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Artwork by Jon Castaneda

JON CASTANEDA is an artist from El Paso, Texas. He has done hundreds of commissions and usually prefers the genres of horror and fantasy. He is currently wor...

Beyond the Firs by Michael Balletti

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre There’s something behind that painting at work. I hear it buzzing when I walk past. It’s an oil pastel on canvas featuring three fi...

Cabrona Mala by Steve Passey

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre There were two hundred kids and a bonfire. An hour before the sheriff’s department came to break it up, Grace killed Rose by cuttin...

Artwork by Tracy Whiteside

"I Will Never Marry" TRACY WHITESIDE is an internationally published Chicago-area photographer specializing in creative images for humans. Her work can be se...

Songs of Tinnitus by W. T. Paterson

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre Eli couldn’t sleep. A doctor explained tinnitus was to blame, a high-pitched ping that lived in his ears like a miniature bumblebee...

The Creep by Keith Proctor

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre Jack Holcomb turned down his long gravel driveway nearly a month to the day after Eliot disappeared. The sun was just a rim of ligh...

The Hole By Amita Basu

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre Pothole. Without warning bang mid-street. Deftly, he maneuvered around it. They always gave me good drivers. Down J. N. Boulevard...

The Words on the Bus Go Round and Round, Round and Round, Round and Round. . . by Elizabeth Davis

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre Graffiti. A real bitch, isn’t it? At least for your poor landlord, with new a coat popping up overnight like Virginia Creepers. And...

The Little Priestess by Macy Harrison

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre As the grandfather clock in the hall finished striking the eleventh hour, Thomas returned to the parlor where his guests were drink...

Artwork by Corey Nyhus

COREY NYHUS is a narrative artist currently living and drawing in New York. An avid lover of fantasy and occult horror, his work is full of stark inks, eldri...

A Witch's Work by Dan Fields

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre A hand of frost clenched at Hendrie Tulloch’s chest as he waded from the shoal, carrying the slack body of the witch’s daughter. An...

Of Hearts and Rats by Oliver Smith

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre The Rat-Witch, Lorelei, stood by the shore. Her lover had gone to fight in the war: to fields where metal churned men into mud, whe...