Author: dondeeley@dondeeley.com

Lawrence leaned back in his beach chair and looked out over the reservoir. On the far side he could see the lights of houses and a few boats all clustered together like constellations viewed through a kaleidoscope. He...

[Building off of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” from Monster Theory: Reading Culture ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. “the Cyclopes are represented as savages who have not ‘a law to bless them’ and who lack the techne...

Mark was reviewing the adventure he’d be running for everyone on Friday when a long fingernail hove into view and tapped on the page. “What’s this you’re reading?” Mrs. Stilson asked. “Oh, it’s just some stuff for my...

The reading of the Book echoed throughout the community, manifesting as signs that people didn’t recognize and failed to connect. Dogs in the neighborhood around Mrs. Stilson’s house became aggressive and violent, snapping and lunging at passersby during...

Gomer Pyle cut to commercial and a voice boomed out, louder than the show had ever been, “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Come out to the agricultural arena for the most bone-shattering display of monster trucks to ever grace the...

Darius got the Beetle from his cousin for a few hundred bucks. Darius needed a car and his cousin’s interest had moved on to other projects—and the Beetle was absolutely one of his cousin’s projects. The interior of...

“The lightning flashes,” Jonathan breathed into the mic, “and you are bound here with us for another tale of terror in The Closet of the Castle of Dr. Calamity.” David shook the metal sheet for thunder while Rachel...

The Book, like all books, wanted to be read. That was its purpose, its mission, but it was a task so difficult to achieve because a book cannot do anything on its own. The reader is responsible for...

In this story we start with a group of scrappy kids who are convinced that an older man in their town is a vampire. Initially Monster Squad or Fright Night vibes. They enlist a neighbor to help in...

The man arrived in town a little after the spring thaw. He’d come in anticipation of the summer piecework—shucking corn, landscaping, and general carpentry—and wanted to put out feelers in the community. He was a large, shaggy man...