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Terror House Magazine Pulp Submission Contest: Win Up to $20!

This is a guest post by Reagan Cox.

It’s time for another contest in the House of Terror. Shake that 300 mg caffeine haze out of your dopey head; we want you focused for this one, champ! Or potential champ. In this contest, there is one grand champion who will win $20. Get out there and see how many feet pics you can rustle up for that, sport. Second and third place will get $10, taking a significantly smaller portion of the feet. Fourth and fifth get $5. At the current rate of feet inflation, you’d be lucky to get a toe. This is the only contest that can bestow the title “Feet Pic King of the Literary Underground.” All that we ask for this glorious title is that you write the best pulp story.

What is a pulp story? Named for the paper they were printed on, “pulps” were cheap literature magazines, often read by the working class, in early 20th century America. The Argosy pioneered the form beginning in 1896. They published all genres of fiction for readers of all stripes: love and war, crime and science fiction, westerns and fantasy. This is where America’s countercultural obsession began.

In the 1920’s, the movement picked up steam with pulps like Black Mask publishing classic American crime novels that are still read today, like Dashiell Hammett’s Maltese Falcon. Weird Tales published works by H.P. Lovecraft that captured the public imagination. Many working class women of the ’20s read the short tales in Love Story.

After World War II, the pulp magazine fell out of style and was usurped by paperback novels and comic books, but the pulp soul lived on through these. Its genre and story forms can be seen everywhere in American culture from then to today: Hollywood cinema, TV, video games, science fiction novels, the list goes on. Hemingway may have used pulps as inspiration in forming his populist style. They are a part of the American creative spirit and we want to enter the arena.

Send us pieces in a genre style. Horror, Western, science fiction, crime, romance: all are welcome. It would behoove you to mix them up into something unique that other writers wouldn’t send us. That’s what we’re looking for most of all: unique takes on these established American genres.

Let me narrow it down for you with a handy list of dos and don’ts. Do:

See Town, Paul. “Gore is so Passé.”
Think Conan, not Tolkien.
Try to write in a genre or style that is unique.
Blend genres as you need
But make it genre fiction, please!

Don’t:

Try and do the hard-boiled detective voice. It’s played out.
Be boring and pretentious. We want genre fiction with teeth and rhythm.
Be afraid to email or DM us on Twitter to work out an idea. We can also get an idea of what genres people are writing in that way.
Try to usurp my cyberpunk crown, because I will strike thee down.

Here are the rules:

Write a pulp short story or literary nonfiction piece. Your piece must conform to both the theme and our preexisting submission guidelines (found here). No other types of submissions (poetry, photography/artwork, serialized works etc.) are eligible.
Submit your work via email at submissions [at] terrorhousemag [dot] com or via Twitter direct message at @terrorhousemag. If submitting via email, please use the subject line “Pulp Submission Contest”; if submitting via Twitter, state in your message that the submission is for the Pulp Submission Contest. Failure to do so may lead to your submission being disqualified.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, July 17 at 2PM Eastern (1PM Central/11AM Pacific/7PM WEST/8PM CEST).
Winners will be announced on Monday, July 22. The first-place winner will receive a $20 prize, the second- and third-place winners will receive $10 each, and the fourth- and fifth-place winners will receive $5 each. These prizes are separate from our $10 Best of the Month prize.
The winning submissions will be published from July 29-August 2. We may also publish some runners-up on August 3 and 4, but this is not guaranteed.

If you have questions about the Pulp Submission Contest, feel free to contact the editors: our email addresses and Twitter handles can be found on the About page here. Good luck!

Cross-posted at Terror House Magazine.

How HSV-Zero Can Help You Fight Herpes

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Herpes is a reality of being sexually active in the present day. While you should always practice safe sex, the simple reality is that you can’t keep yourself safe 100 percent of the time. Maybe you forget to put on a condom in the heat of the moment or sleep with someone you aren’t 100 percent sure about. Regardless of how it happened, you now have herpes.

While there’s still a stigma attached to having herpes, the disease is not nearly as problematic for your health as you might think. Herpes is a minor inconvenience that can be cured with over-the-counter remedies. In particular, HSV-Zero Antiviral Herpes Treatment is an effective and low-cost way to combat herpes, with better results than other herpes medications.

The Truth About Antiviral Herpes Medications

One interesting fact you may not know about antiviral herpes medications is that they are generally plant-based. Even official medications that are prescribed by doctors are generally derived from plant extracts. Because of this, you can generally go straight to the source and use antiviral herpes treatments that are made directly from plant extracts, as they are generally more effective and less expensive than medications.

Plant extracts combat herpes in a number of different ways. Many plant extracts will target the herpes virus and kill it directly, while others will aid skin healing. Still others bolster the immune system, and there are also plant extracts that combat inflammation and itchiness. Because of this, you will want a product that combines multiple plant extracts, allowing you to cure your herpes while also easing your symptoms.

The biggest advantage of using plant extracts to heal herpes is that because they are all-natural, you do not risk damaging your health further by putting unnatural substances into your body. Additionally, as mentioned, over-the-counter plant extracts are less expensive than prescription medication and have a higher success rate.

Having said this, not all antiviral herpes treatments are created equal. Many will often cheap out on ingredients, using improper doses or fake ingredients. These cheap solutions can not only waste your money, they can make your herpes worse or introduce other health problems. Because of this, you will want to thoroughly research your herpes treatments to ensure they are right for you.

