DreamForge Halloween
DreamForge presents “Dark Visions,” Tales for Halloween. Enjoy our scary tales for FREE. We’ve got vampires, zombies, ghosts, and a visit with the Perfumer of Purgatory.
While DreamForge favors Hope and the Human Adventure, Halloween remains one of our favorite holidays. In this special issue, we bring the two together in surprising ways.
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The Perfumer in Purgatory
by Alicia HIlton
A new work from Alicia Hilton. Is Purgatory a place of purification or one of temporary punishment where souls in need of improvement are made ready for Heaven? Or is it one last chance for the worst of us to show some remorse? Either way, it takes more than a few sweet scents to approach the gates of Heaven.
Z-Spot
by Barbara Barnett
Z-Spot is a fun tale of love and decay after the Zombie Apocalypse that shows us that when the world ends, we just need to get on with it! Z-Spot is in Issue One of DreamForge Magazine.
I Am Not As Young As I Was
By Jean Martin
Jean Martin takes us through the streets of our native Pittsburgh in this tale that pits a Russian immigrant against a vampire. While the beast of darkness and blood preys on the weak, our protagonist – a former sharpshooter at Leningrad – is anything but weak. I Am Not As Young As I Was is in Issue One of DreamForge Magazine.
The Lost Soul
by Scot Noel
Flash fiction about a storm, a wind-blown soul, and a hardscrabble man with a burlap sack.
Disarming the Dead
by Scot Noel
When a powerful mage falls ill, and his top aides are busy, a junior apprentice and the scullery boy team up to deal with a challenging commission.
The Walking Yuck
A Conversation with Jane Lindskold
Publisher Scot Noel and Author Jane Lindskold discuss zombies, a topic of which Scot is rather fond and Jane finds less appealing. What is it about the flesh-eating undead that makes some of us see a great story where others think it’s only gory?
The Sever’d Link
by Scot Noel
Vampire Hunters enter a cursed village in search of a creature of the night. But the curse is of mortal origins and an unexpected ally awaits.
Snows of Darkness
by James Verran and Scot Noel
He had thought about it many ways since the disaster began. Perhaps the last of the patricians had felt this way at the sacking of Rome. He was watching the fall of a civilization, a great change from which something dark and brooding would emerge.
Ghosts of the Ogygopsis
by Scot Noel
A bit of flash fun about the emergence of fossilized spirits.
A Stillness of Trumpets
by Scot Noel
Some people swore the house was haunted, that the Madonna had appeared there on the day the angels drew forth their fiery swords and the devils hit back, hard.
