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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 Cabin
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. It wasn’t close enough for neighbors to see the small sputter of the flame, hidden deep in the wooded mountains of Oregon, but he took precautions with his arrival anyway. They had guided him to the location; not really as a physical place but more of a feeling of where he was supposed to be. He’d even known about the candle, casting a glow a few feet around it. It tried to make the place a bit warmer, more inviting, as if someone lived there, but he knew only they lived there.
By Keeleigh White4 years ago in Horror
Wick
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Bleak wooden walls stand tall towards the ceiling. The window was frosted over. The candle was depleted, only lit at its base. A sound of wailing crawled through the rotting walls and out into the open night air. A shutter rolls over my body. "It's just the cold," a whisper meant to ease me from this horrible nightmare.
By Zach Harwood 4 years ago in Horror
Nightfall Hollow
“The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window....” It can be said that there is no such thing as there being a haunted house by those that had never fully experienced there being such a thing. It has been said that there is a cabin in the woods, said to be haunted. Based in legend, one would soon learn the real nature of how powerful hauntings can be. And how deadly!
By Jonathan Hinternish4 years ago in Horror
Candle Makers Cabin
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. An ominous candle, that burned constantly without so much as a flicker. Such a strange occurrence was disregarded by most; that is until people of the nearby town discovered that one of the young teens had gone missing in the woods and had not yet returned. The people gathered together and searched the woods; two people even searched that old abandoned cabin, but with no luck, they were forced to give up their search. A few years went by and gradually the people of that town forgot about the missing child, though rumors of that abandoned cabin grew. They warned of devils and fairy tale goblins that lived within that cabin that preyed on young children who carelessly wandered where they were not welcome.
By Eagleye de Spark4 years ago in Horror
The Summons
He was running. Not to anywhere in particular, unless you consider 'safety' a location. But safety was an ever-more-elusive destination. All that mattered at the moment was to not stop for anything. Not the fallen tree, not the stones, not the bodies. Especially not the bodies. He kept his head up, his eyes forward, and he didn't stop. He ducked, leaned, jumped, rolled, and did everything he could to preserve his momentum, because he did not want to find out what would happen if he stopped.
By Jerrod Reader4 years ago in Horror
Cathy in the Crawlspace
Cathy tossed the remnant butt of her Pall Mall Orange cigarette to the brittle grass and began twisting the knob to the lock of the crawl space. A former lock from a high-school locker – one she was given by her son, Jeremy, after he graduated – secured the crawl space; its door composed of old, cracked, white-painted wood. It was a little rusted, and didn’t like to work. She continued tugging at it, twisting the knob into the location she knew was correct. She tugged at the lock, but it was no use. She yanked it again in childish frustration.
By Robert Pettus4 years ago in Horror
