Sinister Minutes

Our favorite old xenophobe, Howard Philips Lovecraft. A musical piece called Festering Fingers wriggling its way into your track-or-treat bag. Plus a couple of short-shorts inappropriate for even a purple people eater.

Duet - a fairy tale about a princess and the musical challenges she's willing to tackle to meet her prince. Then, a composition that cuts right to the bone - The Knife.

Both of Us, by Zachary Reisch, features a woman whose inherited illness causes her romantic relationships to come with a painful price. In Poppet, a bayou witch is hired to craft a voodoo doll...of a creature most certainly not human. Finally, Tim's gearing up to blow us all away with a piece of sinister music he calls Pandemonium 4.Zachary Dein Reisch writes speculative fiction in Boston, Massachusetts.Cover art based on an image by 💚🌺💚Nowaja💚🌺💚 from Pixabay

A strange bar, stranger patrons, and a band that's ready to play all night, whether anyone wants them to or not. Then, dip your toe in the dark swirling waters of Tim's musical madness.Smoke + Coffee was written by Glenn Dungan, who is currently based in Brooklyn—where he exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder. For more of his work, see his website: whereisglennnow.com.

A '70s metal band plays their killer hit single - right up until the incident that leads to their premature and abrupt end. Then Tim cracks open the Cellar Door - do you dare listen to what's down there?Guest author John Kuyat is a NYC-based horror and speculative fiction writer. His work has appeared in Horror Tree's Trembling With Fear, Graveside Press's Howl: A Shapeshifting Anthology, Dug Up Magazine, and Flash Phantoms. You can find him on Instagram at @john.docx.Image by microart1 from Pixabay

The storytelling world is filled with wishes that suck, and today's tale is no different. Then, a journey into sound.Image by Rolf Dobberstein from Pixabay

If there was a way to remove yourself from everything, to erase it all, would you do it? Then a little eldritch jam with Tim's Sonic Chlithonic.Image by Eden Moon from Pixabay

Guest author K.G. McAbee serves up a tasty treat, a meal she calls Aunt Clytie’s Canning Jars. Then it's time to clean up a sticky mess with Tim's Ectoplasm III.K.G. McAbee is multi-published in a variety of genres, but she especially loves horror, no doubt due to her early passion for Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. She lives in a haunted log cabin in upstate South Carolina and spends too much time reading and drinking iced tea when she really should be writing. Her latest novella is called HELL BELOW ZERO, which may or may not be an homage to John W. Campbell’s WHO GOES THERE. Visit her at https://reamsofdreams.substack.com/ or https://linktr.ee/kgmwriter for more information.