22:20:40 Dinner for One Reddened spoons. Napkins of aging skin. A table for none where once pumped a hopeful heart. Foolish from the start the refreshing glass of toil-laden piss, ripened to this- Vacant meal of me, mournful dish, …
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…
2025-10-23 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…
2025-10-22 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…
2025-10-21 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…
2025-10-20 18:49:15 Terrors of Today: Modern Horror Poetry It’s been 180 years since Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Raven,” the poem that turned him into an overnight success, only four years before his life was tragically cut short at just…
2025-06-01 21:14:31 The Horror Writers Association is pleased to announce that the Scholarship Committee will be reviewing applications for the following scholarships and grants: the Mary W. Shelley, HWA and Poetry Scholarships. Applications will be available via the HWA…