HSV-Zero Antiviral Herpes Treatment

HSV-Zero Antiviral Herpes Treatment is an all-natural topical cream that can be used to fight herpes, particularly its outward manifestations such as lesions. It functions by penetrating deeply into the skin and combating herpes on the cellular level, preventing lesions from forming and greatly reducing healing time for those that have formed. Frequent use of HSV-Zero can also prevent outbreaks and is effective with all types of herpes, from type 1 and 2 to oral and genital herpes.

HSV-Zero’s secret is that it combines multiple types of plant extracts in a single product. In contrast to products that may only have one type or another of plant extract, HSV-Zero is designed to ameliorate the external symptoms of herpes while treating the disease itself. HSV-Zero is rich in bioflavonoids and polyphenols, which have been shown in experiments to combat the herpes virus. It also contains large numbers of saponins, resveratrol, polysaccharides, and tannins, which aid in the fight against herpes.

Additionally, HSV-Zero is also rich in fulvic acid, which is known to be a strong immune booster. One of the biggest problems caused by herpes is that it weakens the immune system, making you susceptible to diseases that you ordinarily wouldn’t get. The fulvic acid in HSV-Zero will boost your immune defenses, keeping you healthy while you recover from herpes. It also contains other immune boosters that bolster its effects.

Most importantly, HSV-Zero contains a natural antiviral substance that helps the active ingredients in the cream to penetrate the skin deeply. Many so-called topical herpes remedies do not penetrate past the epidermis, limiting their effectiveness due to the fact that they cannot attack the root of the problem. HSV-Zero, on the other hand, is guaranteed to absorb deeply into your skin and reach the dermis, where the symptoms of herpes manifest from, ensuring that the virus is killed.

Finally, HSV-Zero is notable for containing anti-irritants for the skin. Many herpes remedies cause skin irritation, which is a bad thing if you are looking to cover up lesions and other negative effects of the disease. HSV-Zero soothes your skin as it is applied, making using it a pleasurable experience for you.

HSV-Zero can be easily used before or during outbreaks. If you are concerned about a herpes outbreak, using HSV-Zero three times per day will prevent lesions and other visible markers of herpes from appearing on your skin. If you are already suffering from a herpes outbreak, using HSV-Zero will rapidly speed the healing process. While untreated herpes outbreaks typically take ten to fifteen days to fully heal, HSV-Zero can reduce healing time to five days or less, and in some cases it reduces healing time to a day.

Fighting Herpes the Smart Way

There’s no reason to allow herpes to slow down your lifestyle. While not as big a deal as it is made out to be, herpes is something that no one should be forced to deal with. Unfortunately, many remedies for herpes are either overpriced, ineffective, or both, forcing millions of sufferers to endure the embarrassment of breakouts.

To fight herpes, you need an effective antiviral remedy such as HSV-Zero. You don’t need expensive prescription medications or quack herbal remedies to combat herpes; you need quality plant extracts that can help bolster your immune system, clear your skin up, and fight the disease itself. HSV-Zero meets all three of these requirements, synthesizing herpes alleviation and cures into a handy package for topical use.

Regardless of where you are in life, using HSV-Zero can aid you if you suffer from herpes. Whether you’re looking to cure an existing outbreak or prevent a new one from happening, you will want to take the fight to the virus by using HSV-Zero.

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Eight Foods That Will Lower Your Testosterone

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Modern society is engaged in an all-out war on men and masculinity. In particular, they’re waging a war on testosterone, the hormone that makes men men. From a constant barrage of anti-male propaganda in the media to estrogenic chemicals in the water, masculinity is under assault, and it’s an assault that is making you weaker and sicker.

However, there are a number of things you can do (or not do) in order to bring your testosterone levels up. Here are six foods and drinks you should avoid or be careful in consuming in order to keep your testosterone high.

1. Soy

It’s a meme and a cliché, but it’s also the truth: too much soy is bad for you. While a little soy is not harmful from time to time, too much of it has been scientifically shown to drop testosterone levels in men.

Soy is harmful to men because it contains large numbers of phytoestrogens, plant-based compounds that simulate the effects of estrogen when consumed. When consumed to excess, phytoestrogens alter a man’s hormone balance and cause a drop in testosterone, also causing weight gain. Stay safe; avoid soy.

2. Alcohol

While there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a beer with friends or a glass of wine after dinner—the latter actually being good for your health in some cases—excessive alcohol consumption has been linked to lower testosterone. In particular, hops, an ingredient in beer, has been shown to lower testosterone and cause weight gain when consumed to excess.

Scientific studies suggest that wine and hard alcohol is less harmful to testosterone levels then beer, suggesting that you should switch to using them instead if you are concerned with your T-levels.

3. Mint

A common ingredient in chewing gum, breath mints, and the like, preliminary scientific research suggests that excessive mint consumption can cause catastrophic drops in testosterone levels. Peppermint and spearmint in particular have been singled out as major culprits, with studies reporting that women who consume spearmint tea on a daily basis suffering significant testosterone drops.

4. Vegetable Oil

Frequently used for cooking, vegetable oils such as canola, corn, and soybean oil are linked to lower testosterone. This is due to their large number of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are popular as a source of dietary fat, but carry the unfortunate side effect of lowering testosterone in men.

5. Processed Foods

In general, any kind of processed food, such as TV dinners and frozen foods, will be loaded with all sorts of unhealthy additives that lower testosterone either directly or indirectly. One of the most common additives in processed foods is trans fats, which have been linked to heart disease, inflammation, diabetes, and lower testosterone.

