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  • ABOUT US
  • all for love By John Reinhart
  • Archaeology By Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
  • ARCHIVES
    • Bloody Valentine 2019 Issue
    • Bloody Valentine 2020 Issue
    • Bloody Valentine Contest 2019
    • Challenge – DMD ’21
    • Contest 5-19
    • Demented Mother’s Day 2019 Issue
      • Demented Mother’s Day Contest Winners
        • A Painful, Burning Sensation by Marlin Bressi
        • Apron Strings by Stephen Couch
        • Does a Body Good by Greg Beatty
        • New Mother by Peter Philleo
    • Demented Mother’s Day Contest
    • FICTION – 2/11/21
    • FICTION – 8-12-21
    • FICTION – Bloody Valentine’s Day Issue 2022
    • FICTION – BVD Issue 2020
    • FICTION – Halloween 2021
    • Fiction 10-29-20
    • Fiction 2-19 Issue
      • Be Mine By Angela Sylvaine
      • Bullet Harvester By Ken McGrath
      • Dalliance By F.J. Bergmann
      • Entropy’s Design By Rick McQuiston
      • Heartless By Wes Alexander
      • Night Sharers By Ed Ahern
      • Return to Sable Basin By MM Schreier
    • Fiction 5-19 Issue
      • A Sense of Responsibility by Alexandra Grunberg
    • Halloween 2018 Contest
    • Halloween 2018 Fiction
      • Halloween Hotel by Dan Crawford
      • Neverland by Eddie Generous
      • When the Electric Clock Reads Midnight by Connor Greenaway
      • Road Trip by Blake Johnson
      • The Man Who was Afraid of Architecture by Hillary Lyon
      • Daddy’s Girl by W. T Paterson
      • The Beautiful People by Angela Sylvaine
      • Beneath the Autumn Quilt by Wondra Vanian
      • Not Haunted By Rachel Watts
      • The Painted Woman By Rachel Weist
    • Halloween 2018 Issue
    • Halloween Challenge – 8/12/21
    • Halloween Challenge Winners 10-29-20
    • Holiday Horror Challenge 12/30/21
    • POETRY – 2/11/21
    • POETRY – 8/12/21
    • POETRY – Bloody Valentine’s Day Issue 2022
    • POETRY – Halloween 2021
    • POETRY – Summer 2019
      • #4888 (no title)
      • A Hallowe’en Tale
      • A Halloween Horrorku Series by Marcia Borell
      • A Nuclear Winter’s Carol By Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
      • A Shadow in the Night by Colleen M. Farrelly
      • All the Moon by Matthew Chamberlin
      • An Eve’s Presence by Harris Coverley
      • Aricia by David Kopaska-Merkel
      • AUTUMN’S DESCENT
      • Better Social Distance if You’re Out Late on Halloween by Gary Davis
      • Blood Orchids By Sheikha A.
