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Magic, German pens
Santa Jaws drawn to life
Watch your legs drunk elf!

1 7
2020-12-09

Daily Think life’s bleak at the moment? Tell that to R.J. MacReady. Hope you’re all staying safe and snug,

2 10
2020-04-06

Catch cabin fever
isolated from sickness.
Let’s go stir crazy!

3 5
2020-04-01



Title:#YogTheOpenerBeyond:3/11/20:

He who knows the gate
Is also both guard & key
Was. Is. And will be.

Basis:#HPLovecraft's Father to &

6 9
2020-03-16

Darkness, rising fear
Lost in the twisting hallways
Swallowed by Hell’s maze

2 4
2020-03-04

throw the posies down
cover up the corpse and hope
to drown out the stench

4 6
2019-10-09

Hades dreamt of his
sweet Persephone and was
woken by her thorns

3 6
2019-10-09

Envy like Midas!
See Apollo's chariot--
ruinous desire.

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Lie in state, quiet,
incorruptible as gold,
and just as lifeless.



For some reason, gold never makes me think of good.
It must be a gilt-ed conscience.

2 5
2019-10-09


Vampire burial--
Monsters stay dead, but their minds
Swiftly send out roots

4 9
2019-10-09



Mindlessly explore
Reality's otherside
To find your reprieve.

3 7
2019-10-08


Title:#GreatLizardOfTheDreamCycle:9/3/19:

Rules the
Who were utter doom
from

Basis:#Bokrug of story (1920). He & his followers destroyed the city.

4 21
2019-09-04

Crimson sky eclipse
and Hell spewed forth its fire
endlessly burning

3 3
2019-08-27

Not sure if it has a strict meter, but you can reformat the Necronomicon's most famous couplet into:

That is not dead which
can eternal lie. And with
strange aeons even death may die.

(from The Call Of Cthulhu, duh).
Illustration by

7 18
2019-08-07

I may lose my soul,
but the process is precise
and proceeds apace.

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I still comprehend--
just intellectually--
this is abhorrent.

2 4
2019-05-01

hold your breath, she said
it might feel a little weird
dying the first time

/
art by for

4 9
2019-04-17


We'll go together
Toward oblivion if you
Take off that dumb hat.

5 10
2019-04-17

Quiet, friend. I'll go
in your stead down monster throat;
you, feeder. Me, fed.

4 6
2019-04-17



See that light ahead?
We'll walk for the rest of time
and get no closer.

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Are these roots? Branches?
Beyond all navigation
yet I chose no turns.

3 7
2019-04-16