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Atlas of Lore #1 Oregon
The first edition of the Atlas of Lore covers the most terrifying hauntings and urban legends in Oregon. Short horror stories and beautiful original art by artist Felipe Kroll.
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From Traumatized to Terror Creator, the Life of Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 5 in 1917, to two German Jews, Raphael Bloch and Stella Loeb who, despite their Jewish heritage, had the family attend a Methodist Church. When Bloch was only eight years of age, he attended a screening of Lon Chaney Sr.’s The Phantom of the Opera…
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The Paranormal Journal of Ezekiel Kincaid Entry 5: James and Alice
Interruptions. They are a part of life but I still haven’t grown accustomed to them. In fact, I hate them so much I stopped taking walk-ins years ago… It was a Tuesday morning and I had just poured a fresh cup of coffee. The aroma was rising in my nose as my computer booted up…
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Celebrating the Female Writers of Horror
Women don’t get a lot of credit in any field that they may excel in, so why should the world of literature be any different? While, they get recognized by their peers, how many of you can name more than a handful of famous female horror authors off the top of your head? It’s unfortunate…
Urban Legends – The Cursed Buckout Road
When you mix a long history of violence with an abandoned mansion on a spooky road surrounded by woods, you know what you get? The paranormal. Since Buckout Road in White Plains, New York has this combination, naturally, it has quite a bit of paranormal history. Though this one is especially interesting with arson, grave…
Hood River Oregon’s Haunted Hotels
Hood River sits in the Columbia Gorge along the Columbia river surrounded by fields, orchards, vineyards, and at the foot of Oregon’s tallest mountain, Mount Hood. “The area was inhabited by Native Americans when the Lewis and Clark expedition passed through on October 29, 1805. Here they found a camp site called “Waucoma,” or “place of…
Frequency – A Short Cosmic Horror Story – by Tritone
“Come on… Come on!” The scent of electric smoke wafted up from the soldering iron on the circuit board as Larry hastily laid down bead after bead connecting the new resistor to the board. He knew if he did not get the power connected back to the ham radio that the signal would be lost…
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Puzzle Box Horror Presents – Atlas of Lore #1 Oregon. Coming September 2020
We’re happy to announce we are almost done with our first publication “Atlas of Lore – Oregon.” In this issue, we will have 5 original short horror stories based on Oregon’s haunted lore. We are also including the legends behind the stories in the issue along with original art, photography, articles, and a re-release of…
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Shirley Jackson: Novels, Short Stories, and Other Works
Looking back on a career like Shirley’s it’s widely believed that despite the fact that raising four children is an extremely difficult task, Shirley couldn’t have been such a literary success without them—after all, her first success, The Lottery came only a few months before Shirley was set to deliver her third child. A cringe-worthy…
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Urban Legends – The Haunting of the SK Pierce Mansion
A 10 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath 6,661 square foot house with intricate wooden details, original windows, doorknobs, and marble fireplaces. Servant quarters with formal maid and butler pantries, a classic Mansard roof and grand staircase showcase the victorian era style of this mansion. With a team of 100 men, it took a year and a…
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The stories we grew up hearing as children all have a foundation in truth. From haunted artifacts and curses, to ancient practices of Voodoo and Santeria. Our paranormal journalists at Puzzle Box Horror share the facts, myths and mysteries behind the world’s most terrifying lore.
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We have a need to know, because “the truth is out there”. Our lifestyle section tracks global paranormal legends and lore, haunting’s and provides a journalistic take on scary stories.
Encyclopedia of Paranormal Horror
From the pages of religious text from every culture, are the names of malevolent mythological entities that surround us. If you know their name? Well, you know how that story goes.
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