Two friends, backpacking across the Western Ghats, arrived by the early morning train at a small-town station. It was a day like none other. As the train curved through another of the moss-covered tunnels and emerged into the first rays of sunlight, they were embraced by a soft blanket of mist. It ran beside them, through the woods, and across the cabin, through the open window, like a mischievous ghost on wheels, making them laugh.
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Nightmare Fuel — Sleep Paralysis

Hello Addicts,
Very few things are better than a good night’s sleep. To relax and slumber while your body heals itself and your mind goes through a reboot of the upper level thought processes. Many a writer or artist attributes their creative career to dreams had while they slept. But, what happens when you wake up and realize that you can’t move or speak?
The medical term for this condition is “sleep paralysis”, and it can occur when you are either just falling asleep or starting to wake up. Your body naturally makes it so that your muscles are “deactivated” when you sleep. If it didn’t, every action you took in your dreams would be acted out in real-time and you or someone else stand a good chance of getting hurt. With sleep paralysis, you wake up faster than your body is able to turn the physical switches back on…
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You Have To Make Up Your Mind

As a publisher, I see this every day. People making excuses for not writing.
“I’m very busy.”
“I have kids.”
“I have a full-time job and go to school.”
Stop.
No, seriously. Stop. If you have time to post status updates, and catch up on DVR’ed shows and/or movies, you have time to write. I challenge you today to find out how many minutes you spend posting, typing statuses and how many words you’ve typed in the Facebook (or other social media) vortex.
Is that number over ten? You have time.
Are you watching at least one show a night? You have time to write.
Are you vegging out doing nothing for thirty minutes a night? You have time to write.
The real question is, “Is writing a priority to you?” That’s where you need to make up your mind. Writing takes hard work, dedication, and commitment…
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Morbid Meals – Tribute to Creepshow – Father’s Day Ice Cream Cake
EXAMINATION
As a father, I totally understand the motivation of the Dad in Creepshow. Though, I wouldn’t take my obsession with Father’s Day cake as far as he did. Probably. Best not to test me. Here’s my recommendation for a delicious ice cream and brownie cake that’s super easy to make so you have no excuse but to make it.
ANALYSIS
Servings: 12 to 16
Ingredients
1 box brownie mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on brownie mix
1/2 gallon (2 quarts) Dad’s favorite ice cream, slightly softened
Red velvet cookies, crushed
Red candy melts
Apparatus
- 2 (9-inch) round springform cake pans
Procedure
- Pre-heat your oven to 350°F. If you do not have springform pans, you can use regular cake pans but line them with foil and lightly grease the bottom.
- Combine the water, oil, eggs, and brownie mix per the instructions on the box. Divide the…
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HorrorAddicts.net 124, Once Upon a Scream
Horror Addicts Episode# 127
SEASON 11!
Horror Hostess: Emerian Rich
Intro Music by: Valentine Wolfe
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The Writer’s Index
By Julie Vick Number of times you checked your Submittable page today: 25 Number of changes in status to your Submittable page today: 0 Days since there was any change to your Submittable page: 37 …
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The First 5 Pages
I find myself in a very interesting situation. I have an idea for a book, it’s a memoir based on the experiences I just went through with my mom in residential hospice. A little bit of magic…
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Once Upon A Scream Author Spotlight: Charles Frierman
Horroraddicts.net Publishing has recently published our 4th anthology called Once Upon a Scream. Remember the Fairy tales that you grew up reading? Well they are back again with a horror twist. Once Upon a Scream includes 18 tales that are fantastic and frightful. One of the authors in this anthology is Charles Frierman and recently he talked to us about his writing:
What is your story in Once Upon A Scream called and what is it about?
My story is called, “Nothing to Worry About.” It’s about a man who fears “nothing” in a weird sort of way.
What inspired the idea?
Well, when I saw the anthology title, “Once Upon a Scream,” I knew I had to write something because it sounded like the greatest anthology title ever. I was so inspired that I immediately sat down and started writing just trying to keep up a creepy fairy tale feel…
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How to Write Like Chekhov
Whatever genre you write, you can’t go wrong picking up tips from Anton Chekhov.
How to Write Like Chekhov, Advice and Inspiration, Straight From His Own Letters and Work.
Edited by Piero Brunello and Lena Lencek
Book Review and Commentary May 31, 2016
Reading the letters of authors is often an eye-opening experience for writers. In correspondence we can find an intimacy that a writing craft book fails to provide. In How to Write Like Chekhov, editors Brunello and Lencek give us an experience with Chekhov that goes beyond a technical craft book. And for this, I truly appreciated getting to know Chekhov’s thinking and values as he digs deeply into expressing himself as an artist and a man. Chekhov wrote 568 short stories, numerous novels, and plays. Tolstoy called him an ‘incomparable artist—an artist in life.’
How relative is his advice from over 100 years ago? Well, if you are looking for a mentor who understands the transformative power of art, this…
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Bad Egg by Sumiko Saulson
Interesting story.

Bad Egg by Sumiko Saulson
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Press Release: Demon with a Comb-Over
Press Release: Demon with a Comb-Over

Excerpt :
OPEN SUBMISSIONS: The Sirens Call – Issue #27 ‘Horror-ific’
Opportunity knocks!
Sirens Call Publications is pleased to announce the open call for the 27th issue of The Sirens Call…
For this issue, we’re looking for your best horror stories falling under the theme of
Horror-ific
Go psychological or slasher, creature or paranormal – as long as it falls under the umbrella of horror, we’re open to it. Make your tales creepy, kitschy, funny, romantic, or sci-fi – get creative and send us the kind of skin-crawling, bone-rattling story you’d want to read.
Your only limiting factors are your own imagination and the word count!

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2016
Short story word count: 1,000 – 2,500
Flash fiction word count: 300 – 1,000
Poem length: minimum 10 lines; maximum 50 lines (with a limit of five poems per author)
Drabbles: 100 words (limit of five submitted per author)
Reprints are acceptable as long as you currently…
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Weekend Edition – Stillness, Solitude, and the Practice of Writing
Interesting.
Writing is a solitary act, but being a writer is not. We live in the Real World with everyone else, and our lives are just as full and noisy and chaotic as the next person’s. We have friends and family to care for and enjoy. We have day jobs (with meetings and emails and conference calls) and households to manage (via negotiation and sometimes bribery). We are subjected to the same onslaught of news, social media, and sundry other local and global communications as every other non-luddite member of this hyper-connected human race.
What makes writers different is that our lives include another layer that exists, sometimes above and sometimes below, everything else: the world of our writing. And, unlike the activity-powered Real World, this other world of stories and ideas and dreams is brought to life by stillness and solitude.
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When I was a kid, I spent a…
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