      • Bringing Sally Back by Tyree Campbell
      • Burnt Offering by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
      • by Francis W. Alexander
      • by Gary Davis
      • Casual Friday by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
      • Christmas Chowder By Marge Simon
      • Cut Short on the Short Cut
      • Dance of Hallows
      • Dawnya – They Seek Freedom by Marcia A. Borell
      • Derailed by John C. Mannone
      • Draw Back the Veil
      • Family Album by Alec Gourley
      • Family Dinner by Colleen M. Farrelly
      • Family Home by John Grey
      • First Love, Mother Love by Jonathan Minton
      • Forbidden Haibun: Juneteenth Day by Francis W. Alexander
      • Forbidden Haibun: The Doting Mother by Francis W. Alexander
      • Forbidden Haibun: Their Halloween
      • Fright Night Out on the Town
      • Grave Spirits by Abby DeSantis
      • Halloween’s Not over yet by Gary Davis
      • Her Scythe by John Tustin
      • HYNGRAN(after Beowulf) by Oliver Smith
      • Imaginarium of the Outdoors: Lurking in a Nightmare
      • In Her Workshop by Oliver Smith
      • In the Shadow of the Flame by J.S. Watts
      • Inaugural by Robert Beveridge
      • Infecting Amy by Francis Alexander
      • Joined Valentine Horrorku by sakyu
      • Legend of the Secret Garden by Marcia A. Borell
      • Legends Rooted in the Bayou by John C. Mannone
      • Lost Wilderness
      • meal time by Lauren McBride
      • Midnight Moon by Albert Schlaht
      • Mortumus Mortum by Oliver Smith
      • My Ancestors at the Veil by Meg Smith
      • My Daughters Dated Bluebeard by Claire Smith
      • Nameless by Rayn Roberts
      • Night Watch by Miriam H. Harrison
      • Night, the Cat I Follow by Greg Tuano
      • Nostalgia by Miriam H. Harrison
      • Not Supposed to be Like This
      • One Less Witch On Hallows Eve
      • Only by Miriam H. Harrison
      • Pathway to Glory
      • Post-Obit Cautionary Tale
      • Praying You Won’t Bite My Head Off by Lauren McBride
      • Resting Comfortably by Alec Gourley
      • Samghnagan
      • Sea of Trees
      • Selfishness and Devotion by sakyu
      • Stills
      • Strawberry Milkshake by Lauren McBride
      • Thanksgiving Nightmares! by Marcia Borell
      • The Darker Holiday Spirits By Marcia Borell
      • The Darkest Part of Your Heart by L.A. Story
      • The Haunting by Talesin Gore
      • The Horseman by Anna Ojinnaka
      • The Last Switch by Colleen M. Farrelly
      • The Lottery, Revisited by Marge Simon
      • The New Mrs. Zombie Longs to Dine Out by Lauren McBride
      • The Poem by Marcia A. Borell
      • The Rushes of Samhain by Meg Smith
      • The Wailing Cries of Zaria Cane by Jason Brasier
      • They Watch by Ivanka Fear
      • Three Horrorku by Marcia Borell
      • Trick-or-Treat?
      • Tricksters Take Back Halloween
      • Unemployment Imminent by Debby Feo
      • Untitled
      • Untitled
      • Untitled by Gary Davis
      • Untitled by Gary Davis
      • Untitled by Lauren McBride
      • Untitled Haibun
      • Why I Always Wear Sharp Vampire Teeth on Halloween by Gary Davis
    • Poetry 10-29-20
    • Poetry 2-19
      • all for love By John Reinhart
      • Archaeology By Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
      • By Marcia Borell
      • Chapel Perilous By J. B. Toner
      • Moonlight Serenade By John C. Mannone
      • Someone Is Looking for You (from a spam subject line) By F.J. Bergmann
      • To the Family in the Cabin By the Lake by John Grey
      • Two Horrorku By Francis W. Alexander
      • Valentine Card By T. Santitoro
      • Visitation By J. J. Steinfeld
    • Poetry 5-19 Issue
    • Welcome 5-19
    • Welcome Bloody Valentine 2019
    • Welcome Halloween 2018
    • Welcome Readers – 8/12/21
    • Welcome Readers – Halloween 2021
    • Welcome Readers 10-29-20
    • Welcome Readers! BVD 2022
  • ART
  • ARTICLES
    • “She makes a beautiful zombie, doesn’t she?”: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
    • 15 of America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries by Tricia Urlaub
    • Bram Stoker’s Mummy: The Jewel of Seven Stars
    • Desire and Death: Richard Adams’s The Girl in a Swing
    • For the Love of Horror! (And other Halloween Oxymorons) by Tricia Urlaub
    • Midnight Mass Review by Timothy L. Wright
    • Movie Remakes; Are They Actually Good?
