25 Dec The Problem With the Drains
“Man, that shift sucks!” I hear it all the time. I can understand why people say it; I used to think the same thing. I still do some days. I’m one of the lucky people that go to work while everybody else is...
23 Dec Snow Day
Posted at 11:00h
in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Natural Disasters and Storms, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments
Jake Thomasson pulled the sleeve of his sweatshirt down, covering his hand, and wiped away the condensation from the window. It was the third time he had done this in the past ten minutes, but he didn’t want to miss seeing if any cars drove...
03 Dec Eastgate
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in Abductions and Kidnappings, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Investigations and Crimes, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids 1 Comment
Nobody believes in vampires. They’re just myths. Old folktales that have been bastardized by cinema, pulp horror and cheap romance. Done to death until they’re nothing but a cliché. Only children are afraid of them, which is a far cry from the fear they once...
01 Dec Hospitality
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in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Slashers and Gore, Survival Horror, Torture and Cannibalism 1 Comment
The snow had stopped about an hour ago, but god damn, it was still a treacherous road. Mark turned up the radio, half to keep himself awake, and half to try to hear the music through the interfering static. The mountains weren’t good for the...
27 Mar He Who Preys
My daughter Hannah had always had a fascination with bugs of all kinds. She collected them and kept them in a terrarium she insisted I buy for her when she was six. It was on a constant rotation as her interests changed; when she was...
13 Dec Leave Your Flashlights at Home
I’ve been a national park ranger for close to two decades. Protocols have changed a lot in that time. I write this just to try to keep people safe for the next time you venture to the big outdoors. Let me tell you about the last...
24 Jan He Who Wanders
I missed the scorching wind of Andalusia. How it pours sunlight onto your face, toying with eyelashes, flattening dry sand against cheeks and milling around hair. I missed the smell of the valley and that ripening softness of Muscat fluff glistening in the afternoon breeze. From...
22 Dec I Told You To Smile
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in Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Psychological Horror, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 1 Comment
It was the 2nd of January, 2:04 AM. I woke up to a knocking on the door. One knock every three seconds. I slipped on my slippers and walked down the stairs. As I walked down, the knocking on the door got faster, almost like...
15 Dec The Thing in the Window
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I’m pretty freaked out. That thing has been there for almost a week. The figure in the window. It looks featureless, only skin on a human frame, and it’s pressing itself against the glass somehow. I don’t know how it got there, and I don’t know...
12 Dec Man-Eater
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Richard Mayes had done well for himself. He and his wife had raised three beautiful boys, and they owned the biggest farm for miles around. No one had so many horses and sheep as he did. Each day he watched over his hundreds of chickens,...
01 Dec The Thing
There were two young boys named Trevor and Will. They spent most of their summer vacation hanging around town, looking for things to do. One hot August night, the boys were sitting on a fence by the main road. There was a cornfield just across the...
25 Nov The Cabin in the Woods (a.k.a. The Portraits)
There was a hunter in the woods, who, after a long day hunting, was in the middle of an immense forest. It was getting dark, and having lost his bearings, he decided to head in one direction until he was clear of the increasingly oppressive...
25 Nov The Staring Doll
Heather was at her friend Jenny’s house one afternoon. It was just after school and Jenny’s parents hadn’t arrived home from work yet. It was just the two of them, and they were engrossed in a board game. Heather was having a good time, except they...
11 Mar God’s Attic
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The boy heard the soft tinkle of a bell as he entered the shop. It was cool and dark inside; not at all what he had expected. Scattered around the small store were all sorts of items. Everything from teddy bears to cuckoo clocks could...