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In the yellow room:
a glass bowl
full of dead
bees. A black
sunflower,
petals as long
as my body.
I never had
a favorite type
of flower before.
Neither had she.
She kissed me
on the lips,
Instantly killing
herself. Her petals
burst, fell like
guillotined confetti.
I picked them up.
One by one.
Buried her
with the bees
in a blue yard.
This is why I came here:
To grieve.
— María Esquinca, “I Stepped into A Series of Colored Rooms”
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New Fiction 2023 - October
Another October in the can! And now I wish I could snooze through the real horror that is the holiday season. Maybe I'll stay in October forever... forever... forever...
Here's the long version (since Tumblr blocks too many links in one post).
The TL;DR:
Short Stories
"Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)
"The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)
"The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)
"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)
"CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)
"Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)
"The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)
"The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)
"The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)
"The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)
"The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)
"The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)
"Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)
"Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)
"Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. James D. Jenkins (2020)
"Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)
"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)
"The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)
"The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)
"The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)
"The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)
"Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)
"Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)
"The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)
"The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)
"The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)
"The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)
"The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)
"The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)
"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)
"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)
Audio
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)
Comics
"Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)
"The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)
"Do You Know... the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)
"Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)
"For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)
"Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)
"Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)
"The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)
"Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)
"A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)
"The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)
"The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)
"Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)
"Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)
"The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)
"Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)
"Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)
"Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)
"Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)
"Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)
"A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)
"The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)
"Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)
"The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)
"The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)
"The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)
"Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)
"Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)
"The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)
"Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)
Video Games
Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)
Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)
Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)
D dev. Warp (1995)
Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)
Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)
Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)
Movies
It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)
The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)
Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)
Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)
The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)
The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)
House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)
The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)
The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)
Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)
The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)
A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)
Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)
A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)
The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)
Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)
Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)
Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)
The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)
The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)
Kuso dir. Steve (2017)
Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)
The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)
The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)
Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)
Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)
Television
Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)
The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)
Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)
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Instead of another deportation, the slit of my mother’s mouth blooms
a soft, but stern⁓ No.
Instead of a detention facility, a house full of angels
dressed as mariachis. Instead of Texas, the desert sky spills
the sun, bleeds mamey.
— Maria Esquinca, from “The U.S.–Mexico Border Replaces Itself,” published in Glass
#quote#Maria Esquinca#poetry#Glass: A Journal of Poetry#out of my collection#The U.S. Mexico Border Replaces Itself
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Photo by Maria Esquinca
Writer Jaquira Díaz grew up in a neighborhood where outsiders didn't go: Puerto Rico's El Caserío Padre Rivera housing project. Her mom worked all the time, and her dad? "My father was a drug dealer," she says. As a child, she'd see him counting out the wadded dollar bills he'd earned in that deadly trade.
Later he moved the family to Miami, and found work that was lawful. But Díaz says her mother was temperamental and violent, and finally diagnosed as schizophrenic. Her new memoir, Ordinary Girls, tells the story of her struggles — with her family, with poverty, with violence and with her own sexuality. She spoke to NPR’s Steve Inskeep about it -- check out their conversation here.
-- Petra
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