    • Nazi Ghost Ships are Scary Fun
    • The Long and Short of Horror Fiction by Paul Lonardo
    • Top 10 Creepy Kids on the Horror Scene
    • Top 10 Signs You Might Be in a Horror Flick
    • Top 13 Locations to Run into a Supernatural Being (& Why)
    • Top 8 Reasons to Go it Alone at a Horror Movie
  • Be Mine By Angela Sylvaine
  • Bloody Valentine Contest Winners
    • A Weekend of Omissions By Diane Arrelle
    • Room for Two By Rick McQuiston
    • Sex with Elvis By David Turnbull
    • The Visit By Bethany Van Sterling
  • Bloody Valentine Special Edition Challenge
  • Bugs Contest Winners
  • Bullet Harvester By Ken McGrath
  • By Marcia Borell
  • Cake by MM Schreier
  • Cake by MM Schreier
  • Chapel Perilous By J. B. Toner
  • CONTACT
  • Contest
  • Dalliance By F.J. Bergmann
  • Day of the Mother By David Kopaska-Kerkel
  • DMD ’21 Challenge Winners
  • Dreams of Cotton Candy by Avra Margariti
  • Dutiful Daughter By Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell
  • Entropy’s Design By Rick McQuiston
  • Expiring Beneath Tremulous Wings by Ken McGrath
  • Expiring Beneath Tremulous Wings by Ken McGrath
  • FICTION
    • 29 AZA
    • A Gathering of Crows by Christina Sng
    • A Hitchcock Teaser by Ken Goldman
    • A Love Like Salt by Jenni Meade
    • A Mother’s Lot by Tim Wagemans
    • A Smile to Keep by Tori V. Rainn
    • A Whooping Crane Sketch by Bernardo Villela
    • A Winter’s Funeral
    • Abandoned Memories by Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris
    • Abominable
    • Adjusting The Bar by Nancy Widrew
    • Adventure in the Worm Hole by Christina Sng
    • All the World was Shadow by Thomas Canfield
    • Ambrosia by Ginger Strivelli
    • An Abandoned Man by Chris Kok
    • An Unusual Excorcism by Maria Dean
    • Arsonist’s Room by Tim Frank
    • Ashes to Ashes by Ken Goldman
    • Badgers for Christmas by Diane Arrelle
    • Blood On Her Tongue by Marge Simon
    • Box of Claws by Jacqueline West
    • Cake Walk by Mark Huntley-James
    • Camping Buddies by Jacqueline Moran Meyer
    • Captain Ares by Rachel Racette
    • Careless by Mia Dalia
    • Contest Winner
    • Cook Me a Storm by Elizabeth Guilt
    • Courtship @ to ç by Brenda Anderson
    • Curie Curse
    • Danny by Donna J. W. Munro
    • Dead Tide by Andrew Punzo
    • Dearest by Shannon Lawrence
    • Dinner Date by Mike Murphy
    • Distracted by Pamela Love
    • Dreaming Epidermis
    • Edith’s Promise by Robert Freel
    • Emily by David Talon
    • Fair Game
    • Foil by Philip Feiv Wolff
    • Friends Forever by Mark Humphries
    • Grange Ghosts
    • Halloween by Rick McQuiston
    • Hatchet Man by Christian Riley
    • Head Case by Mike Murphy
    • Heart Like a Bruise by Terrye Turpin
    • Hey Valentine, by Amanda Cecilia Lang
    • Honorable Mention
    • Honorable Mention
    • Honorable Mention
    • Honorable Mention
    • Hybrid
    • I Eat the Dead by Lawrence Buentello
    • I’m so Angry by Paul Wilson
    • I’m Sorry, Mr. Stenton by David Berger
    • In a Room at the Top of the Stairs by W. Tyler Paterson
    • In Season by Rachel Unger
    • Inevitable Clouds by Jordan Hagedon
    • Intangible Gifts by Malina Douglas
    • Iron Maiden by Caleb Greenough
    • Is there a Killer In Mrs. Norris’s House? by Nicole J. Simms
    • It Sobs Wetly by Jeff Suwak
    • It Started on Sunday Street By Bryson Richard
    • Little People by Ed Ahern
