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Tasha Reynolds
May 15, 20231 min read
Podcasters and Booktubers Wanted
We need your help! In our efforts to become a hub of resources for the writers out there, we would like to add a list of podcasts and...
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catvoleur
May 9, 20235 min read
Book Review: The Briars by Stephanie Parent
As I've said on social media, and in my spoiler-free version of this review, The Briars felt like it was made with me in mind. There were...
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catvoleur
May 5, 20231 min read
Nocturnal Birthday Celebrations!
First and foremost, we have to wish a very happy birthday to the fantastic and talented Villimey Mist. Secondly, we have to announce that...
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Tasha Reynolds
May 2, 20232 min read
Fluffy Fucking Bunnies - David Youngquist
When I tell you this book hit me harder than anything I've read in quite a while, I mean that I spent forty minutes on the elliptical...
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catvoleur
May 1, 20236 min read
Cat's April Reading Round-up
Hello all! It is May 1st and that means it's time to share my list of April books with everyone. I also have a very special announcement...
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Scott - You Run Podcast
Apr 29, 20236 min read
Why Remakes are Essential to the Survival of the Horror Genre
Remakes, reboots, requels, or whatever your chosen name is for them, are an often contested topic amongst the horror community. Some...
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Tali
Apr 28, 20232 min read
Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shape Shifters Stalking North America - Pamela K. Kinney
(Swiped from Tali's Instagram with her permission!💖) Tell me, do you believe in Werewolves or Bigfoot?! I am not sure 🤔 if I do. I...
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Billy Loper
Apr 28, 20239 min read
THE LONG READ 1: From a Buick 8
In my rural public school, 7th-12th grade students used the same library. So in 2007, at 12 years old, I checked out my first book from...
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catvoleur
Apr 27, 20232 min read
Open Call: Into the Forest
Into the Forest Take the theme (INTO THE FOREST) as a launch pad for your imagination and don't worry about tailoring your writing to it....
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Tasha Reynolds
Apr 25, 20232 min read
Down Home - Steve Clark
This short story inspired all kinds of feelings for me. I haven't spent much time in the very rural place where I grew up, in quite a...
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catvoleur
Apr 24, 20231 min read
Review: A Blackness Absolute
For once I am reigning in my excitement of a book to bring you a spoiler-free version of my review. (I think that's a little easier for...
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Tasha Reynolds
Apr 22, 20231 min read
The Nightmare Cycle - Lawrence Dagstine
This absolute beauty of a cover, contains a wonderfully fun and creepy collection due to release in just three days! Lawrence calls up...
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Tasha Reynolds
Apr 19, 20231 min read
The Vile Thing We Created - Robert Ottone
I never imagined that reading a horror book would give me serious thoughts about whether I should really reproduce, but here we are....
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catvoleur
Apr 19, 20233 min read
Open Call: Playlist of the Damned
Playlist of the Damned Bring us your Faustian deals with the Devil, your debauched rock stars, and demonic incantations. Music that...
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Marc - Reviews From the Crypt
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Tremors (1990)
'Tremors' is again a film I've grown up being very aware of, yet had no desire whatsoever to give any of my time to. Add to that the ever...
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Tasha Reynolds
Apr 15, 20232 min read
28 Days Sassier - Damien Casey
This story came at the best time it possibly could have for me. In the midst of some very difficult things in my personal life, I needed...
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catvoleur
Apr 12, 20232 min read
Open Submission: Why Didn't You Just Leave
Why Didn't You Just Leave It’s the question asked of any story about a haunting: why didn’t you just leave? If accounts of people who...
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Billy Loper
Apr 6, 202326 min read
Finding the Stories Within: An Interview with Harlan Guthrie
“Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers.” --Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow “Arkham Private Investigator...
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catvoleur
Apr 3, 20232 min read
Open Call: The Pleasure in Pain
The Pleasure in Pain For centuries our stories of romance and love were hidden, coded within for future readers to decipher. There will...
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catvoleur
Apr 1, 20235 min read
Cat's March Reading Round-Up
Hello all! I have officially given up on making a graphic for this segment -- why would I need to? Atticus Finch is right there, being...
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