The house was not haunted, I realized: it only despised me. It was not the dead moving objects, causing noises, conjuring phantasms, but the very walls themselves.
I was a splinter in another organism, one made of brick and mortar.
And it wanted me gone.
#vss365

Abelard looked at himself in the full body mirror, sashaying about in his graduate wizard robes.
If only Milenda could see me now! he thought.
From his pocket, he pulled his carved dragon bone wand and looked it over.
When I return to Aznoloth, she will see me
One way or another
#2WordPrompt

I guess you might say I am a vegetarian cannibal: that is to say, a murderer.
I killed her, yes. I did for the money, just as you said. But I didn't eat her.
It was that thing in the basement, that gibbering horror she called a son.
#horrorprompt

They all fainted,
the stars around the moon,
when you kissed me
under it, the very first time.
They themselves,
becoming lost in starlight.

#roomprompt #poetry

More digital experiment with my gal Reggie

My girl Reggie goes down swinging

I hate how the bat matches the background

The whole nation sat glued to its TVs, its phones, its car radios, its computer screens, watching as the SWAT team surrounded Dr. Pollock's garage.
The door opened and something lumbered out of the makeshift lab within.
A creature that had once been human.
#2WordPrompt

Nature favors predators. Competition means specialized ways of luring a creature into the maw of something bigger.
Jim ran from the house when he heard the night scream.
He thought it was a girl in trouble.
But it came from the throat of something huge and hungry.
#horrorprompt

My experiments with digital and trying to get my MC to look right continue. What do y'all think?

Cold are eyes
That stare right through
Cold as my love
Once warm for you
Broken lifeline, only now you see
The wounds your lies had dealt to me

Wounds so red
Wounds so deep
By wounds right now
I lay you to sleep
#vsspoem

The meteorite got a warm welcome: lots of people standing around the crater, taking pictures with their phones, oooing and aaaing.
Just as the men from NASA arrived, a big crack split it in two and it fell in half.
Only as the titanic monstrosity emerged did they realized it was an egg
#2WordPrompt

Crime is out of control, we're on the brink of anarchy, and you gentlemen want to inhibit our progress with blasted moralizing?
This latest generation of creatures is completely under our control.
They only strike the targets we give them
And kill when ordered
#horrorprompt

How energetic the apprentice
Ignorant of what the grimoire foretells
Nor understands the dark meaning
In burbled chants of his master's spells

Let him sweep floor and hum
A merry tune while still in youth
Understanding comes soon enough
And with it many a dark truth
#vsspoem

We did it because the teacher was mean.
Not just the Fs, but the way he handed them out, that snotty attitude.
Jeff's grandma was a witch, and she had knowledge of magic things. All we needed was a lock of his hair and a doll.
When we put a needle in that doll, fun things happened
#2WordPrompt

Since the preacher read from that old tome, it had become a vortex town, a swirling maelstrom of dark magic and chaos.
By day, the clouds swirl in a spiral over the dilapidated rooftops of the village.
By night, the dead walk among the living.
#horrorprompt

[Image ID]: A drawing of a young man. He has dark skin, dark brown eyes, and dark brown hair styled into dreadlocks. The locs are red at the ends. He is also missing his right arm. He is wearing a red and white headset with an orange visor. tight, white, sleeveless shirt, a white armwarmer, red wrap around the waist, khaki cargo pants with an orange belt, a red overskirt with a white spider lily pattern, red leg wraps, and white, high-top sneakers. He also appears to have a glowing orange cybernetic port where his right arm used to be. He is standing casually, with a red-orange cybernetic scythe over his shoulder. He is smiling at the viewer. The background is grey with a dark teal rectangle overlaid. [/End ID]

known only as "lycoris" throughout THE CITY, your average denizen couldn't give you a definite answer of what he does. They do know, however, that money has been reappearing in public works project thought long-plundered by people in power.
#ocs #ocsky #ocart

Photo of an ink illustration depicting someone with gnarly looking hands holding up a disembodied hollow internally glowing head.

Spooky hollow head inks closeup

#horrorsky #horrorart #horrorartist #handdrawn #darkart #darkartist

My OC Ms. Vulpa, Diddly Doo's love interest
What do my artmoots think?

My gal Reggie's OC sheet

Look Ray, you recall the mouse we tried it on?
You never know. The serum might work. And we GOT to have results!
Way I see it, if it works, you'll know Formula X56 is the cure we've been searching for. We'll be rich!
If not
You'll pay for stealing Donna away
#horrorprompt

She gasped when she saw me sitting beside myself!
"So it DID work!"
"Come on Sandra" we said in unison "I told you had the machine design down! So now will you marry me? Us?"
She backed away and we both got up and started towards her.
"Come on Sandra. We need a definite answer. Now."
#2WordPrompt

I love the character design! especially that badass outfit!

Reggie says "Talk to the hand!"

Sure, I knew I was trespassing. But I only wanted to burgle the old man, not harm him. I knew giong in the stories people whispered.
But the thing he summoned to chase me across his yard was not of his world.
It squelched across the ground on protoplasmic limbs
#horrorprompt

My girl Reggie

This is another experiment with digital art.
What do y'all think?

Looking good!

Why I was drawn to the charnel mound, I do not know. Something about the ages of bones stored within drew my morbid soul, like a magnet.
I soon discovered that they clicked together, though no wind blew.
And the empty husks whispered secret things.
#horrorprompt

We never saw the headsets as a trap. It seemed such an obvious thing, to give people a virtual world where their dreams would come true.
It was purely by accident that mine got knocked off.
When I awoke from my stupor, I found that our cities were dust.
Eons of errosion had passed
#2WordPrompt

Kong doodles 🦧

It is in the expanses of sleep that I see her, in those nebulas beyond the casings of my skull.
I know that in the here and now she is dead, but I tell you, in the realm of Hypnos she reaches out to me as she did in life.
I sometimes take opium, so that I may linger in her arms.
#2WordPrompt