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Tattoo by Candace McBride

Magic, murder, and monsters

Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Dark Icon Original Fiction by Dark Icon

All of us, even the world itself, began in darkness.

Original works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  Ten years of novels, short stories, and serial fiction.  All free. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated thrice weekly.
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The New Bedlam Project by Jodi Lee (editor)

Something is wrong in New Bedlam...

The New Bedlam Project follows the adventures of numerous and sundry characters found in the past, present and future of one messed up little town.  Originally started as a companion piece to the Courting Morpheus anthology, the webzine has taken on a life of its own. We publish several short stories and a selection of poetry in each quarterly . . .

An online magazine of fiction, updated infrequently.
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Black Alice by Marci Sischo and James Agle

Detroit has a hero, someone to stand against the forces of darkness, and resist the rising tide of horror and bloodshed. This isn’t his story. Alice Frye is an Artificer living in Highland Park, and she’s perfectly happy running her curio shop full of gewgaws and magical artifacts while her zombified late husband handles the cleaning and grocery shopping. . . .

A complete novel.
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Unusual Circumstance by Timothy Dumont Jr.

Follows the adventures of a small group dedicated to exploring supernatural mysteries.  During the course of the adventure new characters are introduced and pasts revealed.  The POV of the posts are stated in the title and switch between several of the characters.  It starts out as a journal but changes into a normal story as it progresses.  The author uses . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes sporadically.
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TATTOO

A B-rated horror movie in word form.

Editor: Donna Sirianni
September 13, 2008

With all of Glory’s internal griping about how she’s the black sheep of the family and the outcast at school, I was half-expecting something Carrie-esque, especially with the whole date thing.  At least I got the blood making an appearance right.

Horror is very hard to write.  The foreshadowing has to [more . . .]

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TATTOO

The travails of one magically protected, ass-kicking nerd

Member: Shutsumon
February 10, 2010

So far I have only read as far as the end of Chapter Six of Tattoo by Candace McBride. This isn’t because I don’t like it, but simply that I haven’t had chance to read Chapter Seven yet. Tattoo bills itself as Horror with science fiction and fantasy elements, but I find it’s more Dark Fantasy with Horror elements [more . . .]

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