Spookoween 2018
Spookoween has begun with “Spookoween 2018: 31 Days of Horror, Part I” by the Gutter’s own Carol! (There will probably be two more posts covering the rest of Spookoween!)
“PseudoPod 616: Flash On The Borderlands XLIV: Objectification”
Friend of the Gutter and swell author Chlöe Yates reads, “The House of Jack’s Girls” on Pseudpod, “the world’s premier horror fiction podcast!” And a friendly warning: “Pseudopod is for mature audiences only. Hardly any story on Pseudopod is suitable for children. We mean this very seriously.”
“Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society”
Please enjoy these story ideas submitted to the Midnight Society. “Stephen King: For the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this… The Tale of the Creepy Small Town with a Spooky Secret Clive Barker: Is the town in Maine King: NO King: King: yes”
“100 Favorite Horror Stories”
NPR shares a list of excellent horror stories. Readers sent in 7,000 stories and judges Tananarive Due, Grady Hendrix, Ruthanna Emrys and Stephen Graham Jones winnowed them down to a list of 100. “As with our other reader polls, this isn’t meant to be a ranked or comprehensive […]
The Elect Stories
Read the first installment of John Crye’s The Elect Stories online for free! “An epic adventure told in thirty-six installments. Five young idealists commit themselves to a mission to bring peace to their warring nations. They fail.Twenty years later, as their old nemesis raises its head once more, the middle-aged […]
“Biography of a Story”
In honor of Shirley Jackson’s birthday, the Library of America has shared her “Biography of a Story” about the writing and reception of “The Lottery.” “It is probably the most famous work of fiction ever published in The New Yorker and certainly the magazine’s most controversial, generating letters […]
The Cultural Gutter 