Featured Story - Henry

Welcome to the Gothic realm. Alex Woodroe has passionately and carefully curated a powerful volume of gothic stories, written by an amazing and diverse group of contemporary writers.

Within the pages of A Quaint and Curious Collection of Gothic Tales, the reader will encounter stories of pain and suffering, ghosts, curses, unspoken secrets, greed, murder, and one of the creepiest collections of dolls ever seen.

Come on in; enter the parlor, find a place by the fire, and experience the beautiful, dark, and occasionally heartbreaking stories told by the authors as they continue the Gothic tradition pioneered by the likes of Shelley, Radcliffe, Brontë, and others.

Featured Story - Maddalena

An anthology of 206-word horror stories/flash fiction showcasing some of the freshest horror writers out there today.

There are 206 bones in the adult human skeleton. Our writers gave us 206-word stories, one word per bone. We, Bag of Bones Press, have selected and published 206 of these absolute beasts for your enjoyment.

According to Dante, sin is the misdirection of love - the human will, or essentially, the direction of our beings. Love the Sinner is an examination of just how those sins can kaleidoscope into horrific consequences creating a distorted and deadly landscape. These stories stand stark before you in full glaring misstep and macabre to show the human psyche in all its twisted reality.

From grief and its rage to medical meddling to ensure a new world order to bloody revenge within a quantum leap, these stories seek to solidify one absolute man is the scariest monster.

This book was initially compiled in honor of Black Women in Horror during February (Black History Month) and March (Women in History Month) and is an extension of a series that started out as a project for Women in Horror Month back in February 2013. At the time, Women in Horror Month was in February, although now many celebrate it during March, which is Women in History Month. Sumiko Saulson put together 2013, 2014 (60 Black Women), 2017 (80 Black Women), and 2018 (100 Black Women) editions as a project for Iconoclast Productions. The 2023 (160 Black Women) edition was assembled as a Black Women in Horror Month project with Kenya Moss-Dyme. Includes an essay by Kai Leakes.and introduction by Kenya Moss-Dyme

Featured Story - The Marriage

Encyclopocalypse Publications invites you to their debut anthology of terrifying folklore.

This collection of macabre myths and lurid legends feature tales of Perchta and watchers, sirens and Squonks from some of the most exciting and diverse voices in modern horror.

You'll be titillated and terrified and aching to read more. Brought to you by Janine Pipe in the first of their Legends and Lore series.

The Tarot holds mystery, prediction, and unsettling omens to those who practice, divine, or are keen to. Each card in the Major Arcana holds a position in our own lives, the many facets and personas we used to make it through this world. Sometimes those personas can break us, break others, or our spirit. At times, those facets can plunge us into despair, fear, and terror. A turn of the cards weaves CLAIRVIOLENCE through space and time to delve into the stories of those shaken by life-shattering choices that threaten to tear their very souls apart. A warring couple is forced to reconcile during what they believe is the end of the world, a young man is drawn into the evil prison of an elderly woman, and a dead woman’s curse travels miles and decades to bring her killer to justice. CLAIRVIOLENCE unearths the hellish tales that lie beneath the exterior of a charmed and quiet life.

Mo Moshaty - Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films
Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the present world. Here in our modern time, undead memory is not just a remembrance of the past that is visited upon the present with negative implications, but the embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate the way we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past.

Mo Moshaty - Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore.

Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American environments — both physical and immaterial — the book delves into the questions relating to American geography, identity, racial and ethnic tensions, American colonial past and its urban and environmental history. With contributions from a diverse and international team of authors, the collection follows the vampire across the geographical and ideological landscape of the US to consider what cultural and historical environments have gone towards creating the contemporary undead and why the post-Trump America of the twenty-first century is a truly vampiric one.

 This timely and truly innovative volume will resonate firmly with scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror, American studies and urban and environmental studies.