The Halloween 2022 issue of tiny frights is live at https://tinyfrights.substack.com/p/tiny-frights-vol-1-no-2! PDF and EPUB versions will be made available soon. A big thank you to all the writers and artists who made it happen!
Author: caracabe
Update 2022-09-18
Today begins Banned Book Week. You might want to check out the American Library Association’s 13 Scary Banned Books to Read for Halloween.
In other calendar-related news, the deadline for the Halloween 2022 issue of tiny frights is September 30th, less than 2 weeks away! If you have little scary poems or microfictions or spooky works of visual art, now is the time to send them! (Please read our submission guidelines first.)
Horror reads since the last update:
- Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed, a combination coming-of-age novel and cosmic horror
- The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, weird horror with humor and tenderness
- My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, an original and thrilling take on the final girl trope
Probably at least one of these will be reviewed in the upcoming issue.
Update 2022-07-15
With only two issues of tiny frights a year, I figured I should put out the occasional interim update.
Horror reads since Walpurgis night
One or more of these might be reviewed in the upcoming issue.
- Dark Country by Monique Snyman, a horror detective novel.
- Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from Women of the Weird, edited by Mike Ashley.
- Manhunt, a dystopian near-future novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin.
- What Can You Say Against a Death Machine? a collection of absurdist short stories by Marty Shambles.
- Your Body is Not Your Body: A New Weird Horror Anthology to Benefit Trans Youth in Texas, edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone.
- Coyote Songs: a barrio noir, a novel by Gabino Iglesias.
- The Curious Case of H.P. Lovecraft, a biography of the influential horror writer and notorious bigot, by Paul Roland.
My recent horror viewing
- I watched all four seasons of Hannibal. No disrespect to Anthony Hopkins, but Mads Mikkelson plays the part better. (But then, he had a larger canvas to work on.) I appreciated the importance of William Blake in the 4th season.
- Blake’s work and thought also played a part in the psychological horror movie Saint Maud.
- Brand New Cherry Flavor — this miniseries kept me watching to the end, but I’m still not sure what I think of it.
- I was disappointed by the final season of Stranger Things.
- I rectified a grievous omission in my education by finally watching Get Out, and I’m glad I did.
- Ditto The Shape of Water.
- Watching the series Midnight Mass was time well spent, but it could have been even better.
- I continue to watch my way through Wynonna Earp, but it’s starting to remind me of Supernatural.
Miscellaneous spookiness
My wife and I spent a couple of nights at The Elms Hotel & Resort, and I went on the paranormal tour. There were a few tales of apparitions, but most unexplained occurrences seemed to fall under the heading of poltergeist phenomena, or maybe just mischievous spirits moving things. We experienced nothing eerie during our stay.
The Halloween 2022 issue
The next issue is starting to take shape, with art, poetry and fiction by the likes of Kathy Allen, Jerome Berglund, Alex Bestwick, Linda M. Crate, Mort Duffy, Nolcha Fox, Madison McSweeney, Jennifer Rodrigues, and your humble editor. If you’d like to join this illustrious roster, the deadline for submissions is September 30th. See the submission guidelines for details.
Submissions are open!
Submissions are open through September 30th for the Halloween 2022 issue of tiny frights! Please take a look at the submission guidelines and send some delicious spookiness our way!