Haunted Mixtape Roundup!

Check out these free haunted mixtapes for hours of terrifying soundscapes!

Dead Punks: A wicked roundup of 80s goth and industrial
The Wolf in the Tale: If horror movies used more distortion pedals
You’ve Been Sick: A love letter to psychological horror
Pray for Death: Father Morning will see you now
Artificial Skies: Ancient gods and the eternal horrors of space
The Vanishing House: Ghosts!

And don’t forget to visit my Jason Herrboldt and Timewitch Bandcamp pages for even more weird tunes, all 100% free to stream and download.

Happy haunting!

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Mixtape Alert: The Wolf in the Tale

Enjoy a dark outing with The Wolf in the Tale, a collection of experimental / dark ambient / industrial noise offerings.

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What Lies Beneath Could Have Been a Masterpiece

(This review contains spoilers.)

What Lies Beneath (2000) isn’t a great film. Heck, it isn’t even a particularly good film by most people’s standards, given the 47% Rotten Tomatoes score.

It is however one of my favorite films, and it’s not a guilty-pleasure thing or a so-bad-it’s-good thing; I love this film for what it could have been: a masterpiece.

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Short Story: Dante’s House

Years ago I put together a collection of horror and sci-fi short stories I’d written around 2010 – 2012. This was shortly before I took a stab at my first novel Pareidolia, and served as a literary canary in a coal mine; I had next to no idea what the creative writing process was like.

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Music Alert: The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse – A Poison Mind

My darkwave band The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse are just pleased as punch to announce our new single, A Poison Mind, out today!

Desires fueled by rot… rabid nightmares… scorpion-filled thoughts… interminable self-loathing… A Poison Mind that desires release. Join the Seven Whores of the Apocalypse as they ride through the black light and exorcise the demons with a fusion of susurrant vocals, vaporous bass, and drums that echo throughout the catacombs.

Stream A Poison Mind our Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube channels.

Pareidolia: New & Improved

In 2017 I self-published my first stab at a novel, a highish-concept science fiction thriller named Pareidolia. You can read the premise here, and the table of contents can be found here.

I had also published a single deleted chapter when the book came out, but today I added four more. Click here to read these never before seen chapters, as well as other fun bonus material.

I stupidly forgot to link each chapter to the next, so you always had to go back to the TOC to keep reading. No more. Now there are go-to-next-chapter links at the bottom of each chapter post.

Enjoy!

Music Alert: The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse – Pathological

My electro-industrial band The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse are just pleased as punch to announce our second single Pathological!

Our debut follow-up Pathological winds up a creeping carnival of vintage analog delights before exploding into a screaming frenzy of depravity and desperation. Strap on some black pleather and enjoy the show!

You can listen to both the original version and the extended dub mix on our BandCamp, SoundCloud and YouTube channels.

Enjoy!

Music Alert: The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse – Parasite

I’m delighted to announce that Parasite, the debut single of The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse, drops today!

Parasite is a love letter to late 80s electro-industrial dance music. Pulsating analog synths, breathy FX, hypnotic rhythms, and choral samples beckon you inside steamy nightclubs of the late Cold War era. Let the The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse buy you a drink!

You can hear Parasite on our SoundCloud or BandCamp pages.

The Seven Whores of the Apocalypse are Chris (The Creeping Man), Tom (Divider Line), and me (Jason Herrboldt). Please visit and support Chris and Tom on BandCamp! They make killer music.

Enjoy!