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Horror/Scary: May 13, 2020 Issue [#10164]




 This week: The Woods
  Edited by: W.D.Wilcox Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

-Here in the forest, dark and deep, I offer you eternal sleep.

-As soon as the torch went out, the atmosphere of the forest intensified. As her eyes slowly became accustomed to the darkness she started to notice the outlines of canopies above them where trees were silhouetted against the pale moonlight.

-You grow up readin’ about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus’ when you think the world’s full of amazin’ things, they tell you it’s really all dead whales, greed, chopped-down forests, and nucular waste hangin’ about for millions of years. Growin’ up ain’t worth it, if you ask me.







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Letter from the editor

A Night In The Woods



He to whom the conspiracy of night in the heart of a great forest needs not be told what another world it all is – how even the most commonplace and familiar objects take on another character. The trees group themselves differently; they draw closer together, as if in fear. The very silence has another quality than the silence of the day. And it is full of half-heard whispers, whispers that startle – ghosts of sounds long dead. There are living sounds, too, such as are never heard under other conditions: notes of strange night birds, the cries of small animals in sudden encounters with stealthy foes, or in their dreams, a rustling in the dead leaves – it may be the leap of a wood rat, it may be the footstep of a panther. What caused the breaking of that twig? What the low, alarmed twittering in that bush full of birds? There are sounds without a name, forms without substance, translations in space of objects which have not been seen to move, movements wherein nothing is observed to change its place. Ah, children of the sunlight and the electric light, how little you know of the world in which you live!

The sounds become more noticeable; the shuffling of an animal through the undergrowth, the whistling of the wind through the trees, and now and then the cry of some creature being captured in the darkness. As you sit quietly, the noises seemed to become louder until you feel absorbed into the forest world.

The unknown grayish mystifying forest becomes benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resemble a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one has ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

Until next time,


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Editor's Picks

Dark Forests And Campfire Tales


 
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Contest entry - Weird tales. Do trees have spirits, souls? Robby thinks so.
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The Woman in the Woods Open in new Window. (18+)
Things are not always as they are described.
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Friends meet for an annual hunting trip. Tragedy strikes as the hunters become the hunted.
#2220626 by John Smith Author IconMail Icon

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Written for Dark Dreamscapes poetry contest.
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A dream... or resurrection?
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A group of hunters find something extraordinary in the woods that changes their lives.
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Ask & Answer

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blimprider Says....
Good day to you, W.D., and I hope it finds you well. Just want to extend my most humble thanks for featuring "Sea Story" in the newsletter. I've long considered that and "Creeper" among my best stories. Apparently, I do my best work along the waterfront... Thanks again!
Read well and write better,
*Compass* Jack


Santeven Quokklaus Author Icon Remarks....
You say old people are scary, and yet the very thought of them was what made Children Of The Corn so damn creepy...


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I love it when you see an older person from the back and as the camera gets closer the old lady turns. But the viewer is tense already. The fact the camera had zoomed on this lady means she’s important. The tension builds as the lady begins to turn her head..... what’s revealed either intensifies or is a red herring.


Jimminy Jingle! Author Icon Says....
When you look to an old person, look to see who has hope and who has lost hope. Those who have hope are delusional. Those of lost hope, have it right. Either way, it can drive an old person crazy! But who needs excuses, right? Thanks for another awesome newsletter!



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