horror senryu journal

lifting a spoon
flowers in
an overgrown graveyard

— Vishal Prabhu

church at midnight
wails of ghosts
praying

— Alper Ghuchlu

receding tide
under the docks served to crabs
a corpse

— Albert Schlaht

entering darkness
a candle gutters wildly
in the skull’s sockets

— John Hawkhead

beaver moon
dislodging the grip
of his teeth

— Anne Fox

blood-stained
hat in hand
anything helps

— Nicholas De Marino

in silence
the chill
of onyx

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

sooner or later
they will come for you
wriggling maggots

— Deborah Karl-Brandt

new flooring
easier than bleaching
the carpet

— Amber Winter

lampshade a stretched tattoo

— Chad Lee Robinson

torn clouds
impaled heads
mark the boundary

— Chad Lee Robinson

painting
watching eyes
begin to whisper

— DJ Tyrer

skulls everywhere
halloween decorating
for terminal patients

— Jerome Berglund

discarded juicebox
all the decorations
have been taken down

— Jerome Berglund

immaculate spines
the librarian’s
private collection

— Nicholas De Marino

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abandoned RV
on the winding backroad
a severed tongue

— Rowan Beckett Minor

a skeleton key
beneath the welcome mat
drips of blood

— Rowan Beckett Minor

ghost ships with skeleton crews

— John H. Dromey

ghost moon
she whispers
in my ear

— Greg Schwartz

scratch marks on a grave
how long has it been
since my death

— Alper Ghuchlu

predator reflections in a shark tank

— John Hawkhead

darkness spreading under the hanging tree

— John Hawkhead

dark road a dandelion cloud of eyes

— Joshua St. Claire

my breath becomes basalt

— Joshua St. Claire

Halloween moon—
showing us only
the dark side

— Mark Gilbert

voodoo politics
pins in the pumpkin

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

after cremation
finding a hair
in her beret

— Mary Oishi

an eye for an eye we switch again

— Anne Fox

night hiking quiet enough for gypsy moths

— Anthony Lusardi