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Threads that Bind is a coalition of authors and artists specializing in things macabre. Monsters? We know monsters. Demons? We got ’em. Criminals of the nastiest sort? Do you have to ask? Here you’ll find the minds who bring you the stories and artwork that have you checking under the bed at night. Your Hosts…
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Happy Birthday, Abraham
When I saw that I was scheduled to post on a horror site on President Lincoln’s actual birthday, there was never the slightest doubt about what the subject would be. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter was a 2012 American horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, and starring Benjamin Walker in the title role with such actors…
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A Study in Angora
When I was a young kid, I sometimes watched what I later learned were horror and sci-fi B-movies on TV shows like Chiller Theatre. I have a fond memory of one in particular that especially terrified me at the time. It was titled Plan 9 from Outer Space, and it turned out to be filmmaker…
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Women Were Always There
I write horror — dark, visceral, graphic, psychological horror. That still surprises people. Not because the work is unusual, but because a woman wrote it. Horror is strongly associated with men. That association stuck long ago, but it doesn’t reflect reality. The genre didn’t start loud, it started cold. Mary Shelley and the Birth of…
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How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
If making New Year’s resolutions is cliché, surely it’s also become a cliché to declare that resolutions are silly. “95% of resolutions fail by January 7!” we might say, smugly. “Glad I never want to get better at anything!” Except, of course, most of us do want to get better at something. Maybe you want…
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Human Skin Books: The Grim Bindings of the 19th Century
Today on Threads that Bind, we delve into another example of the literal and metaphorical ties that connect us—sometimes in the most unsettling ways. Enter anthropodermic bibliopegy: the rare, macabre practice of binding books in human skin. What part of our psyche would drive us to skin the body of a fellow human being, tan…
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The Weight of What Stayed
They said the house was empty, yet every night the floors remembered footsteps. The child learned early that grief has a shape ~ tall, hollow, draped in familiarity. It never spoke, never moved on its own, but it was always there when the lights went out, looming like a memory that refused burial. The child…
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London Dead
Book Announcement Today, I wanted to take this opportunity to make an official announcement about an upcoming book release that I’m beyond excited about. I’m excited, of course, because I’m referring to my own debut novel. This is a project I’ve been working on for more than twelve years now. Yes, twelve years of my…
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THINKING ABOUT VILLAINS
Last year I listened to the audiobook Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, And The Secret History Of The 60s. It had me hooked, because I can remember as a teen in the early 90s when Manson’s crazed face got put on black T-shirts and placed on serial killer trading cards. This is a true horror…
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Ghosts of Christmas Past
When people think of Christmas, I suspect that ghost stories and paranormal literature are not the first thing that pop into their minds. Despite that, one of the most beloved works of paranormal literature is indelibly associated with Christmas and, in many ways, shaped the way we think about the holiday. I’m referring, of course,…
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