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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.
A Normal Life...?
What happened that night, you ask? Nothing. Nothing at all. In fact, so little happened that night that no one even cared to mention it the following morning. No words, no conversations, just grunts, coffee, breakfast, and Redbull. Such was the morning after a night of alcohol.
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in Horror
Sabrina Gets Her Witch On
It seemed to stare at her, fixated, with unblinking eye. It is inanimate, inorganic – a thing. But there it is on the table. A small black book. The kind for keeping contact information. The kind for random scribbling. College ruled pages neatly ordered between the black moleskin covers. A red silk bookmark tip protrudes from the end. A world of unlimited possibilities awaits.
By James Ziesel5 years ago in Horror
Don't Touch The Book
“Don’t touch the book.” These words wrung through my skull over and over as I sat in the aftermath of what it had done. Let me start at the beginning. My husband and I had spent six years of our lives, scrimping and saving every penny we could to save up for a home outside of the humdrum, lifelessness of the city. Now, the city is not so bad a place, but the city was not preferable for backwoods type kids.
By Rachael Hugghins5 years ago in Horror
The Contest
The Contest I should have never entered that contest. I should have walked past the entry table and pretended never to have seen it. It ruined my life. I have lost everything. The love of my life. My family. My best friend........everything that mattered. All because of random guess in a random contest at my local bank.
By Leslie Moore5 years ago in Horror
Embracing Death
She smiled through the pain, said her goodbyes, and turned off the camera. Another day of assignments...another day of staring at the same four walls. It had been like this for months, her phone and laptop the only ties to the outside world. Things as she knew them to be had ceased to exist and being as lonely as she was, depression hit like a tidal wave. She stopped watching the news after a while, the death toll steadily rising was too much for her. She could practically feel all the death that swept through the nation. She glances at the same four walls of her tiny apartment with a bit of resentment. She’s a prisoner in her own home.
By Life of Kye5 years ago in Horror
The Book of Lesath
Like most young women living in metropolitan areas, whose city lights rival the sky’s constellations, Capella found herself sitting across from a spiritual medium during one of her darkest hours. She paid the woman to read her future with tarot cards. The medium told her in a voice flattened by repetition, “The door to the future is the heart. I just look through the keyhole.”
By Melissa McElhose5 years ago in Horror
Ghost Hunting
How many dollars is a life-changing amount? If we ask twenty people that question, we might get twenty answers. A rich guy may not notice an extra million dollars. To a homeless guy on a cold night, eighty bucks for a motel room and a meal can mean he'll live to struggle another day. It turns out my number, the one that makes the money life-changing, is twenty thousand.
By Brenda Loeffler5 years ago in Horror
Librong Itim (Black Book)
I hear loud whispers in the closet. Not again, the childhood fears of a monster hidden in the dark making an irrational comeback. Would the revelation of the supernatural really scare me? I decide what I could never do as a kid: get the first foot down on the dark floor. I feel a sense of pride mixed with utter fear as the next foot meets the cold darkness. I stand up and there’s a part of me that thinks this might be my end. The shadow of a hand will reach from under the bed and I’ll be gone. Gone where? I don’t know. But I’ll be gone.
By Natasha Garrido Rains5 years ago in Horror
