horror
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The horns sounded on the track, and on the back stretch Aggie pulled the syringe out of Sunny Red’s vein. He capped the needle and leaned against the stall to watch the bay filly in the tense seconds as the cocktail took hold. Sunny’s haunches twitched, her jaw fell open and long strings of drool…
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I see them in the morning, when I squint against the sun streaming in through curtainless windows. Spots of light at the corner of my vision, fireflies flashing their morse code into the ether. I blink and they’re gone, the shine of the morning dims mundane. Coffee massages away the last dregs of the headache…
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It is 0730 and I have prions on my mind again. Have I posted about this particular interest before? Probably, somewhere, I’m not going to dig it up. On this morning, I’ve got prions on my mind as a curse. Consider this: You and your flock of sheep take up residence in a lovely little…
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This is a review of Longlegs. !!!Major spoilers for the entire movie ahead, reader beware!!! There’s been an uptick in the amount of media featuring satanic concepts lately, some well-done and others lacking in nuance in a way that might have been fine in the 80’s, but grates nowadays. Longlegs is, unfortunately, in the “lacking…
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This Delicious Death is a young adult horror novel by Kayla Cottingham following four girls struggling with their ghoulish urges to eat people. Each of these girls is also queer. What follows will have spoilers — read at your own risk. The central conceit of this book revolves around an event we only ever see…
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I’ve owned a mask or two. Bust them out on a regular basis, from my plastered-on customer service smile to the resting bitch face I use to ward off conversation on the bus. Having a whole holiday centered around the masking of identity, the dressing up and welcoming of the strange and unusual, is right…
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Full disclosure, I’m not even that far in the book yet. I couldn’t spoil it for you, even if I wanted to. There’s this sequence at the beginning — not the very beginning, maybe 50 pages in — that describes the most common ways for werewolves to die in the modern world. Jones takes the…
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Many occult signs are simply a matter of training your brain to notice certain things in your surroundings. Your eyes linger on the hawk circling above you (longer than usual, in my case), you notice the way the coyote’s eyes flash while it crosses the road in front of your car, you’ll spot graffiti you…
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It only takes a cursory glance at my blog to know that I have a special affinity for dogs. Their joint history with humans, the dichotomy of fear and love that can make a dog a protector or violent monster, the wolf just beneath the surface. They are both the family dog chasing a would-be…
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Gerald Pickering worked three jobs and needed a car to get to two of them. That was just how America worked, and that was why he didn’t look too close at the Nissan Altima his friend offered him when his Honda’s transmission fell out. His friend cut him a deal, $500 up front and he…
from the pen of icarus blake 