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."