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Special effects may be lacking, but vintage horror films still manage to keep our palms sweating and blood pumping; a look back at retro horror films, stories, books and characters that prove everything is scarier in black and white.

Veil of Shadows — The Black Eyed Children: Modern Folklore’s Most Chilling Omen
The Knock You Regret Answering Imagine it’s late... past midnight, past reason. The house is quiet except for the hum of the fridge and the shifting sighs of old wood. Then: a knock at the door. Not frantic, not timid. Just steady. You hesitate, but curiosity wins. Through the glass of the front door you see two kids, maybe twelve or thirteen. Pale faces. Hoodies. Their posture is still, a little too still.
By Veil of Shadows4 months ago in Horror
The Seventh Door. AI-Generated.
Mara had never been afraid of storms, but the one that broke over Holloway that October night unsettled her. The wind shook the glass of her boarding house window, rattling the loose frame as though it wanted inside. She had been a tenant for only three weeks, and already she had grown used to the faint drafts, the creak of old beams, and the occasional knock of pipes.
By Aizaz Arshad4 months ago in Horror
Veil of Shadows — The Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblin Encounter: A Siege, Not an Abduction
Western Kentucky, August 21, 1955. Night air pressed heavy as a quilt. A farmhouse sat low under a sky alive with cicadas and heat lightning. Inside: family voices, a card game, the long comfort of a Sunday evening. Then the dog started growling at the tree-line; no bark, just a low warning like a rope pulled tight.
By Veil of Shadows4 months ago in Horror
Whispers in the Walls. AI-Generated.
The Old House Aisha had always loved abandoned places. Something about peeling wallpaper and creaking floorboards called to her curiosity. So, when her cousin dared her to spend a single night in the long-abandoned Al-Faris house at the edge of town, she accepted without hesitation.
By shakir hamid4 months ago in Horror
Dawn of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead is one of the most tedious horror films ever made—at over two hours, it seems like an interminable experience, shambling along like (if you’ll forgive us) the walking dead until the inevitable apocalyptic conclusion.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Horror
Echoes at Midnight
Echoes at Midnight The knock was sharp, deliberate — the kind that vibrated in the bones before the mind even registered the sound.
By Theodore Homuth4 months ago in Horror
Countin' Flowers
I sat at a long white table. At the head of it — dotted with dishes of food, all of them suspect. Was the stuff infected? Beside me, my grandfather — cold and dead in his grave for a vast number of years — sat oily and unshaven, wearing the suit they buried him in. He sweated into his plate but grinned nonetheless at me, as I watched something squirm beneath, on the bone-white china.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Horror
The House That Opens Itself : SEASON 1. Top Story - September 2025.
SEASON 1 CHAPTER 1 : The Door That Knew Her Name Suburban Maryland, USA - Willow Creek Housing Development - October 4th, 2021 - 9:47 PM
By Tales That Breathe at Night4 months ago in Horror
Veil of Shadows — The Dark Watchers of the Santa Lucia Mountains
Intro Narration: Figures on the Ridge The sun is dropping low on the California coast, red light bending through a haze of salt air and dry pine. You’re on a winding trail in the Santa Lucia Mountains, a line of switchbacks that seem to fold into each other forever. The silence is deep enough to feel staged... no bird calls, no wind, no trickle of water from the gullies. And then you see it.
By Veil of Shadows4 months ago in Horror
Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein
I once had a dream wherein two young children, hardly more than toddlers, in Victorian garb, moved around a sort of upstairs or attic room. They opened a trunk and found therein items of clothing—a cloak, a cap, a facial covering—that had once belonged to Joseph Carey Merrick, the famous "Elephant Man," the subject of the renowned play and David Lynch's classic film. Curious. I then had, a short time later, a curious "follow up," where the children were now pre-adolescent, and it was modern times. I believe they were in a church now. Similar trunk. Same items. They discussed it as if this was where "he had once lived." Merrick, I suppose.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Horror
The Creeping Horror of Vietnam: When Soldiers Faced More Than Just the Enemy
When we think of war, images of soldiers, weapons, and battles usually come to mind. But in Vietnam, the battlefield was far more complex. American troops weren’t just fighting the Viet Cong they were also fighting the land itself.
By Izhar Ullah4 months ago in Horror
Veil of Shadows — The Glimmer Man: The Military’s Invisible Stalker
Imagine walking a ridge road at dusk. The trees are beginning to blur into one another; chips of light etch the trunks in quick, accidental stripes. Your breath fogs in front of you. Somewhere in the undergrowth a branch snaps. A small, ordinary sound, and then the air itself seems to ripple, like heat over asphalt. Not a shape. Not a shadow. A thin, trembling seam of light where nothing should be. You feel your skin tighten, like the world just remembered you were there.
By Veil of Shadows4 months ago in Horror