horror senryu journal

lifting a spoon flowers in  an overgrown graveyard — Vishal Prabhu

church at midnight  wails of ghosts praying  — Alper Ghuchlu

receding tide under the docks served to crabs a corpse — Albert Schlaht

entering darkness a candle gutters wildly in the skull’s sockets — John Hawkhead

beaver moon dislodging the grip of his teeth — Anne Fox

blood-stained hat in hand anything helps — Nicholas De Marino

in silence the chill  of onyx — Roberta Beach Jacobson

sooner or later they will come for you wriggling maggots — Deborah Karl-Brandt

new flooring easier than bleaching the carpet — Amber Winter

torn clouds  impaled heads mark the boundary  — Chad Lee Robinson lampshade a stretched tattoo — Chad Lee Robinson

painting watching eyes begin to whisper — DJ Tyrer

skulls everywhere halloween decorating  for terminal patients — Jerome Berglund discarded juicebox all the decorations have been taken down ...

immaculate spines the librarian’s private collection — Nicholas De Marino

a skeleton key beneath the welcome mat drips of blood — Rowan Beckett Minor abandoned RV on the winding backroad a severed tongue — Rowan Be...

ghost ships with skeleton crews — John H. Dromey

ghost moon she whispers in my ear — Greg Schwartz

scratch marks on a grave how long has it been since my death — Alper Ghuchlu

darkness spreading under the hanging tree — John Hawkhead predator reflections in a shark tank — John Hawkhead

my breath becomes basalt — Joshua St. Claire dark road a dandelion cloud of eyes — Joshua St. Claire

Halloween moon— showing us only the dark side — Mark Gilbert