In addition to trans fats, processed foods typically contain higher-than-normal amounts of sodium and sugar, excessive consumption of which has been linked to lower testosterone and health problems.

6. Flaxseed

While flaxseed is a genuine health food, containing large amounts of fiber, heart-healthy fats, and other important nutrients, it has also been linked to lower testosterone. This is due to the fact that it is rich in lignans, plant-based substances that chemically combine with testosterone and force it to be expelled from the body.

Flaxseed is also high in omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for brain health and development, but are also linked to lower testosterone.

7. Licorice Root

A common ingredient in various types of candy, licorice root’s sweet taste belies its estrogenic qualities. Often used as a cough remedy and a way to combat chest pain when sick, regular consumption of licorice root has been shown to lower testosterone in men. Please note, however, that licorice root and licorice candy are not the same thing, and indeed, many brands of licorice candy do not contain any licorice root.

8. Nuts

Nuts are a common example of a healthy snack, but certain varieties of nuts may have a negative impact on testosterone levels. Walnuts and almonds, for example, are rich in sex hormone binding globulins (SHBG), so called because they bind to testosterone when consumed, causing it to be expelled from the body. Nuts are also rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, which, as mentioned above, will lower testosterone levels when consumed in abundance.

Keep Your Testosterone High with Andro-Plus

Given the sheer number of substances in the modern world that lower testosterone, you need every advantage you can get in order to maintain healthy T-levels. Eating healthy and working out are obvious requirements to increase your testosterone, but if you want to give yourself an edge, you should check out Andro-Plus.

Andro-Plus is an inexpensive, topical testosterone cream that is available over the counter. Applying it once a day will give an immediate boost to your testosterone, one that you’ll feel within an hour of using it. Andro-Plus will help you lift harder in the gym, perform longer in the bedroom, and will give you more focus and energy, allowing you to get more done and live the life you want to live.

Andro-Plus is safe to use, having no side effects, and tons of men around the world can attest to how it has improved their lives. While there’s no substitute for a healthy, active lifestyle when it comes to keeping your testosterone up, Andro-Plus is a much welcome boost to your T-levels in a world that is constantly trying to bring them down.

Stay Healthy with High Testosterone

Contrary to jokes about “testosterone poisoning” and other anti-male programming, testosterone is vital for men to function. Low testosterone is correlated with physical weakness, health problems, and early death. Because of this, you owe it to yourself to keep your T-levels high.

While not every food or product listed in this article is something you should avoid entirely due to their health benefits, you need to carefully manage what you consume so you can maintain your testosterone levels. With proper dieting, exercise, and use of products like Andro-Plus, you can successfully navigate our estrogenic world and maintain your masculinity.

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Terror House Magazine Easter Submission Contest: Win Up to $20!

As Terror House Magazine nears the one-year anniversary of when it was untimely ripped from the womb, we’ve decided to step our game up a bit. In the time since our founding, we’ve grown exponentially, angering both the Puritanical, gender-neutral clods of #saferLIT and the disruptive federal agents of wignatdom, with our readership exploding, our book publishing division under development, and our submission queue growing like a teenager’s erection in the morning breeze. We’ve seen the departure of Calvin Westra as Editor-at-Large and his replacement with up-and-coming writers Reagan Cox and Dione, and with new blood comes new ideas.

As Senior Editor Glahn and others have lamented, outsider literature is too often synonymous with sexual and moral depravity. There’s nothing wrong with titties or violence—good art is defined by its willingness to probe aspects of the human experience that no one else will touch—but at the same time, writers don’t need to pour buckets of blood and/or semen onto their manuscripts to make them good.

With Easter around the corner, Terror House has decided to launch an Easter Submission Contest. Here are the rules:

Write a short story or literary nonfiction piece on the theme of finding God, celebrating Easter, and/or religiosity/spirituality in general. Your piece must conform to both the theme and our preexisting submission guidelines (found here). No other types of submissions (poetry, photography/artwork, serialized works etc.) are eligible.
Submit your work via email at submissions [at] terrorhousemag [dot] com or via Twitter direct message at @terrorhousemag. If submitting via email, please use the subject line “Easter Submission Contest”; if submitting via Twitter, state in your message that the submission is for the Easter Submission Contest. Failure to do so may lead to your submission being disqualified.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 12 at 2PM Eastern (1PM Central/11AM Pacific/7PM WEST/8PM CEST).
Winners will be announced on Monday, April 15. The first-place winner will receive a $20 prize, while the runners-up will receive $5 each. These prizes are separate from our $10 Best of the Month prize.
The winning submissions will be published from April 17-19. Submissions that do not win first, second, or third place will not be published.

If you have questions about the Easter Submission Contest, feel free to contact the editors: our email addresses and Twitter handles can be found on the About page here. Good luck!

This article was originally published at Terror House Magazine on March 11, 2019.

The Tea Party and the Rise of American Gerontocracy

NOTE: This article was originally published at In Mala Fide on November 16, 2010. I’m re-posting it here because it is relevant to Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign and the violent opposition it has engendered from Baby Boomers. It and other articles I wrote for In Mala Fide can be found in my book Three Years of Hate.

Some time ago, I saw a picture of a sign from a Tea Party rally that read “Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare.” It dovetails nicely into an expose Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone in which he described the hoards of anti-government protesters rather uncharitably, to say the least:

Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it’s going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending–only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry’s medals and Barack Obama’s Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending–with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about–and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin.

