New Fiction 2021 – October

Short Stories

  • “Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq: The Haunted Blizzard” by Aviaq Johnston (2020) // "She’s too grown up to remember the scary parts of our land.“
  • "Uironda” by Luigi Musolino & James D. Jenkins (trans.) (2018) // “From enormous, heinous acts derive enormous, heinous hells.”
  • “The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter (1979) // “The worst thing was, the dead lips smiled.”
  • “Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight” by Sheree Renée Thomas (2016) // “This he believed in, this he could follow — the curved finger of flesh.”
  • “The Remorse of Professor Panebianco” by Greye La Spina (1925) // “Why does she look at me so? She is pitying me—me!”
  • “The House Party at Smoky Island” by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1935) //

    “Of the dead nothing but good; so I will say of Susette only that she was very beautiful and very rich.”

  • “Calcutta, Lord of Nerves” by Poppy Z. Brite (1992) // “I could have crawled all the way into that wet crimson eternity, and kept crawling forever.”
  • “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” by Julio Cortázar (1951) // “Vomiting bunnies wasn’t so terrible once one had gotten into the unvarying cycle, into the method.”
  • “The Pelican Bar” by Karen Joy Fowler (2009) // “Humans do everything we did. Humans do more.”
  • “Cargo” by E. Michael Lewis (2008) // “A noise sounded—a moist ‘thunk.’ From inside.”
  • “The Erl-King” by Elizabeth Hand (1998) // “He’s got her now and he won’t want to give her back.”
  • “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges & Norman Thomas di Giovanni (trans.) (1940) // “We found out (inevitably at such an hour) that there is something unnatural about mirrors.”
  • “The Show” by Priya Sharma (2011) // “The world was ripe. She’d weighed it in her palm.”
  • “Teratisms” by Kathe Koja (1991) // “What color does blood burn?”
  • “Kerfol” by Edith Wharton (1916) // “I can see the exchange of glances across the ermine collars under the Crucifix.”
  • “Demon” by Joyce Carol Oates (1996) // “No he was loving, mad with love.”
  • “The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill (2011) // “She did not have a wedding ring, which meant that maybe no one would miss her. ”
  • “Absit” by Angélica Gorodischer & Amalia Gladhart (trans.) (2013) // “The girl didn’t move, she didn’t speak, she did nothing against the black, black sky full of stars.”
  • “Guess” by Meg Elison (2020) // “I am beginning to think we should drink all there is while we still can.”
  • “Ghosts of August” by Gabriel García Márquez (1980) // “Just then the smell of fresh cut strawberries made me tremble.”
  • “Aura” by Carlos Fuentes & Adrian Ziegler (trans.) (1962) // “They have forgotten that in solitude, temptation is greater.”
  • “The Follower” by Nuzo Onoh (2014) // “Chairs tumbled to the ground; someone moaned. All was madness.”
  • “The Death of Halpin Frayser” by Ambrose Bierce (1891) // “Halpin Frayser was a poet only as he was a penitent: in his dream.”
  • “The Shadow” by Edith Nesbit (1905) // “The most horrid ghost-story I ever heard was one that was quite silly.”
  • “The Story of Ming-Y” by Lafcadio Hearn (1887) // “Then their lips separated no more;—the night grew old, and they knew it not.”
  • “What You Eat” by Alys Hobbs (2020) // “Look at all this cream and sugar…”

Poems

  • “Ammutseba Rising” by Ann K. Schwader (2015) // "Perhaps our daughters will walk in shadow gladly, holding hunger inside them for a weapon.“

Comics/Single Issues

  • "Heavy Fog” by Abby Howard (2021) // "I can barely taste the burning.“
  • "Tatter Up!” by Graham Ingels (1955) // "Such beautiful rags…“
  • "Rasberry Surprise” by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, Good Old Neon (2018) // “The process only lasts for as long as you’re alive.”
  • “Strung Along” by Richard Corben (2016) // “Ever see a skinned rabbit?”
  • “Free Ride” by Cameron Morris & Nina Matsumoto (2016) // “Always pay my debts.”

