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Terror House Magazine Reader Survey Results
The results of the survey we ran over the past week are in, and they're quite illuminating. Here are the answers you gave to each question. What is…
Fulfillment
I witnessed Charles Allan Speakman in a blue jumpsuit, standing on a tower of metal shipping containers, arms open wide, illuminated from above by a…
“A-3, the Cashier Bot,” “The Drinking Again,” “The Pale Rose Whispers,” and “Pecking Up the Evidence”
A-3, the Cashier Bot A-3, the Cashier Bot Was introduced in 2018 To all the stores At first, people knew he couldn’t count the change And they…
A Troubled Mind
“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” --- Stephen King, Bag of Bones My fascination with the macabre is absolute. This is what…
Show Your Work, Pattern IV: Recognition of Patterns
Arnold got an Uber home expecting to see himself evicted, but it turned out that somebody had paid his rent. His car was also sitting in the parking…
Show Your Work, Pattern III: Bad Luck
Arnold had just finished lunch at a local steakhouse when he was pulled over by the police; it was not just one police car, but what seemed like at…
Forever Hear the Drums
History be kind to the Civil War lives left behind and the ones left frozen forever lost in the fields the battle cries fade after our enemies invade…
The Platonic Alcoholic: A Review of Bad Sex by Clancy Martin
Bad Sex by Clancy Martin (Tyrant Books, September 2015) I’m not a big fan of drug war rhetoric. Contra to decades of D.A.R.E. propaganda and…
“Autumnal Cemetery,” “Ode to the Suburbs (Brighton),” “All Saints Day,” and Other Poems
Autumnal Cemetery The Chinese say that evil are the trees of the cemetery. This cemetery, my cemetery, is as evil as it is evergreen. In amongst the…
A Feminism’s Carol, Part 2: The Spirit of Feminism’s Past
III. Hillary overslept as usual, and when she woke up, she found it was just before noon on a weekday. Blue-collar men had already been at work for…