He goes on to write how Rand Paul opposes eliminating the one government program that enriches him personally:

Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as “socialized medicine.” But this spring, when confronted with the idea of reducing Medicare payments to doctors like himself–half of his patients are on Medicare–he balked. This candidate, a man ostensibly so against government power in all its forms that he wants to gut the Americans With Disabilities Act and abolish the departments of Education and Energy, was unwilling to reduce his own government compensation, for a very logical reason. “Physicians,” he said, “should be allowed to make a comfortable living.”

A while back, the New York Times reported on a poll of Tea Partiers that backs up Taibbi’s observations:

When talking about the Tea Party movement, the largest number of respondents said that the movement’s goal should be reducing the size of government, more than cutting the budget deficit or lowering taxes.

And nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.

But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security–the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.

The lesser mind will look at the above excerpts and proclaim, “Aha! The Tea Party is a bunch of hypocrites!” And yes, they may be hypocritical, but there’s a method to their madness.

Liberals like to attack the Tea Party as racist, and some on the far right embrace them as an evolving expression of “implicit whiteness” in America, but race is not what defines them. The Tea Party is fighting to transform America into a gerontocracy: a government of the old people, by the old people, and for the old people. More specifically, the old people who will be ruling are the Baby Boomers, the most narcissistic and avaricious generation in American history. The above-mentioned NYT report identifies the demographics of the Tea Party as being primarily old and white:

Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.

The more cynical among you might argue that America is already a gerontocracy, what with the levers of power held by dried-up old prunes like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell. But just like how having white men in government doesn’t mean that white or male interests are represented, Congress being an old folks’ home doesn’t mean that elderly interests are represented. When then-President Bush proposed privatizing Social Security in 2005, the old farts in this country had a collective anal prolapse.

Ever wonder why Social Security is the third rail of American politics? It’s an obvious scam that is slowly dragging down the economy, but it just happens to benefit the fastest-growing and most politically influential voter bloc in this country. Government pension programs by nature are Ponzi schemes because they require an ever-increasing number of citizens paying into the system to stay solvent. This leads into the primary reason why Social Security is in danger: the Baby Boomers didn’t have enough kids to keep the Ponzi scheme going. Unlike their frisky parents, the Boomers preferred to have smaller families of three, two, or just one kid, and in some cases none at all. No kids means no taxpayers to keep you from having to eat Alpo when you’re 75 and can’t work because of your bum hip. To make matters worse, Social Security was designed merely to keep seniors out of poverty, not to fund the big, expensive cars and trips to Bermuda that the Boomers are used to.

There are only two ways to save Social Security. The first is to drastically increase the number of workers paying into the system. The government’s preferred way of doing this is with immigration, legal and illegal. The negative effects of legal and illegal immigration have been hashed out so many times by so many different writers that I don’t need to repeat them. Suffice it to say, importing large numbers of foreigners isn’t an option, either practically or politically. This leaves our other choice: liquidate all parts of the government save for Social Security, Medicare and other programs that benefit seniors.

That is the true purpose of the Tea Party. For all of their anti-government bluster, they’re just another interest group clamoring for their slice of the entitlement pie. They are the final expression of Boomer vanity, narcissism, and greed before they skedaddle on up to that spirit in the sky. If you doubt me, find me a Tea Party politician who is even considering talking about cutting Social Security or Medicare. Sharron Angle? Rand Paul? Marco Rubio? Not a chance. They are all part and parcel of the Gray Mafia, who will appropriate all of the ducats to their vampiric constituents while denying you so much as crumbs from the table. The young must die so that the old may live.

And make no mistake, the Baby Boomers are nothing more than a generation of vampires seeking to suck the blood out of their children to prolong their own wretched lives. They’re also a vile gang of hypocrites. After they spent their youths in the sixties and seventies taking every illicit substance known to man, they got Puritan pious and instituted the War on Drugs in the eighties to ass-rape anyone else who did the same. After voting themselves massive entitlement programs in the form of the Great Society, they foisted neoliberal capitalism and “free trade” on America to denude blue-collar work and make getting into tens of thousand of dollars in debt a requirement just to enter the middle class. After dodging the draft during the Vietnam War when they were young enough to die for their country, they conjured up some “Support the Troops” bullshit as a salve to their corrupt souls and to browbeat everyone into becoming sunshine patriots. Every joy they indulged in they seek to deny to the rest of us; every ladder that they used to climb to the top they kicked away. And now that their lives are finally coming to a close and the scam they were hoping to cash in on is about to collapse, they’re scheming to hoard the government’s bullion all for themselves.

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Awesomely White is a Must-Read Treatise on White Identity

NOTE: This is a sponsored post by Tony Martel. If you’re interested in advertising on my site, click here.

What does it mean to be white?

Many years ago, on my old blog In Mala Fide, I argued that a political movement focused on white identity was dead in the water because whites don’t define themselves primarily by their race, unlike blacks. One of my readers responded by stating that whites already have been defined by their race, but in the negative, a fact that’s evident by the anti-white cultural bilge that we wade in daily.

One of the fundamental failures of the alt-right was that it tried to make race into the bedrock of social unity, largely due to the rootlessness of its leaders. Humans filter identity through a series of concentric circles, with their family at the center, gradually fanning out into wider social circles such as church/neighborhood, city/town, state/province, and nation, with race being one of the outermost—and consequently weakest—circles.

People who have weak attachments to their family, region, or nation cling to race as their focus of identity, which is like trying to build a sandcastle at high tide. Richard Spencer, for example, is a rootless man who has a poor relationship with his family (to the point where his own father is siding against him in his divorce proceedings) and lacks any attachment to his hometown (he was born in Boston and raised in Dallas, a city full of rootless transplants), state (his family has no roots in Texas), and country (he hates American nationalism and culture). No surprise that a man with no identity of his own failed at building an identitarian movement.

