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.
Where the really scary stories begin…
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The Bizarre Horror Novel That Outsold Dracula
How ridiculous would it sound if I said that the infamous novel Dracula by Bram Stoker—yes, the one that essentially created the foundation of what we think of when we envision vampires—was originally outsold six to one by a novel that you probably have never heard about?
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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’s Best of Cosmic Horror Comics
The Cosmic horror genre is dark and expansive, incorporating many genres and shading their darkest parts in a way that completely transforms the story. That transformation is typically as electrifying as it is effective. Do you enjoy existential dread, space and time being twisted, and exploring the darkest potential the universe has to offer? What…
Edgar Allan Poe, the Father of Gothic Horror
Dark and mysterious in life and in death, Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for the Gothic horror genre, was a master of macabre poetry and short stories that are the stuff of nightmares. As an American writer he made a surprising number of enemies through his harsh literary critique on their work. His abundant…
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The Haunted Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel – Alberta, CA
The second you pull up to the Fairmont Banff Springs resort in Alberta, you’ll feel the goosebumps. The “Castle in the Rockies” is surrounded by snow-covered mountains that give off major The Shining vibes, while the exterior is half castle, half Tower of Terror. You know the type – rustic and scary, yet extremely sophisticated.…
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Puzzle Box’s Best of Horror Comics
Comic books have been entertaining millions since 1933, and as the art has gotten better, illustrators have been able to create amazing panels with visceral and intense visuals. Combined with increasingly sharp storytelling, horror comics have only gotten better and better at giving readers those incredible, bone-chilling moments. These are the moments we live for…
Duology of the Damned: Part 02 – The Monster Inside of Me
Such is the unnatural body of this god, which has no kinship with the dust of our world; indeed, it is not flesh as we know flesh, but as crystal or glass, and soft so that during his dreaming death it often breaks apart, but when it breaks it at once reforms itself, held in…
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Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th and the Worship of the Female Goddess Named Mom?
Soon we celebrate Friday the 13th … again, or specifically, Friday November 13th which is our second this year! For horror fans Friday the 13th dates on the calendar mark the greatest excuse to Netflix and chill, while rewinding some of the greatest slasher movies of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqmj12n7yYc When you think of the evil…
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Puzzle Box’s Best of Supernatural Graphic Novels
Welp, Halloween’s over. We could wallow in our misery, but here at Puzzle Box, we like to look on the brighter– well, in our case — darker side of things: the nights are longer, the days are colder, and we still have plenty of graphic novels to go through. Today, we’re bringing you a list…
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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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