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West Forest [Short Fiction]

by Nick Medina: If it hadn’t been for the forest between our homes, Justin West and I wouldn’t have done what we did. And I wouldn’t be in the chains I’m in now. We were just kids when we met; [...]

Short Fiction

Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: Vamplit’s “Bloody Hearts Blog Hop”

Just around the corner, on February 13th and 14th, Vamplit Publishing is hosting the “Bloody Hearts Blog Hop”, a Valentine’s Day gift — in appreciation for all their readers and followers. This is the first year for the event, and will [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature News, Promotions

Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (1927)

“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. It was first published in 1927 in the one-shot [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Essays

“Honest Abe” Wields a Vampire-Hunting Axe

Fans of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (who have been waiting to see images of the 16th President of the United States in all his vampire hunting glory) can rejoice.  This week, Twentieth Century Fox, in cooperation with Entertainment Weekly, [...]

Entertainment, Entertainment News

DarkMedia is Now Accepting Original Fiction Submissions

Attention authors and aspiring authors! DarkMedia is now accepting short stories and poetry for publication on DarkMedia.com.  As a rapidly growing resource for all things Dark, we would like to extend our involvement in the literary community by supporting and [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature News

So Long, And Thanks For All The Brains

In a world where the dead walk… In a world where the living struggle to survive… In a world where Munchkins fight alongside flying monkeys… Those are just some of the things you will find inside this mammoth book of [...]

Arts and Literature

An End for the ‘Poe Toaster’

In the year 1949, exactly a century after the tragic, unsolved, death of author Edgar Allan Poe, a tradition began at his Baltimore gravesite that would eventually draw the attention of not only the press, but thousands of fans who [...]

Arts and Literature, Entertainment News

Vamplit Publishing Discusses “Torture Films”

Each Wednesday, genre fiction publisher Vamplit Publishing hosts an interactive, Twitter-based chat on a topic relevant to the horror/suspense/thriller genre.  Prior topics have included “Vicious Vampires”, “Witches”, “Horror Movie Makeup”, and the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. This week [...]

Promotions

‘Tis the Season for Giveaways on DMC!

This month, DarkMediaCity is hosting not one, but four incredible giveaways — in cooperation with a few of our very favorite people. First, award winning author V.M.K. Fewings has generously donated ten signed copies of her latest novel in The Stone Masters [...]

Promotions