Lake Mungo Poster (Left) and The Fourth Kind Poster (Right) #Horror #Nonfiction #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black I’ve been on a mockumentary horror kick recently. I haven’t seen that many as of writing this. Aside from the ones I’ll be talking about here, the only other one I can think of that I’ve watched is Blair Witch. For those unfamiliar with the subgenre, it’s fiction depicted in a documentary style, hence the mock in mockumentary.

#Halloween #Nonfiction #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black A painting of some jack-o'-lanterns I found online It’s the end of October. Trick-or-treaters will be out and about soon. There are bars and parties to hit, or maybe, if you’re not into that, you can celebrate at home by watching some Halloween specials. There’s just one problem. It’s a work day.

#Horror #Nonfiction #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black Rod Serling Recently, from about mid-July to early August, I binged all episodes of the original Twilight Zone. Initially, this article was going to be about seeing how the versions that came after it stack up. While that may be a future article, I have too much on my plate to squeeze in two entire series.

#Horror #Thirstday #WritingPrompt #ShadowBoxArchives Welcome to the first Thirstday of October! Normally, we wait until late in the afternoon to share these posts, but since it's 8:00 AM for me and I will likely be waking up sometime around 4:00 PM, I decided: "Fuck it. Let's put it up now." Fitting with this month, this week's prompt is kind of specific.

#Horror #Nonfiction #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Created By: Rosé Black Do you know what I have been doing a lot lately? Reading a ton of indie horror. Seriously, I have up to 59 reviews on Goodreads, so I figured, why not make another list? Again, I'll keep this to ten people, and I won't be including names from my previous lists. This won't be in any particular order either.

#Horror #Nonfiction #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Created By: Rosé Black Okay, SBA, I need to come up with an article. What better way to reach that minimum word count than with lists? Something I love to do every Halloween season is listening to Creepypasta narrations. I used to do this with a couple of certain larger channels. However, after certain controversies involving them, I have since been giving my time to smaller or more middle-of-the-road channels.

#Horror #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black What’s your favorite part of Halloween? Perhaps it’s the pumpkin carving or hayrides. Maybe it’s the decorations or those classic movies or TV specials. I know! It’s the treats, right? I won’t deny that I used to enjoy them - candy apples, Snickers, Reese’s, Sour Skittles. Just never those weird circus peanuts or black licorice (shudders).

#Horror #Thirstday #WritingPrompt #ShadowBoxArchives Welcome to another Thirstday chat, and the first one of fall/autumn, the objectively best season. That's why this week's prompt is inspired by it. Thank HR Welch for the initial prompt. I am just adding a bit of seasonal flair. Remember, the rules for Thirstday are always included in the image below. Once you are familiar with them, you can get started on this week's prompt, which is: “Stones are the bones of the earth and the changing leaves, its skin.”

#Horror #Writing #Nonfiction #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black  The title card for the Danny Phantom episode "Bitter Reunions" I know I have been on another nonfiction kick lately, but I'm in that kind of mood. Besides, given the issues going on in certain spaces, I think this character doesn't get talked about enough. I'll admit it's been a few years since I binged Danny Phantom (mandatory spoiler warning here).

Aaahh! Real Monsters #Horror #Writing #Nonfiction #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black This show! This show right here! It aired from 95-97 so I was a little young for it. They did play reruns, though, so I do remember catching some episodes growing up. From what I remember, it looked fascinating to me, but for some reason, I never truly got into it.

Aaahh! Real Monsters #Horror #Writing #Nonfiction #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black This show! This show right here! It aired from 95-97 so I was a little young for it. They did play reruns, though, so I do remember catching some episodes growing up. From what I remember, it looked fascinating to me, but for some reason, I never truly got into it.

#Horror #Writing #Nonfiction #ShadowBoxArchives Martin Mystery, Diana Lombard, Billy (alien), and Java (caveman) How many people even remember this show? Well, I did. I remember seeing some episodes occasionally when I was younger, but I was never a hardcore fan. Still, some aspects stuck with me. I recalled a lot of characters' names and the plot points of certain episodes.

Skinamarink's Poster #Horror #Writing #NonFiction #ShadowBoxArchives I tend to go on a bit of an analog horror binge during this time of year. Usually, I stick with a series on YouTube, but I happened to see this movie in a Film Theory thumbnail and figured I would give my two cents. Now I know this movie has been out for months and people have talked about it.

#Horror #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Growing up, I had a bad habit of falling in with the wrong crowds. To put it simply, I was a doormat, and despite my towering size over nearly every other person in my high school, I was easy to manipulate. I never drank or did drugs or anything like that. For some reason, those were the only instances I had something resembling a backbone, probably from all the stories I heard in health class.

