This night had been going on for years. She blew into her cupped hands, steam mingling with the smoke still in her lungs. It was a long shift. But it ...
This week on Litro Lab, we bring you a spooky story about the complex relationship we all have with the objects we own. We like to accumulate them in our ...
I have always been haunted by houses, which is fitting – it’s nearly Halloween as I write this. There are seasonal gourds in the shops, pumpkin patches in the fields, ...
The Missing Step, #FridayFlash a short noir story in the style of Alan Moore
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This week on Litro Lab is Jan Andre Kallestad’s “The Mirrors”. Normally Karin sleeps soundly. On this night though it’s not a good night’s sleep.
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Isabelle Dupuy brings us the first of three roundups, carefully selecting a handful of must-see shows from the 966 on offer at the Fringe this year.
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Adam Ley-Lange reviews Roger Corman’s classic (and not so classic) horrors.
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David Moody introduces the opening chapter from his vampiric new novel, Strangers.
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David Simpson finds echoes of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Reticence in his own life.
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“The light, now shaking, climbed to pick out a grotesque detail; a much larger spider was in the centre of the web, devouring a dead bird that it held, almost ...
“Your skin prickles as if aware of the sensation of burning. Your nose twitches as if it can smell the flesh… The fire is almost beautiful, a flame coming off ...
“I got up to use the toilet and met my doppelgänger in the bathroom. She was looking out from the mirror on the bathroom cabinet, then came through while I ...
“When she steps outside it is there. Cracked brown pieces like the pieces of a dry husk, scattered on the ground in front of her apartment complex. It looks to ...
“I have my rifle and my Bible by my side: let them come, I say, let them come. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions from the following ...
Featuring new fiction from Toby Litt, Richard Thomas, Pete Segall, Krishan Coupland, Sheila Armstrong and Adam Nevill – plus an interview with Jeff VanderMeer.
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Dear Reader,
Welcome to Litro #138, our Horror issue. Within these pages we have some unique visions of what makes our skin crawl: hauntings ...
and I really don’t know if I should be telling you this, because you might even meet him around here somewhere or – even worse – try to find him ...
In a desolate future, family is everything.
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In the cinema, no one can hear you scream.
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Skylark and the Bug take their revenge.
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