How to Survive Christmas With Your Soul Intact

  Have you been naughty or nice this year? Your life may depend on it! Most sane people think Christmas is about elven exploitation or exchanging wrapped pairs of socks. There’s an unknown place where holiday lights don’t glow—the dark side of Christmas. Stories, myths and ancient legends used to be shared during the holiday

Monsters in the Abyss: 5 Facts About Sea Pigs & Sea Cucumbers

  Are you ready to get wet? Put on your diving helmet and let’s dive into a watery abyss—the primordial dimension where aquatic monstrosities shine like hypnotic stars.   5 Facts About Sea Pigs   They can fit in your pocket:  Sea pigs are only 4-6 inches long. Sea pigs like mud: You know how land pigs

Dark History: Archbishop Mummies & Hungry Vultures

  Grab a torch and let’s explore the next episode of ‘Dark History’. Shine a light on the shadowy realm of humanity’s ancient past and uncover how ancient cultures lived with death. Get ready to exhume dirty facts about archbishop mummies, purgatory, hungry vultures and sky burials.   Say, “No Way to Decay” We learned

Walt Page: My 12 Nightmares of Christmas

    Imagine, if you will, a classic Christmas song, Turned into a nightmarish 12 nights of nightmares! Behold my monstrous last chorus of My 12 Nightmares Of Christmas Sung to the melody of The 12 Days Of Christmas…   On the 12th nightmare of Christmas, These nightmares came to me— 12 Slasher Monsters 11

Spreading Holiday Fear

    Red Christmas   I’m bleeding a red Christmas, just like the ones I used to woe where the blood-drops glisten and demons hissin’   to scare cold kids who sleigh in the snow.   I’m bleeding a red Christmas, that’s why every Christmas song I write causes blight may your nights be dreary

SMM 2017 Halloween Horror Writing Contest: Winners & Gifts

  Sharpen your wooden stake and get ready to stab the nearest innocent vampire—the SMM Halloween Horror Writing Contest has risen from the dead. Slather some popcorn with blood: the winners are about to be announced.  ** First Place ** $50 + 1 Free SMM Subscription (1 month) Master of Pumpkins L.T. Garvin submitted her

2017 Halloween Horror Writing Contest Graveyard

  Boo! The ghosts, ghouls and goblins stuffed their ethereal maws full of caramel-chocolate. Yum. The 2017 SMM Halloween Horror Writing Contest inspired our spines to quake and shake—now it’s time to take a stroll through the graveyard…if you’re brave enough.       Click Here & Read “Diary of Sarah Richards”     Click

Bloodizabeth’s Meat & Greet Dinner Party

    Do you smell that? The Dark Darlings are here, and they want to eat you. I’m sorry. Meet you. They want to meet you. Really. They do. Don’t just stand there! Pull up a chair and join my dinner party. Put on that black bib, you filthy monster, or those fangs may puncture

Slasher Theory: Flip the Switch

The chainsaw spews oily saliva. And it’s hungry. What are you going to do? Let the jagged teeth eat you alive? When you’re reading a horror story, or perhaps watching a scary movie, someone will most likely bite the BIG one. It sort of goes without saying—death is the gooey butter that covers the popcorn,

SMM Event: Write a Limerick

Congratulations to  !!! Kristi !!!  She won Eilidh’s Tomato Witch print. Some days are serious and call for decorum. Well, that ain’t happening at SMM this weekend, so go right ahead and throw all that classiness out the window—it’s time to get wacky and maybe a tad obnoxious, too! Pour out all the goofiness from your pores…let it