    • Lonely by Miriam H. Harrison
    • Long Distance by David Calbert
    • Love Your Pet by Carl Papa Palmer
    • Lovely in the Dying Light by Carolyn R. Russell
    • Lucy Pemgrass Eats a Crow by Koji A. Dae
    • Macrophages by Erica Ciko Campbell
    • Madre Tierra by J.L. Royce
    • Making Rent by Abbie Doll
    • Mallsoft by Amelia Engen
    • Metamorphoses by Steven Wittenberg Gordon
    • Mombie’s Daily Planner by Connie Millard
    • Mother Feared the Grey Men by Andrew Hansen
    • Mother’s Death by Eliza Master
    • Night Walkers by Barry Charman
    • On an Open Fire by Mike Murphy
    • Once Upon a Star by Paul Wilson
    • One: Cordelia’s Blaze by Louise Worthington
    • OR by Laura Campbell
    • Over at the Schoolhouse by Terri Mullholland
    • Peeved and Prickled by David Calbert
    • Sepsis
    • Skulls & Roses by Ken McGrath
    • Something about Roy By Christian Riley
    • St. Catherine’s Park by J. L. Royce
    • Sticky Vixen by Joe Giordano
    • Sunrise by Caitlin Upshall
    • Sunshine Girl by Mia Dalia
    • Surviving a Bear Attack: A How To
    • Tarnish by April Grant
    • The Absent Wife by Carl Hughes
    • The Bat
    • The Bluebells by DJ Tyrer
    • The Boy’s Head by T.L. Beeding
    • The Choice
    • The Clearing
    • The Devil’s Pulpit by Alexandra Grunberg
    • The Elevator Operator
    • The Farm
    • The Firth of Tay by Erich von Neff
    • The Goat by Claire McAneny
    • The Interview by Heather Fleming
    • The Last Christmas Guest by Brad Baker
    • The Littlest Witch
    • The Meeting by Max Griffin
    • The Mirror and the Clook by Feridina Bisha
    • The New Valkyrie by Hermester Barrington
    • The Nightmare’s Time by Lynn Rushlau
    • The Original Version is Always Grimm-er by Rex Caleval
    • The Polite Thing
    • The Precinct by Jill Jepson
    • The R by Jessica Gleason
    • The Rebound by Kathryn A. Brackett
    • The Revelation by Christian Riley
    • The Sidewalk by Kemal Onor
    • The Trader by Nicole Givens Kurtz
    • The Wading Pool
    • The Worm Crawled In by Nancy Widrew
    • Thicket by Christine Makepeace
    • Thing in the Backyard by Paul Wilson
    • Together for Christmas by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar
    • Untitled
    • Vacant Shadows by Cydney Goodwin
    • Veil by A.E. Stone
    • Vinyl and a Veneer of Safety by Melissa Rose Rogers
    • Water Wish by Michael James
    • Whispers in the Cyclone by Amanda Crum
    • White Noise by Chris Riley
    • Why He’s Recharging on the Couch Tonight by Jeffrey Hunt
    • Witch Way Home by Charlotte Platt
    • With Demonic Love by Kerri Brown
    • Worm Song
    • You’ll Come Back
    • You’re All the Same to Me
  • Fiction – temp
  • FICTION DMD 2021
  • fiction summer 2019
  • fiction temp 1
  • Halloween 2018 Horrorscopes
  • Halloween 2018 Poetry
    • Victim By Francis W. Alexander
    • Regardless By F. J. Bergmann
    • The Calling by Frank Coffman
    • Mommy’s Boy By John Grey
    • Men on Mars and Witches from Venus By John C. Mannone
    • Retribution By Lauren McBride
    • Curse of Waccasassa Lagoon By John Reinhart
    • Possible First Lines of a Novel By David Rogers
    • An Existential Foretelling by J. J. Steinfeld
    • Daughter of Witches By Matthew Wilson
  • Halloween 2019
  • Halloween Challenge
  • Halloween Challenge
  • Halloween poetry 2019
  • Halloween Special Edition Challenge Winners
