Image credit here! WARNING! THIS ARTICLE HAS HORROR CONTENT SUCH AS SCARY NOISES AND GORE! One thing that's particularly hard to capture in writing is sound. Visual stimuli is the easiest, in my personal opinion, as you can describe color, texture, and movement. The sense of touch seems a bit more straightforward as well. Sound,…
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BOOK BIRTHDAY! Red Viper: My Thoughts
"Red Viper", AKA "Sam what the hell are you doing?" Happy Birthday Red Viper, and Happy Birthday to the first book I ever self published that has remained on the market. Boy is my relationship with this book complicated, given I continue to promote the other version, The Dancing Crow, over this one. I'll talk…
A Revival of Desastr Narrations: Some Narrated Short Stories for you!
Hey folks! This is a short blog post regarding my narrations. I have been practicing narrating stories, and have done some of my own for this post. This is something you could listen to in the background if you like my voice. I do a variety of stories on my youtube channel and will be…
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Free Short Story: The Crows’ Present
Introduction Hey. This is a short story canon in my universe. It got rejected as a submission. I figured I'd just offer it for free. Hope you like it. Genre: Gothic, Horror Content Warning: Gore The Crows' Present Iridescent feathers, the color of the midnight sky, shone in the sun as two crows looked toward…
Exploring the Uncanny Valley: Ideas of utilizing ‘creepy’ in Dark Fantasy & Horror
Source here! Of all the horror topics I cover, I think the Uncanny Valley fascinates me the most, because it's what hits me the hardest when it comes to fear. This is odd for me to say, as dolls don't scare me, nor do clowns. Distorted faces do the trick for me, like the momo…
A Deep Dive into Creatives’ thoughts on Zombies
Art credit here! I will be upfront and say I am not a huge zombie fan, but there are depictions of zombies that I do enjoy. I feel they should be talked about and emphasized more, to be honest! I don't want to point out specific franchises, but rather explore what some in the creative…
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Who, What, WERE – Different types of were-animals (Idea piece for writing)
WERE-am I going with this? Find out some new ideas for lycanthrope in this article, where I talk about 5 unusual animals that could be 'werewolves' aside from...well...wolves.
Jumpscares: Yay or Nay?
Image by Sammy-Williams from Pixabay Ah, the times from childhood when I played the Scary Maze Game (this is the link to it, yes, there's a screamer) when tricked by my friend (may she rest in peace, miss you Ashley </3) that it was a normal maze. I had jumped up so hard that the…
I don’t like open doors in the dark
The laptop light shined on my face as I was drawn to late night horror topics once more. All was well, though was 2 AM, and things were getting a little bit strange. The sounds in my abode were normal sounds, I was in an apartment, after all. Tickity tick, tappity tap. Normal apartment sounds.…
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