A Filthy Type
The child is dead.
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Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202215 min read
Blēka
It was cold. He was sitting on a low wall and it, too, was cold, and hard.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20227 min read
Neversink
Dar sat in her room and waited for the waters to come.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20226 min read
Interview with the Monster Within
When I first saw him, he sat across from me at a tea table far too small.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202212 min read
Small Town Hospitality
We never saw a moving truck.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20222 min read
Silicone Death Fauna
He buries himself every night…
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20222 min read
The Invisible Man Receives an Invitation to Join AARP
He hated to see himself growing old.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202210 min read
Foundling
Walk-in Clinic, Crow Hills – March 1994
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Taking A Torch To Tedium
The first time I carried a pitchfork, the second a torch.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202210 min read
Murder Most Fowl
Nora begged the twins to stop.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20229 min read
A String of Repeated Notes
We know you carry pain. Pain is what brings you to us.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20225 min read
Breakup Scripts for the Unenthralled Thrall
“How can this work with our opposite schedules? You’re a night owl, I’m a morning person…”
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202219 min read
Blood Relatives
I wasn’t always a member of my family, although I think that’s the case with everyone.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202228 min read
The Taste of Iron
Gerta’s ramshackle dwelling carried a persistent smell of dried herbs, vinegar, and gruel…
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202210 min read
Speaking with Skeletons
The yellowing tile is cool beneath your feet.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20222 min read
The Reimagined Baba Yaga
There’s not always a place in any afterlife for a dead soul.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20228 min read
RATS!
The rat. The legend. Even if you’ve never seen him, on some level you have.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20227 min read
Communion
I try my best to keep myself still before services begin, as the organ plays and people shuffle into their seats.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 202212 min read
On Skin and Scales
My tattoo parlor was called Electric Chair, which in hindsight seems appropriate.
Hearth & Coffin Staff
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Unstrange Creatures
Life can feel like shooting a vampire
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