Categorie: short story
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Creature Feature Collection: Ankle Snatcher
Review: The stories are true! That monster hiding in the closet? The one underneath your bed? Parents tell these stories to scare their kids. But what if the stories were true? What if something ís hiding there, wanting to get to you?When Marcus has a second date with the woman he thinks could be the…
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Creature Feature Collection: The Pram
Review: Grief and obsession, two themes that are often the reason for great horror stories. When Willy and Marianne level behind Brooklyn to move to rural Maine in an old farmhouse, they leave behind pain and grief for a never born baby. Their inability to have children is harsh and they want to start a…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities: The Autopsy (2022)
Synopsis: A seasoned sheriff investigates a dead body in the woods and calls on an old pal, a medical examiner, to help piece together a series of chilling events. Review: This was quite a creepy one, best episode in the series so far. A mine collapses and leaves nine dead, one of them the reason…
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Movie Marathon: The Black Phone (2022)
Synopsis: Finney Blake is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of no use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are…
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Novella ‘Brandende Man, uit de wereld van Heugenis, Smart en het Sterrenzwaard’
Synopsis (Dutch): ‘Talloze jaren later schrik ik nog op in het holst van de nacht met zijn gekwelde gezicht voor mij. En in deze vreselijke dromen ben ik nimmer in staat zijn lijden te verlichten’. Zo begint deze korte roman van Tad Williams: Brandende man. Over een geheimzinnige stiefvader, een voorspellende heks, een gewonnen en…
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Anthology review ‘Devil’s Rejects’
Synopsis: When you’re a writer, rejection is just part of the process This anthology gives a second chance to twelve twisted and unsettling stories that are sure to satisfy any fan of indie horror. Featuring stories by Jeremy Megargee, Jamie Stewart, Grace R. Reynolds, Marcus Hawke, Miguel Gonçalves, Jacob Ian Decoursey, Kay Hanifen, Nikki R.…
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No Strings
Synopsis: Jamie Stewart, the author who took you to Montague’s Carnival of Delights and Terror, presents a wicked tale of what happens when we sever the strings that bind us. No Strings is the story of Lyra, a child that is used to getting what she wants no matter what and what she wants right…
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The Book of Færie (A Færie tale)
Synopsis: This prequel short story is about the history of faeriekind. It starts with the creation of faeries and encompasses over 1500 years before the magic of The Veil thrusts Vvellion into the Dark Ages, which lasts 1900 years before the start of The Nexus of Destiny. https://www.kalobdaniel.com/the-book-of-faerie Review: I am lucky enough to have received…
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The Ritual: a Holiday Folk Horror Story
Synopsis: “Let us bow our heads and close our eyes,” the villagers chanted, “for the Bell waits not for the one who dies.” In the square, the villagers had gathered for The Ritual, which hasn’t been performed in more than thirty years. Only those old enough to have been at the last one knew the…
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