Despite this, race still matters. Awesomely White explains why. A treatise on the nature of whiteness and European identity, Tony Martel’s book is a well-articulated hybrid of philosophy, politics, and personal anecdote. While rough around the edges in some respects, Awesomely White’s engaging, even-handed approach makes it a worthwhile read and the kind of rare book that can actually change people’s thinking.

Feeling Awesomely White

The “protochapter” of Awesomely White lays out what separates the book from countless other tomes extolling the virtues of “Western civilization”: those books either deny or minimize the role of whites—Europeans and their descendents—in creating modern civilization. Martel’s book does not aim to be a hagiography of whiteness, but to critically examine what separates whites from other races:

There are so many books out there about the accomplishments of white people. The last few years have witnessed a booming business on the greatness of whites. My search brought me to so many books reveling in the glories of the white man. Yet not a single one of them mentioned him. Instead, they talked about the “West” or “Western civilization.” Somehow, the people that populate those places were absolutely irrelevant to its achievements. All that matters, apparently, is its location on the map. The West would have turned out exactly the same if Asians were living there instead of in the East. Western civilization would have done all it did if Amerindians populated the place instead of the other side of the Atlantic. What utter nonsense.

Martel is a writer by trade, not an academic, and as a result, his book has a breezy style that makes it instantly readable. Awesomely White’s prose reads low but thinks high, communicating sociological and historical concepts in the voice of the everyman. Like most self-published authors, Martel could have used an editor to lean up some of his prose’s quirks—his fondness for sentence fragments is a case in point—but these are minor issues, and you’ll have a hard time not inhaling the book in a session or two.

Awesomely White takes an autobiographical approach to analyzing whiteness, as Martel intersperses original research on European history with stories from his personal life. In particular, the chapters “The Destruction of My World” and “Finding a New World” examine Martel’s liberal upbringing and his gradual immersion into the dissident right, as his youthful anti-racist ship was broken on the rocks of cultural Marxism:

Every morning, I would wake up in my back bedroom and open the French doors that lead into the garden. Each night, I would enjoy the delicious variety of cheeses for dessert. In the afternoon, I would explore the city or relax in the public gardens where Edith Wharton’s house used to be. And at noon, I would head to the international school, where I befriended fellow students from England, Ireland, Denmark, and Switzerland.

One particularly profound section of the book discusses Martel’s experience studying abroad in France. Despite being a native-born American with poor French, he forms a bond with his host family and feels a gradual connection with the people around him. I experienced something similar when I relocated to Hungary two years ago: an instinctive comfort knowing that I was around people I shared an (admittedly distant) cultural lineage with. I felt an even stronger pull in Poland, where one-quarter of my ancestors hail from.

In contrast, when I visited the Philippines, I couldn’t escape my foreignness or whiteness no matter what I did, and every second I spent there merely reinforced that I was a permanent stranger in their country. Race is a reality that everyone on the planet save for whites takes for granted, but it’s a reality that reasserts itself as the liberal order chokes on its own excesses. Emmanuel Macron was actually right when he called nationalism the enemy of patriotism. Patriotism is merely loyalty to a state, which is why the Soviet Union and other communist states promoted it and why multiracial liberals promote it now; nationalism is loyalty to a people.

Martel approaches white identity from a dramatic and historical perspective, comparing his embrace of his European roots with Benjamin Disraeli’s embrace of his Jewish heritage after touring Palestine. To Martel, whiteness isn’t merely a skin color or bragging rights; it’s a connection to a heritage that extends back across space and time. It’s this connection to his heritage that enabled Martel to survive through some truly harrowing episodes, such as a stint with homelessness:

To win those battles and discover those places required overcoming incredible hardship. They had to keep going, to keep fighting. They wouldn’t have survived if they hadn’t. To remember what they endured can inspire you in perilous times. I can attest to this. For a year and a half, I lived out of my car. During the winter nights, as snow accumulated on the windows to bury me in a metal tomb, I would shiver under two blankets until the cold became too unbearable. I’d turn the car on and run the heat for a few minutes. Three or four times I’d have to do this before morning. Parts of my body would often be dark red and burning from frostbite. One of the things that kept me going was the memory of those white men who had also endured extreme cold. Shackleton and his crew in Antarctica were constantly on my mind during those freezing nights when sleep was as distant as a bed. Their feet had been as wet as mine. Their hands had been as cracked as mine. Their fires provided temporary warmth like my heaters. They had survived. So could I.

It’s anecdotes like these that lend dramatic weight to Awesomely White’s more polemical sections. Martel goes over familiar concepts such as white privilege and the Holocaust industry in an evenhanded fashion, without resorting to conspiracy theorizing or racial slurs. At the same time, he doesn’t grovel to an imaginary nonwhite audience with moronic statements like “I believe in nationalism for everyone!” (a tenth-generation Xerox of Alain de Benoist’s concept of “ethnopluralism”), meaning that Awesomely White stands a good chance of getting people to change their minds on race.

Fear of a White Planet

While relatively brief, Awesomely White is devoid of filler and tackles its main arguments with conciseness and clarity. However, readers looking for a more philosophically-inclined tome might find fault with Martel’s reliance on personal stories, while his reliance on sentence fragments could be a deal breaker for grammar Nazis.

