Breathe. Breathe. is a collection of dark poetry and short fiction exploring the surreal depths of humanity. It's a representation of how life breaks us apart and words put us back together. Purged onto the pages, dark emotions flow, urging readers into murky seas and grim forests, to the fine line between breathing and death.In Act One, readers are presented with a serial killer in Victorian London, a lighthouse keeper with an eerie legacy, a murderous spouse that seems to have walked right out of a mystery novel, and a treacherous Japanese lady who wants to stay immortal. The heightened fears in the twilight of your minds will seep into the blackest of your nights, where you have to breathe in rhythm to stay alive.In Act Two, the poetry turns more internal and pierces through the wall of denial and pain, bringing visceral emotions to the surface unleashing traumas such as domestic abuse, violence, and illness.In the short stories, you'll meet residents of Valhalla Lane whose lives are on a violent parallel track to collision, a man who is driven mad by the sound of a woodpecker, a teenage girl who wakes up on the beach and can't find another soul in sight, a woman caught in a time shift pitting her against the Egyptian goddess Anuket, and a little girl whose whole world changes when her favorite dandelion yellow crayon is discontinued.Amid these pages the haunting themes of oppression, isolation, revenge, and madness unfold through folklore, nightmares, and often times, raw, impulsive passion crafted to sear from the inside out.With a touching foreword by the Bram Stoker nominated author Brian Kirk (We Are Monsters), Breathe. Breathe. will at times unsettle you, and at times embrace you.Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi, a veteran writer and editor of the written word, offers up a mixed set of pieces, identifying her as a strong, new voice in dark fiction that will tear the heart from your chest, all the while reminding you to breathe.

Breathe. Breathe.

Literature & Fiction

Al-Mehairi, Erin Sweet

Poetry

Unnerving

In the bleak landscape of Darkest Hours, people make decisions that lead them into extreme scenarios - sometimes bizarre, often horrific, always unexpected. Between this book's covers you will find academics in distress; monsters abused by people; people terrorized by demons; ghostly reminiscences; resurrected trauma; and occult filmmaking. Ranging from satirical to dreadful, these stories share a distinct voice: urgent, sardonic, brutal, but always empathetic.

Darkest Hours

Thorn, Mike

Genre Fiction

Issue #5 includes fictions from Stephen S. Power (author of The Dragon Round), John C. Foster (author of Mr. White, and Baby Powder and Other Terrifying Substances), David Busboom (author of Nightbird), Gary Buller, Jake Marley, Christa Carmen, K.P. Kulski, Sara Codair, and Aaaron J. Housholder. Includes a feature by Gwendolyn Kiste (author of And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, and Pretty Marys All in a Row). Publisher spotlight on Coffin Hop and Q&amp;A interviews with Owen King (coauthor of Sleeping Beauties, and author of Double Feature) and Christina Henry (author of Lost Boy, and Alice).

Unnerving Magazine: Issue #5

Foster, John C.

Codair, Sara

Carmen, Christa

Power, Stephen S.

Kiste, Gwendolyn

Busboom, David

Kulski, K.P.

Marley, Jake

Buller, Gary

Housholder, Aaron J.

I had just turned fourteen years old the night my best friends and I decided to kill Mr. Martinsen. He was my friend. My mentor. I would even go so far as to say I loved him, as I looked up to Mr. Martinsen the same way I had looked up to my maternal grandfather, who died from a heart attack when I was ten. He was the best teacher I ever had. I will never forget him, or the knowledge he imparted to me, as long as I live. But on that summer evening just several weeks before I began my freshman year of high school, he gave my friends and me no choice. Things had gone too far. We had put it off for too long. We knew Mr. Martinsen had to die.

Dog Days O' Summer

Newman, James

Gunnells, Mark Allan

A young woman’s fears regarding the gruesome photos appearing on her cell phone prove justified in a ghastly and unexpected way. A chainsaw-wielding Evil Dead fan defends herself against a trio of undead intruders. A bride-to-be comes to wish that the door between the physical and spiritual worlds had stayed shut on All Hallows’ Eve. A lone passenger on a midnight train finds that the engineer has rerouted them toward a past she’d prefer to forget. A mother abandons a life she no longer recognizes as her own to walk up a mysterious staircase in the woods. In her debut collection, Christa Carmen combines horror, charm, humor, and social critique to shape thirteen haunting, harrowing narratives of women struggling with both otherworldly and real-world problems. From grief, substance abuse, and mental health disorders, to a post-apocalyptic exodus, a seemingly sinister babysitter with unusual motivations, and a group of pesky ex-boyfriends who won’t stay dead, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked is a compelling exploration of horrors both supernatural and psychological, and an undeniable affirmation of Carmen’s flair for short fiction.

Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked

Issue #7 features fiction by J.H. Moncrieff, Mark Allan Gunnells, Jessica McHugh, Tapanga Koe, and Charlie Bookout. Includes a feature on gothic fiction by Gwendolyn Kiste, an interview with Daniel I. Russell, and a Q&A with Paul Tremblay.

Unnerving Magazine: Issue #7

TREMBLAY, Paul

Moncrieff, J.H.

McHugh, Jessica

Bookout, Charlie

Koe, Tapanga

Russell, Daniel I.

Haunted are These Houses explores the gothic sub-genre through poetry and fiction: from castle and lighthouses to suburbia to laundromats. It features 22 poems and 12 short stories sure to rattle bones and send shadows dancing about the walls.

Haunted are These Houses

Files, Gemma

Boston, Bruce

Sng, Christina

Tantlinger, Sara

Neugebauer, Annie

Cavendish, Catherine

McIlveen, John

Edwards, S.L.

Nogle, Christi

Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past. Of course, Mark keeps his ghostly encounters to himself, all the while sinking deeper into the house's dark, alluring, and ultimately terrifying history. As romantic entanglements intensify, the paranormal activity escalates. Past and present come together. Everything is connected—from the bricks in the walls to the hearts beating in their chests, all the secrets of Fountain Dead are finally unearthed.

Fountain Dead

Braun, Theresa

Special extended issue of stories inspired by the work of Stephen King by J.S. Breukelaar, Joshua Chaplinsky, Tom Deady, Lisa Quigley, Geneve Flynn, Dave Thomas, and Eddie Generous. Includes features by Alison Littlewood, Hunter Shea, Chris Sorensen, and Gwendolyn Kiste. Feature interviews with Hans Lilja and Stu Tinker. Q&amp;As with Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu, Brian Keene, Stephen Kozeniewski, the Sisters of Slaughter, Tony Valenzuela, Richard Chizmar, Bev Vincent, and Caroline Kepnes.The biggest issue of Unnerving Magazine yet!

Unnerving Magazine Issue #8: Inspired by Stephen King Issue

Deady, Tom

Littlewood, Alison

Generous, Eddie

Shea, Hunter

Quigley, Lisa

Breukelaar, J.S.

Chaplinsky, Joshua

Flynn, Geneve

Thomas,Dave

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