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The Three Sisters
Thirty years ago on a wet autumn evening the household of Mallett's Lodge was gathered round the death-bed of Ursula Mallow, the eldest of the three sisters who inhabited it.…
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One Squinting into the late afternoon sun, Mel swung her Toyota Camry around the corner and onto the Main Street of the small town. Trying to keep a firm hold…
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A Token of Gratitude
There's a certain impersonal charm to grocery stores. People pass each other, usually avoiding eye contact and cloaked in a security blanket of inconspicuousness. And the homeless that you often…
Read NowHow BEN Drowned Became One of the Internet’s Most Famous Creepypastas
Creepypastas are all about imagining something scary and then convincing yourself that scary thing will somehow become real, right? Well, BEN Drowned didn’t ask you to imagine things. Instead, it…
Read NowWood Grain
We had found the dresser at a yard sale, beaten and broken, but it was an artifact of the 1920s and my husband insisted we bring it home and fix…
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The Static Man
I always thought the old TV in my grandmother's attic was broken. It would never receive channels, only emit a hiss of static when you tried turning the dial. But…
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The Baseball
It was a humid evening, as Peter Greene made his way through the small park on the edge of his property. He breathed an exasperated exhale as he walked away…
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I Found a Lost Little Girl at a Halloween Attraction
God, I wish we hadn’t changed our Halloween routine last year. For three years, ever since they have been old enough, we have done the same thing, go trick or…
Read NowBlood Moon: Bound in Blood and Magic
ORDINARY FOLK had no reason to fear the Moon. Or so they thought. It hung in the sky as a welcome guardian, pale as paper in its various phases, providing…
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In the town of Bisden, nobody leaves their home after dark. As soon as the sun begins to set -- shutters are drawn shut, candles are snuffed out, and doors…
Read NowThe Passage
Obsessed with a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. - Eugene O’Neill I I am in many ways blessed,…
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Cell Extraction
The sting was barely noticeable to Thomas Lee Hart, even the fact that he didn't care at all for needles was no bother to him at this point. His mind…
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Other People’s Secrets
I LOVE GOSSIP. Every chance I get, I watch Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and that new girl Zara Zimmerman. All sleaze, all the time. The revelation of other…
Read NowBrooks Brother’s Hardware Store
The Brooks Brother’s Hardware store stood alone on its main street block. Chipped layers of white-washed paint contrasted the darkness inside the tall narrow windows. Faded posters advertising Case knives…
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My wife keeps introducing me to people who aren’t there.
I thought she was playing a practical joke the first-time she did it. I was in the kitchen, getting dinner ready when she walked in the front door mid conversation.…
Read NowDid Boy Kill? Yes He Did.
This is Part 2 of the Did Boy Kill? series. You can read the previous installments in the linked tag. My husband and I are alive. My son is not,…
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The Siege of Area 51
Part 1 As you may have expected—though probably not with the particularly correct prescience—the siege of Area 51 ended disastrously for everyone involved. How do I know? I was of…
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The Corridor
“Elizabeth!…” I hoarsely shouted as I shot up into a sitting position in the bed. I awoke and found myself drenched in sweat, a massive headache and with the worst…
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Friend Request
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y5xDGkk6dE[/embedyt] Heather loves her electronics. After blindly accepting a stranger's friend request she soon discovers that he is more dangerous than she can possibly imagine. "You never know who's…
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The Old Lie of the Dead Lands
The Old Lie of the Dead Lands 'frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies. There died a…
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We found an abandoned structure in the middle of the wilderness. I wish we hadn’t.
Just outside of the town I live in, there is a massive densely wooded park that is largely forgotten. It’s not that people don’t know it is there, but it’s…
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