  • Heartless By Wes Alexander
  • Holiday Horror Challenge Winners
  • HOME
  • HORRORSCOPES
    • Aquarius Horrorscope
    • Aries Horrorscope
    • Cancer Horrorscope
    • Capricorn Horrorscope
    • Gemini Horrorscope
    • Leo Horrorscope
    • Libra Horrorscope
    • Pisces Horrorscope
    • Sagittarius Horrorscope
    • Scorpio Horrorscope
    • Taurus Horrorscope
    • Virgo Horrorscope
  • Introducing Our…
  • Moonlight Serenade By John C. Mannone
  • MOVIE & BOOK REVIEWS
  • My Mother the Illusionist By Karen Greenbaum-Maya
  • Night Sharers By Ed Ahern
  • Ocean Salazar
  • Only the Best by Cassie McDonald
  • Other Hungers By Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
  • Oubliette by (xeno-unit)
  • POETRY
    • 3 Untitled by Francis W. Alexander
    • A Bewitching Holiday: Valentine’s Falls Between Halloween and Walpurgisnacht by Gary Davis
    • At grandpa’s funeral by Terrie Leigh Relf
    • Bad Date by DJ Tyrer
    • Choice by Templeton Moss
    • Dear Valentine by Linda Trott Dickman
    • First Day Among Humans by Lauren McBride
    • Haunted Hill by F.A. Calder
    • How to Make Goofer Dust for the Quelling of Enemies: A Modern Method by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
    • If We Could But Die Together by Lauren McBride
    • Love – It Bites by Marcia A. Borell
    • Male Soul by Marcia A. Borell
    • Mom at Devil’s Spring – When Hell Froze Over by Marcia A. Borell
    • Moon Garden by Tyson West
    • Mother’s Day: No Holiday for the Hungry Denizens of Mother Nature by Gary Davis
    • Not of the Internal or of the Infinite by J.J. Steinfeld
    • Perfect Date by DJ Tyrer
    • Scales by Marcia Borell
    • Snow on Snow by Mariel Herbert
    • Song of the Siren by Matthew Wilson
    • Soul Mates by Guy Belleranti
    • Soulmate by Rick Powell
    • Summer on the Bayou (a haibun) by sakyu
    • Summer Walks by Marcia A. Borell
    • Summoned from the Sea by Lamont Turner
    • The Batfields and the McCoys by Francis W. Alexander
    • The Buried Witch by John Grey
    • The First Annual Pick A Soul Day by Francis W. Alexander
    • The Moon by Sandy DeLuca
    • The Spice of Life by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
    • The Way to a Man’s Heart by Mariel Herbert
    • Untitled by Andrew Christian
    • Untitled by Ivan de Monbrison
    • Untitled Vampaiku by Debby Feo
    • Valentine sijo by Sakyu
    • Where the Summer Ends by Rick Powell
  • Poetry BVD 2021
  • POETRY DMD 2021
  • POETRY GUIDELINES
  • poetry summer 2019
  • Poetry Valentine 2020 Issue
  • Return to Sable Basin By MM Schreier
  • Someone Is Looking for You (from a spam subject line) By F.J. Bergmann
  • SUBMISSIONS
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  • Summer 2019
  • Summer Challenge
  • Summer Challenge
  • Summer Challenge 2021 Winners
  • Sunflowers by Sarah Silvey
  • Sunflowers by Sivey
  • The Hoard by Scott Hughes
  • The Wet Nurse by Wendy Maxon
  • Their Mother’s Day by Francis W. Alexander
  • To the Family in the Cabin By the Lake by John Grey
  • Two Horrorku By Francis W. Alexander
  • Under an Empty Sky by JT Strand
  • Valentine Card By T. Santitoro
  • Visitation By J. J. Steinfeld
  • WE’RE BACK….
  • Welcome page Holiday issue 2019
  • Welcome Readers – 10-19
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  • welcome summer 2019
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