A white supremacist who runs a flea market stall selling Confederate and Nazi mementos is approached by a strange man to acquire a mysterious occult book. In a series of double crosses…
Tag: horror
“The Haunting of Esther Cox” by William Meikle
After an attempted rape, a young woman is haunted and possessed by a malevolent poltergeist until she finds a way to free herself from it. This story is told in alternating diary…
“Hostile Architecture” by M. Lopes da Silva
A homeless person, their sanity destroyed by sleep deprivation due in no small part to efforts to make rest in public places impossible, succumbs to madness or possession (it’s a little ambiguous…
“Crawlspace Oracle” by Richard Gavin
A woman has dinner with an old acquaintance who has gained a reputation for financial wizardry, hoping to get some advice for how to invest some money her husband has recently acquired….
“One of the Good Ones, or: It’s a Gas!” by Gordon B. White
During a hot summer of protests, a young cop participates, somewhat reluctantly, in an unauthorized experiment with an old psychoactive substance that some of his fellow cops intend to use on the…
“Scold’s Bridle: A Cruelty” by Richard Gavin
Well, this is a grim little story to read with my morning coffee … A down-on-his-luck blacksmith is approached to create a medieval torture device; the requester is a teacher, who claims…
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Becky moves to Chicago to live with her brother Otis and his odd roommate Henry. Henry has a grim hobby, into which he recruits Otis. This has a nasty, gritty, urban-noir feel,…
The Ranger
Punk rockers on the run from a crime in the city seek refuge in a remote, abandoned cabin. But the dangers in the wilderness are deadlier than those in the urban jungle….
Let Us Prey
A rookie police officer’s first night at the station in a small Scottish town involves a mysterious car crash, a basement lockup filled with men harboring dark secrets, and a confrontation with…
Dead Birds
After robbing a bank, a group of Confederate deserters hides out in an abandoned plantation house where some dreadful things have happened. This movie makes up in atmosphere what it lacks in…