She Isn’t Herself Tonight follows a woman expecting an alien visit every ten years
Hailey Piper’s novel places that expectation beside a breakup, the loss of a home, and changes to Rabbit’s body.
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It knows
you’re here.
Horror. Dark culture. Stories that follow you out.
A world for the darkly curiousKeep something close. It might not help.
Choose your
nightmare.
Every door opens somewhere different.
Find the one you shouldn’t.
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Meet the things that should never have been named.
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Folk. Cosmic. Gothic. Find the fear that finds you.
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Turn the page. Something turns with it.
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The screen goes black. You keep watching.
Step insideMusic
Turn it up until the walls answer.
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Your move. Something else is waiting for its turn.
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Objects you keep. Objects that seem to keep you.
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The Demon Who Paid
in Three Cups.
Tern Wick inherited a floating kitchen and the debt on its mooring. Ivara Brine, a mystic who once split the stall’s profits with him, now keeps harbor time for the Coil Coven. Its keeper, Peva Silt, inherited records from the old quay,…
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Leave the
lights on.
Pan’s Labyrinth makes Ofelia’s claim to a hidden kingdom depend on three tasks
A faun’s account of her identity creates a second set of demands alongside life at her stepfather’s military outpost.
Read the articleMusic
Turn it up.
Let something in.
Dead Man’s Bones recorded Lost In The Night with a small setup on a farm
Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields used guitars, drum machines and synthesizers for the track.
Inside the sound
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The Bell That Rang
Beneath the Snow.
The first thing Harl the Unclapper stole was the ring from Orren’s best bell. Orren struck it at noon and heard only a clunk. At dusk the same sound came from under his sister’s boots, and a line ran across the snow…
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Something turns with it.
Fiction, comics, and worlds that live between the lines.
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Infernal Tramps places strange bodies inside encounters with care and appetite
Alex Grass’s collection moves between brief vignettes and longer fiction, with altered bodies recurring in its publisher-described premises.
Read the articleAudition disguises a widower’s search for a partner as a film casting call
Ryū Murakami’s novel begins with a personal scheme conducted under professional pretenses.
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Gaming
Your move.
It’s been waiting.
Hellbreak brings monsters from separate horror worlds into one card game
Its first set combines seven properties, putting film creatures into a shared system of head-to-head play.
Read the articleREANIMAL keeps its brother and sister inside a shared camera viewRead the articleMADiSON makes taking and developing photographs part of its supernatural puzzleRead the article
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For the cabinet
you keep locked.
LEGO’s Godzilla model has articulated fingers and a swappable Heat Ray
The 5,363-piece Monsterverse build combines an adjustable body with two arrangements for its open mouth.
Inside the object
Events
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you aren’t.
Screenings, conventions, haunted attractions, and the communities that gather around them.
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From a first unsettling idea to a finished story: the work behind writing horror and preparing it for submission.
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