About The Vile Vineyard where all dark things come to roost during the day, resting up for the dark night of your soul....
Contests at the Vile Vineyard are offered by the various Editors of our horror publications. Check out the new winning poem below. We hope you haunt our contest page often to see what else is new.
What Grows in Your Garden?
by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
A heavy sack scrapes
Across the wooden floor
Vile vineyard of entrails
Livers and kidneys dangle
Like succulent fruit
Severed heads perch atop poles
Macabre scarecrows
With gaping mouths
Bearing witness
To a caretaker's atrocities
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* Illustration needed............see Contests page for details
Champagne Shivers, edited by Cathy Buburuz, is now an annual print magazine that features horror stories, poems, art, photographs, cartoons, and the unexpected....
Hungur Magazine is a biannual print magazine of stories and poetry themed to vampires and especially vampires on other planets. Its focus is frightening and literary. Necessarily there will be some blood spilled, siphoned, or otherwise shed in the magazine, but never blood for the sake of blood....
Panic is a magazine anthology of original dark fantasy and horror stories and poems, with illustration, about people who are so frightened that they do things no sane person would do in order to cope with their terrifying circumstances. The works in PANIC often contain an element of fantasy or science fiction....
Potter's Field is where dark souls from unmarked graves arise in every story, seeking to make things right. They've been murdered, tortured, and maimed . . . and now the bills must be paid. Have you ever wondered how many bodies lie buried in forests and mountains and swamps, hidden there by those who so far have escaped justice? Tonight, they arise, and these are their stories. Be sure to lock your doors and leave a light on while you read
them . . .
Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre a collection of stories and poems designed to awaken the thrills, chills, spills, and memories of time spent on the midway and beyond....
Vinessa is the Vile Vineyard's leafy lady. Explore her ponderous pages for interactive games, art, photos, postcards from hell, poetry, occasional reviews and other rancid rewards.
