- Sanitarium Magazine #35-1 Welcome to the Sanitarium The perfect length for your in-between reading, you’ll love the portability of this little slice of damnation as you tremble while you wait for the doctor, fear for your life over lunch, and lose yourself in the mesmerizing poetry of oblivion. It’s that easy to dive into these short horror fiction reads. Discover […]
- Here, There and Everywhere They hit Los Angeles shortly after midnight, an unending surge of skittering bodies, emerging from sewers, sidewalk cracks, parks, basements and schoolyards—even shower drains and toilet stalls. At least they were quick. Those slumbering though their arrival probably died asleep. Probably. Beetles. I suppose I’ve gone crazy. I can’t deny that the idea holds a […]
- Tree Fort Clown walks into a bar. Bartender says, “What’ll you have?” Clown says, “Gimme a treefort!” Bartender says, “What’s in a treefort?” Clown says . . . Playboy mags and cigars, hee-hee-hee! I smiled but did not laugh. Tommy’s voice rang clear and cold in my ears, telling and re-telling his stale old jokes. I […]
- Beyond Redemption “As greed of gain has drowned all temperance, there’s nothing left to stem the rising blackness.” -Marcus Bischoff I bundled my coat tight, fighting for its warmth, shivering violently regardless. The wind whistled around me and the temperature wavered around zero, threatening to freeze me where I stood. The tall chain-link fence surrounded […]
- Connected ‘Don’t say another word. Your wife is wearing a navy blue sweater and skirt. One word and she’s dead. One word to anyone and she’s dead.’ Vic’s hand tightened on the receiver. He glanced across the hallway, through the open door towards Nancy, her feet curled under her on the living room sofa as she […]
- How It Really Ends if you draw butterflies on your wrists, they’ll come alive while you sleep and fly away into the night and flutter like sprites. they will murmur to god, she needs you now, and they will come back and sit patiently, still as stone. they will kiss your wounds with their wings and […]
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- We Spend a Moment With Stephen Graham Jones It’s what I grew up reading, along with westerns and mystery and action and thrillers and fantasy. I didn’t stumble onto what people call “literary” until . . . maybe my junior year of undergrad? Maybe senior year. I remember hitting one of my profs up for what ‘canon’ type works I was going to […]
- Sanitarium Magazine #34-4 Welcome to the Sanitarium The perfect length for your in-between reading, you’ll love the portability of this little slice of damnation as you tremble while you wait for the doctor, fear for your life over lunch, and lose yourself in the mesmerizing poetry of oblivion. It’s that easy to dive into these short horror fiction reads. Discover […]