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  • The Lair of the Beast

    Silence, heavy and invasive, enveloped me. Resting against the coldness of a wall, I took what could be my last breath. And listened. The only sound came from the pounding of my heart. Nothing from within the lair of the beast. The beast was away. But not far, foraging for sustenance. This was my brief…

    Peter

    April 28, 2025
    short story, Stories
    fear, horror, short story
  • Pacing in Horror & Dark Fantasy: 10 Tips

    Pacing in Horror & Dark Fantasy: 10 Tips

    Think of pacing like a musical composition — it’s all about emotional tempo. To create the rhythm of a piece of writing, an experienced author must use all the techniques at their disposal, reeling in their readers at just the right moments. Here are ten tips for pacing your horror. Let me know if you…

    bryceraffle

    April 24, 2025
    The Art of Horror, The Craft
  • Chimera

    They call these places Gothic. Ruined places of worship that horror movies love to shoot, in the dark, preferably during a thunderstorm. Except today was a bright blue gem of a day, not a thundercloud in sight. If it wasn’t for the decayed body of a man recently found in the ruins of the crypt,…

    Peter

    April 21, 2025
    ghosts, horror of the mind, Stories
    ghost, short story
  • Depression

    The artist builds his picture line-by-line, just as the writer builds his story word-by-word. Both are slow processes that grow in the construction until they often, likely most often, don’t resemble what the artisan set out to create. Art is not always a display of talent, but is often an expression of emotion, a story…

    drawswithshadows

    April 17, 2025
    Personal Experience, The Art of Horror
  • Lucky Guy

    Walking through the debris, the twisted and burnt remnants of technology and humanity, I didn’t feel lucky. In a newly cratered field, littered with nothing but fragments no larger than a wallet, there could be no survivors. ‘Mr. Saunders, you look like you could do with this.’ An emergency first responder, covered in smoke and…

    Peter

    April 14, 2025
    Stories
    horror, short story
  • THE DERANGEMENT REMAINS by William J. Jackson

              Had I known the content of the individual and possessed knowledge of the damnable settlement from which he hailed before our venture, I would have slain the man on the spot. You might find this statement unsettling, but please, bear with me. I am the last survivor of a peaceful endeavor, and what I pen…

    Will Mowass

    April 10, 2025
    cosmic horror, Stories
    cosmic horror, Fiction, horror, short story
  • The Missing

    Those that kill, believe dead men tell no tales. But the dead can speak. They find a way. With my help, I take that message to the living. The call came late on a dreary afternoon, the grey skies and drizzle of another English winter, given up on its seasons. Inside a squad car, reduced…

    Peter

    April 7, 2025
    ghosts, short story, Stories
    crime, dead, Fiction, ghosts, horror, short story
  • A Tasty Sampler

    Recently, I’ve been collaborating with Lee Clark Zumpe to assemble a collection of vampire flash fiction. This is a follow-up to a collection we first released in 2008. The original collection was titled Blood Sampler: Subtle Sips and Spicy Shots and features 35 tales. Most of these tales are 150 words or less and first…

    David Lee Summers

    April 3, 2025
    characters, horror books, Personal Experience, Poetry, Reviews, Stories, vampires
    Blood Sampler, Bussard Ramjet, Christopher Lee, Dracula, flash fiction, Lee Clark Zumpe, Nosferatu, Peter Cushing, Poetry, skinwalker, The Hungur Chronicles, Twist ending
  • Heaven From Hell

    The furnace of the sun was relentless. Heat rose and shimmered from black tarmac, forming strange wavering mirages, as if the ghosts of millennia were awakening. Sara shuffled along, wiping sweat from her eyes, conserving energy as best she could. Shade, sought and offered on the street by thin and sparse trees, gave some form…

    Peter

    March 31, 2025
    Stories
    short story
  • Testament – Part 2

    Before you start reading this post, I suggest you read “Testament” by Jack Tyler at this link [https://threadsthatbind.net/2025/01/30/testament/] first. Jack posted this story here on the blog and I loved it. However, the story ends on a huge cliffhanger—and immediately a continuation/conclusion came to my mind. I asked Jack if he would mind me writing…

    merchakandrea

    March 27, 2025
    ghosts, Stories
    ghosts, horror, short story
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