Part I It was the siren that woke him, though the sound at first didn’t register as real. It wormed its way into his half-dreaming consciousness, a drawn-out wail that ebbed and surged, pitching awkwardly between mournful and mechanical. Dennis blinked against the dark, lifting his...
Part I The lower levels of Ashford High had been sealed off years ago, after a pipe burst during a particularly harsh winter and flooded the basement with rancid water. Mold took root, the ceilings sagged, and several classrooms on the lowest floor were condemned. Since...
Part I I’ve spent most of the last year convincing myself that what happened wasn’t my fault. But when I close my eyes, when I let myself really think—really remember—I always end up in the same place: the sound of metal screaming against asphalt, the smell...
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...
The air in the Rockies had a way of slipping into your lungs, cool and clean, before settling in your chest. Eric drew in a long breath, savoring it. His hiking boots crunched over a gravel-strewn path as he wound his way through the woods...
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...
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...
Part I I never told a soul about what happened that night forty years ago. Not the whole truth, anyway. That day, I signed my name on a stack of papers handed to me by men who didn’t ask me to understand what I was agreeing to—only...
After the tragic death of his wife, Sam Rivers hopes that a fresh start in a secluded cottage will help him and his son, Elliot, heal. But when the whispers from the fireplace begin, and Elliot starts speaking of dark things he shouldn’t know, Sam...
Welcome to the The Party at Hollow Ridge. You’re about to make choices shaping how this night unfolds. Will you stay with your friends or venture into the unknown? THE CHOICE IS YOURS. ...
Part I Claire Dorsey wasn’t expecting to stumble onto a mystery that evening. She had just been scrolling through old newspaper archives, looking for a simple human-interest piece—a nostalgia article, maybe, about the oldest stores in town. That’s when she found it. The photo was black and...
Act 1: The Dare I still remember the way the ruins looked that night—jagged, blackened stone silhouetted against the moon, like a broken row of teeth. Even now, over fifty years later, I can still smell the ash, feel the rough edges of the foundation beneath my fingers,...
Act 1: The Fever Begins The fever had been hammering me for three days straight. I was too weak to get out of bed, too sore to sleep, and too congested to breathe properly. Every muscle in my body ached, the inside of my throat felt...
When Daniel Grayson joins a groundbreaking experiment designed to eliminate sleep through sensory deprivation, he expects to push the boundaries of human cognition. But as the experiment progresses, strange occurrences—whispers, missing time, and distorted spaces—begin to unravel their reality. As one participant disappears without a...
When Rory awakens from cryogenic sleep, he expects a brighter future. Instead, he finds himself in a world where hyper-intelligent cats have enslaved humanity. Forced into servitude under feline overlords, Rory quickly learns that humans are little more than disposable labor in Meowtopia. But not...
Eliza Harper is drowning in grief, her life reduced to routine and isolation after losing her father, uncle, and sister. But when she discovers a mysterious seed in her greenhouse lab, everything changes. By morning, a vine has erupted through her apartment ceiling, stretching into...
Drawn by the lure of an unsolved mystery, Elena Vaughn follows the rhythmic ticking of unseen clockwork deep into the woods of Black Hollow, Colorado. What she finds is a nightmare of shifting streets, grotesque masquerades, and debt collectors who deal in time itself. Marked...
When a janitor takes a job at The Canterbury Arms, an aging apartment complex with a growing number of vacant units, he begins hearing rumors about the resident of Apartment 3A. The old man never speaks, never moves, and never stops grinning. At first, the...
Part I I drove slowly down Maple Crescent, trying to ignore the tightness in my chest. Every house looked the same—two-story colonials painted in varying shades of beige, gray, and white, all with manicured lawns and identical mailboxes perched at the curb. It was the kind...
