Weird Fiction for the Bold
“Everything’s half off,” an old woman growls from the porch. Krystal offers a quick smile that turns to a grimace as she turns back to her son. The woman gives her the creeps–an unfiltered cigarette dangling from colorless lips, her face a spider web of wrinkles, and a filthy house dress clinging to her sagging,…
If you enjoyed the opening chapter of my upcoming horror novel, maybe you’d like to continue the adventure. Here’s the next chapter: Chapter 2 Sully Rockwell heaved his considerable bulk out of his silver Jaguar F-Type convertible with only a few huffs and puffs, then glanced around under his wrap-around Oakleys to make sure no…
This is my current work-in-progress (WIP): a creature-feature horror novel in the realm of Jaws meets The Thing. Back of the Book Blurb People keep disappearing in the small town of Gray Harbor, Massachusetts. And when one turns up dead on a local beach, Detective Hector Velaquez is drawn into a web of conspiracy and…
Fear. Just hearing the word can make your skin crawl, right? It’s the primal sensation that has kept our species alive for thousands of years. It tells you when to run, when to hide, and—on rare occasions—when to face danger head-on. But for something designed to keep us alive, fear has this funny habit of…
The old cowboy’s silhouette danced on sandstone behind him as he turned over and regarded the younger man across the fire. “Come sun up, you and me’ll head into town and see what’s what.” The younger man grumbled an affirmative and nodded off almost immediately. His dreams were dark and foggy, with vague images of…
The evening sky fades to navy. Venus hangs low on the Eastern horizon and Sagittarius spreads above it, barely visible in the gloaming. The breeze is cool and dry and carries a hint of woodsmoke from somewhere out of sight. It ruffles the young man’s black hair, which shoots askew from his pale scalp, swinging…
11/4/1902 – Ever since the day my dear father handed me the map—on his sickbed and mere minutes from death, God rest his soul—I have dreamed of this day. Today, we board the steamer Beluga and begin our voyage to Brazil and the heart of the mighty Amazon. Having secured funding through the Royal…
THE LITTLE GIRL IN fleece teddy bear pajamas sniffs and looks up at her father through long lashes. “But I don’t want you to go, Daddy.” The man swipes a tear from her cheek with a calloused thumb and grins down at her from where he sits on the edge of her bed. “I know,…