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Walt Shuler

  • Get Your Gore On!

    This was so uncomfortable (in the best way). Visceral and nonstop. It will make you squirm, so reader be aware. Read more

  • Chapter 3 | Wolves Among Us

    Chapter 3 At Gangulf’s insistence, Kurt led Mel and Tommy to seats amongst the other guests. Mel felt everyone’s eyes on them as they stepped over and around limbs and feet to reach the last empty places. Kurt’s glare told her that he felt the attention, too, and she said a silent prayer that he… Read more

  • Body Horror as Beauty Treatment

    If you’re not reading Lee’s work, what are you even doing? Read more

  • Summer Reading Sale

    Hey, folks, just a quick announcement: If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to pick up one of my books, that time is now! All four are on sale for just .99 each (ebook versions only). The Summer Reading Sale will last until June 15, so get in while you can 🙂 Check them… Read more

  • A Review of Transference by Ian Patterson

    What happens when someone with the means to do so decides to burn society to the ground? I met Ian on Substack, where he was sharing rough draft chapters of his in-progress novel, COG (keep your eyes peeled for that, because it’s going to be GOOD). When Ian suggested swapping books (ADTR for Transference), I… Read more

  • Fictionwocky Legs 29-31

    The Game Leg Beast Slayer Objective: Shoot off the Beast’s legs and then take its head! OR defend the beast by demolishing your opponent! Load your shooter with metal BBs: the Beast Slayer’s BBs are engraved with words of power. Knock off a leg with a single shot and take another (skip your opponent). Once… Read more

  • Fictionwocky Leg 28

    The Ballad Leg The world lay waiting, ripe plum for the picking, but the gate was shut fast, and no infernal lord could force it open ‘gainst the strength of its bound souls. And the Beast went walking, leg by leg by leg. Aedeliphus the Bold sought to break the locks, to sunder bright souls… Read more

  • Fictionwocky Leg 27

    The Fable Leg Once, there was a man named Jack. Jack’s fondest desire was to own a ranch, with cattle, horses, and gardens. However, Jack knew nothing of ranching and even less about gardening. He did not even own any land on which to build his ranch. All around him, he saw other people achieving… Read more

  • Fictionwocky Leg 26

    The Philosophy Leg A Treatise on the Destruction of the Hell Mouth and the Mechanics of Soul Manipulation It has been claimed that the Hell Mouth, the great Deathgate, has not always been open. Once, when legends tell us that the world was green and blue, and water flowed aboveground, and humans did not live… Read more

  • Fictionwocky Leg 25

    The Prosimetrum Leg Staring across the smoking, blackened landscape, it’s easy to believe it has always been thus. That’s a lie. Hell has stolen heaven and foisted this ruined corpse of a world on us. But we will have our day. Last of the last, Final remnant lingering. Burnt flesh and choking ash, Take us… Read more

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