https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog daily 0.75 2023-03-10 https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog/ooe2zjuc1uk7flleanc5492n9i8m7z monthly 0.5 2023-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/94e68735-caaa-47e0-aa89-cdc396650942/lucy+busy+-+Copy.gif Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Sure Is Quiet . . . Too Quiet - Make it stand out Just incredibly busy with projects, definitely not overwhelmed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/8690b327-1250-41df-bbd9-dce87b793951/james+at+desk+-+Copy.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Sure Is Quiet . . . Too Quiet - Make it stand out James reaching for his Alienware to boot up Excel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/4eaed8ef-aa14-4e65-b985-d80edeeadc5c/morris+rogue+cover+-+Copy.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Sure Is Quiet . . . 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If you click it, you will open their website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1b594fa5-38b2-49ed-919c-4fa400de5891/delacroix_-_la_liberte_guidant_le_peuple+-+Copy.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Looks like all this writing is going somewhere - Make it stand out Shown: Me, feeling anxious about the commitment I made. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog/ypmstaeo9u332ax87b3acwsneny053 monthly 0.5 2022-07-06 https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog/uv3f7et4b6zy6a1ybmrmuas5omz0gh monthly 0.5 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/82614ea6-affa-44bc-be35-22a84cddbd5b/itfollowspoolgif.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - I’ve Got a Few Pool Stories - Make it stand out Maybe it’s just that when you see water so unnaturally calm . . . you suspect some worse unnatural thing. [pool from It Follows] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/d73adb43-c95f-4e13-bbfb-b163f859a40f/let_the_right_one_in19.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - I’ve Got a Few Pool Stories - Maybe it’s less personal. Maybe pools are a metaphor for fiction in general. There’s a shallow end and a deep end. You can see the darker water, right over there. You might be wary of it. Maybe you should be. Maybe stay right here. Where you can stand. Or maybe you’ll dare it. Maybe it’s time to prove you can handle any part of the pool at all. Hang on — is this a metaphor for reading fiction, or writing it? [Pool from Let the Right One In] Maybe pools are a great metaphor, because yo https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog/jlnqv7d9ibr85pt89o75u64rvd5gcp monthly 0.5 2021-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1633553063359-ZD2Z3UDK2I6VE7D45KMP/hopfrog.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Happy Halloween, Victims - Make it stand out When I was 11, this blew me away. I picked it because I felt impatient and it was the shortest story in the anthology. Then I sat in disbelief as it ramped from morbid up through dread, into grand guignol insanity. I’d read plenty of Stephen King by then, but was not prepared for this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1633555752995-9S69YVP0ANJ2STH00ENX/pumpkincrsm.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Happy Halloween, Victims - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog/7py1xjsq3qowjemyurdqledivz9pbe monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1619722379942-HISFYJSMJKSCAQXL4G8P/elvira-chastity-pariah.gif Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Dungeons & Dragons & Mazes & Monsters & Chastity Chastity Pariah, cinema’s greatest moral scold, courtesy of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1619722429701-JI5JBO6CLRSLS1T280NH/phb.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Dungeons & Dragons & Mazes & Monsters & Chastity Oh brother, a pastor I made up thinks this is a statue of Moloch. 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You can’t end a page with “Sincerely,” and start the next page with the signature. That’s demented. So the story went back under construction to fix the layout — as you can see from the red, where I kill a few words to help bring “Jennet” up. I enjoy the nuts & bolts of editing like this. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/blog/o31wajxyyix9ulki6cdz51kk9p8fvb monthly 0.5 2020-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1596264589258-SJDKBNSE6EBUNG3D26C4/frankestein-wrightson.jpg Cannibal Cyclops » Blog - Weird science The horror/science fiction DNA goes back a long way. 