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Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews
Dark Grey: The Body’s Last Days
Is it even possible that you've never read the prolific poet named John Grey? Grey, a long-standing award-winning speculative poet whose writing has appeared in virtually every quality horror magazine I can think of, is someone I've idolized for years. He's one of the few writers of poetry that I would call a "master" of horror. I'm not sure if it's because I admire his no-nonsense, almost minimalist, approach to free verse or simply because his dark imagination always surprises me with a fresh idea. His sense of irony is profound and deep. Whatever it is, he's got one of…
Posted inOur Odd Triple Feature
One Eyed Freaks of the 1950s
For your next movie night, rent: It Came from Outer Space (1953) The Cyclops (1957) The Crawling Eye (1958)
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Special Holiday Edition!
Happy Holidays! I wanted to surprise everyone by packing extra horrors into this special issue of The Goreletter, so I invited friends from several writing communities to send in "holiday gorelets" for publication here, with a prize going to what I judged to be the best submission. Not an easy task! Most are about Santa and Xmas. I did not reject any of the entries -- to my way of thinking, the more the merrier. I'll post the award winning poem at the very end, along with a little explanation why I chose it. Enjoy. And do yourself a favor…