In Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s “Hell Screen,” a sociopathic painter creates an all-too-real artwork for his psychopathic Lord. Takes Poe’s “The Oval Portrait," Wilde’s DORIAN GRAY, and Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” in diabolical new directions.
In anticipation of my forthcoming horror story collection BACKWATERS: 12 MURKY TALES, I am sharing my thoughts on horror, weird, and bizarro short stories that have influenced, impressed, and stuck wiIn anticipation of my forthcoming horror story collection BACKWATERS: 12 MURKY TALES, I am sharing my thoughts on horror, weird, and bizarro short stories that have influenced, impressed, and stuck with me....more