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Category: Crime-horror

“Confounded: Crime Scene Notes” by Gary D. Rhodes

POETRY: “lacerations throb, even in death….”

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New Collection Becoming Nosferatu Features Noir, Horror, and SF/Fantasy

BLOGS: “A new collection featuring stories and poems in the tradition of Nosferatu and other silent expressionist classics….”

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“Dancer Loses Her Head in Tapas Bar” by Jonathan Woods

SHORT FICTION/EROTICA: “Itztli loved life. He also feared the old gods. And the new…”

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“The Prodigy” by Jim Towns

POETRY: “The burned shell / of the house / sat empty for years….”

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“Eldritch” by Gary D. Rhodes

POETRY: “Nobody laughed when everybody laughed….”

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“An Inclusive Genre”: Stephen Jones on The Art of Pulp Horror

I have always regarded horror as an “inclusive” genre—you can take almost any genre and turn it into a horror story. That has been one of the things that’s always attracted me to it. The whole crime/horror crossover is just another example of that. STEPHEN JONES lives in London, England. A Hugo Award nominee, he […]

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