Fingertips trace where
Ribs should not open
Inside something watches my
Gaze meet yours as
Hands pull closer while
Time folds around us
#AprilAcrostic #prompt #fright #poetry #acrostic #writing #horror #horrorpoetry
Tendrils of the Undulating Dark As through some whispered reverie From some shadow-laden origins, Ghastly sights wore upon my mind, As I laid in bed, solitary and alone Such, that rest was not found. In these quiet hours, between states Dreaming and conscious, it was That the very shadows in my room Sprang very much alive and danced And my breath was stolen by the sight. Some acted out dramas of the day Others reveal my own darkest desires In their frenzied interactions on my walls And I, paralyzed by fear and curiosity, Must have surely fallen into dreaming then. For the shadows became etched faces Both known, and unknown to me And those faces became aged bodies, And those bodies became diverse, massive crowds And I was lost, and alone, among them.
Tendrils of the Undulating Dark
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NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Patrick W. Marsh joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with _Stones, Bridges, and Blades: Three Poems of Legend and Lore_, part of TERROR INTERNATIONAL: FOLK HORROR FROM AROUND THE WORLD. horrificscribblings.com
#folkhorror #darkpoetry #horrorpoetry @patrickwmarsh.bsky.social
"Vile Villanelle" (from "Contact Light" (2025, Alien Buddha Press)
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #horrorpoem #horrorpoetry #contactlight #alienbuddhapress #poemsabout #beingwatched
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Theatre Macabre, published by the Great Lakes Horror Company, won third place in the Canadian Book Award! Find it on Amazon! #horrorpoetry #horrorwriters
Jeani Rector has an important announcement to make, but it's too long to fit here in BlueSky. Please go to The Horror Zine's Facebook page to read her announcement.
www.facebook.com/thehorrorzin...
#thehorrorzine #horrorfiction #horrorpoetry #horrorart #horror #ezines #5amwritersclub
A Satanic poem for A Saint's Day
#horrorsky #horror #poetry #horrorpoetry #satanic #valentinesday #dragon
A Satanic poem for A Saint's Day
#horrorsky #horror #poetry #horrorpoetry #satanic #valentinesday #dragon
"One in Three".
From "Contact Light" (2025, Alien Buddha Press)
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Redcap of Dunnor Peel by Richard H. Fay Grisly deeds done in days of yore Forever tainted Dunnor Peel. Evil acts performed in years past On guiltless babe and stainless maid Cursed tall tower, damned lordly hall. Behind those walls where murder reigned, Where grim laird once held bloody sway, A borderland haunt prowls the dark. Atop night-blackened battlements, Phantom lights and eldritch murmurs Disturb midnight’s starlit stillness. Iron-shod footsteps stomp across Wooden floors long rotted away. Within that fortress cold and dank, A fiery-eyed dwarf roams the dark. A human caught in Dunnor falls To a pikestaff wickedly thrust Right through his beating mortal heart. The savagely gruesome goblin Re-dyes his faded crimson cap In a pool of freshly spilt blood. With gore-stained hat upon his pate, A murdering fiend stalks the dark. (Originally published in The Scareald, Issue No. 2, October 2012.)
Today's Goblin Week post — my dark poem "Redcap of Dunnor Peel" with my artwork "Peeking Redcap".
I told you you'd bee seeing more redcaps before the week is out.
#poem #poetry #horror #horrorpoem #horrorpoetry #darkpoem #darkpoetry #redcap #goblin #goblinweek
watching Phantasm
tall man standing over me -
clip always in mind
#haikufeels #horror-senryu #clip #BlueskyPoetry #horrorpoetry
A poem I wrote about the disconnect between work, parenthood, and dreams. How they all seem so simple, but so distant. Enjoy.
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#SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open Mic
Host: Gwynne Garfinkle
Featured Poet: Linda D. Addison
Saturday, January 24th at 11:00am Pacific Time
Zoom event free for members of SFWA or Nebula attendees with an interest in poetry.
#sfpoetry #poetry #openmic #speculativepoetry #hwa #horrorpoetry
NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES welcomes Vampirlibido, who brings _The Monstrous-Feminine: Eighteen Horrorku_. poems with shocking imagery that depict abjected femininity from mythology and history. horrificscribblings.com
#monstrousfeminine #darkpoetry #horrorku #haiku #horrorpoetry #horrorgram
Vellum Leaves & Lettered Skins 📚Colleen Anderson- Depression, longing and growth, belonging and escape…key themes in this evocative collection of dark poetry. Absolutely redolent verse.
#horrorpoetry #horrorwritersassociation #darkpoetry #womeninhorror #poet
Check out these two Toronto events happening soon! Reading on January 6 and a Short Story panel on January 9! #horrorstories #horrorpoetry ##horrorwriters #LittleGhostsBookstore #DrunkFiction
Feast your eyes on the Le Chateau Viande menu (before your eyes are feasted upon). Read the bios of monsters on Tinder. Discover the unpleasant side effects of a werewolf’s medication.
Discover the gruesome beauty of Anna Cheung's poetry:
www.hauntpublishing.com/books/p/anna...
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"Served Cold" by F.J. Bergmann (@fjbergmann.bsky.social), in October's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/bergmannCold.html
Someplace, they had been expecting you
to come home.
-from "Served Cold" by F.J. Bergmann (@fjbergmann.bsky.social), in October's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poetry #poet #horror #HorrorPoetry
"A House with Teeth" by Jennifer Crow (@writerjencrow.bsky.social), in Oct's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/crowTeeth.html
Fangs drip at the eaves—
winter has bite, cold snapping
on flesh and bone,
-from "A House with Teeth" by Jennifer Crow (@writerjencrow.bsky.social), in Oct's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poetry #poem #horrorpoetry #horror
Murder in the Rain By Richard H. Fay Rain falls. Rivulets flow down This lonely dark lane. Blood drips From my gore-stained axe, Reddening the stream. Streaks mar Your once ruddy cheeks Now turned ghastly pale. Deed done, I slowly tromp on As the rain still falls.
Added my new dark poem "Murder in the Rain" to a digital manipulation of an image of drops of rain by sourabhkrishna806 obtained from Pixabay. Image I used is free for use under the Pixabay Content License.
#poem #poetry #darkpoem #darkpoetry #horror #horrorpoem #horrorpoetry