Ultimately, however, these issues are trivial. Awesomely White’s blend of factual veracity and personal narrative make it a gem of modern right-wing thought. Martel’s book is worth a read for the seasoned identitarian, but it also makes a great read for normies who have yet to realize the importance of race. In a sea of wignat onanism and conservative cuckery, Awesomely White stands tall as an articulate defense of whiteness and European identity.

Click here to buy Awesomely White.

I Will Increase Search Traffic to Your Website for $5 a Year

For the past six years, I’ve used a service called Pingler to increase search traffic to my blog, YouTube channel, and other online properties. Pingler automatically pings websites to Google and other search engines on regular intervals, meaning that they rise in the rankings faster and new content on them gets disseminated more rapidly.

I recently upgraded to a Pingler plan that allows me to ping my websites every day (as opposed to the standard three days), as well as increasing the number of websites I can have on my account. I don’t have nearly enough websites to fill up my URL allotment, so I’m offering to ping your website(s) on my account for the rate of $5 per year.

The reason I’m offering this service is because it’s far cheaper for the average person to purchase from me than from Pingler. The plan I’m using costs over $10 a month, and if you only have one or two URLs, why pay $120 a year for something you’ll barely use? In contrast, for $5 a year, I will add your URL(s) to my account and you can sit back and enjoy the boost in your search traffic.

Additionally, you can use Pingler to increase search traffic to any web property you want. A blog, a YouTube channel, a Twitter account, an individual YouTube video or article: all of it can benefit from being pinged every day. Pinging is an easy, effortless way to increase search traffic on whatever you desire.

If you’re interested in taking advantage of my pinging service, click here to email me and use subject line “Pinging Service.” Individual URLs are $5 per year, and if you have five or more URLs, the rate is $4 for each (i.e. you’ll pay $20 instead of $25). I only have a limited number of slots available, so contact me soon.

The Matt Forney Show is Now Hosted on Anchor

For the past four years, the Matt Forney Show—as well as the MP3 downloads of Matt Forney Live—have been hosted on SoundCloud. I transitioned to hosting the show on SoundCloud after originally using my own site in order to expand its reach as well as make it easier to get the show onto the iTunes Store and other platforms.

However, SoundCloud has been aggressively deplatforming right-wing users for the past two years. Numerous podcasters on the site, from Red Ice to Roosh, have either been heavily censored or banned outright. This is even more galling when you consider that SoundCloud is a paid platform: despite charging podcast hosts $13 a month to upload their shows, the site arbitrarily bans users without refunds or recourse.

While I haven’t been persecuted by SoundCloud that much compared to others—I’ve only had one of my podcasts banned so far—I know it’s only a matter of time.

Because of this, I’ve moved The Matt Forney Show to Anchor, a new podcast platform that has a superior set of features and is less censorious. As of this writing, all of my old podcasts have been removed from SoundCloud (since I need to pay a monthly subscription to keep them up), and old and future episodes of the show will exclusively be published on Anchor. I recorded a short podcast explaining the move:

If you followed The Matt Forney Show or listened to the MP3 downloads of Matt Forney Live via SoundCloud, you’ll need to subscribe to the Anchor page here in order to keep listening. If you’re subscribed to the show via the RSS feed or an external app such as the iTunes Store, you don’t need to make any changes.

Thanks to those of you who have listened to The Matt Forney Show and Matt Forney Live all these years, and stay tuned, because the show will go on.

The Pence Principle is a Must-Read Survival Manual for Men

NOTE: This is a sponsored post by Randall Bentwick. If you’re interested in advertising on my site, click here.

For years, I scoffed at radical MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) types who refused to interact with women out of fear that they might be falsely accused of rape or some other sexual impropriety. Five or ten years ago, the idea that you could end up in legal trouble because some woman at the office or in your college class that you barely interacted with could accuse you of a heinous crime and get away with it was absurd. False rape accusations happened, of course, but those required you to have had sex—or tried to have sex—with a woman, not merely interacted with her.

Then Brett Kavanaugh happened.

In a desperate attempt to keep President Donald Trump from appointing Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Democrats dredged up Christine Blasey Ford, a woman that Kavanaugh had briefly interacted with more then thirty years ago at a party, to accuse him of trying to rape her. When Ford emerged, the feeding frenzy began, with numerous women that Kavanaugh had interacted with at parties or in a professional setting accusing him of rape back when he was a teenager.

It didn’t matter that Ford’s testimony was full of holes. It didn’t matter that the only witness to Ford’s and Kavanaugh’s interactions said that Kavanaugh didn’t rape her. It didn’t matter that these incidents all happened back when Kavanaugh and his accusers were teenagers. The entire media and half of the country lined up behind Ford and her ridiculous accusations, smearing Kavanaugh in an attempt to ruin his life and derail Trump’s agenda.

Fortunately, they didn’t win: Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court after Senate Republicans collectively grew a spine. But you’re not a well-connected GOP figure like Kavanaugh, and if this kind of thing happens to you, you might not be so lucky. In the age of #MeToo, where women can (and do) profit immensely from claiming to be the victims of sexual assault, you need to protect yourself.

The Pence Principle: Lessons All Men Must Learn from Ford Kavanaugh by Randall Bentwick is a book that can help you protect yourself in the age of the false rape accusation. Written in response to the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, Bentwick’s book, while flawed, is a good roadmap for men looking to navigate the crazy world of modern gender relationships. In particular, The Pence Principle is vital for young men, who sorely need guidance in a world that is hostile to them and their interests.

What is the Pence Principle?

