Horror Haikus for The Tightening Spiral
Hello there! I’m here today to promote
my newest anthology of short horror and suspense fiction. For something
different, I have summarized some of
the stories from my collection in haikus.
I admit, when I first decided to do
this post, I thought maybe I’d gotten WAY out of my depth. I have written
poetry, but never a successful haiku. But with a little brush up on what makes
a haiku (three lines of 5-7-5 syllables are the “guidelines”) I figured what could go wrong? So here are some
horror haikus for selected stories from my upcoming horror and suspense short
story anthology with Hazardous Press, called The Tightening Spiral. Try a copy. It makes for GREAT reading when you only have a few moments to spare!
ChoosetheVictim.com
Five girls’ names
offered
By a writer seeking
fans
Good wet inspiration
The Prison
Man on a mission
To break others out of
prison
Finds his plan has
flaws
In the Night
Mother and Daughter
Enjoy hunting
hitchhikers
Mom, your turn to gut.
Say Goodbye
Her child is missing
Every minute ticks
faster
Eat the poison
berries, son
The Bribe
A cold beach at night
Evil lurks under the
pier
Coin for your silence.
The Lie
Stop social climber
With a spoken vague
falsehood
In return? Bullets
Not Enough
Save a beloved bro
With a vampiric virus
Infect the whole town
Granma’s House
Girl alone hears
noises
Thinks her dead
grandparents are there
Instead...a killer.
Black Smoke
Woman who sees smoke
Confronts her fear in
the crypt
Smoke gets her anyway
Let Me In
Demon comes calling
Woman sells her soul
for love
The devil laughs last
The Tunnel
Shelter for world war
Becomes a scene of
murder
Something waits below
Cold Enough
Iceman
seeks storage
To
endure coming summer
Stops
killer as bonus
Making Hay
Old
bitch nags at him
Hired
hand has had enough
Buries
her in hay
Face Recognition
Failsafe directive
Sends robot on killing
spree
No escape, human
The Memory of Trees
Streets are utterly
silent
Pro-earths release
mutagen
Don’t stand still too
long
The Network
The social network
Everyone too busy to
care
TakeUSBack.com
End of Days
Supernova bomb
Trek south to
kids’ salvation
But Sam’s
already changing
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Blurb: Tara Fox
Hall’s second collection of short suspense and horror stories, ranging from
novella to microfiction in length. Chock full of demons, serial killers, social
climbers, zombies, activists, ghosts, and the occasional happy ending…of sorts.
Excerpt from
ChoosetheVictim.com:
Stan stared at the letter on his glowing
computer screen, furious. His newest work, My Victim, had been rejected. His
editor said it “wasn’t horrifying enough” and had suggested a rewrite to “up
the scare factor.” All his work with Kate—more on point, on her skin—had been
for nothing.
Resisting his urge to throw the laptop across
the room, Stan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Destroying inanimate
objects wouldn’t slack his rage. But destroying an animate one might. The key
here was to gain not only some peace of mind, but also inspiration.
Stan opened another internet window, and typed
in an address. His website came up: www.myvictim.com, the stark image of the
survival knife shining with just a faint sheen of blood against the pristine
white background.
He had tried several promotions in the last
few months to encourage readers. Serial killer books were plentiful in small
presses. He’d gotten a mixed response, until he’d decided to do some real life
research and post some of his findings. But that small increase had been nothing
when he’d invited his audience into the kill. Suddenly his inbox had been
brimming with emails, all wanting to offer up victims they knew. As if he was
an idiot! Stan was not going to be stupid. He’d come too far to be caught now.
Instead, Stan had launched a contest; Name My
Victim. He had put in five random girl’s names, saying whomever got the most
votes would be killed. He’d never thought to go through with it. But he’d
gotten five hundred votes in the first ten minutes, five thousand total. At first,
he had been thrilled so many people had responded with Katlyn. Luck and a
little computer hacking had lead him to a girl called Kate. Then he had been
worried that the coincidence would lead the police to his door. He needed a
better method for choosing victims...
A Facebook notification popped into his email. Irritated, Stan
went to delete it, then stopped cold. Here was the perfect place to find new
victims. There wouldn’t be a trail on his computer for cops to find, because he
wouldn’t need to hack anything; all the information was at his fingertips. All
he would need to do was run his contest on his website…then choose a winner
with a name like the most popular victim. There was a limitless supply of
people with their entire lives online: where they ate, where they worked, how
they lived. There were tons of pictures of their houses, their kids, their
spouses, and their neighborhood. No address was posted usually, but enough
clues to easily find one.
Sure, most people didn’t make
all their info public. But he could always get a new email address, and build a
new avatar. All he would have to do was make a study of those he wanted to
kill. Once he knew a few of their interests, he could formulate an identity
that would ensure his friend request would be accepted by his victim-to-be.
Once he was in, he could get the info he wanted. Then would come the
tantalizing wait for his readers to select that name from the list of choices.
God, this was going to be fun! Stan laughed aloud in glee,
then began scanning random names by typing in letter combinations. There was no
time to waste.
AUTHOR LINKS
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