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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.
Don't lose your teeth on Halloween
I never understood, when I was a young child, why we lived by the rule. No child under the age of ten was allowed to eat candy apples on Halloween. Not just candy apples–no taffy candy, no hard caramels, not even regular apples were safe. Because of this, trick-or-treating became an old folktale we never got to experience; instead, we celebrated the holiday in costumes with sugary drinks and zombie-themed dinners. This was a tradition for the people who lived near Lake Berryessa.
By Anjolene Bozeman 4 years ago in Horror
Deep Dive
I knew we were in trouble when the current pushed us further and further away from shore as we frantically paddled toward it. I knew we were in bigger trouble when a wave hit me just wrong, and the kayak flipped. The taste of seawater filled my mouth as I fought my way back to the surface of the icy water.
By Katt Kantack4 years ago in Horror
Weaponizing Water
“Dad, are we there yet? Are we there ye—” “Mom, Johnny’s being annoying again, tell him to stop!” Sneering at his elder sister, the boy looked outside his tinted windows to catch glimpses of trees and shadows as they whipped past their car, leaving them far, far behind.
By Jesse Leung4 years ago in Horror
Killer Lovin: episode 6
Rick wraped the tape mesure around his waste as he looked at himself in the mirror. He'd thought back to last week, good enough, he had to at least be passable. Rick looked at the tape mesure frustrated, an inch, he'd only lost an inch. He peered at the medication he'd been taking, slight anger filling his heart as he chucked it back in the cubord. sleepiness, light headedness, all for what? an inch.
By Qwill R. Brennan4 years ago in Horror
Its just a horsefly: chapter 5
she looked around the wide space of white around her, panic filled her brain as she sat on the ground. where was she? who was she? John, where did John go. she stood herself up wandering the wide feild of white around her. A group of men sat in the white, two playing a never-ending chess game. two playing golf, one sat alone turning the pages of a blank book. Vivian tapped the man's shoulder.
By Qwill R. Brennan4 years ago in Horror
The Blowhole he Fell Into
Day 1 Nathan is an idiot and nothing is going to convince me otherwise. First of all, he made me watch this Netflix movie which he swore was the best thing since frozen yogurt. Then after I complained, he told me my obsessive need to see horror movies or to read horror books is unhealthy.
By Eta George4 years ago in Horror
The Mysterious Creature of the Lake
My family and I were on the road, heading towards our family cabin to spend another summer vacation. Our family-owned cabin was in California and was surrounded by dense forest and a large lake. It was right next to the lake which also had a dock where my dad kept his boat to go fishing. I’m 15 years old now and honestly, I always hated going to the cabin because the lake near there always gave me a bad vibe. I remember seeing something late at night either entering the lake or coming out of it. I always told my parents, but they would just laugh and say I was just dreaming or I just had a nightmare. We haven’t been up here in a few years due to the fires that always plagued the forest when summer came. It seemed like every year they got worse so we decided to take a break going for safety reasons. I remember the first year the fire got kinda close to our cabin; however, somehow the fire never actually reached it but got diverted elsewhere. Thinking back to that year, I believe it had something to do with that lake. Actually not just that one year, but every year that there was a wildfire our cabin and the woods nearby never got touched by any of the fires. My parents always thought it to be out of luck or that God was protecting our cabin but I believe that the lake had something to do with it.
By Alicia Metcalf4 years ago in Horror
Clever Hans
The Hans Council, which included three zoologists, two psychologists, a circus trainer, a cavalry officer, and a Catholic as well as a Protestant priest, had been unable to disprove the rumor. Hans, a horse, could count. What’s more, he was able to answer sums, multiply, divide, and tell the date and time—all of which he communicated by tapping his front left hoof. These feats had been performed not only in collaboration with Hans’s trainer, Herr von Osten, but under experimental conditions as well, and to the great astonishment of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in a demonstration in Berlin on August 23rd of 1904. Thus it was recommended at the highest levels of the Prussian state that a group of specialists convene to discover the full extent of the horse’s abilities.
By Willa Chernov4 years ago in Horror
