Though the rosy-fingered sun continues to blaze away impressively, filling parks & beaches with ruddy little children, we here at Dreadful Thoughts HQ shun such heliolatry - drawing the curtains close and morbidly …

From god-like ferrets, to ghostly doggies, and on (this evening) to a "cursed" & withered simian extremity - our mammalian carnival of horrors just keeps on truckin'.

More than any of the five …

Pot the red 'n' screw back, for the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink 'n' black…Snooker Loopy

Near enough to the last minute I know, but I wonder if I might humbly request a Dreadful Thoughts …

If you were given the gift of but one wish, one wish in this whole wide world, what would it be?

If you've just shrieked "Wildly rich! Rich beyond the dreams of avarice!", then I fear …

Welcome ye night wanderers, ye fumblers in the deep & fear-filled dark. Welcome to the fourth instalment of the interweb's dreadfulest story club.

On …

As the first batch of badges make their way to their (un)lucky owners (and the mixtape continues to grow & mutate satisfactorily), Sinéad has announced details of the tale up for discussion …

Hewn from the molten plasticks of hell flame it has come. The dread mark that speaks of pain, of pestilence and of putridity. Long hath man (and woman) sought the avoidance of its vile company…its …

Evenin' all.

Given that one of very short stories up for discussion tonight ("Sredni Vashtar") concerns …