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    Haiku Horror: Twisted Haiku, #2
    Haiku Horror: Twisted Haiku, #2
    Haiku Horror: Twisted Haiku, #2
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    Haiku Horror: Twisted Haiku, #2

    By Jason McBride

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    Looking for a Chilling Read?

    Horror Haiku Will Make You Want to Sleep With the Lights On

    This poetry collection is not for the faint of heart. Inside you will find both ferocious creatures and human monsters. You will discover new phobias. Reading this haiku may give you the sensation that the walls on closing in, that your house is full of sinister, unexplained noises, and that the spider you lost track of is in your bed.

    Proceed at your own risk.

    Jason McBride is a weird poet and author of Pirate Haiku. Horror Haiku has over 500 poems that explore the dark side of life, while always leaving at least a glimmer of hope. Each poem is like a mini horror story. Horror Haiku is part poetry and part flash fiction.

    As one fan put it:

    "Jason's work is wonderfully disturbing."

    Get Your Copy of Horror Haiku Right Now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWeirdo Poetry
    Release dateFeb 27, 2020
    ISBN9781393959915
    Haiku Horror: Twisted Haiku, #2

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      Haiku Horror - Jason McBride

      Introduction

      Horror was one of the myriads of things my parents forbade me from engaging with as a child. This list also included the band KISS and the TV show The Simpsons. The entire catalog of verboten pop-culture influences was impossible to keep track of. Either as a consequence of, or despite, the strict rules of my childhood, I developed into a non-conformist.

      In high school, my father attempted to shame me by yelling at me that if I think a rule is unreasonable, I ignore it like it doesn’t apply to me. As an adult in my mid-forties with four kids of my own, that statement is still the single best distillation of my personality and life philosophy.

      When my parents weren’t looking, I got hooked on horror. I learned that I did not enjoy the senseless gory, torture-porn flavor of horror that was in vogue in the eighties and nineties as I was growing up. But I loved monsters, suspense, and jump scares. The best horror films and books were the ones where the blood and fear worked to showcase the glimmer of hope still left in the world.

      I learned that I had a dark side and that I liked it!

      This collection of haiku tells small stories about awful things that scare me. Many of the poems are ironic or humorous. Laughter is critical for being able to enjoy horror; you sometimes need a respite from the parade of horribles. Plus, laughter makes you more vulnerable to be scared later on.

      If you want non-stop blood and guts, this book isn’t for you. But, if you want to explore the dark and scary things of your psyche, knowing that a glimmer of hope always survives, then you are in for a treat.

      If after reading this, you still want to read more of my haiku, I publish a new poetry comic every day in my free Weirdo Poetry newsletter. You can subscribe at WeirdoPoetry.Substack.com. You will find a couple of examples of my poetry comics throughout this book. You can also follow me on Twitter (@JasonCMcBride or Instagram (@weirdo-poetry). There you can read more weird haiku stories. If you get any joy out of this collection of pirate haiku, it would help me out if you could leave a review on whatever platform you bought this book from. Reviews help other keen minds discover my work.

      For my fellow poetry nerds, in addition to the haiku in this book, I have also included a few

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