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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.
The Girl in the Tower. Content Warning.
Back so soon, are you, Traveler? I can't say I'm surprised. Truly we are kindred spirits, as you also have a hunger for the macabre. Worry not, Dear Friend, for I have plenty stories left to tell. Settle in now by the fire, and listen well: this one I've prepared just for you.
By Natalie Gray5 months ago in Horror
Through a Glass, Darkly
I was sitting cross-legged on the couch, scrolling mindlessly through my phone, when the notification sliced through the silence. Chloe. I opened it without a second thought—until I saw the image attached. My breath hitched. A wave of vertigo crashed over me, so sudden and violent I had to grip the armrest to steady myself.
By محمد السبكي5 months ago in Horror
When the Dead Walked
The world as I knew it ended the day the dead began to walk. It started small, almost unnoticed—a strange virus spreading through remote villages, isolated cases reported on the news. At first, it seemed like another headline to scroll past, a weird flu, a localized epidemic. But then the reports escalated: people attacking their friends and family with unnatural ferocity, bodies reanimating after death, relentless and hungry.
By Hamad Haider5 months ago in Horror
The Swirling Black
The swirling black. It was as if the light had gone out forever. Had the sun given out its last breath or was I on the other side. Was it my vision no longer recognised or was able to receive reality. I was there, alone, scared and in the darkest night I’d ever known. It might be day for all I knew. My past reality had gone forever.
By Nigel Sanders5 months ago in Horror
Again
Again Memory breaks. Reality repeats By Joey Raines The toilet handle had been broken so long that it had become part of the house. A crooked piece of metal, hanging uselessly, unmoving. For weeks, he ignored it. For months, he allowed it to remain the same. Until one night, he finally decided to fix it.
By Joey Raines5 months ago in Horror
5 Minute Horror: Mother’s Ghost
The house is quieter now. I sit in your rocking chair and recall the sound of your voice echoing through the halls, down the stairs, to my bedroom. The way you hummed while washing the dishes in the sink. I think about your smile as you stirred a pot of spaghetti, telling me how you saw a chef on the TV do something you too wanted to try. This house is empty, but the creak of the rocking chair against the wooden floor staves off the silence. It’s a numbing kind of comfort, focusing on the back and forth, back and forth.
By Valerie Taylor5 months ago in Horror
Voices
It’s a demon, he thought. It has to be. For the past week, he had had migraine-like headaches which he believed was a supernatural occurrence. This spirit, had gained entry to his mind, and now it wanted to get out, but it couldn’t, so banged away at his skull in an attempt to find an exit, rather like a spider in a bath, unaware of the plughole from which it came. He took all the pills he could without overdosing, but they didn’t work. He tried to convince himself that the voice inside was his own conscience, but concluded that a demon had taken over, and demanded to be let out. It didn’t possess him enough to control his actions, but it still resided in his mind.
By John Jones5 months ago in Horror