#Horror #Goosebumps #Podcast #UncoveringDarkFalls

Horror #WritingPrompt #Creepypasta #ShadowBoxArchives Welcome to another Thirstday chat. As always, the rules will be in the image below.The fall equinox is in less than a week, so how about a prompt that's fitting for an autumn activity? This week's prompt is: "More than apples were picked at the orchard."

#Horror #ShadowBoxArchives #Creepypasta #SpookySeason Written By: Rosé Black This story takes place when I was a sophomore in high school, and my brother was a junior. It was Friday. More importantly, it was the first before the Fall Equinox. After dealing with some grueling projects and tests, my brother and I were eager to finally have a Friday and Saturday free of homework.

Written By: Rosé Black  #Horror #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives It was almost Halloween in the town of Gray Hill, and I was nearly done with my Papa John’s shift. The work week had been nothing short of miserable, filled with difficult customers and a spreading flu that had coworkers calling out left and right. While it meant a larger-than-usual paycheck for me, it was crushing to spend most of my favorite time of year working.

Cover for "A Farewell to Humanity: The Fifth Nightmare" #Horror #Writing #Nonfiction #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black  Let me ask you something. What, to you, dear reader, makes the horror of dystopian fiction effective? Is it seeing how completely a government can control information? Perhaps it's seeing how effectively those who defy can be silenced or tortured into submission. Maybe it's learning about how it came to be in this story and realizing nothing was done to prevent it.

Written By: Rosé Black #Horror #Writing #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Part 1 “This will stop if you tell us how to get out of here,” Rick said to us. Cell service and internet were out, preventing the option to call for help. We had spent the last twelve minutes being everybody’s human-hitting bags. Our attempts at escaping were in vain as they held us in place.

#Horror #WritingPrompt #Creepypasta #ShadowBoxArchives Welcome to another Thirstday chat. As always, the rules will be included in the image below. Once you are familiar with them, you can get started on this week's intriguing prompt by HR Welch, which is: “What kind of cemetery has security cameras INSIDE the coffins?”

#Creepypasta #Horror #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black Part 1 There are ways to be woken up that aren't ideal. One could be if you fell asleep or fainted while covered in blood. When you wake up, it's crusted all over you. Another is getting a pail of water splashed in your face. I gasped, jerking up with a start, my hair and clothes dripping.

#Horror #SirenHead #CreepyPasta #ShadowBoxArchives Let me start this story by saying I actually do enjoy the outdoors. I go out on long walks. I enjoy the scenery of spring, summer, and fall, and the snowy landscape of winter. What I don’t like, however, is the idea of spending days in the middle of the woods in some small tent with barely anything to protect you from the elements.

#Horror #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black It was October first of our junior year. Amber High was well into the Halloween Spirit, decorating the walls with fake cobwebs, bats, spiders, pumpkins, and witches. My friends and I sat at lunch, enjoying Monday’s Monster Meatball Surprise. These were meatball subs with two olives attached to them with toothpicks to give the appearance of eyes.

#SciFi #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Written by Rosé Black Cold- that was all I knew about where I’d ended up. It was made of metal, based on what I could feel. Other than that, the darkness kept me from surveying my surroundings. Behind me, there was a hissing noise. I turned to it, seeing a door sliding away from the wall. A humanoid silhouette stood in it.

It also begs the question, what do some people do out of season? This was another collaboration with YouTuber Old Bearby.

#Horror #Creepypasta #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written by Rosé Black Growing up, my parents were strict. I was always under a tight schedule that offered little room for freedom. This was largely due to the TV personalities they let influence them, all the while lecturing us on how video games would rot our brains and make us go blind. They would sit down and watch hours of shows like Maury, Steve Wilkos, and Jerry Springer.

#Writing #Horror #WritingPrompt #ShadowBoxArchives Welcome to another Thirstday! As always, the rules will be included in the image below. This week's prompt is going to bring a bit of mysticism. You can thank HR Welch for it. Once you have the rules down, you can get started on the prompt: “The genie had some unfinished business to do before granting my wishes”

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black It was the weekend of Halloween. Since we had those days off, my friends/coworkers, Robbie and Tyrone, decided to hang out at my place and get lit. Things were going fine at first, venting about work, eating junk food, watching 80s slasher movies, and busting a gut at things that weren’t that funny.

#Horror #Writing #Films #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black  I'd been seeing people mention this film a lot on TikTok. When I saw it was playing nearby, I decided to check it out. Now, if you have seen people talk about it as I have, you already know that Buddy is very similar to a certain educational purple dinosaur, just with less murder (though Barney singing "I love you, you love me" at the end of each episode does sound a bit cultish looking back).

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black Part 1 It was still the 21st of September by the time I arrived back in town. Right away, I could tell that things were different, even as I was driving. The lush trees awash with autumn's spectrum were now drooping under some unseen weight. I examined one. Taking out my combat knife and slicing it into the trunk, water came pouring out.

