It wasn’t my fault that Albie went into the lost mine. I keep telling myself that. I guess if I really believed it, I wouldn’t have gone in after him. It was my fault that he had the lantern, after all. This all started on a...
Sarah stands in front of the house, staring up at the dirty windows and the sad roof. She remembers it looking very different, full of vibrant hues. She’s not sure whether it’s her memories coloring the paint a brighter shade of blue than it is...
I approached the Bucket of Blood pub from the other side of the street, waiting to cross after the Number 7 bus tore down the road. The neighborhood was quiet on this slow weekday afternoon, and this suited me just fine. I glanced up at the...
Part I Elliot Foster had never considered himself important enough to be noticed, let alone targeted. His work was dull, procedural—precisely the kind of job that ensured he remained anonymous in a world increasingly governed by algorithms and automated oversight. Each morning, he logged into his...
Part I Julian Webb had always prided himself on staying ahead of the curve. He wasn’t reckless—just forward-thinking. He kept himself in top physical condition, tracked every calorie, every rep, and every measurable sign of progress with obsessive precision. So when he learned about Inkai, he...
Part I The conference room at Argenesis Biotech was as sterile as a surgical suite, the kind of place designed to inspire confidence. A wall of glass separated the attendees from the laboratory beyond, where scientists in crisp white coats moved with quiet efficiency among sleek...
Every morning, the grave of Ken Kline is found disturbed, as if he has been climbing out in the dead of night. Pastor David Locklear isn’t one to believe in ghost stories, but when he sees Ken rise with his own eyes, he follows him—and...
On the last night of summer, three teenage boys dare each other to enter the infamous Crowder House, an abandoned mansion with a sinister reputation. What starts as a simple test of courage quickly turns into a fight for survival when they discover that something...
Trapped in a soul-crushing job, Sammi spends her days dealing with inconsiderate coworkers and a dismissive boss, desperate for an escape. But when her laptop mysteriously connects to a Wi-Fi network labeled "DO NOT CONNECT," she finds herself on a website that asks one simple...
When an ancient executioner’s hood arrives at the Pinehurst Historical Museum, it brings more than just history—it brings judgment. As staff and visitors experience disturbing phenomena, unease turns to horror when a man is found beheaded, his crime detailed on a centuries-old parchment. More...
When an antiquarian stumbles upon a long-lost manuscript at an estate sale, he believes he has found a mere relic of forgotten folklore. But The Nether Codex is no ordinary book. As he studies its cryptic passages, reality itself begins to shift around him—words change,...
Part I Scotty Stark had always been lucky. At least, that’s what people told him. His earliest memory was of a social worker sitting him down in a playroom with faded yellow walls, explaining in soft, careful words that his parents had died in a car...
Part I It had been a dry summer, and the wooden beams groaned with every shift of the wind, the scent of dust and old, rotting wood lingering in the air. August Dewalt listened carefully, adjusting the weight of the EVP recorder in his grip. His...
When twelve-year-old Tommy discovers a strange, leathery disc on his way home, he chalks it up to an odd curiosity—until it moves. Fascinated and unable to resist, he takes it home, unaware that he has just invited something alien into his world. As the object...
When Simon Fletcher moves into a quiet old house on Sycamore Street, he thinks he’s found a new beginning. But then the dreams start—visions of an altered version of his home, a shadowed figure at his window, and a whispered warning: Don’t let him in....
When Stephen Coolidge finds a corpse in his basement, he assumes it’s a terrible accident. But when new bodies continue to appear, with no sign of how they got there, he is drawn into a horrifying mystery that ties back to his own family’s past....
Part I It started with an ad. At the time, I wasn’t in a position to question good fortune, and $35 an hour for an overnight shift at a 24-hour diner wasn’t something a person in my situation ignored. I didn’t stop to ask why a tiny...
When paranormal investigators Wayne Carter and Wesley Hanlon livestream their exploration of Blackwood National Forest, they expect the usual cryptid-hunting thrills. Instead, they encounter something that watches, learns, and mimics—something that doesn’t just repeat words, but steals them. Days later, they’re found dead, their bodies...
When an unearthed mass grave in Brittany reignites whispers of an ancient curse, American expatriate Dick Darrel dismisses the town’s superstitions. But as unsettling events begin to unfold—an ominous visitor in the night, a chilling trail of blood, and a death’s-head moth fluttering in the...
Part I Melissa Brent had always feared heights. In the early days of their marriage, she had confessed to Lucas that just looking over a balcony railing made her palms sweat. It wasn’t the drop itself that unnerved her, but the sense of invitation—as though the edge...
