Archive for Horror

1. LULLA-BA • by Josephine Orta 8 Comments

    

    
    
   Rock a banana
   On a green stalk
   When the wind blows
   They sway and they rock
   When the bough breaks
   Tarantulas fall
   Let’s move baby’s cradle
   Away from the wall
    

   Josephine Orta lives in San Antonio, TX with her husband and medicine cat Peep. She does website technical support during the day and free-form research at all hours. Her internal artist is [...]

   Horror, Humour/Satire
   
   

2. CARS LEFT ABANDONED ON FRIDAY NIGHT • by Barry Napier 6 Comments

   Saturday morning,
   your head sways with the steering wheel;
   the highway polarized
   as you ponder
   the mystery of scattered cars pulled to the side
   of the road, flags of surrender
   tucked into doors and windows

   waiting to be towed, forgotten
   in the Saturday morning sun.

   Friday night,
   you observed those stranded motorists,
   probably drunk or disgruntled
   that the bars had not provided release for
   the hate sex the [...]

   Horror
   
   

3. DEMON DADDIES • by Brian Barnett 11 Comments

    
    
    
    
   Babies born with horns
   Mothers screaming at fathers
   Man, that must have hurt
    
    
    
    
    
    

   Brian Barnett lives with his wife and son in Frankfort, Kentucky. To date, he has published over forty-five stories since he began publishing in November 2008. He has been published by MicroHorror.com, Flashes in the Dark, Static Movement, The New Flesh Blogzine, Midnight Screaming [...]

   Horror
   
   

4. THE NAMING OF THE BEAST • by Douglas C. Pugh 6 Comments

    
   Pick and writhe, probe and poke
   wriggle, with no surcease

   allowing only enough relief
   that I may noose my neck
   step closer to that
   crumble edged fall
   from the cliff of confidence

   where you wait
   I told you so smirk
   plastered broad across that gentle pink face
   lips sealing those gnawing teeth
   from sight

   when I pause
   draw breath, sigh, step forward
   I know that fanged stab
   repeated, repeated, repeated
   into [...]

   Horror
   
   

5. EVERYTHING I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT VAMPIRES • by Michael D. Turner 6 Comments

    
   The modern vampire does not reek of a grave
   Somewhere the rats have left his ship
   His coffin has all the finality of a Lay-Z-Boy TM
   God is dead and the vampire is a sex symbol
   The perfect boy friend, the perfect girlfriend
   Symbolic submission with no consequences
   But death . . . and iron deficiency
   Vampire girls never order the lobster
   In [...]

   Horror
   
   

6. WICCAN WIND CHANT • by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin 4 Comments

   Go, go, go,
   Widdershins around the kirk
   Once, twice, thrice if we must.
   Listen to the organs blare inside
   Holy caterwauling
   An attempt to block the winds
   The tempests raging at the door.

   But we go, go, go,
   Widdershins around the kirk
   Once, twice, or thrice as we must
   For as long as it will take
   To bring the roof down,
   To rake life,
   To blight this blind [...]

   Horror
   
   

7. THE DISCOVERY • by by Christie Isler 8 Comments

   Snow melts.
   Beneath lie
   tissues
   unexpected.
   We thought
   she’d run away,
   but the
   slow reveal
   of skin
   suggests
   otherwise.
   Christie Isler is a poet, writer, musician, and teacher in the Pacific Northwest.  She writes prose and poetry and has seen work published in several online collections, including Shoots & Vines and Identity Theory.  She has had poetry included in a Shoots & Vines print publication.  Christie [...]

   Horror
   
   

8. THE MIDNIGHT ENGRAVER • by Erik Knutsen 4 Comments

    
    I saw the dead
   come crawling out
   of the latter-day
   where saints are clocks,
   ticking to tell us
   our time is up.
   The midnight engraver is chiseling my name.
   Those emerging orbs
   did none for me
   as they clapped my back,
   took my hand,
   welcomed me as one of them,
   while singing Bob Dylan. 
   The midnight engraver is working away.
   The fogs they brought
   stung my eyes
   and sewed them shut;
   I [...]

   Horror, Other
   
   

9. BROUGHT TO BOOK • by Douglas C. Pugh 4 Comments

    
   It was black, silky satin finish
   with a fanciful name and exotic inscriptions
   the challenge to all to curl their tongues
   reach to their vocal depths and hiss the sibilance
   match the growl in the throat
   that the original invocations used
    
   A sporting challenge taken up by the worldly
   the bored elite who felt that the next intellectual stimulus
   after sudoku and the [...]

   Horror
   
   

10. WHITE HOT • by J.D. Di Lella 5 Comments

     
    Black conveyor belt pulls
    me along, a slow
    moth to the flame ride.
     
    Toes tingle, tag crinkles.
     
    Heat excites
    what’s left of my life
    more so than when
    I danced the light fandango
     
    Below me I see
    myself
    pale
    whiskered
    long finger-nailed
    and I wonder if this place is
    a house of mirrors
    and why the open furnace door
    invites me inside?
     

    J.D. Di Lella  is an educator by nature, a poet and [...]

    Horror
    
    

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