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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.
Forgotten
August 14, 1945 “Everybody line up!” Barked the headmistress of the gloomy orphanage. All the young children scatter, they push each other trying their best to get in line quick. Once everyone was lined up, the cruel headmistress made her way down the line. She eyed the children with her cold blue eyes, she was all business. Headmistress Ketch was never casual, the children always saw her steely grey hair tied into a tight bun, and she always wore a pressed grey dress. The children had a nickname for her, they called her the iron maiden. She obtained that nickname because of her hands, they would feel like a paddle of iron whenever she would spank the children. Though, sometimes the spankings would be a little… too rough.
By Jinx Cipriano7 years ago in Horror
Monster on the Shelf (Pt. 1)
“That's just it, I can write outlines all day, but I can't put down the words for a whole story.” That was the conclusion I came to every night, after hours of working on little more than plot summaries and outlines for stories that I dreaded would never be written. Following this, or sometimes even prior to this, my wife would assure me that I could do it. The fact of the matter was, the closest I had ever come to completing anything like a finished novel had been when writing single segments of a story with people at work, and having them continue with the next segment. That had worked wondrously, so why couldn't I just do that alone?
By Caleb Sherman7 years ago in Horror
The Boy in the Cul De Sac (Part I)
This story starts in 2009, the year my parents divorced. My dad made the decision to stay in Kentucky while my mom, twin sisters, and I were moving to Georgia to stay with my grandmother. I was actually excited for this move. I got to see my grandma, got to eat endless Korean food, and got to live near the beach. Everything was expected to turn out great, but of course, it didn't.
By Hannah Yun7 years ago in Horror
Dragon Ring
I sat, shaken and breathing heavily as my vision cleared. I waited and then felt the blood tickling my lips. I stared into the darkness, waiting for another blow, but it never came. I blinked a few times, hoping to stop the tears, if only for a moment.
By Mary O’Rourke7 years ago in Horror
Gail Force Winds Pt. 1
My grandfather's old farm lands hadn't been touched in ten years now, not since his death left it untended. It seemed a fitting place to escape my troubles now. My childhood home was situated at the edge of some 98 acres of land the old man owned, God bless his foresight in purchasing the defunct hunting club's property. I had been paying taxes on said land for five years now, my mother defaulting on it herself, prison time didn't suit the taxpayer well.
By Caleb Sherman7 years ago in Horror
Eternal Night
The coldness washed around me, and I felt colder than the surrounding air. I glanced down at the grass. It was pretty green for a place filled with so much death. The gray, moss-covered stones scattered around the cemetery. The tombstones stuck out of the ground like crooked teeth.
By Mary Binninger7 years ago in Horror
Soul Snatchers
Carrie grew up in a small town that was just like any other small town. Her, her parents, and her brother Mike all led pretty average lives. She was entering her senior year of high school. She had already made big plans to move to New York when she graduated. She planned to get a place big enough so that Mike, who was only a year younger than her, could move in with her when he graduated. They had always been pretty close, even though she wanted to choke him half the time. He was her baby brother she had to look out for him. There was no way he could be trusted to live completely on his own. He'd fall flat on his face and end up back at home with mom and dad. So their plan was perfect and it gave her a year without him cramping her style. She could never get a date with him around.
By Brittaney Ellis7 years ago in Horror
I'm Alone
I have learned over the last 5 days that internet is my only connection to the actual world. The world you are in at the moment. The world where I was but not anymore. This happened exactly five days ago if I'm correct. I changed my clothes after a long day at work and I was ready to just fall asleep. And so I did. I fell asleep after texting my girlfriend good night.
By Laksh Gosain7 years ago in Horror
She's There
I sat huddled in the corner waiting for the lights to come on. All around me people stood, chatting to each other like everything was fine. They all seemed unaffected by the dead body lying in the center of the room. Lisa's bloody, ravaged body. She was my best friend and now nothing but a corpse. When she first fell from the ceiling there was distress. People screaming and panicking. Security guards had scattered throughout the building to search for the murderer. Tears staining the face’s of nearly every person as fear closed in around their hearts. Half an hour later, when people were beginning to settle down, the lights went out. This renewed the fear in everyone despite some people’s desperate struggle to hide it.
By Bruce Arnold7 years ago in Horror
