Welcome to the Lair!
Exploring dark alleys. Discovering new nightmares.
Revisiting the masters.
They call him The Tailor, a nightmarish fairy-tale creature called upon by parents to deal with unkempt children. When it's inadvertently summoned by an up-and-coming rock band during an all-night jam session, their routine practice turns into a night of terror as The Tailor tries to clean up The Filthy Habits' act.
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS by Sebastian Bendix is a terrifying twist on golem folklore. I don't want to reveal any spoilers, so I can't write much about this story, but this would make a great SyFy movie. The ending is the scariest surprise of all, and the epilogue is the perfect final stitch.
As always,
AstraDaemon
SHRIEK OF THE HARPY by Sebastian Bendix is the story of cursed film being discovered by a film archivist. The story is broken into segments by Muriel's journal entries. The first half of the story seems largely unnecessary, and may lose some readers with the slow setup.
However, if readers stick with it, the action finally kicks in around the halfway mark. While Muriel's battle for survival is entertaining, her character doesn't have much depth, so I didn't really care what happened to her. The ambiguity surrounding the harpy film is a nice touch. The ending reminded me of the movie, In the Mouth of Madness.
As always,
AstraDaemon
