Ben Arzate

Horror is a universal genre. Every person experiences fear and every culture manifests that in fables, folktales, and ghost stories. These, of course, influence the writings of contemporary authors from those cultures. As the title…

To cut the surplus male population and prevent an uprising, the United States government plans to reinstate the draft and stage a war in the Middle East where a nuclear strike will wipe out all the soldiers involved. However, they try to…

As the subtitle says, Tragedy Queens is an anthology of stories inspired by the music of Lana Del Rey and the writings of Sylvia Plath. Given that, one would think that the stories are all tragedies, romances, or confessional fiction. There…

Christopher Maxim is an author of “creepypastas”, which are internet horror stories and urban legends circulated around on image boards, Reddit, and social media. Creepypastas are often created anonymously, however Maxim is an author who…

David S. Atkinson's Roses Are Red, Violets Are Stealing Loose Change from My Pockets While I Sleep is a collection of absurdist flash fiction. Most of the stories aren't longer than a page and a half. Despite that, all of them have very…

Something has come from the sky. It's distorting everything and infecting every living thing with diseases and parasites. Sarah tries escaping her apartment to find safety. She runs into her boyfriend Derek and her best friend Tiffany the…

“I like what I like, and I haven’t seen all that I should have.” Scottish author RG Robertson’s What You Bring is a monograph about the relationship between film and the viewer using his personal experience with the 2011 MMA film Warrior…

“The first parcel arrived at a little flat in the center of the city. Contrary to the postman’s usual practice, when she didn’t answer his ring on the buzzer, he was compelled to buzz someone else and climbed the stairs to leave it at her…

“'When a treasure chest is made of treasure, what does it contain?'” In this new collection of short stories, Mike Russell continues with his brand of strange, fable-like tales. Unlike his first collection, the stories in this collection…

“These public bathrooms have become a confessional for the deranged/ Speak your sins into the glory hole/ Cross yourselves and eat the wafer given/ What should be our salvation is only destroying us. Author, photographer, and artist Philip…

Lisa LaRoche, a former US Marine who was dishonorably discharged, had found happiness when she met and married Christophe and moved to Paris. Then her husband was murdered by five young Algerian men who served only a brief sentence for…

“Through violence and decadence, I became what I am In blood and sex and viscera I emerged as a man” Extreme horror author Wrath James White has written several novels and short stories but has also dabbled in poetry. If You Died…

John Paul Fay was a dealer of “murderabilia;” memorabilia from serial killers, shrunken heads, and so forth. He developed a business relationship with convicted serial killer Arthur Shawcross, also known as the Genesee River Killer, to sell…

In the distant future, society collapsed due to a rain of frogs all over the world. In the rubble, a restaurant company known as the Buddha Gump Shrimp Company and its evil leader Bushido Budnick took over the world with its chain of…

Moutainhead is a memoir recounting the time in which the Scottish pseudonymous author lived in the mountains of northern Thailand as an expatriate. He relates his interactions with the local villagers, with the wildlife of the mountain, and…

Disclaimer: S.C. Burke's press, NihilismRevised, has published a story by me in an anthology and will also be publishing a book by me.The stars die. God dies. An arsonist sets fire to the air. A Gunman commits a mass murder, killing his…

Benjamin is deeply in love with his girlfriend Ynaria. He wants nothing more than to marry her. The only problem is that Ynaria is a living Russian nesting doll, and marriages between humans and nesting dolls are frowned upon. In line with…

A soul who has had many names throughout his various incarnations has reached a relatively high level of enlightenment. High enough that he's chosen to become the Dalai Camel. He's sent back to Earth to live another life and complete his…

After her father dies, Sarah's perception of reality seems to begin to fall apart. During what seems like a psychotic hallucination, she meets a man named Daulton Dickey. At first, it seems like Daulton is nothing but a figment of her…

Jack moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of becoming rich and famous. However, things didn’t work out like he expected. He’s stuck in a dead-end job at a doughnut shop and married to a prostitute named Karen who seems to resent him.…