#Writing #Horror #WritingPrompt #ShadowBoxArchves Welcome to another Thirstday chat. As always, the rules will be included in the image below. Since we have lost a lot of great people this past week, unfortunately, I think a fitting prompt would be: "How talent grows."

#Horror #Writing #MadisonEstrada #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black  Cover for The Lucid State Thank you to Madison Estrada for the free review copy of this book. Since this review will contain spoilers, I highly recommend you read it before reading this article. You can purchase it here. I said this in my short review, but it reads very Creepypasta-esque. I could definitely see it being posted to a subreddit like NoSleep in its early days.

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black Deep in the mountains of Georgia is a remote town called Dead Leaf Falls. You won't find it on any map, except Google Earth, if you happen to come across it at just the right time of day. Even if you knew exactly where this town is and went over to it, you would find nothing except trees for miles.

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black It’s September, which means it’s nearly my favorite season, Fall. Yes, the scorching heat is at last cooling down to a nice middling temperature until the winter chills set in. All the back-to-school supplies have given way to autumn decor such as fake pumpkins, rubber masks, lawn inflatables, and monster animatronics. Speaking of back to school, a bonus is seeing fewer children during the week.

"Rosa's Turn" by C.M. Robinson, Narrated by Priestess of Spiders

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black It was almost Halloween, and of all things, we were going to be spending it at my paternal grandparents’ house. They weren’t the kind who’d bake you cookies or sit you on their lap and tell you a story. Instead, they were the hyper-religious type, and nothing they perceived as being even remotely Satanic was allowed inside their home.

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black "In local news, a meteorite was sighted here in Summer Berry Falls." I was mostly listening to the TV. My focus was on getting through Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance on critical. The anchor went on. "It was spotted by several farmers, but one's home was apparently struck by it. We go now to our interview with him."

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #NationalCreepyPastaDay Written By: Rosé Black It was middle school, and the release of Super Smash Bros Brawl was right around the corner. Sadly, my family was poor, and I often had to wait until newer games became cheaper before I could get my hands on them. Normally, I didn't mind waiting. However, this was different. It had been seven years since the release of Melee, and I was desperate not to miss out.

#Writing #Horror #WritingPrompt #ShadowBoxArchves Welcome to another Thirstday chat. As always, the rules will be included in the image below. Once you are familiar with them, you can get started on this week's prompt courtesy of HR Welch, which is: “Scratched by a Teddy bear on a full moon.”

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black Somewhere in a remote town, there exists a special book older than any person can comprehend. Anyone who has the misfortune of obtaining it will never find peace. Then again, that would hardly matter to someone who's already been cursed with that fate beforehand. Ah, October, the time of pumpkins and pumpkin spice, the time of tricks and treats, when the leaves have fallen, with the weather getting more chilly.

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black The contrast between the coldness of Thyra's memory and the warmth of the train was staggering. When they opened their eyes, they found cups of hot apple cider in front of them. "Figured you could use it," Corbin said. Hugo raised his hand. "Yes?" "Is it possible for us to take a break before our next stop?"

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black "You aren't going out this weekend. That's final." "This is bull—" "One more word and it'll be four weeks." Seething, Ross stormed away from his mom and off to his room. He slammed the door shut and then flopped onto his bed. No going out. No video games or movies for two weeks.

Shadow Box Podcast takes the listener down dark paths where fiction ends and reality begins. Segment 1: Discussion of "Nonsense Viscera" and Real-Life Retail Horror with Author H.T. Waite (1:42-1:01:46) Intermission: Real-Life Retail Horror with Co-Host and Author Cryptid Muse/C.M. Robinson (1:01:47-1:15:03) Segment 2: Discussion of Welcome to Charlie's and Real-Life Retail Horror with Author Ashley Watson (1:15:06-2:08:05) Hosts: …

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black I thought they were safe. That’s all I can say to defend myself. Who am I kidding? I know I’m at least partially responsible for them going missing. The other guilty party would have to be who or whatever made them in the first place. I know I’m rambling. Sorry, it’s just that whenever I think of that night, I get all jittery.

#HorrorWriter #WritingCommunity #ShadowBoxArchives #Halloween Written By: Rosé Black Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. From the color of the changing leaves to the middling weather, when it’s not blazing hot, but not freezing cold either. On top of that, I am a big horror fan, so it’s really cool for me to see all the costumes people wear.

#Writing #Horror #WritingPrompt #ShadowBoxArchives Welcome to another Thirstday chat. As always, the rules will be included in the image below. Once you are familiar with them, you can get started on this week's prompt, courtesy of HR Welch. It is: "Why you should never allow your Lego people to build an alter or statue to their god"