Written, directed and edited by Kevin Colligan.

Synopsis: Three volunteers are tormented by their most primal fears when a medical trial for a new anti-anxiety medication goes awry.

Tagline: A prescription for terror

Starring Rachael Drummond, Andy Hoff, Dana LaRue and Bryan Van Huis.

Produced by Christina Colligan.

See WellToldTales.com/SideEffects for complete cast and crew.

Explicit: senseless violence, gratuitous blood and salty language

 

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Written by Horace James, read by Steve Anderson.

A relationship between a low-life funeral director and a malevolent spirit turns messy … very, very messy.

Explicit language, violence and sexuality.

 

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My birthday is just around the corner, so I may be adding this to my wishlist: A hand-illustrated portrait of myself as a zombie by illustrator Rob Sacchetto. You send him a jpeg and he draws your “inner zombie,” rendered as an 8 x 10, full-color hard copy suitable for framing.

It costs US$80 or US$160 for couples … so maybe I’ll wait to get my wedding photo zombified for my anniversary this fall.

Decisions, decisions.

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Also check out Rob’s free zombie comic “Fearless Frankie” (PDF)

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Written by William Meikle, read by Eleiece Krawiec.

A young girl with an interest in astronomy gets — and gives — one hell of a sunburn.

Explicit: language and violence

 

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Editor’s note: From time to time, we’ll run original flash fiction (very short stories, 100-1,000 words long) in text — not audio — format. Eric Sandler’s “The Monster” gets us started.

‘The Monster’

Written by Eric Sandler.

The boy lay in his bed, staring at the ceiling. He pushed back the covers, breathing hard. Beneath the bed, the monster lurked, hiding. Waiting for him to close his eyes. The boy could hear it, slithering about, even over the noise Mommy and Daddy made.

They were yelling. The boy had heard it every night, for days now. He didn’t understand what the yelling was about. Daddy was always angry with Mommy, and Mommy was angry with Daddy. But the monster didn’t care. The monster wanted to eat the boy. To gobble him up. The boy had barely slept the past two weeks because of the monster.

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Written by Lavie Tidhar, read by Christina Colligan.

A shadowy band of criminals implement their own brand of population control.

Explicit: language and violence

 

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The folks over at LostZombies.com are on a mission to alert the world to the imminent zombie apocalypse, and they want your video proof — or re-enactments — for their site and a feature-length documentary.

Damn! And I just recorded my dog chasing a flashlight beam over the tape of my neighbor-lady Mrs. Nonnemacher gnawing on the postman.

Find more videos like this on Lost Zombies

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Get your Tivo’s ready — horror anthology returns to network television on June 5 with NBC’s “Fear Itself.”

The series will feature 13 — of course — episodes or “mini-movies” as the Peacock prefers to call them. And they’ve lined up some solid creative types, like directors John Landis (”An American Werewolf in London”) and Brad Anderson (“The Machinist” — an excellent flick, btw), writer Steve Niles (”30 Days of Night”) and actor Brandon Routh (”Superman Returns.”)

“Fear Itself” is executive produced by Keith Addis and Andrew Deane — those are the guys who brought you Showtime’s “Master’s of Horror” series, so they should be able to deliver the goods.

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No, this post is not about Rog, Dwayne and Rerun. It’s about the creepy new trailers proliferating around the Web for M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie “The Happening.”

I think Shyamalan is a helluva filmmaker. Yes, his last few flicks have been subpar, but after raising our expectations so high with “The Sixth Sense,” it was easy for fans and critics to be disappointed.

The “red band” (ie: under 17 not admitted) trailer gives me hope that Shyamalan is back at the top of his game. Enjoy:

If you’re an honest youngster, fear not, IGN.com and Apple (among others) have the PG-rated trailer as well.

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Catch an interview with podcast novel pioneer — and now hot-selling print author — Scott Sigler on the SciFiDimensions podcast.

If you haven’t heard Sigler’s work before, head over to his site ScottSigler.com and sample his audio podcast.  My fave is his “Infected” podcast novel, which has since found a print publisher and become a bestseller.

Some good news for fans of Sigler’s podcasts: Even with the print success of “Infected,” he will keep distributing his fiction for free via his podcast … which only makes sense, since “Infected” was a big hit as an audio podcast before publisher Crown scooped him up.

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