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Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step into a world where each fleeting moment holds infinite mystery and strangeness, where the natural and the surreal collide in whispers of wind, frost, and starlight. In Miniscule Madness: Weird Poetry Vol 6, every line compresses entire universes of wonder, unease, and cosmic humor into just a few heartbeats. Whether it's stars that melt into fields of forgotten moons, wolves howling with human voices, or leaves that sigh with lost names, these poems capture fragments of reality and spin them into something entirely otherworldly. ...

(De)Composing Dreams explores what grows from decay of memory, of language, of the body, of self. Dreams rot underground and bloom with eyes. Faith demands names in exchange for power. Technology devours attention one click at a time. Bodies mutate into forms both grotesque and beautiful. Language itself fractures, reassembles, sharpens. This is poetry where transformation and annihilation are the same act. Where losing your words means finding new ones. Where rot is fertile ground. For readers who find meaning in mutation, and defiance in continuing to speak.

Once upon a time, there were women who made terrible choices. Six fairy tales. Six women. Six different kinds of damnation. From cursed resurrections to forced crowns, from blood-soaked revenge to transformations that erase the self, these retellings strip away the comfort of ‘happily ever after’ and expose the gothic horror that has always lived in fairy tales, the price of bargains made in desperation, the cost of love that consumes, and the terrible things we become when survival demands it. These are not the sanitized stories you were told as a child. These are the ones where curses...

Eight stories. Eight jerks. Eight very bad days. In these tales of poetic justice and visceral horror, nasty people get eaten, witches get even, and no one escapes unscathed. A cruel tourist becomes shark bait. Cannibal partners bond over troublemaker stew. Vampire cockroaches inherit the earth. And a very rude moviegoer learns to shut his popcorn-hole the hard way. Blending dark comedy with creature features, body horror with social satire, Tales From the Wrong Side of the Page serves up exactly what everyone deserves: justice with a side of terror. You'll laugh. You'll cringe. You'll ...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 3 Mundane Foolishness, the ordinary becomes anything but. A routine trip to the bus stop, brushing your teeth, or simply folding laundry transforms into a labyrinth of unsettling realities. From mailboxes that devour letters to family holiday gatherings that slip into the ...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Looney Limericks: Weird Poetry Vol 4, the whimsical and the uncanny reverberate through an enchanting landscape of poetic oddities. Here, shadows come alive, and inanimate objects hold profound conversations. A shoe embarks on a quest, a beetle contemplates the cosmos, and a clock shares secrets with the floor—...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 1 Whimsically Grotesque nothing is quite as it seems, and everything is far stranger than you could imagine. Flowers gossip over coffee about their wilting fashion, umbrellas stage debates on the ethics of rain, and skies forget how to shine. This collection is a kaleidoscope ...

Winter doesn't just bring cold. It brings hunger. Winter Teeth collects eight tales of winter horror where the season is a character, and it doesn't play fair. From supernatural snowmen to predatory storms, from haunted apartments to corporate holiday parties gone wrong, these stories ask: what if winter had teeth? Dark, sharp, and ice-cold, this collection is for readers who like their holidays with a body count and their horror with a wink. Because nothing says "season's greetings" like frostbite and fear.

Some crimes can't be buried. Some ghosts won't stay dead. And some ravens never leave. When a mysterious stranger called Raven offers private investigator James a case, three people connected to his dead girlfriend who've all disappeared, James thinks he's finally found a reason to stop drinking and start working again. But the missing aren't missing. The gaps in his memory aren't accidents. And the truth he's been running from is about to catch up. In this city, some crimes transform you. And James is running out of time before he becomes the very thing he's been hunting. A Poe-inspired ...

Seven stories of salt, sacrifice, and the ancient things that wait beneath the waves. Ancient gods stir beneath sacred cenotes. Cities feed on despair. Markets trade in stolen skins. And the water calls to those who have forgotten they belong to it. Some will fight. Some will surrender. All will learn what the tide has always known: the water doesn't take what you can spare. It takes what it wants. If you like cosmic horror, folk horror, body horror, and endings that do not offer comfort, wade in.

When classical literature meets visceral horror, no masterpiece is safe. In these eight tales of gothic dread, the greatest works of the 19th century are reimagined as something darker, more visceral, more unforgiving. A clockmaker tears his beloved apart to rebuild her with gears and brass. An artist drinks moonlight and loses herself to the masterpiece growing inside her. A priest transforms into the werewolf he swore didn't exist. A man's beauty becomes a contagion that consumes London. From Frankenstein's laboratory to Poe's torture chambers, from Jekyll's transformation to Dorian's ...

