03 Mar

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Psychological Horror, Sounds and Voices, Space and Cosmic Horror, Suspense and Thrillers

Part I I have never been a superstitious man, and can honestly say that I do not believe in vampires, ghouls, demons, or anything else that those youngsters with their vivid imaginations and smartphones like to dream up. But there is one thing that happened a very...

12 Dec

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Psychological Horror, Sounds and Voices, Space and Cosmic Horror, Suspense and Thrillers

“No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.” John 3:13 CHAPTER 1 Devon, England. October 1991 The Duke’s Head pub had been derelict for two years now; boarded up, condemned; but no one missed it. It had never been a...

08 Dec

Posted at 11:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Beings and Entities, Dark Fantasy, Demons and Possession, Folklore and Folktales, Jobs and Occupations, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors, Slashers and Gore, Suspense and Thrillers

His name was Connor. Dustin Connor, but he never went by that name. Some called him Con or Connor. I called him Mr. Connor. Mr. Connor was the bravest and most imposing man that I and many have ever known. He stood well over six feet...

13 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Folklore and Folktales, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Psychological Horror, Sounds and Voices, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers

James was an eight-year-old boy with the heart of a dog and the energy of a hummingbird. His mother died when he was only five, so he lived with his grandmother, Babcia. They were very poor: their house was a tiny, dilapidated thing, with a...

30 Apr

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Dreams and Nightmares, Folklore and Folktales, Insects, Spiders, and Parasites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Myths and Legends, Psychological Horror

The carpet smells of decay and mud as I flatten my face against the floor in an attempt to hide under our queen-sized bed. An incessant banging at the door resonates through my brain, feeling like I’m being impaled with an iron spike. Each knock slams...

23 Apr

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Illness and Injuries, Jobs and Occupations, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Rites and Rituals, Strange and Unexplained

The road is a light brown path of dirt that stretches up and down the shallow hills, running straight from end to end before becoming serpentine at its eastern end where it meets the main highway. Blades of grass struggle to break through but soon...

26 Feb

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Rites and Rituals, Slashers and Gore

My name is Mortimer Lipschitz. I know the name itself suggests otherwise, but I shit you not. That's really my name. I used to wish it wasn't. On all that's holy, I wished it wasn't. But I suppose that the name was never really the...

13 Mar

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained

Jack Mckay huddled in the cold midnight street with a pale green sleeping bag encasing his lower half. Spindled trails of light reflected off the gleaming roads from damp lampposts. But the cold wasn’t what gave Jack his nightly jitters—not by a long shot. The...

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