I am revisiting a favorite set of daily writing prompts inspired by the fabulous- and informative- book Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction this month. Revisiting these prompts gives me the opportunity to reshare the diverse and ingenuous responses I received the first time I ran the challenge in 2019, and will … Continue reading Daily Writing Prompt: Monster, She Wrote – Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson
She is a lover of demons Even, a seductress of demons What fools those demons can be Seeing a beautiful young woman With an interest in the dark arts An easy catch, they think Such an easy soul to harvest One they could use to draw in Other mortals by their desires But mortals are … Continue reading The Demon Lover – Robert G Wertzler
goblins and ghouls shrieking all night it’s halloween! the witches dance and sing haunting humanity with terror and fright vampire bats wake and take flight tender young necks a delicious thing goblins and ghouls shrieking all night gravediggers shovel dirt; sneering with delight human spare and found parts they fling haunting humanity with terror and … Continue reading Halloween – Donna Matthews
“You’ll be in the soup if you go out in this” she said, “it’s a real pea-souper.” I carried on stirring, I wasn’t thinking of going out anyway. I have to keep stirring or I’ll be in the soup, that’s what my saucepan says. And I listen to her as I peer through the fog … Continue reading The Haunted Saucepan – Lynn White
I wander down a dark hall Peeking in this room Throwing wide the doors in another This door is locked That door I quickly shut One door leads me down a corridor/path that takes me a few hours to get through and back to where I was before Now, I have to walk quickly The … Continue reading Down a Dark Hall – Irma Do
He called it his graveyard apartment. It wasn’t in a graveyard, and he didn’t actually live there anymore. He had a nice place across town, but he kept it to visit, the way people visit graveyards. There, among the photographs, the bundles of letters and cards, the newspaper clippings, the mementos, the record albums and … Continue reading The Graveyard Apartment II – Robert G. Wertzler
Brave & Reckless 