Video Games

  • Silent Hill 2 dev. Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (2001) //

    “I’m not your Mary.”

  • Little Nightmares II dev. Tarsier Studios (2021) // Not a word.
  • Maneater dev. Tripwire Interactive (2020) // “Shark hunters kill for the same reason we all do: to feel complete.”
  • Twelve Minutes dev. Luís António (2021) // “Be honest with yourself. You knew this would happen.”
  • Nightmare Collection: Dead of the Brain dev. FairyTale (1992) // “I don’t think he can reply… he doesn’t have a brain.”

Movies

  • The Babysitter dir. McG (2017) // “Probably when your body starts to reek like cheese.”
  • Dracula dir. Tod Browning & Karl Freund (1931) // "There are far worse things awaiting man than death.“
  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage dir. Andy Serkis (2021) // "I have tasted blood before, my friend, and that is not it.”
  • Titane dir. Julia Ducournau (2021) // "Can’t you feel the energy? Between you and me?“
  • Frankenweenie dir. Tim Burton (2012) // "I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me.”
  • Gretel & Hansel dir. Oz Perkins (2020) // "What eats with its teeth, but never feels fed?“
  • Deep Red dir. Dario Argento (1975) // "It seems that there are some things which you just cannot do seriously with liberated women.”
  • LandLocked dir. Paul Owens (2021) // "Somebody’s been back here.“
  • The Lure dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska (2015) // "Put your hand deep inside me and drag me onto the shore.”
  • Lamb dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson (2021) // "She’s not used to strangers.“
  • Population 436 dir. Michelle MacLaren (2006) // "We are the union of the divine.”
  • Pet Sematary Two dir. Mary Lambert (1992) // "No brain, no pain. Think about it.“
  • The Slumber Party Massacre dir. Amy Holden Jones (1982) // "She drinks too much milk.”
  • Messiah of Evil dir. Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz (1973) // “And they’re waiting. They’re waiting for you.”
  • Track of the Vampire (aka Blood Bath) dir. Jack Hill & Stephanie Rothman (1966) // “The horror of death is that you desire it.”
  • Halloween Kills dir. David Gordon Green (2021) // “There’s a big fella in our bathroom, and he’s wearing a monster mask!”
  • The Hitch-Hiker dir. Ida Lupino (1953) // “You guys are gonna die, that’s all. It’s just a question of when.”
  • Office Killer dir. Cindy Sherman (1997) // “There now. He’s a much more handsome boy.”
  • Tigers Are Not Afraid dir. Issa López (2016) // “Bring him. To us. To where the dead wait for him.”
  • Shin Godzilla dir. Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi (2016) // “This is the reality. All else is just a dream.”
  • Wolf’s Hole dir. Věra Chytilová (1987) // “I’ll tell on you! Monster! Pig!”
  • Saint Maud dir. Rose Glass (2020) // “Please don’t let me fall again.”
  • The Cursed Palace dir. Hasan Redha (1962) // “Do you see what money does? How it makes brothers eat one another’s flesh?”
  • Dream Home dir. Pang Ho-cheung (2010) // “The market is extremely volatile, but the worst is yet to come.”
  • Viy dir. Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov (1967) // “The devil take you and your wretched tongue.”
  • Halloween dir. John Carpenter (1978) // “Death has come to your little town, Sheriff.”
  • La Llorona dir. Jayro Bustamante (2019) // “She asked me not to drown.”
  • Last Night in Soho dir. Edgar Wright (2021) // “I didn’t want any of this.”
  • The Invisible Man dir. James Whale (1933) // “I might even wreck a train or two… just these fingers around a signalman’s throat, that’s all.”
  • The Wolf Man dir. George Waggner (1941) // “You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men didn’t have all eternity.”
  • Blood Diner dir. Jackie Kong (1987) // “Seems like the work of pathological weirdos.”
  • Antlers dir. Scott Cooper (2021) // “We found a part of a man in the woods today.”

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