At the ruins of an asylum, fear and excitement in a horror story

In the night of the winter solstice, the longest one in the year, we gathered before the fireplace and started telling stories, horror stories. Each one of us would mention something that they had heard about, that had happened to a friend of a friend, that had afflicted a distant relative. Not him, though. When […]

Horror and terror in a (fictional) Southern U.S. town

Missing Mile is a fictional town in North Carolina where some of the stories by Poppy Z. Brite – including two of his novels, Lost Souls and Drawing Blood – take place. And it’s also a virtual place in Second Life (which I’ve stumbled on thanks to my friend Tristan Treves). Inspired by Brite’s work, SL’s Missing Mile […]