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Terror House Magazine Reader Survey

Terror House Magazine is nearing its seven-month anniversary and is continuing to light the literary world on fire. Our enemies' attempts to shut us…


A Feminism’s Carol, Part 1: Bill’s Ghost

I. A priest is addressing the fifty or so people gathered at a cemetery as a coffin is being lowered into the ground. "A precious soul departed our…


Self-Destruction, Part 2

VI. At the police station, a matronly female officer handed me a thin blanket, then insisted I enter a holding cell. It was freezing in that room so…


Night Buyers

The coming New Years’ holidays forced Serega to work as a night vendor at the Christmas tree market. His military pension was usually sufficient for…


Orgy of the Worm

Older woman, still vaguely attractive How much lust has gushed between your thighs and how does that vast, pulsating glob of man-seed now square with…


Miseria’s Fruit

I want to give depression its due, especially in our suicidal age. First, I’d like to share an anecdote from my own life when I struggled much with…


The Wrath of the Awakened Retard

Whiteness was not part of his blood, He was slow, so it came to him very late, With coin owed to some Mexican, When the Retard began to hate. He was…


Heist!

“Hey, Dean, are you ready to go?” “Yeah, Ed, I guess so.” Damn…is Dean chickening out? We’ve talked about this for weeks and he seemed all set over…


“Kabuki Underground,” “Kings of Comedy,” “Patriotic Sadism,” and Other Poems

Kabuki Underground I was standing with my pelvis thrust forward; my crotch fit just so at ground zero, facing the Taj Mahal. She seemed to lean into…


Show Your Work, Pattern I: The Ordinary World

"It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connection between the sensible quantities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind…