Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Oval Portrait”
Read Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” at the Library of America website!
“No Sleep Podcast”
Listen to spooky stories, including friend of the Gutter Sara Century’s “A Small Light,” on the No Sleep Podcast!
“Decoded: A science fiction, fantasy, and horror story-a-day anthology for Pride month”
Celebrate Pride Month with the story-a-day anthology, Decoded #2, edited by Monika Estrella Negra, S.E. Fleenor and friend of the Gutter Sara Century, who also provides illustrations! Decoded is “a collection of stories that reaches for stars, gets lost in forests, swims in the deepest oceans, and digs […]
“The Gutting of Couffignal”
Dashiell Hammett’s “The Gutting of Couffignal” is available for your reading pleasure at the Library of America’s blog. The story originally appeared in the Dec., 1925 issue of the influential pulp fiction magazine, Black Mask. Along with the story there’s a discussion of the publication pressures of writing […]
“The Gargoyle & The Witch”
You can read a delightful, free story by the Gutter’s own alex MacFadyen at Fox Spirit Books! “Despite all signs to the contrary, Eileen was not a witch. She had come to the conclusion long ago that if magic did exist in the world it was not hers […]
“The Masque of Red Death”
The Library of America’s story of the week is Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Masque of Red Death.” There is also discussion of the story’s history. “The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. . . .”
The Cultural Gutter 