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Posted 11/02/21 ◦ Read time 12 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1632529290788-8I5ROLMXVWM6RS27HSHR/CC_KiteMadeHim_ill_thumb.jpg Cannibal Cyclops // Original Illustrated Short Horror Stories The Kite Made Him Lorne Gorman likes an evening stroll in the park. He says it clears his head. But not on the night he spots a kite caught in a tree. That night, something else starts to happen in his head. Posted 10/06/21 ◦ Art only https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1630458965134-TGQ66KVYY5LO8H4FQNRT/CC_OfCars_ill_thumb.jpg Cannibal Cyclops // Original Illustrated Short Horror Stories Of Cars and Temples Anderson Waltzer knows all there is to know about cutting open bodies. But for the first time in years, he’s going to find out there’s something new to learn. Posted 09/01/21 ◦ Read time 12 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1625143147927-NLL6WG6PJQGGFCMR8MWC/CC_WeMustBelieve_ill_thumb.jpg Cannibal Cyclops // Original Illustrated Short Horror Stories We Must Believe Our Problem Will Wane The pandemic was hell on their fragile relationship. They had no idea that life together would get harder when the world reopened. Posted 07/01/21 ◦ Read time 14 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1622569185846-MWS85UQ0PD6UKG8C834F/CC_PartyLine_ill_thumb.jpg Cannibal Cyclops // Original Illustrated Short Horror Stories Party Line The calls are torture — and they might be coming from inside the house. Georgiana isn’t home, though. Posted 06/01/21 ◦ Read time 10 mins https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/stories-springbreak daily 0.75 2020-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588465658685-Y17GQ6E5Z7MQNIZBY3TW/SprBr_Ill_01_clr.jpg Cannibal Cyclops - Spring Break Outbreak Spring breakers making hand gestures towards LED road sign, while speeding down highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588465745730-NZI0QU6XWDGYM9G4S9Q7/SprBr_Ill_02_clr.jpg Cannibal Cyclops - Spring Break Outbreak Illustration of terrified college girls shielding their eyes from oncoming headlights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588465814139-G9JY6DHP9T2GWB4HIOE5/SprBr_Ill_03_clr.jpg Cannibal Cyclops - Spring Break Outbreak Illustration of woman sitting in a chair and touching her face while appearing to be on drugs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588465861083-M6C8PDNSK19QFKGBL9FN/SprBr_Ill_04_clr.jpg Cannibal Cyclops - Spring Break Outbreak Illustration of angry man, writhing on outside deck flooring, surrounded by jeering spring breakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588465910388-MCTQAX5C1T4AWYAV33AY/Zombie+attacks+girl Cannibal Cyclops - Spring Break Outbreak Zombie attacks girl on the dance floor, eating her entrails. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588466314868-N3H1CP9NLUOSCJL7VG6G/image-asset.jpeg Cannibal Cyclops - Spring Break Outbreak Illustration of menacing zombie in hospital gown, lunging towards viewer, in a 1980s themed club room. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-05-03 https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/story-index daily 0.75 2022-08-08 https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/kevin-becomes-a-man-fullversion daily 0.75 2020-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588465968064-ORY3YTOCL3GJU4FARMC5/CC_KevBecMan_Ill_01_clr.jpg Kevin Becomes a Man (full version) Illustration of boy with overbearing mother and surrounded by real and imaginary dangers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588466118366-GPWAO54WKVHZSJ1AFZSN/CC_KevBecMan_Ill_02_clr.jpg Kevin Becomes a Man (full version) Silhouette of stranger standing on road in distance, with frightened boy looking towards him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588466154536-ICA7OI1DOLF09PKGYNXH/CC_KevBecMan_Ill_03_clr.jpg Kevin Becomes a Man (full version) Surreal illustration of a grotesque man as imagined through the eyes of a child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1587779908675-8G6713IQMNZGNN1G75BD/CC_KevBecMan_Ill_04_clr.jpg Kevin Becomes a Man (full version) Illustration of boy rummaging through refrigerator, with a large ominous mason jar filled with undefined contents, in the foreground, floating in red fluid. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/so-youre-dead daily 0.75 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588466690725-4LLZT3QJKQPUPUTT24AM/CC_SoYrDead_Ill_01_clr.jpg So You're Dead Illustration of ghost peering out through the broken window of a quirky abandoned mansion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588466828062-RNQ3YVWPGLNCQQSEEF67/CC_SoYrDead_Ill_02_clr.jpg So You're Dead Ghost stacking cans in grocery isle as custodian mops floors in background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1588466850469-7I1H0Y4E1U0HAW679SIY/CC_SoYrDead_Ill_03_clr.jpg So You're Dead Illustration of ghost, expressing poop emoji, while sitting down in the midst of a futuristic server farm engulfed in flames. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/2020 daily 0.75 2020-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1606760230356-OLKH6AIXFA60403WM5SL/CC_Elf_ill_thumb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Elf, Elf, Up Too High Christmas is coming and there’s an elf on Anthony’s shelf. Here to watch him, and to help him be good. But Anthony has worries, he has secrets, and the elf might be making them worse. Posted 12/11/20 ◦ Read time 12 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1606760176329-LX0I14D3AD5T3SY8XYGB/CC_BlackBrick_ill_thumb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Fairly Late, She Finds Her Black Brick Halloween 2020 is going to be AJ’s last in the desert town of Halite, and he decides to give his friend a memorable scare. Posted 11/01/20 ◦ Read time 20 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1601312610087-1R8QRCG8VXGVCCZQ3KBX/CC_NightHollows_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Night of the Hollows Halloween 2020 is going to be AJ’s last in the desert