Tag Archives: horror

Mouse Cage: A Review

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Hatboy

You want another book review? Okay, you asked for it. Fine, you didn’t, but here’s one for Mouse Cage, of the Stories from San Iadras series, by Malcolm F. Cross. It’s also on Goodreads. The Stories from San Iadras series … Continue reading →

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Predericon in Darkness, Part 15

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 103. 113 pages, 48,345 words.   They started back down the promenade curve, Gyden’s ears providing the only illumination. It was more than sufficient to show the ghostly melted non-texture of the wall on their left, and a suggestion … Continue reading →

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Predericon in Darkness, Part 14

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 102. 113 pages, 48,345 words.   “Anyway,” Predericon did her best to restore the discussion to the relative liveliness it had enjoyed before they’d wound up promising to perform bluo-watch on one another, “I wouldn’t worry too much about … Continue reading →

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Predericon in Darkness, Part 13

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 101. 113 pages, 48,345 words.   “I don’t know how much I can really tell you,” Predericon admitted. “I don’t remember very clearly and a lot of it was extremely abstract. No Voidsnakes or giant Flesh-Eaters or traumatic encounters … Continue reading →

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Predericon in Darkness, Part 12

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 100. 110 pages, 47,042 words.   Unwillingly, but on Gyden’s insistence, Predericon deactivated her lamp. “It’s the safest way to get around down here,” Gyden explained, as Predericon’s eyes adjusted to the faint aquatic glow from her friend’s ear … Continue reading →

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Predericon in Darkness, Part 11

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 99. 109 pages, 46,557 words. God damn it why do I not have time to do fuck all.   She stepped quickly through into a chamber only slightly larger than the airlock-antechamber to the lower archives. The wall sealed … Continue reading →

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Predericon in Darkness, Part 10

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 98. 108 pages, 46,146 words.   The doorway led into a corridor that would have been absolutely dark if not for Predericon’s pocket lamp. After walking for almost an hour in a long, gently-downwards-sloping arc, she estimated that she … Continue reading →

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This week I’ve mostly been reading…

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Hatboy

Three The ringletted girl with the five-dollar dress and the ten-dollar attitude fled her stifling small-town apartment that morning and made her way into the New England woods. If she’d known how close she was to drawing her final breath … Continue reading →

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Character study: The Destarion

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Hatboy

The Destarion was a Category 9 Convoy Defence Platform, the family classically known as God-teeth. She was sixty-three miles tall, with two thousand one hundred and six decks, eight heavy freight galleries and old-style nuclear transpersion engines with shielding collars … Continue reading →

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