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Puzzle Box Horror Presents – Atlas of Lore #1 Oregon. Coming July 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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The Best Witch Horror Films – This is Why You Should Not Mess With Witches!
What’s really so horrifying about witches? Is it the stereotypical vision of the green old hag with a hooked nose, chanting foreign words over a bubbling cauldron? Or is it the idea that beings who have an extraordinary power can choose to curse the unwitting among us? The common concept of witches that we see…
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The 12 A.M. To Nowhere
This must be the hundredth time I have woken up on this damn subway covered in blood and body parts. If I have to spit one more ear lobe out my mouth again, I swear I am going to shit a brick. Nothing changes. It is the same thing over and over. There’s the red…
Subgenres of Horror, With Recommended Reading List
by Brandon Cornett Do you enjoy reading horror stories and novels? Want to broaden your horizons and try something new? I’ve got just the thing. Below, I’ve dissected the horror genre into seven main subgenres, with some recommended reading for each one. Classifying a Genre: It’s Like Herding Cats Categorizing the horror genre is harder…
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The Paranormal Journal of Ezekiel Kincaid Entry 3: Brandon
I had just settled down for the night with a good book and a bottle of whiskey. The paperback I was reading was from 1987–C. Dean Anderson’s Torture Tomb. The cover had appealed to me so I snatched it up at a thrift store. I nestled into my recliner, flipped it open to the beginning,…
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The Haunting of Captain George Conrad Flavel House in Astoria, OR
About the House The Flavel House in Astoria, while now a museum, was once a mansion that is haunted by the spirits of those poor souls of the family who once inhabited its walls. The phantom remnants of the Flavel family have made themselves known by speaking amongst themselves—which has been reported as disembodied voices—as…
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Interview with Award Winning Author and Teacher Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas is an award-winning author of seven books: three novels—Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), as well as Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications); three short story collections—Staring into the Abyss (Kraken Press), Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press), and Tribulations (Cemetery Dance); and one novella in The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). With over 150 stories published, his…
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Realm Of Shadows Horror Anthology 2021 Production Announced
So many great horror films have been delayed by COVID but we are excited to learn that “Realm of Shadows” is in production and slated for release in 2021. One of our favorite formats is horror films based on real events and urban legends. Each of these short films has real-life horror stories behind them.…
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Urban Legend – The Demon Dog of Valle Crucis, North Carolina
My day job is working as a pest control technician for an awesome company here in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Come to find out, I have a haunted site on my route. (Yeah, I know. What are the odds that the horror author gets the route with a haunted place?) I have included pictures in…
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Nothing is more delicious and terrifying than the horror expressed by the creative mind. At Puzzle Box Horror, we support artists, writers and film makers in the genre, and showcase their work on our fan site. Because #scary.
Mystery and Lore
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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