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House of Pain E-Zine 

If you were a horror author in the mid-1990s into the mid-2000s, you'd find your way on here and featured eventually. Noted for ushering writers who also turned publishers like Mike Philbin (Hertzan Chimera), Kealan Patrick Burke (as he disowns The Clause), Trent Zelazny (as he eventually worked with me on my first magazine's issue, and the third issue) and a host of others.

In 2003 Wraith Knox introduced Nicholas Tillemans who became part of the second Chimeraworld anthology, as some of the roster became part of Tabloid Purposes as some joined in the sequels. It is known as a who's who in the small press as the independent press introduced bizzaro fiction, neo-traditional, Stygian Memoir (the creative nonfiction subgenre that is an offshoot of Gothic Horror and Gonzo Journalism,) alt. history ala 1990s, and horror that became from the post-9/11 world as it was a touchy subject to approach. Being dark about September 11th was a bit taboo.

Noted for invoking a huge fuck you factor for publishing The Fandom Writer from being on FictionPress earlier that year as it was written from returning after attending Goth Convergence in Chicago. Janice Frank in 2004 while she was still alive; defecated on House of Spiders. I taunted, "The more you bastards flame on this one, all you're doing is giving it an even more potent sting."
Fandom Wank: you know that wop we were taking turns on.

mindset: yeah
The other blogtroll: Shit he appeared on House of Pain E-Zine with that notorious story. Was the editor trying to piss us off when she included it?

According to an e-mail they had -- they expressed a mutual hatred for Poppy Z. Brite.

Gruesome Cargo in an interview with him on AuthorsDen said it grabbed her attention and noted to be the most accessible short story on the site. The Fandom Writer and The Ferryman's Wheelchair are both progressively disturbing in their own ways.

All of them: JESUS have you seen the rest of the featured on there, some of them are a collective brood of utter sick fuck fictioneers. Have you seen the story called BUKKAKEWORLD? Two of the writers wrote a novel called BOYFISTGIRLSUCK. There are a few publications circulating around that's pretty damn close to the controversial e-zine as one of them did a very dark incarnation which became known as The Ethereal Gazette: Issue Five noted for introducing two writers from the Edgar Allan Poe fandom and two from fictionpress. It's also noted to have The Pattern Of Diagnosis which has a very haunting echo of David Foster Wallace -- he included this under the encouragement of a Goth model named Tragic Wrath. The interview between him and Hertzan Chimera saw a sabertooth nature where it rivaled The Boondocks with the episode known as BET Sucks.
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House of Pain 

A little past supper-time
I'm still out on the porch step sitting on my behind,
Waiting for you.
Wondering if everything is alright.
Momma said, "Come in boy, don't waste your time." I said, "I've got time.
Well, he'll be here soon."
Five years old and talking to myself.
Where were you? Where'd you go?
Daddy, can't you tell?
I'm not trying to fake it
And I ain't the one to blame.
There's no one home
In my house of pain.
I didn't write these pages
And my script's been rearranged.
No, there's no one home
In my house of pain
Wasn't I worth the time?
A boy needs a daddy like a dance to mime and all the time
I looked up to you.
I paced my room a million times.
And all I ever got was one big lie, the same old lie.
How could you?
Well, I was eighteen and still talking to myself.
Where were you? Where'd you go?
Daddy can't you tell?
I'm not trying to fake it
And I ain't the one to blame.
There's no one home
In my house of pain
I didn't write these pages
And my script's been rearranged.
No, there's no one home
In my house of pain

And I'm alone again
Well, if I learned anything from this... It's how to live on my own.
House of Pain by Death Menace June 13, 2023

House of Pain 

Marine Detachment (MARDET) Fort Leonard Wood, MO (FLW) Basic Military Police Schoolhouse U.S. Marine Corps Military Police Instruction Company (MPIC) DoD Interservice Non-Lethal Individual Weapons Instructors Course (INIWIC). Another name for INIWIC. INIWIC is the private school the Marine Corps operates out of FLW, since the program was founded in 1996 at MARDET Fort McClellan until their move to Fort Leonard Wood in 1999. The difference between Level 1 and 2 certifications is that you have to be exposed to OC spray and be tased to graduate with a Level 2 certification as an "instructor". The Legendary Level 3 or Instructor-Trainer certification is only available while you're at the FLW MP Schoolhouse ONLY at the chief instructor or Officer-in-Charge's discretion. Once you return to the fleet or operating force, you're only considered an instructor.
Marine Detachment (MARDET) Fort Leonard Wood, MO (FLW) Basic Military Police Schoolhouse U.S. Marine Corps Military Police Instruction Company (MPIC) DoD Interservice Non-Lethal Individual Weapons Instructors Course (INIWIC). Another name for INIWIC. INIWIC is the private school the Marine Corps operates out of FLW, since the program was founded in 1996 at MARDET Fort McClellan until their move to Fort Leonard Wood in 1999. The difference between Level 1 and 2 certifications is that you have to be exposed to OC spray and be tased to graduate with a Level 2 certification as an "instructor". The Legendary Level 3 or Instructor-Trainer certification is only available while you're at the FLW MP Schoolhouse ONLY at the chief instructor or Officer-in-Charge's discretion. Once you return to the fleet or operating force, you're only considered an instructor. Nicknamed the House of Pain due to the notorious torture of being pepper-sprayed and tasered with a Taser X2 to graduate with Level 2 certification. The current chief instructor is GySgt. Shane Sheaffer.
House of Pain by kinghiroichi1 April 25, 2025