Halloween is around the corner!

The swiftly-international-becoming Fright Season, where people dress up and surround themselves in scary imagery and settings. Everything is about the scare, the close brush with death or worse, the thrill of the blood running cold in our veins for seconds before laughing at each other ...

Horror is Small

I think horror is better and more effective when it's small.

A dark hallway with one person nervously tiptoeing through it…a creepy phone call or knock on the door in the middle of the night…the demented, sinister weirdness of someone's new step parent ...

**Cast your vote for the 2023 Best Presenter Award!**

There will be a “Best Presenter” award distributed to the creator with the best presentation during the ceremony. The last day to complete filling out the election ballot will be Saturday, October 28th.

Voting Ballot: https://forms.gle/xeKTTvmAwnqs5kek7

Awards Wrap-Up ...

Horror…and the baddies and creepies and long-legged beasties of horror…come in many flavours.
These divisions might be incomplete or somewhat meaningless in a way, but hey, I have to approach it somehow…


Reality Bites: Human Creeps, Scary Animals and Nature
-Serial Killers, Jason, Michael Myers, The Strangers, And ...

A herd of deeply philosophical and imaginative pet alpacas with very different personalities live on a farm. Hana the alpaca (aka “The Roomba Ranger”) is easy-going and creative, yet still aware of the realities of the farm like wool shearing season. The other alpacas have varying degrees of awareness that ...

Photo: “Chapter 6- Page 110”. Blessed Days. Original story and characters created by InkyMoondrop. (October 2023)

Blessed Days Milestone Announcement

Message from Blessed Days creator, InkyMoondrop:

“Hi!

It's that time again!



The 6th Chapter of Blessed Days comes to an end on the 18th of October! On the 20th ...

This is gonna be sort of a follow up on the last article newspost I made. I’ve been trying to follow the advice that was given to me last time and I feel like it has already yielded some promising results. Problem is I’m still frustrated. Still conflicted ...

image by Banes, based on a story narrated by Lazy Masquerade


Making Horror Comics - a chat with Genejoke


I spoke to Genejoke about making horror comics. GJ makes a lot of comics here on the Duck. He has an anthology series here called Lite Bites, and multiple other series on ...

The lowly pitrats have been sent down to the the cursed and dangerous lands bellow the city to assist the military in collecting the body of the dead oligarch, the city's former ruler. The pitrats have experience and special talents for dealing with the fatal perils bellow the city ...

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This Quackcast is a sequel to our Quackcast last week on alternative character growth, but instead of Star Wars this time we decided on Indiana Jones. It's a really interesting creative writing exercise, we think up ...