The Abyss

14/08/2024

Now at the Abyss.

Heath Brougher.

Your shadow doesn't have any hands. Something seems to have bitten them off in the blaring daylight. You felt it eek down your back for the...

29/06/2024

Now at the Abyss.

Kevin M. Hibshman & Merritt Waldon.

Blind man wallow Glory dreams rocket Skull will flower with proper irrigation Alluring beauty Mortality's kingdom of silence Here is the t...

03/06/2024

Now at the Abyss.

Alex S. Johnson

with a tip of the hat to Jeffrey Thomas I am Gregor's lost suns sinking below the infernal Urizen I am the Lord of Hades stuck to Gregor's b...

03/06/2024

Now at the Abyss.

Andrew Lee Forman.

The dawn of hunger, a rising sun of pain and despair—I watch as it crests the horizon. It lazily casts its light upon the morning sky, and t...

23/05/2024

Now at the Abyss.

John Patrick Robbins.

Much like an insect, I will keep you. A pin through the heart agonies not counted. The message is not fully encrypted; it is just ignored. T...

25/10/2023

Now up at the Abyss.
Tracey Sivek & JPR.

Primal energies weave through as the ocean meets the sea. Calm waters with mad minds. Ever-changing tides, churning the depths up and out as...

20/07/2023

Now up at the Abyss.

Tracey Sivek.

Pandora's box has been tightly sealed remnants of what once was is scattered now in northerly winds ...vision is lost Dying time wages o...

11/07/2023

Now up at the Abyss.
JPR

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2023/07/within-vacant-chambers-of-lost-soul-by.html

Barred windows view, its screams can never equal the torments within. To suffer is the nature of this existence, to challenge the borders of...

11/03/2023

Now up at the Abyss.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-intrusion-of-light-promise-of-death.html

My pages whisper truths far older than my own. The pains suffered to pen a legacy, the frauds all snicker, the innocent just somehow always ...

30/01/2023

Darkest Tidings Death Nail magazine by Hellsgate publishing is now available on amazon if interested to see this collection of dark macabre work then here's the link to the magazine:

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Nail-Magazine/dp/B0BRLY3376/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=death+nail+magazine&qid=1675110213&sr=8-1

26/10/2022

Now at the Abyss.

John Patrick Robbins.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2022/10/once-upon-witches-hour-by-john-patrick.html

When the veil between worlds was as thin as the deceit that exists within us all. I captured a moment in turn, embracing a memory to erode w...

23/08/2022

Now at the Abyss.

Tohm Bakelas.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2022/08/murder-machete-machine-gun-by-tohm.html

“my name is murder” he mumbled, “i’m here to kill the haitians with my machete. i’m going to cut their fu***ng heads off.” “okay” i said...

01/08/2022

Now at the Abyss.

John Patrick Robbins.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2022/08/goodnight-my-darling-by-john-patrick.html

The night was like all the rest. Samantha was as distant as a stranger simply sharing a space. Aside from the fact she was Eric's wife of ni...

03/07/2022

Now at the Abyss.

Louis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2022/07/nights-corridors-by-luis-cuauhtemoc.html

Night’s corridors hide ghosts that will not cross the light. It is just the wind really and worse it is just mice. They shun the spotligh...

31/03/2022

Now up at the Abyss.

John Patrick Robbins.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2022/03/dark-waters-so-we-tread-by-john-patrick.html

Paul was beyond excited at the thought of the news he was about to share as he logged into the onion browser a...

22/02/2022

Out today from Hells Gate Publishing.
The anonymous group that is Murders Row offers their first very dark offering.

S***f Poems, is a collection for those who enjoy something very dark and extremely different.

Pick yourself up a copy today using the link below.

And take the journey through the darkest corners of the night.

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23/01/2022

Now at the Abyss.

Michael N. Thompson.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-star-is-torn-by-michael-n-thompson.html

Everything’s a ceremony in the arena of the damned Beneath the glare and excess, there’s a sadness knowing beatitude’s nowhere to be found B...

17/12/2021

Now up at the Abyss.

John Riley.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/12/bone-by-john-riley.html

He has no need to pull up and search for the last bits of bone. There is little chance of finding any. The splinters may have tempted a fo...

07/12/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Susan Tepper.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/12/in-walls-by-susan-tepper.html

Meditations on dear Petrov, set in 19th Century Russia during a time of war White. Blank. Everywhere someth...

22/11/2021

Now up at the Abyss.

Daniel S. Irwin

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/11/zombies-walk-at-night-by-daniel-s-irwin.html

Zombies walk at night. Not their fault. It’s incredibly difficult To get a driver’s license When no one at the DMV Takes you seriously. I ...

17/11/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Lynn White.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/11/monsters-by-lynn-white.html

It’s the monsters who come out of the light that are the most fearsome, but those that sneak up from the dark are the ones we fear the mos...

13/11/2021

Now up at the Abyss.

Kaci Skiles

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/11/deathday-by-kaci-skiles.html

My sister, Anna, pulled the trigger, but the gun didn’t ignite. She drew a sigh of relief and wouldn’t try to die again for twelve years. At...

09/11/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Lauren Scharhag.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-second-shadow-by-lauren-scharhag.html

I never liked cities. I should know, I was born in Chicago. Too many souls. I try to stay as far away from them as possible, but even way ou...

25/08/2021

Now up at the Abyss.

Wayne Russell.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/08/they-haunt-these-halls-of-hallowed.html

If you douse the lights and gather in the corner with it you know that voice of doubt and of pestilence. That old devil of trickery and dece...

19/08/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Murders Row

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/08/do-you-dismember-by-murders-row.html

Or just leave the chaos for another to clean. Our art, is in the frailty of life. And our backdrop is your future crime scen...

26/07/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Randall Rodgers.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/07/roman-ruins-by-randall-rogers.html

I would love to have lived back then when severed heads, limbs, rent bodies, littered the battlefield when blood pooled scarlet and blackeni...

18/05/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Daniel S. Irwin

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/05/conversation-with-devil-by-daniel-s.html

Last night, I had A conversation with the Devil. We talked about my life, My untimely death, Mostly just for laughs. He particularly liked M...

06/05/2021

Now up at the Abyss.

Bruce Morton.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/05/riff-on-23rd-psalm-by-bruce-morton.html

There is no servant to guide him; He thirsts. He is left to dry washes Wandering desperate in the dust. He has lost his mind. An imposter,...

27/04/2021

Now at the Abyss.

Mike Zone.

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/04/non-zero-logic-by-mike-zone.html

My grandfather survived the camp was there ever a question of the schoolteacher who became the blackmarket wheeler and dealer later to bec...

19/04/2021

Now up at the Abyss.

Jesse Lynn Rucilez

https://theabyssmag.blogspot.com/2021/04/workout-by-jesse-lynn-rucilez.html

April 1st, 2021. Stark City, Oregon. 6:13 p.m. It’s been a while , Adam Nicholas Dorn thought as he pushed through the hotel gym’s glass doo...