town of Halite, and he decides to give his friend a memorable scare.. Posted 10/01/20 ◦ Read time 27 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1598052796630-JCTW36K63J4RSNKBXVI1/CC_Laugh-River_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Five Disappeared From Laughing River, So Far It seems like a nice place to live. Then the residents start to vanish. Posted 09/01/20 ◦ Read time 15 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1595866566081-OY8PTZW73I2PURCVRTQI/CC_Alien_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Alien He’s special forces, on another top-secret mission. Then he sees what can only be an alien spacecraft—so he makes a snap decision to change his assignment. Posted 08/01/20 ◦ Read time 10 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1593220817761-UXKVJLANL75IYDF0XYAN/DemonBasket_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 The Demon in the Basket Something lives in the basket that Warren’s dad brought home from the war. Something willing to help, for a price. Posted 07/01/20 ◦ Read time 22 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590794351392-Z6Q5MABNBT3XQ2DX66AF/NghtBlkMass_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 The Land Is a Black Mass After two years of peace and love, in 1971 Micah Hogue leaves the commune to hitchhike home. He suspects too late this driver might be a man with a terrifying purpose. Posted 06/01/20 ◦ Read time 13 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590710487050-DGMV8M9T112ZCYX71L2V/KevBecMan_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Kevin Becomes a Man Kevin is eleven, and his mother is a nightmare. Wash your hands, Kevin! Come straight home, Kevin! All she does is worry. Then, one day after school, he begins to worry too. Posted 05/05/20 ◦ Read time 10 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590710512617-3M1XG28L04LJAXWGCGUV/SoYrDead_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 So You’re Dead Really? Killed during a supermarket robbery? You’re pretty mad at the senseless way you went out — until you realize, this might be the opportunity of a lifetime. Posted 05/05/20 ◦ Read time 7 mins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590710503501-ZYOW82398KKK1W39VSO1/SprBr_Ill_thmb.jpg Illustrated Short Horror Stories of 2020 Spring Break Outbreak This so-called plague is totally overrated! I say we get in the car and go straight to Florida. It’s basically the only state where people aren’t major idiots right now. Posted 05/05/20 ◦ Read time 12 mins https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/land-black-mass daily 0.75 2020-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590851701201-SNO4QLCSHJ9VR1O3EFOE/CC_LndBlkMass_Ill_01.jpg The Land Is a Black Mass Illustration of two men in car at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590851886238-ZEML2ACOMCCMJFRK3UJO/CC_LndBlkMass_Ill_02.jpg The Land Is a Black Mass Creepy man with long hair and missing eye, with bloodied eye socket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590852071663-MY0EX84FJUD6C75W1E55/CC_LndBlkMass_Ill_03.jpg The Land Is a Black Mass Illustration of a severed head aside along train tracks, surrounded by massive stone columns in the desert night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590852210939-KJL5EPJ5IE7BDEZIMAK4/CC_LndBlkMass_Ill_04.jpg The Land Is a Black Mass Illustration of man standing at a distance from a car with its blinkers on, illuminating the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1590852344074-G3NVO6PZ1P0HS89E1KWB/CC_LndBlkMass_Ill_05.jpg The Land Is a Black Mass Illustration of threatening woman with bird claws, wearing a blood stained white dress, lit by a single car headlight. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/demon-basket daily 0.75 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1593575721219-JFO5SIILG29QA2CIR2HE/CC_DemBask_Ill_01.jpg The Demon in the Basket Boy playing with toy truck looking at mysterious basket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1593575901928-G9RY6GIU0Y7NVREF7ERD/CC_DemBask_Ill_02.jpg The Demon in the Basket Creepy eye seen through gaps in basket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1593576081487-WRK0MNA38L9VDT5IGV7W/CC_DemBask_Ill_03.jpg The Demon in the Basket Boy choking as demon in basket watches. 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with along with other creepy figures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1601419248103-HE0MEHW2QIOVW9E73SEN/CC_NghtHllw_Ill_05.jpg Night of the Hollows An eldritch creature of giant proportions explodes from beneath the surface of the dry lake bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1601419399262-MD02AKZHDQ0FRDZ5H031/CC_NghtHllw_Ill_06.jpg Night of the Hollows AJ views the fiery destruction of the town from a hillside. https://www.cannibalcyclops.com/black-brick daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1604194348780-YX6JZTSJDI6RJZNLP900/CC_BlackBrick_Ill_01.jpg Fairly Late, She Finds Her Black Brick Pregnant woman touching stomach, in a colorful Fall scene in a park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e99fa0e75177545b4fdcbe2/1604194531609-60RYGDU8H6EUGXHAFSDC/CC_BlackBrick_Ill_02.jpg Fairly Late, She Finds Her Black Brick Diagonally in stalled “Witch 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