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Horror fiction that delivers on its promise to scare, startle, frighten and unsettle. These stories are fake, but the shivers down your spine won't be.

Foster Family
Thirteen year old Jessie didn’t look back as they drove away from the house where she had lived for the past seven years. Living with her abusive stepfather, it had never felt like a home, and now that she was leaving all she felt was relief. This time he’d gone too far. Her mother was in a coma in the local hospital and it wasn’t known if she would wake up. For now, he was being charged with attempted manslaughter but that could change depending on the outcome. She didn’t care what happened to him. Her heart squeezed when she thought of her mother and a single tear rolled down her face; but hadn’t she allowed that man into their lives? She had invited him in and allowed him to behave the way he did. She was supposed to protect her child and she allowed it to happen. The bitterness and blame was too strong and, as sad as it made her, she couldn’t forgive her mother for exposing her to that evil man and everything she had endured in the last seven years.
By EthelBella5 years ago in Horror
A Stranger in Kentucky
The hazy winter sky of Winston blushed, as the sun set. Winston was a small unincorporated community smack-dab in the middle of Kentucky, where nothing much happened at all. Decrepit farms littered the margins, and at the town’s center stood a baptist church, with a cemetery in the back. There was also a gas station, a small grocery store, and a burger joint. If you needed something else, you had to go to Lexington.
By Daniela Bishop5 years ago in Horror
The River Hymn
The sky is a ghost, stretching all around her. Zo imagines she has been swallowed up by the spirit of a whale, one that knows the way back home. She can see twice the length of her own body in every direction before whisps of white cloud her vision. Her skin is cool and wet but her throat is scratched dry from screaming out for her parents. Last she saw them, they were standing on the hill that separates the flat valley from the river. They told her not to walk towards it, and she wanted to listen, but another voice was louder and more beautiful.
By Kasey Rae5 years ago in Horror
The Tattoo
Like most teenage boys, I believed that I was a wolf, not a sheep. And, like most teenage boys I was wrong. I was very much a follower.
By Diego Ramos5 years ago in Horror
The Quiet of the Sea
I had already walked the length of the shingle beach, the grey misty November morning shrouding the horizon and making sea and sky seem as one entity. Beneath my boots the pebbles slipped and shifted, making walking more a case of balance than of speed, but I wasn't in a hurry. The seafront itself was quiet, most people being at work, or tucked up in one of the cottages that led down to the shore, where wood smoke hung lazily in the damp air, mixing with the ever present scent of the sea.
By Traith5 years ago in Horror
Post-Mortems and Taxidermy
“I take it you’ve done some post-mortems in your studies?” “Uh, yes I have, Sir,” he paused as he pulled the latex gloves over his hands. “I also had an uncle who taught me how to do taxidermy,”
By Stephi5 years ago in Horror
Fickle, valuable thing
Calming darkness. It pulls her under the water with its ripples. At the end of the tunnel the light will come, and reveal what is on the other side. What is on the other side? She doesn’t know yet, nor does anyone know unless they have been on the other side before. The light grows larger. Opening like the sequence of an old cartoon reel. She waits in anticipation for what she was about to see.
By Luna Sole5 years ago in Horror
The Farm House
It was raining. A soft rain one might say, and in the distance a woman's silhouette could be seen as she put a candle on the window sill as a welcome sign to her lover.
By Ashlee Williams5 years ago in Horror
The Price of Knowledge
To truly understand what drove the design behind that feckless abomination, I dove headlong into most ancient and forbidden tomes. Within the books, covers wrought with withered flesh and sinister insanities scribed in bileous blood, I stumbled upon the means to divine the location of a ritual site that would illuminate the hideous, shadowy truths brooding away in places best forgotten by the release of death.
By Harry Fennessy5 years ago in Horror
Emily Is Typing
"Please pick up your phone." "I’m sorry. Grant just walked in." "Why didn’t you break up with him last night like you said you would?"
By Cat the Autist5 years ago in Horror
Trapped in the Where
Awakening Ever so slowly, eyes open to the dark room. Momentary confusion is overtaken by hunger. Covers are thrown aside and legs swing around until feet touch the floor. One unsteady yawn and a labored effort has them standing upright. A few steps are taken and then a sudden halt.
By Timothy A Rowland5 years ago in Horror
The House Guests
Stepping over tree roots and pushing branches out of her way, Claudia hollered over her shoulder, “It’s just a little further, guys!” “You’ve said that 10 times now.” A voice called back, slightly irritated. She looked back at Jason and Olivia stumbling behind her as they tried to keep up without falling flat on their faces. “It’s going to be worth it, trust me.” “You said that already, too,” mumbled Jason. The three of them had been best friends since the fourth grade, and Jason and Olivia had become used to Claudia’s adventurous spirit. But sometimes she went a little too far, and this was starting to feel like one of those times. Claudia insisted that trekking out into the woods to explore an old condemned house would be the highlight of their Halloween, especially since it would be the last one they’d have together. The three of them were going their separate ways for university, and it was going to be the first time they’d been separated for longer than a weekend. Claudia was adamant on making it the most memorable Halloween they would have together. And it was keeping her mind off of the fact that she was devastated the three would be ripped apart. “Fucking life,” Claudia said under her breath as she thought about the future. “At least we have right now.”
By Amanda Gail5 years ago in Horror