The Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog

Reblogged from Speculative Assessments: Poison by Sarah Pinborough, Gollancz, 200 pages, £12.99 hardback, 2013. Fairy tales are as old as time, or so it appears. Certainly they’ve been around for untold centuries, educating, informing and entertaining generations of children (and adults, too). In times when…

Reblogged from Lisa McCarthy: My main aim when starting this blog was to promote literature, my own and that of others. I also wanted to connect with people on a more personal level and until now I have tried to do that by using my…

Reblogged from Dead Musings: Hi everyone,                         My blog is finally up and I cannot just let it sit there, gathering dust.  So here is my first post.  Some of you may know me, while others are probably asking themselves who in the world I am. …

Reblogged from leeog86:      The addiction has a hold of me; there’s no escape. I feel weak. I hate my obsession yet love it coursing through my veins. My great paradox. My fear and my desire. Preying on the innocent supplies my drug of…

Reblogged from Writing Myself into a Hole: (Warning: Spoilers ahead.)             The Annual Nashville Tattoo and Horror Convention rolled through town last week, bringing with it many colorfully decorated characters to the downtown area (to mingle with the equally colorful attendants of the Middle Tennessee…

Reblogged from Emma's Ramblings on Supernatural Fiction: Turn on the bloody light!! I missed this one in the cinema. Family and friends said “Hell, no” to accompanying me after seeing the trailer. They’d had enough of me dragging them to horrors over the years, and…

Reblogged from THOMAS BROWN: Next month sees the release of the University of Southampton’s Creative Writing Anthology, featuring stories from each of the MA students this year. In the interest of whetting some appetites for this limited-print publication, and to showcase some of my writing…

Reblogged from Pen of the Damned: The babies are coming. They’re coming and Friedrich is not there. After everything they have been through; the heartache, the treatments, he is not going to miss this moment. He puts his foot down on the accelerator. The sigh…