The Pence Principle takes its name from the Mike Pence rule, referring to the Vice President’s habit of refusing to be alone with women other than his wife. This stems from Pence’s evangelical Christian beliefs and in fact used to be called the “Billy Graham rule,” and is adhered to in order to avoid sexual temptation. When this became public knowledge after Donald Trump and Pence were elected, Pence was ridiculed by the media and the left:

Regardless of the true reason, the media and mainstream settled on the narrative that the Vice President was an old, outdated, fuddy-duddy. An overly-worried Christian, hopelessly out of touch with the progressive new world. An archaic sexist whose antiquated views proved women were oppressed, and at the highest levels of government no less. Still, the news story ran its expected lifespan, it dropped out of the headlines, Americans found a new shiny object, and Mike Pence’s policy to only dine with his wife became an interesting, quirky footnote in his Wikipedia entry.

The Pence Principle makes the point that in a world of #MeToo, the Mike Pence rule makes perfect sense. When women can destroy a man by merely accusing him of sexual impropriety—no matter how baseless the accusation—the only surefire way to protect yourself is to keep away from them. Bentwick explains this through both statistical analysis and anecdotes, relaying stories he’s experienced in his personal life of women who have tried to bring men down through false accusations:

An hour later my buddy was called into his supervisor’s office. Apparently, there was a complaint filed against him by Suzie. My buddy’s heart dropped into his stomach. A wave of dread came over him. And before he could get angry at the preposterous claim he did something wrong, a paralyzing fear struck him as his mind raced through all the possible and horrific permutations of outcomes should he lose his job.

Bentwick’s book is old hat in some respects, at least for people familiar with the manosphere, but its practical advice is of great importance to young men, who may not have received the guidance they need to survive in this world. His writing is typical of many self-published books in that it’s plain and could use some editing, but his prose is direct and gets his points across with a minimum of fuss:

The horrors suffered and the price paid by men merely falsely accused of rape is already unimaginable. But there are no words in the English language to describe what it’s like to be wrongly convicted of a crime you didn’t commit and to lose your entire youth to prison. And though there’s a very small statistical chance you might get wrongly convicted of rape, the case of Counts and Perry should make the compelling argument that you shouldn’t even let it get to the point where you’re potentially facing a judge under a false accusation.

Evidence now suggests that the Mike Pence rule is gaining popularity among men. For example, Wall Street types are now reluctant to interact with women when they’re alone, while #MeToo has wiped out the ability of actresses to trade sex for roles. The Pence Principle’s concise explanation of why—and how you can apply the Mike Pence rule to your life—make it invaluable reading.

Protect Yourself

While I’ve never had an issue getting girls, my sympathy for incels, MGTOWs, and other men who choose to avoid women has grown over the years. With pussy inflation at all-time highs and female victimization so common, who wants to risk a rape charge or jump through so many hoops just to land a fat girl who’s below your standards?

The Pence Principle perfectly articulates why you need to be careful around women in this day and age. While not groundbreaking, its simple and clear message is one that is important for men, particularly young men, to digest. I highly recommend checking it out or gifting it to a young man in your life.

Click here to buy The Pence Principle: Lessons All Men Must Learn from Ford-Kavanaugh.

Matt Forney’s Favorite Terror House Magazine Submissions of 2018

While I ordinarily do a year-end roundup of my favorite blog posts, articles, podcasts, and other things I’ve done, because I’ve shifted into working as a publisher and live stream host, I no longer write as much as I used to. Much of my energy has been focused on building up Terror House Magazine and Terror House Press, turning them into the premier hubs for outsider literature.

Since we launched in May, Terror House Magazine has published over 350 submissions from over 150 different writers, spanning short stories, literary nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and serialized novellas. Our traffic has continued to grow, with December falling a hair short of being our best month yet. We’ve been attacked by both the far-left and the neo-Nazi right, with the clods of #saferLIT trying to blackball our writers and famous right-wing personalities like Richard Spencer and J.F. Gariépy crying about us on their shows.

My co-editor Glahn has published an article today featuring his favorite Terror House submissions over the past year, and I present my favorite picks below. Note that I deliberately avoided choosing submissions that he also picked, since our tastes overlap on many of them, instead choosing to highlight several favorites of my own. Additionally, both Glahn’s list and mine exclude submissions that won Terror House’s Best of the Month Award, which you can find here.

Blood Knot by Jose Oseguera

I’m not really big on erotica; my one foray into writing it was as part of an aborted trolling campaign. For that matter, I don’t even really like gratuitous sex in writing period. Dangerous Days, a documentary about the making of Blade Runner, features an extended cut of the scene where Harrison Ford and Sean Young make out where she gets topless, with Ridley Scott explaining that he didn’t put it in the final cut because he views sex scenes as unnecessary unless they drive the plot forward in some fashion.

Blood Knot is a perfect example of a book where gratuitous sex isn’t just welcome, it’s necessary. A Story of O-esque novella about a relationship between a young man and an older woman, Oseguera’s graphic prose goes from sexy to sickening when layered with context. Blood Knot is a story about abuse, showing how the sins and scars of one person are transmuted to the next generation, knowingly or unknowingly.

“You Have a Mushroom Infection” by John Grauerholz

John Grauerholz, aka Mr. Mean-Spirited, is a writer I’ve followed for years, his cutting wit and ebullient misanthropy a welcome reprieve from the clap-happy self-empowerment talk common in this corner of the Internet. In this nonfiction story, he details a horrific case of jock itch he contracted while visiting Tijuana and the even more horrific doctor’s visit he endured afterwards.

