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Donut Shop
The small motorbike pulled into the lot behind the building. The engine rumbled softly as it came to a halt along the rows of abandoned cars.…
Matt Forney’s Favorite Terror House Magazine Submissions of 2019
The end of the decade has come and gone, and with it, another strong year for Terror House. Our 2019 was full of tumultuous twists and turns: editors…
6 to 6: Plasma
A pigeon pecked at his left ear and woke him up. He was lying in the city park where he’d slept all night. He shooed the pigeon away. “Little…
End of the Line
Tommy Hartford ran the trains, and had done so his entire life. As had his father, and his father, and even his grandfather before him. He was 16…
Rank This Skank™
1/10 Massively deformed, fetal alcohol syndrome, morbidly obese. These vile orcs are blessedly rare. Run to the hills, run for your life. 2/10…
Ghost Queen
My quest for outré culinary excellence certainly did not begin with the standard fare dished up to us hapless fucking sheep strapped into our seats…
Remembering the Catman, Part 1
I. Several flashes appear out of nowhere. But something caused their appearance, which is not so mysterious as the reverberating sounds that follow…
In the Shadow of the Belt, Chapter 6: Score
I learned to count even before school. And there was a reason. Vaska, a ten-year-old idiot, told me and Mishka how he had fooled his two six-year-old…
“Dynamo of the Trailers,” “Bedouin of the Jungle,” “Everything,” and “My Dinner with Mighty Mouse”
Dynamo of the Trailers She’s seventy now; she’s had a full life. This is Hillary of whom I speak; I mean the one Bill used to call his little wife.…
The Islands Tell of It, Chapter 6: Rathbone Estate
What transpired next confirmed the nurse Anna’s prediction. Record temperatures of stifling heat and humidity up to 100 degrees blanketed most of the…
