“The waiter whipped out a handkerchief and removed the feather. And that too was a horror: what have we lost when you can’t shake off your own jacket or wash […]
Clip Show 2025
“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.” – Stephen King, ‘On Writing’ Apologies to my parents for the frank weed discussion […]
Shaving Noir
“I was neat, clean, shaved, and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.” – Raymond Chandler, ‘The Big Sleep’ Real quick: new The Line Break this week! We talked […]
6 Things You Learn Fighting ICE
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they’re made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the […]
A Short Afterward For ‘Behind With Knife’
“Can’t I just like horror because it’s great? Does there have to be some big explanation?” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘My Heart Is A Chainsaw’ Promise to keep this short. […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Cosmic Horror Edition
“I’ll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.” – Victor LaValle, ‘The Ballad Of Black Tom’ It’s the last week of Behind With Knife! We’ve had chapter 21, chapter 22, […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Horror Comedy Edition
“Yes she was in a great deal of pain but then we cut off her head and put a stake through her heart and she found peace” – Dr. Van […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Body Horror Edition
The swell of my belly increases with each new dawn, my joints all filled with useless fluid, hindering movement and completion of daily tasks. I abhor my present state, but […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Hauntings Edition
“‘This house is haunted,’ Claire says. ‘I know if is,’ the babysitter says. ‘I used to live here.’” – Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat” First of all, Brendan and I […]
Sub-Genre Slam! Two Ways Of Looking At Monsters Edition
“In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end.” – opening […]