Bitches – Trev Hill
Miss Jowens was cross. She had had enough of these young girls and their unladylike language and behaviour. Mind you, she shouldn’t have been surprised. Even at the […]
She’s an Outcast!
Meet Aussie writer Silvia Brown. She’s an outcast, a traveler, a creative mind, and a published author. As a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, she practices sharpening her […]
What Do You Write For?
A quick post, but big question. Some write for fame, some write for money, some write in hopes to get laid, while other write for themselves. What do you write […]
Metallica of Horror
Writers know that music is one hell of a muse. Music, good music, fuels performance just as much as bad music can completely drain the gas tank. Of course, good […]
Deadman’s Tome podcast with Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry joins Mr. Deadman and the Dynamite Marchese to talk writing, zombies and Marvel comics. JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling and five-time Bram Stoker […]
What is Good Writing?
Mr. Deadman and Marchese will explore good writing vs bad writing. What’s lazy writing? What’s the problem with pronouns? What does it mean when readers don’t seem to care, […]
Uxoricide by Bob McNeil
During a Thursday, around 3:43AM, a female and male sauntered towards the driveway of her Spanish Colonial-styled mansion. The woman, Neala Desdemona Johnson, was blonde, in her thirties. Her […]
Interview with Mark Slade
Horror writer Mark Slade has agreed to meet with Mr. Deadman to talk about his latest story Santa’s Bag, which is featured in Deadman’s Tome Krampus Christmas. Listen to the […]
Mr. Deadman Interviews Kristine Hall-Garcia, Author of Highly Popular Dark Erotica Short
Kristine Hall-Garcia, author of Unbloom, meets with Mr. Deadman on Friday at 10pm CST for a live interview. Kristine is the writer of one of the more brutal stories featured on the Tome. Unbloom was so dark that it was one of the first to bear the NSFW label, which was done solely as a precaution for those brave enough […]
Deadman’s Tome Mug
Legend has it that any beverage drank from this mug has properties to cure Writer’s block, but with a catch. Of course, there’s a catch. There is always a […]
Horror is anti-Safe Space!
Carson Winter agreed to do an early morning interview with Mr. Deadman to discuss his short story The Chasm Bridged. A work very much inspired by Edgar Allen Poe and Lovecraft, and as a consequence we talk about both iconic authors. We also discuss the importance of show VS tell and how important it is for writers to learn to craft […]
Cthulhu Responsible For The Bible and 9/11!
The interview with horror writer Bob Freville not only lived up to the hype, but the exciting exchange proved educational! Listeners learned that Cthulhu was the mastermind behind the Holy Bible and 9/11. So, 9/11 Truthers can cool their jets. Bush and his overlord Dick Cheney are only guilty of doing the great ancient one’s bidding, and who can really […]
Inky Beast – M.J. Nicholls
The featured horror short story can also be read in the Best of the Tome Alan Barbrush, Chief Editor at Scalped Olives Publications, had always been accused of skulking around the office cynically. Yet today, his undying cynicism had reached such a huffy zenith, it was as though the weight of a lifetime’s misery had finally – after twenty […]
The Boxer by Charles Gramlich
The Boxer sits on his stool in the corner of the ring. He sits hunched, eyes closed. He can’t hear the crowd, though they must be near. All that his ears register is the rasp in his throat and the thunder-boom of his heart. The Boxer’s arms lie heavy across his legs, and the legs tremble from the weight. […]
Pandora by Helen Mihajlovic
Pandora by Helen Mihajlovic The ethereal song of the blackbird infuses an azure sky as Hephaestus plunges his hand into a tepid lake. He digs his fingers deeply into the wet soil removing handfuls of clay, pondering his undertaking: to create the first woman. He warms the clay in his hands, making it easy to mould. He shapes her […]
Brutal Doom Realism Fails
Brutal Doom Realism Fails What does Deadman’s Tome and a video game like Brutal Doom have in common? Uh, sheer brutality and a death buffet? Sounds about right to me. New to the site? Deadman’s Tome is an online horror magazine that publishes horror and dark short stories and flash fiction, the darker the better. If you’re a writer and […]
