Calaveritas Literarias: Lampooning Death In Verse
Here’s a truth that most aspiring authors wouldn’t dare to admit: I wasn’t a bookworm kid. Outside of the textbooks I had to read at school, I barely read any…
Portents of Death in Celtic Lore
I’m not sure the exact moment I became aware of my Irish lineage—both my maternal and paternal grandmothers were Irish—but somewhere between childhood and adolescence I began to develop a…
From Beyond the Grave
The ancients mourned in ways we simply cannot imagine. Their dead passed out of life leaving little to nothing behind. Grieving people make jewelry out of hair or ashes and…
Don’t be a TOOL
“TOOL is just Radiohead for Juggalos.” This is, to date, still the most devastating thing anyone has ever said to my face about my tastes. But it wasn’t the first…
A Preview of A Voice Calling
Today is the release day for our very first novella–Christopher Barzak’s A Voice Calling. We’re sharing the first three chapters of this unique take on haunted houses. The links to…
7 Horror Titles Out in April
While most people bemoan the loss of an hour of sleep due to the time change, avid readers know that this means we have a little more time to pack…
9 Genuinely Scary Haunted Buildings in Horror
The fact remains that haunted spaces, especially houses, are scary as hell because the threats aren’t easily vanquished. In horror, when the threat is corporeal, there is a chance of…
To Live and Die (and be Reborn) in Deux-Sèvres
From the title, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild promises to be a book about death. And it is; the titular banquet is the centerpiece of the novel, stories…
Chaos Trifecta #12: Life/Death, Evolution, Technology
One thing I’ve been contemplating lately is the cycle of life and the interconnectedness between life, death, time, memories, evolution, and now the impact of technology on it all—the way we think about, experience, and understand each has changed with each new technological invention and innovation, more so now than ever.
Murder-Suicide Blues
Of all the people I might have predicted would go out in a murder-suicide, my husband’s grandparents who were a happily married LDS couple in their nineties with (not exaggerating)…