psychological
Mind games taken way too far; explore the disturbing genre of psychological thrillers that make us question our perception of sanity and reality.
The Dream
The two brown French doors eagerly await my arrival. “I can’t believe I’m doing this…” I say beneath my breath. A few gentle taps and the doors swing open welcoming me with open arms. “Ahhh Corbin!” A tall woman in a black pants suit says like she hasn’t seen me in ages. I ignore her misplaced greeting and get straight to business. “Look I need you to know I’m not crazy, ok doctor uhmm..” Her face fills with a smile that her cheeks can barely contain. “Please call me Lucy, and I don’t think you’re coming to therapy because you’re crazy.” She says with a playful pat on the back. She’s definitely one of those bubbly happy girls that always looks on the bright side. A damn rainbow hugger, it's enough to make me wanna punch her in her perfect teeth. “Why don’t you come in and tell me what’s bothering you.”
By Kenneth Boutte2 years ago in Horror
The Routine. Content Warning.
My eyes burst open. I’m covered in sweat. My wife sleeps soundly beside me. I creep out of bed and shower, viciously scrubbing my skin raw. I pull on socks, some slacks, a belt, a button-down shirt, and a tie. Downstairs, my wife, still in her pajamas, has made a pot of coffee. I pour the coffee into the same mug I’ve been using every day for the past decade and kiss her good-bye.
By Kevin McLaughlin2 years ago in Horror
The 6 most haunting ghosts of all time
The Bell Family Ghost: One of America's oldest ghost stories belongs to the Bell family on their farm in Tennessee in the 19th century. When John Bell, the family's breadwinner, He shot a strange animal, he couldn't determine what it was and it disappeared. Immediately after that, strange noises appeared. Strange things fall unexpectedly, animals on the farm behave strangely for no apparent reason, and family members are attacked by invisible forces. The event took place from 1817 - 1821 and is considered a classic ghost story. John Bell eventually passed away with a strange bottle of an unknown substance found on him.
By Ken Daklak2 years ago in Horror
At the Sheltering Doors. Top Story - May 2024.
The doors, they always scrambled for the doors first. When they arrive and always by night it was a race to desperately bar the creatures entry to the house in the slow crawl of numb feet that the dream would impose upon him. He never seemed fast enough and the creatures uninhibited by the same constraints always made the doors first. The houses in his dream-scapes vary night to night - Some are mansions, others shacks and some are distorted contortions of his childhood home which burned down when he was ten. But the doors are always the same – frail, loose hinged and never could be fully shut. The creatures too vary – twisted and corrupted forms of animals and people familiar to him: family dogs preternaturally swollen to twice their size with rotting coats of mange and slicked damp with dark liquids of decay. The people too were bloated vestiges of ones vaguely familiar to him but whose names escape him. Their eyes gorged wide with dark blood which streaked their mottled faces in crusted trails like lost rivers which hung from their chins swinging in ropy columns beneath paling yellowed teeth. To let them break through would mean death. This he knew with grave certainty. At the door was desperation and panic as their stench emanated forth, sickly and pungent like vomit and mold and ending in a gruesome exhalation like cancer, the stench sticky and clinging invading his nostrils and lungs never to be expunged. Then in the sudden waking he never knew if he repelled them or not.
By Kevin Rolly2 years ago in Horror
America's First Poltergeist
Tucked up in the whispering pines of the Appalachian Mountains, the story of the Wizard Clip is a legend that makes the people in the area shudder. This isn't your normal ghost story where phantom characters appear. One American candidate for the earliest known poltergeist activity was The Wizard Clip, a cunning and destructive force whose terror reign confounded a nascent nation.
By Richard Weber2 years ago in Horror
11 scariest places in the world. Content Warning.
1. Manchac Marsh The gloomy atmosphere, mass graves, ferocious American alligators as well as ghostly shaped tree trunks are the characteristics that make Manchac Swamp in Louisiana known as one of the scariest places in the world.
By Ken Daklak2 years ago in Horror
