Horror

As anyone who is or has been the “nerdy kid” growing up can attest, you can’t help but assume the worst when the biggest bloke in class suddenly walks up…

5:40 Gyeongbu Expressway It took me a while to recall the painting and the poem. We were all still recovering from the fright. Li was quiet. Kim was silent as…

My wife gave birth to a giant spider. It crawled out of her vagina, legs first, its body about the size and shape of a baby except for the legs,…

I found a gold watch in my Toilet one day. An elegant, minimalistic thing. It rested, without emphasis, on the bottom of the bowl, and I could see through the…

When Greg’s penis fell off he did not feel any pain. Indeed, he might not have noticed it had happened until he got to the office, if it weren’t for…

There exists an oddly prevalent nightmare in which a person’s teeth are broken or knocked out. Although I am glad to report that I’ve never experienced it, I have suffered…

Some people can shout without raising the volume of their voice.  Kathryn Thoms had that ability.  The target of her Thursday afternoon ire was Ronald, who’d managed his local Kroger…

A chapter from Th. Metzger’s novel Shock Totem, to order from Amazon click here. Brian was on his bed, doing the Prong and listening to the invisible Negroes inside his…

Ottilie Harwood lived in one wing of Sedgwick Hall, and her widowed father lived in the other. She knew him mainly through traces: the scent of pipe smoke, a crumpled…

No one—not her friends, business colleagues, or Wall Street rivals—ever guessed that the oversized briefcase that had become Thelia’s trademark was actually her husband. If she ever found herself in…