Tales from the Moonlit Path

Tales from the Moonlit Path

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  • ABOUT US
  • all for love By John Reinhart
  • Archaeology By Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
  • ARCHIVES
    • Bloody Valentine 2019 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 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 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 10-29-20
  • 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
    • 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 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
    • An Abandoned Man by Chris Kok
    • Arsonist’s Room by Tim Frank
    • 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
    • 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
    • Grange Ghosts
    • Halloween by Rick McQuiston
    • Hatchet Man by Christian Riley
    • Head Case by Mike Murphy
    • Hey Valentine, by Amanda Cecilia Lang
    • Honorable Mention
    • Honorable Mention
    • Honorable Mention
    • Honorable Mention
    • Hybrid
    • I Eat the Dead by Lawrence Buentello
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Peeved and Prickled by David Calbert
    • Sepsis
    • Skulls & Roses by Ken McGrath
    • Something about Roy By Christian Riley
    • Sticky Vixen by Joe Giordano
    • Sunrise by Caitlin Upshall
    • 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 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 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
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    • Vacant Shadows by Cydney Goodwin
    • Veil by A.E. Stone
    • Vinyl and a Veneer of Safety by Melissa Rose Rogers
    • 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
    • Worm Song
    • You’ll Come Back
    • You’re All the Same to Me
  • FICTION
  • 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 poetry 2019
  • Halloween Special Edition Challenge Winners
  • Heartless By Wes Alexander
  • Holiday Horror Challenge Winners
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  • 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
  • Only the Best by Cassie McDonald
  • Other Hungers By Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
  • Oubliette by (xeno-unit)
  • POETRY
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    • 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
    • Choice by Templeton Moss
    • 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
    • Love – It Bites by Marcia A. Borell
    • Male Soul by Marcia A. Borell
    • meal time by Lauren McBride
    • Midnight Moon by Albert Schlaht
    • Moon Garden by Tyson West
    • 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
    • Song of the Siren by Matthew Wilson
    • Stills
    • Strawberry Milkshake by Lauren McBride
    • Summoned from the Sea by Lamont Turner
    • 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 Spice of Life by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
    • 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
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    • Untitled by Gary Davis
    • Untitled by Gary Davis
    • Untitled by Lauren McBride
    • Untitled Haibun
    • Untitled Vampaiku by Debby Feo
    • Valentine sijo by Sakyu
    • Why I Always Wear Sharp Vampire Teeth on Halloween by Gary Davis
  • POETRY
  • POETRY DMD 2021
  • POETRY GUIDELINES
  • poetry summer 2019
  • Poetry temp
  • Return to Sable Basin By MM Schreier
  • Someone Is Looking for You (from a spam subject line) By F.J. Bergmann
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Summer 2019
  • Summer Challenge
  • Summer Challenge
  • Summer Challenge 2021 Winners
  • 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….
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🎃HALLOWEEN 2021 ISSUE🎃

Welcome to the Halloween Issue of TftMP! Thank you for joining us in this surreal Covid19 world. 

We are now OPEN to poetry and story submissions for our Bloody Valentine 2022 Issue, slated for February 10, 2022. 

Deadline for submissions for BVD issue is 2/1/22.

We are NOW CLOSED to submissions for our Holiday Horror Challenge.

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Publication Date: 10/28/21

           

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