Threads that Bind

FLASH OF FATE

Recently I had an idea to further the wickedness of my Horror In The Hundreds, but my brain decided to touch down on a bit of writing I admittedly am not good at but do enjoy. Flash fiction has been a fun thing for years now, completing a tale in under 2,000 words (often…

Will Mowass

October 16, 2025

Stories

fear, flash fiction, horror
Playing Games

Over the course of Threads that Bind, we’ve discussed many ways of exploring dark worlds. We’ve discussed fiction, art, movies and more. The thread that binds the most successful of these together is that they evoke strong emotions in the reader or viewer. Horror and dark fiction pull their audience into extreme circumstances and then…

David Lee Summers

October 9, 2025

Horror Games, Reviews, vampires

games, inspiration, role-playing games, tabletop games, Vampire the Masquerade, vampires
MIRROR TEST

The Mirror Test is an experimental technique used by behavioral scientists to help determine whether or not an animal is capable of self-recognition, which is arguably considered to be a sign of self-awareness and sentience. A mark is placed on the animal at a spot it cannot see except in a mirror. If the animal…

Garrett Dennis

October 2, 2025

AI – Artificial Intelligence, The Craft, writing
The Uses Of Horror

We don’t have to understand why art works to enjoy that it works, but as craftspeople it can be helpful to consider how stories function. Most writers enjoy words, so our natural tendency if a story feels wrong is to fiddle with the prose. Sometimes, however, the reason a story isn’t working isn’t because the…

raven

September 29, 2025

Halloween, horror books, monsters, Philosophy of Horror, Philosophy of Writing, Stories, writing

catharsis, fear, Fiction, Halloween, horror, John Carpenter, monsters, psychology, Raven, story mechanics, writing, writing theory
Creep It Real: What Readers Want This Season

What’s the perfect read for the ‘Spooky Season’? For the true horror fans, every season is spooky season. Rain or shine, February or July, there’s always room for something chilling. Horror is our year-round comfort read. But something happens in October. The nights get longer, pumpkins appear on porches, and suddenly even readers who wouldn’t…

merchakandrea

September 25, 2025

For Readers, Halloween, horror books
The Nihilistic Void of Lovecraft’s Cosmicism:

Art, Indifference, and Ironic Immortality The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each…

cwhawes

September 18, 2025

cosmic horror, Philosophy of Horror

art as savior, cosmic horror, cosmic indifferentism, Cthulhu Mythos, Existential Dread, existentialism, hp lovecraft, Nietzsche, nihilism, Skepticism
Take the Red Pill…

Good morning, friends and followers. Today I’m going to provide something different from my usual fare. I’m going to tell you about my other website, my “home away from home” if you like, writing.com. I’m not sure how to classify this post. It’s certainly a promotion of writing.com, but it’s also a promotion of my…

Jack Tyler

September 15, 2025

For Readers, writing
Heart on her Sleeve

We first crossed paths at the Greyhound station in San Antonio. It was mid-summer, lousy hot, and she had tossed her duffel bag against an out-of-the-way wall and was reclining against it, maybe trying to catch a nap, maybe not. She was wearing denim shorts and a tank top to combat the heat, but from…

Jack Tyler

September 11, 2025

Stories
Nursery Rhymes For Horrible People

How The Victorians Celebrated Death, and What I Learned From This Macabre Tradition Avery Vane, Avery Vane Wicked, twisted, and insane Killed his wife and ate her brain Then killed his son and did the same When I wrote this verse for my short story The Complications of Avery Vane (published in the Scribblers’ Den…

bryceraffle

September 4, 2025

History of Horror, Local Legends
Speakable Horror

Narrating Fear and Sharpening Instincts Living something—even if only in the mind’s eye—can leave a lasting imprint. That’s what I love about horror. It lingers. It teaches. It prepares. The horror genre has a remarkable way of keeping us alert. It activates our survival instincts, nudging us to imagine the worst and consider how we’d…

supernaturallymy4a879b20e3

August 28, 2025

Audio Drama, audiobooks, ghosts, horror books, horror movies, Horror Narration, visceral horror

fear, ghosts, horror, Narration