Swallow
A predatory young man chooses the wrong girl to follow home from the Halloween disco.
Honey Bear
“Come outside, dearest mine.
Come taste the spring honey
drip-drip-dripping from every hive.” Read this dark poem by Avra Margariti.
A Test of Faith
Darkroom Liaisons
The poltergeists leave the darkroom the way they came: faceless. Read this beautiful poem by Avra Margariti, only on The Dread Machine.
The Brides of Dracula Ponder the Manson Murders
(What are humans but an amalgamation
of meat and electricity?) Read this unsettling poem by Avra Margariti.
TAKE ME
A cardboard box on the curbside. A magic marker missive: TAKE ME. Free books for someone to take. But what if these books shouldn’t be taken? What if they’re haunted?
Ritual
A man prepares to go out on the hunt with just one thing on his mind. He has his trusted rituals to achieve success, but there are other, older rituals at play, rituals that balance nature and can turn the hunter into the hunted
Forever Autumn
A crow stares at a man through the window of a cabin in the woods. What does it know? What will it do?
In Bocca al Lupo
When climate change brings about the New Ice Age, along with the hatching of a hoard of monstrous Ningen, it is down to the five remaining members of the Polaris military base to lure the monsters to their doom. Only, the theory behind the lure isn’t all that sound. And the Ningen are like nothing they have ever faced before.
An Exercise in Peddling Fear
A true master of a trade takes pride in their work and the demonic plying of human fear is no different! An artisan breaks down the industry and walks two unfortunate souls through its current project.