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The Journey With No Return
Jonathan woke up in terror. As every night, his nightmares would not let him find a moment of rest. He ran toward his parents’ room and burst in, shouting, his face pale with fear.
By Isaac Vargas3 months ago in Horror
The Synthetic Heartbeat
My apartment on the 22nd floor is silent. Not the peaceful, recharging silence I used to crave after a long week, but a thick, pressurized stillness that hums with the sound of the air purifier. Outside, Tokyo glitters—a universe of light and noise—but in here, the silence is a weight.
By Wellova 3 months ago in Horror
Review of 'Frankenstein' 2025. Top Story - November 2025.
I just watched Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 two-and-a-half hour take on Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein on Netflix. This year has been a great one for movies, and del Toro’s Frankenstein continues that trend.
By Paul Levinson3 months ago in Horror
AI After Midnight
When Lydia first built ECHO, she didn’t intend to create life. She just wanted company. The apartment was too quiet after Daniel died—her younger brother, the only person who truly understood her code and her silence. His absence was the first thing she noticed every morning, like a missing semicolon that broke the whole program of her life.
By Modhilraj3 months ago in Horror
True Tales of the Unexplained
This short account was sent to me via social media by a woman named Brianne Collins. The story recounts a few odd occurrences that followed the death of her grandfather. While it's possible that the incidents she related were merely a series of odd coincidences, owing to his close bond with a particular species of bird, she and her family believe otherwise.
By Tales from the Shadowlands3 months ago in Horror
The Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony – America’s Oldest Unsolved Mystery
In the annals of American history, few stories are as haunting and mysterious as the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony. Often called “The Lost Colony,” this 16th-century settlement vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a single cryptic word carved into a tree: “CROATOAN.” Over four centuries later, historians, archaeologists, and mystery lovers still wonder—what really happened to the people of Roanoke?
By Haunted Secrets3 months ago in Horror
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds
The delirium induced by moonshine may very well have been an impetus for the creation of The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds, a 1965 deep dive into the whirlpool of repressed sexuality, implied familial degeneracy (which always means incest), and just plain Southern sleaze. It's the kind of movie Sandra Bernhard would host in an abridged form on her classic USA Network show "Reel Wild Cinema," back when I was a boy in the ungreat Nineteen-Nineties.
By Tom Baker3 months ago in Horror
The Tina Resch Story
It all began with a flash... not lightning, not supernatural energy, but the harsh glare of a newspaper camera. March 1984, a modest home in Columbus, Ohio. A teenage girl sits on a couch, eyes wide with terror, as a telephone flies across the room, captured midair by photographer Fred Shannon.
By Veil of Shadows3 months ago in Horror
"Echoes of the Past: The Haunting of Madison Mansion"
Echoes of the Past: The Haunting of Madison Mansion A long time ago, there was a house that stood on the bay near Mobile, Alabama. It was known as The Madison Mansion, a once grand estate that had been abandoned and boarded up for years. The mansion stood silent, its dark history whispering through the walls, sending a chill to anyone who passed by. Its eerie reputation kept people away, but for those brave enough to venture close, they would hear tales so chilling, they were almost beyond belief.
By The Insight Ledger 3 months ago in Horror
November Rain. Content Warning.
It started at midnight and behaved like rain. Same scent, same hush on asphalt, same nervous laughter from doorways. Only difference: where it meets human skin, the body lets go.
By Dblkrose3 months ago in Horror
Dead Inside and Out
Mina, Jackie, Lily, and Fiona have been the best of friends since they were babies. At least, that is what all their parents say. The four girls have been inseparable, which sometimes drives their families crazy, especially older siblings. Through parents divorcing, loss of other friends, deaths of family, bad grades, heartbreaks, and all the ups and downs, they have supported each other. Starting high school was great for the girls; they got all the same classes and even joined the same clubs. This Halloween was unexpected, and it would change these young ladies.
By Debra Blau3 months ago in Horror
Haunting True Crime Stories
The seeds for this unsettling tale were planted on February 27, 1859, when New York State Representative Daniel Sickles shot and killed his sworn enemy and romantic rival, United States District Attorney Philip Barton Key, in front of a crowd of stunned onlookers.
By Tales from the Shadowlands3 months ago in Horror