Join us Wednesday, October 31 from 7-9 PM at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard as we celebrate the season of the witch with our 3rd Annual Halloween reading!
starring
& the late ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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FLAPPERHOUSE 2nd Annual Halloween Reading, In Pictures
A million howling thank-yous to everyone who helped make last night’s reading such a deliciously dark affair: Lisa, Joanna, Stephen, Bud, Deirdre, Keegan, and Cooper for performing your flappy lits; Alibi Jones for your spooktacular singing & photography; Pacific Standard for your always-gracious hospitality; and all you beautiful creatures who came to witness our mischief.
Let’s do this again in January…
photos by Alibi Jones
Alibi Jones prepares to sink her fangs into Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”
Lisa Marie Basile gets things brewing with a reading from Nympholepsy
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FLAPPERHOUSE 2nd Annual Halloween Reading
Join us as we bark at the moon & revel in the macabre with our 2nd Annual Halloween Reading, this Wednesday, October 25, 7-9 PM at Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn).
starring
LISA MARIE BASILE
DEIRDRE COYLE
ALIBI JONES
STEPHEN LANGLOIS & BUD SMITH
KEEGAN LESTER
JOANNA C. VALENTE
COOPER WILHELM
and the late SHIRLEY JACKSON
Admission is FREE, and you can get your claws on copies of our Fall 2017 issue for the special price of $5.
FLAPPERHOUSE Halloween Reading, In Pictures
A million creepy-crawly thank-yous to everyone who helped make our first-ever Halloween reading such a graveyard smash: Cooper, Michael, Shawn, Joanna, Darley, and Stephen for performing your spookily flappy lits; the late Rod Serling for guest-hosting; Alibi for your sinister singing & stellar photography; Pacific Standard for their always-gracious hospitality; and all you beautiful freaks who came out to enjoy the show. We hope y’all have a Happy Halloween, and we’ll be back for reading #12 early next year…
(photos by Alibi Jones, except where noted)
Alibi Jones prepares for a herky-jerky performance of “People Are Strange”
(photo by Rebecca Robison)
Cooper Wilhelm terrifies us with a transcript of true-life horror
Michael Seymour Blake reads “Mediocre Company,” his haunted-house tale from FLAPPERHOUSE #11 Continue reading FLAPPERHOUSE Halloween Reading, In Pictures
FLAPPERHOUSE Halloween Reading
Halloween isn’t just our favorite holiday here at FLAPPERHOUSE, it’s also our birthday! So we’re gonna celebrate & conjure the spirit of the season at our 11th reading on 10/26 at Brooklyn’s Pacific Standard by sharing some spooky & supernatural lit…
Starring MICHAEL SEYMOUR BLAKE, SHAWN FRAZIER, ALIBI JONES, STEPHEN LANGLOIS, DARLEY STEWART, JOANNA C. VALENTE, COOPER WILHELM and
the late ROD SERLING.
Our 2016 Best of the Net Nominees Are…
Our nominations for the 2016 Best of the Net anthology, which honors literary work that originally appeared on the internet between 7/1/2015 & 6/30/2016, are:
“CREATURE FEATURE : CALIGYNACHTMARE : DREAD the BEAUTY” – poetry by Shannon Moore Shepherd
“CHAPEL of SACRED MIRRORS” – poetry by Joanna C. Valente
“The WITCH THESE DAYS” – poetry by E. H. Brogan
“HOW to be a SMALL PRESS SUCCESS” – poetry by Catfish McDaris
“HELPFUL NOTES REGARDING YOUR PURCHASE” – short fiction by Brandon Barrett
Congratulations & best of luck to all our nominees, as well as our eternal gratitude for contributing their amazing work to our weird little zine.
FLAPPERHOUSE Podcast #2 – Reading #6
In case you missed our 6th reading— or if you didn’t miss it but would like to relive the experience in podcast form– you may now stream or download it through the Soundcloud file below!
FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #6, In Pictures
A galaxy of gracious thank-yous to everyone who helped make Reading #6 such a trip: William, Stephen, Christina, Leona, Mazzara, Joanna, and Anthony for performing your flappy lits; Pacific Standard for your warm & welcoming hospitality; Alibi Jones for your sparkly singing & fine photography; and all you beautiful star-children who came to watch us boogie. Let’s do this again, say, sometime before Memorial Day…?
(photos by Alibi Jones)
William Lessard reads from his space-agey story “Transmission”
Stephen Langlois reads his unsettling short story “Redfield” from FLAPPERHOUSE #9
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FLAPPERHOUSE Reading #6 / Issue 9 Flight Party / VOYAGER RECORD Pre-Launch Countdown
We’re gonna sparkle & boogie as we celebrate the flight of our 9th issue with our 6th reading on Wednesday, March 23rd from 7 – 9 PM at Pacific Standard (82 Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn).
Starring FLAPPERHOUSE #9 contributors LEONA GODIN, STEPHEN LANGLOIS, WILLIAM LESSARD , and CHRISTINA M. RAU ; our fiction editor T. MAZZARA will read from his novel-in-progress; featured poet of FLAPPERHOUSE #8 & Reading #5 JOANNA C. VALENTE returns; as always, chanteuse extraordinaire ALIBI JONES will treat us to a song or two; and all the way from Tel Aviv, ANTHONY MICHAEL MORENA will read from his forthcoming book THE VOYAGER RECORD (Rose Metal Press, May 2016)– featuring a special appearance by the late CARL SAGAN!
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“Lazuli” – Poetry by Joanna C. Valente
“Lazuli” is one of five spellbinding poems by Joanna C. Valente in our Winter 2016 issue. This is the third of those poems that we’ve posted online; you can read the other two (“The Sun Rises Over Manhattan and Sets in Brooklyn” and “The Hierophant Builds a Bridge Between Deity and Humanity”) in FLAPPERHOUSE #8, or in Joanna’s spectacular tarot-inspired collection The Gods Are Dead.
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GOD TOLD ME he wanted to create
a lovelier girl of auburn and ivory
laying her feet in an apple orchard
near a house on the hill where bodies
float in the heart and lungs of her family
channeling lavender soaked memories
and the uterus’ of virgins who have
too many “feels” & now
i’m standing outside a restaurant
in the cold and a man comes up
to me, says i wouldn’t keep you
waiting. he has always kept me
waiting.
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