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Monsters of Elishire
Moonlight rippled unnaturally on the lake as the car rounded the curve to the final stretch of dirt road before we reached the township of Elishire. I appreciated the ride–I knew I would have gotten lost in these twisting country backroads. I already longed for the lights and traffic and pavement of my city.
By Bex Jordan2 years ago in Horror
The Mass Misunderstanding of "My Soul to Take"
WARNING: This op-ed contains spoilers. I've never had a hard time naming a favorite horror director. Through a decade and a half of expanding my palate and knowledge of horror cinema, it’s the only question that stands unchanged in my indecisive mind. I can’t tell you my favorite Final Girl, favorite special effects artist, or even my all-time favorite subgenre, but I've always been able to answer “so, who's your favorite director?” with a triumphant exclamation of the late, great Wes Craven. Unfortunately for almost everyone who’s asked me this icebreaker, the conversation always seems to sever when we arrive at the dreaded ranking of his films and a completely guiltless guilty pleasure of mine is always put dead last.
By Elle Janay2 years ago in Horror
Leave the Projector On-- All Kinds of Horrors
Leave The Projector On – All Kinds of Horrors Hallow’s Eve has come and passed, but personally I love screening horror films all across the year. But with 2022’s October now beyond the horizon, I figured it was an opportune moment to write another “Leave the Projector On” installment, this time fixating on horror films.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Horror
Horror Story of Family
The tempest had felt like gossip the entire day, yet presently, the sky was conveying. Briefly, similar to a blade getting a flicker of light and refracting it in huge number, everything sparkled white. The lightning split the entire sky fifty, and at that time, it was more splendid than sunshine. The highest points of the headstones appeared to beat like strobe lights in a club before darkness settled them down once more.
By KING JACK 6192 years ago in Horror
The Graveyard Shift
It all began on one evening at a secluded gas station, Sean was heading to work, he works the night shift at the gas station, when he arrived, his friend was getting ready to leave, before he did they started talking. After the conversation the two parted ways and Sean started working. Not much happened at the start of his shift, but when it started to get really late in the night, strange things started to happen, the lights would flicker, the cooler’s would shut off and turn back on, stuff would fall off the shelves, and strange things like that. All of this was really strange to him because none of this ever happened there before so he was really confused about it. After all that he tried to ignore all of it and get back to work, and so he did, later he was taking out the garbage and he started to hear rustling in the woods right next to him, as soon as he heard that he ran back inside and locked the door.
By Jesse Hartman2 years ago in Horror
Halloween; Kin
Happy Halloween There once was a jack-o-lantern but it wasn’t just any jack-o-lantern. Upon a farm there lived a young boy of 9 or 10 with messy hair, freckles, and a missing tooth grin. His name was Jeffrey. Of all the times of the year, Autumn was his favorite, the changing colors of the leaves, the holiday of Halloween at the end of the month, and most importantly the pumpkin carving. For you see Jeffrey was lonely, his farm was so far away from the town he rarely saw other kids his age and when he did at the school they weren’t very fond of him. But when October came around and the harvests came in he could have as many friends as he wanted. All it took was a few pumpkins and some silly faces and Jeffrey was one of the happiest kids in the world. But this year was different, just faces were not quite enough anymore so something special would be done. A single pumpkin nice and round almost perfect was selected from the harvest, it was gutted and then a gentle face was carved in it. Two oval eyes, a tiny triangle nose, and a two-toothed smile happy and kind. Jeffrey then took two sticks and like his grandfather showed him before tied them together with twine to make the frame of a scarecrow; a rather tiny one no bigger than a child. Taking one of his old shirts with a two-button collar and collared sleeves in a dusty blue color he put it on the frame stuffing it with straw and giving the scarecrow his old mittens. With his grandfather’s help, the bottom of the main stick was split in two and widened out, and tied with twine for legs. The scarecrow got some brown pants stuffed with straw and a few lengths of twined between the belt loops to keep it up. With the placement of its head, the pumpkin friend was complete and Jeffrey was happy.
By Anastasia J Cleveringa2 years ago in Horror