The referrals are in. The tests are scheduled. In these three tales of medical horror, the body becomes a labyrinth and the healthcare system becomes purgatory. A woman with hypermobile joints navigates an endless maze of referrals and tests that twist into nightmare. A patient enters a hospital that folds back on itself, trapping her in a loop she can't escape. A dying woman discovers that her family's love has tethered her to a liminal space where far worse things than death are waiting. Nowhere Forever explores chronic illness, bodily autonomy, and the quiet terror of being seen as a ...

What happens when the systems designed to help you decide to erase you instead? In these six stories, the systems we trust to organize our lives reveal their true nature: impersonal, inexorable, and hungry. A GPS routes a woman to a house that isn't hers, until reality agrees it is. A bureaucracy declares a man deceased despite his living protests. An office optimizes its employees into perfect corporate citizens, one replacement at a time. From technology gone wrong to bureaucracies that rewrite existence, Systems of Erasure explores what happens when the world decides you're something ...

The moon calls to those who dream of reaching it. The planet below pulses with ancient hunger. The ocean's depths compress bone into crystal. The wormhole's throat digests all who pass through. Four cosmic entities. Four transformations. Four consciousnesses trapped forever in alien flesh. A man ascending to the lunar surface discovers the moon has been waiting for him, and everyone who follows. A researcher orbiting a distant planet realizes the station was built inside something alive. A scientist descending into the deepest trench finds that pressure isn't just physics. It's sentient, ...

What happens when your body stops being yours? A homeless woman accepts help from a charming stranger and wakes to find herself chemically preserved, conscious but paralyzed forever. A cosmic being is infected with humanity, forced into flesh and bone, watching helplessly as their true self dissolves. An archaeologist discovers ruins that absorb explorers into their architecture, trapping consciousness in stone for eternity. A family home welcomes its inheritor back and refuses to let her leave. In THRESHOLDS, seven stories explore bodies as battlegrounds, prisons, and hunting grounds. From...

Seven vampires. Seven catastrophic moments in history. From the burning Library of Alexandria to the sinking of the Titanic, from Pompeii's eruption to humanity's first steps toward the moon, vampires have witnessed humanity's greatest tragedies. They've survived plagues, wars, and the fall of empires. In these seven stories spanning over two thousand years, immortal beings face their final dawn. A scribe chooses scrolls over lives as the Library burns. A plague doctor's love corrupts into eternal horror. A woman burns on the steps of a dying temple, refusing to run. An astronaut watches ...

What do we inherit from the women who came before us? In these six chilling stories, family legacies aren't just traditions, they're traps. Objects aren't just heirlooms, they're invitations to become someone else entirely. And the people closest to us aren't witnesses to our lives, they're accomplices in our erasure. A bride learns her new family's Christmas recipe, but each perfect pie she bakes takes a piece of who she was. A woman attends a dinner party with her oldest friends and slowly realizes they're editing her out of the group and their memories. A granddaughter inherits her ...

Every meal has a price. In these eight tales of culinary dread, the act of eating becomes a doorway to transformation, possession, and cosmic horror. From bone-bread resurrections to body horror beanstalks, from shadow-feasts to revenge served cold, these eight tales explore the terrible transformations that come from consuming the wrong things. Here, hunger is power. Obsession is deadly. And what goes into your mouth may already be plotting its way back out. A collection for readers who like their horror literary, visceral, and impossible to forget.

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 2 Double Feature Picture Show ventures far beyond the stars into realms both terrifying and uncharted. Here, intergalactic monstrosities, peculiar alien worlds, and monstrous cryptids collide in poetic visions of cosmic horror. From invisible predators stalking the streets to ...

Seven curses. Seven transformations. Seven prices paid in tooth and claw. A forest that claims the living. A manor that demands a keeper. A portrait that cannot hold what it was meant to contain. A coastal village where the dead swim with seal-wolves beneath the waves. A city that makes its own monsters from the bones buried under concrete. In these gothic tales of werewolf folklore, transformation is never a gift, it's inheritance, obligation, punishment, or the only escape from something worse. Each story asks: What would you sacrifice to save someone you love? What would you become to ...