"Dark Shadows": The Soap Opera, the Horror Show The original "Dark Shadows" was a unique TV phenomenon. A horror show in a soap opera format, the program was a marriage of as seemingly disparate genres as could be imagined. The reasons the bizarre show succeeded, and how it expanded the horizons of both horror and soap opera, are the subject of this essay....
[sketch,be,hyper,pos,les] "Our story starts in the late 90's. The Iron Curtain had fallen and Yvette Seleski had a dream. She wanted to be famous, to be known as someone the world over instead of a girl lost to time in eastern Europe. However, growing up in the recovering Ukraine hardly offered opportunities for higher education and she had few physical tal...
Its strange. I woke up one day and found my clothes torn, especially at my leggings where there was a huge hole at the center of my crotch, my underwear was wet too. My boobs were so sore and my nipples hurt so bad. When I lift my shirt up, my bra was gone! There were teeth markings and lipstick smudges all over my boobs. Even though I couldn't remember, I c...
What lays beyond life usually fills one with terror. The two realms were never meant to cross paths, but more often than not, the impossible happens. Vengeful spirits and creatures reach out from the underworld, regretful of their untimely deaths to the point of forcing the living to join them in their suffering. Such stories of tragedy are more than a few,...
You’ve got a freind named Denise, with a strong interest in the supernatural--something you have in common. At times, it seems she has a crush on you, but you’ve been friends for years. Besides, Denise was just older than you by enough that you figured she didn’t think of you that way. One afternoon, you knocked on Denise’s front door. When the door opened,...
I realized as I slammed the door that that if she was really a ghost that wasn’t going to slow her down a lot. “Damn!” I swore as she came through it. I turned and began hoofing it down the corridor. I really wasn’t sure what I could do but keeping away from her seemed like a good idea. Let me tell you how it all started. I was going to school at I.T.T....
[The story so far: Simon's a fantasy writer. He's been transported to the world of his novels. Leyna is a serving wench at the inn where he's stuck. She's gorgeous and clever, and Simon falls hard for her even after finding out that she moonlights as a prostitute. But there's Big Trouble in the form of a necromancer out to destroy the whole realm. Simon's on...
In a small house outside of a large city, a group of teenage witches perform a sexual ceremony over a cauldron. The cauldron sat on top of a drawn pentagram drawn out of chalk and let candles at each corner. Thinking they were going to summon a sexual nymph to satisfy their lust-filled desires, they follow the ritual and all four of them sit around the cauld...
You were walking on the street dissapointed. You recently lost your job. Your girlfriend cheated on you and you were now homeless. You didnt have much to go on in your life. But still you were determined to live your life and make it better for yourself. Filled with new determination you walk across the street and before you had a chance to get away, you got...
L’aéroport de Roissy était bondé en ce début d’été. Les vacanciers se bousculaient comme si leur vie dépendait de leur présence dans leur avion avant le départ de ce dernier. De temps en temps, une voix monocorde faisait une annonce dans un micro, dominant quelques instants le désordre ambiant. Des groupes se formaient et se séparaient. Les milliers de gens...