Author: John Baltisberger

We are very happy to announce that our second chapbook ‘In Service of Slaughter’ is now available in our online store!

You can also pick it up on amazon.

In Service to Slaughter, is a collection of 25 poems, each following a different poetic form. Each poem delves into the themes of killers, murderers and those beloved slashers we have all come to know and love. I am very happy with this collection, and I hope you will be too!

Oh. My. God.

If you love slasher flicks, serial killers, serial killer profiling…you are going to LOVE these dark and twisted poems. WOW.

These take dark and demented to a whole new level.

Dive into the mind of a crazed killer, feel their joy and excitement as they kill. That’s what these poems do.

At first you’ll be shocked, then uneasy, then you’ll start to dig deeper.

This book will leave you twisted.

My favorite poem in this collection is Devouring God. The crazed mind of a killer who thinks them self a god.

Toymaker is another favorite. The imagery of innocence lost. Childhood destroyed.

-Roxanne Rhoads

Ladies and gentlemen, I am incredibly pleased to announce that my first chapbook “Shards of Shattered Sentiments” is available from Amazon.com.

This book started as a warm-up exercise for me, I would pull up a list of various poetic formats, and attempt to write a horror poem in that format. It was a lot of fun, both exploring new forms and trying to write thematically.

Poetry in one form or another has been around almost as long as language. We have used it to communicate our joys and heartbreaks, our victories and our losses. But fear has also been a constant companion, and our ghost stories and monsters stretch their claws back into history as far as the eyes can see. It’s with this in mind that we begin our journey through various poetic forms, from traditional Japanese Haiku to more modernist takes such as The Bop. Exploring the rules that create these literary creations all while bending their use to telling scary stories. Heavily inspired by the American pulp horror writers of the 1930’s, this chapbook explores themes of madness and forgotten monsters. Haunted houses that demand sacrifice and sunken cities waiting to be rediscovered. 25 poems, each using different forms dive into the chilling and often deranged world of horror.

This will be the first of a three-part chapbook series. Each book will feature 25 different forms (for 75 total) and cover a different horror theme. This one deals heavily with insanity and Lovecraftian motifs. Our next book will feature Slashers and Serial Killers, and our third will feature Kaiju and monsters!

I encourage you to go pick up your copy, and write a review on Amazon for me, believe it or not, those reviews really help!

I’ll be posting super short (75-500 word) flash fiction on Fridays, I present to you; FLASH FRIDAYS!

We’ll update every Monday with a new scary story. My goal is to find artists to add illustrations on Wednesdays, and maybe a scary movie review on Fridays

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. — H.P. Lovecraft