“Bubblegum Cigarettes” by Matthew Brockmeyer

Set in the 1970’s, “Bubblegum Cigarettes” is the story of a young girl who runs away from her abusive parents. It’s full of wonderful quips and lines (e.g. “You don’t even know how to finger-fuck! You couldn’t even find my secret spot!”) and has a bleak, comic atmosphere.

“White Dwarf” by Glahn

If it weren’t for the fact that Terror House’s editors don’t give awards to themselves, “White Dwarf” would have been a strong contender for July’s Best of the Month Award. It’s a rarity in modern literature: a short story with a cartoony premise that is written so well it’s impossible not to take seriously.

“White Dwarf” follows the adventures of its titular character Milky, a slave owned by the black man Theo, who enjoys tormenting him in between having fun with the PAWGs chained up in his basement. It’s dark, funny, and after you read it, you’ll never look at jujubes the same way again.

“Food for Thought” by Anagha Subhash

As Glahn points out in his best-of list, one issue with outsider writers is that they tend towards depravity. I love reading about venereal diseases and white dwarves getting the shit kicked out of them as much as the next man, but it does get tiring after a while.

“Food for Thought” is a significant departure from Terror House’s usual fare: a story about one girl’s favorite dish. I’ve said for years that a talented writer can talk about the dumbest shit imaginable and still make it entertaining, and Anagha Subhash’s essay is proof of that: after reading it, I was craving a fatayer so badly that I went down to the only Lebanese restaurant in Budapest to get one.

“Was Her Resting?” by Kirk Forlatt

Terror House has published a few Southern Gothic pieces, but this is by far my favorite. The tale of an old man, his dog, and some robbers, I challenge you to not shed a tear at the ending. Forlatt’s sparse prose and attention to detail sell the story.

“Fetish” by Benjamin Welton

Benjamin Welton specializes in contemporary horror stories that take advantage of “negative space,” allowing readers to fill in the blanks and speculate about the motives and fates of his characters. “Fetish” is my personal favorite of his work so far, focusing on a trophy wife, her husband’s foot fetish, and her paranoia over his potential cheating.

“Helené Brooks” by Edward Shaw

Edward Shaw is another regular writer at Terror House, penning stories known for their sudden twists and surreal atmospheres. This story, about a young man searching for a present for his girlfriend in 1950’s San Francisco and his run-in with a sultry older woman, is my personal favorite of his.

“Sugar-Plum Fearless” by Soren James

I’m not even sure what the fuck this story is supposed to be, other than that I like it. It starts with a private eye pissing his pants because he’s too senile to remember how to unzip, then he has a philosophical discussion with a dwarf while he chops up the corpse of a tranny hooker in his bathtub. Seriously, read it.

NEET by Calvin Westra

I’ve been friends with Calvin for years and in that time, I’ve watched him mature into one of the best writers of our generation. NEET, an eight-part novella about a jobless junkie who gets bullied by a monster made out of cans, is his best work to date. Calvin has truly mastered the art of doing less with more, as he effortlessly narrates the life of Ben and how he is ridiculed by his dealer, patronized by his mother, and mocked by the can monster.

“If You Love Something” by Brian Eckert

Brian Eckert holds the distinctions of being the first writer to submit to Terror House and the first winner of our Best of the Month Award. “If You Love Something” is his most recent story for us and one of his best, a moving tale about a loveless nerd who makes his fantasies into reality, in a similar fashion as Jimmy Stewart’s character in Vertigo. In contrast to the black comedy of “Standing Arrow Straight” and the surreal “Nagasaki Boy,” “If You Love Something” is almost tender, a love story for a world in which God is dead.

“Last Days and Testament” by Nick Willis

“Last Days and Testament” is a story about the archetypal modern man: a man with no family, no friends, no love life, no fulfilling job, and nothing to live for aside from jerking off. It’s a common story, one that we’ve heard before, but Willis narrates it with humor and clarity.

“Self-Destruction” by Ikhnaton Skypeople

I’ve made it clear in the past that I don’t care for most women writers, particularly young women: their lack of life experience and narcissism is unbearable. However, good women writers have one thing on men: they’re much better at capturing emotion itself, the swirling maelstrom of hormones and hindbrain impulses that afflict all humans but which men are less capable of understanding.

“Self-Destruction” is the kind of work that only a woman could have written. A patchwork tale of one woman’s descent into alcoholism and ruin, “Self-Destruction” is told through a combination of first-person accounts, emails, and MySpace postings, detailing the unraveling of Allie’s life in graphic, unflinching detail.

“Conjugal Bloodbath” by Bronze Age Chad

One of the secrets of Terror House’s success is that we’re not pretentious. We’ll publish traditional-style fiction and poetry, but we’ll also publish works that no other literary magazine would touch…such as a story depicting Richard Spencer and James Fields as prison lovers. Published shortly after Fields’ murder conviction, “Conjugal Bloodbath” is a stinging satire of the alt-right.

“Win” by the Juju Writers’ Collective

Last month, as an experiment, Glahn created an open-access Google Document, inviting anyone and everyone to collectively write a short story. “Win” is the result: a story about an Indian chief shitting into an octoroon’s mouth, then raping him so hard that his intestines prolapse. Depending on your perspective, it’s either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever.

I’d like to thank not only those of you who have read and supported Terror House Magazine since its inception, but those of you who’ve followed my own work over the years. Stay tuned, because 2019 is going to be the biggest year yet.