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The Watching Woods
The trail was too quiet. I knew she was watching me from somewhere either up the steep slope to my right or from the tangle of undergrowth to my left.…
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Under This Thing’s Maw
The tears are impossible to hold back as she watches this... this thing, eat away at all the corpses. The corpses of her co-pilots. Her... closest friends. With clawed, kaiju…
Read NowCrimson Fangs
“I’m so cold.” This was the first thought that entered into Amber’s dazed consciousness. Her eyelids flickered open to see nothing but hazy darkness around her. Moaning softly, she struggled…
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The Murmur
The night was quiet. The cool breeze came and went, like the breath of a sleeping child. But I was not peacefully asleep, as the murmur had begun again. It…
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5 Haunted Forests Around The World You Shouldn’t Dare to Enter
In fairy tales, forests are usually described as enchanted places where talking animals guide lost travelers. Reality, however, can be a bit darker. It turns out that some woodlands hide…
Read Now5 Haunted Canadian Forests For an Exciting Eerie Adventure
In general, forests are full of mystery. Even in fictional tales, they are often depicted as the main setting where all the scary things occur. Despite multiple forests with an…
Read NowThe Reaper in the Tree
There may be strange details in this story. Not all of them will seem to add up and appear to be significant, but it’s all true. That sort of statement…
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The Wrapper
The point of me writing all this is because I don't want any of my story to go without hearing, or any of my actions to go without seeing. I…
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The Blue Boy
“Zoey! Come here for a moment, won’t you?” shouts the gentle voice of my mother. I pull myself hesitantly away from the picture I’d been drawing, and, a pale hand…
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High Frequency
The most amazing and the most horrible thing just happened to me. I’ve stumbled upon a discovery of a lifetime, but at the same time I wish I could undiscover…
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The Whistler
The front door opened, slammed shut. Any moment now, Gary would either start buzzing about how well work had gone, or else he would stalk upstairs and think how best…
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The Harvester Of Eyes
It had been the journey from Hell. Six hours squashed together in the stickily claustrophobic confines of the station wagon, the rain beating an incessant tattoo on the vehicle. A…
Read NowMy Watch Thinks I’m Nameless
My wife had been on me about my weight for a while. Said I needed to start taking my health seriously — “for our children,” whatever that means. I didn’t…
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Black Sludge
I used to work the late shift at an old-fashioned cafe in my hometown. I lived in a relatively small town where everyone knows everyone and everything about everybody. Honestly,…
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The Gaunt Man
I wake up suddenly in the middle of the night. At first, I’m not sure why, but then that uncomfortable awareness of being watched, washes over me. The hairs on…
Read NowThe Oneirophage
In the late ’40s of the last century, after a decade of private research involving experiments with binaural beat brainwave frequencies, extrasensory cognition, and rare extracts of a South American…
Read NowGrandma’s Footsteps
I’ve been a police officer for a long time, and there are certain things you learn to ignore if you want to sleep at night. This is not one of…
Read NowJourney in the Woods
It was summer break and my best friend Liam invited me and a couple of our other friends to his family’s cottage. I’ve visited their cottage many times in the…
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The Black Mist
He had a bad day today. No, a terrible day. He drove along the barren roads illuminated only by the grace of the moon and the crimson flame of porch…
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