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Spectrophobia
You have been this way since you were five years old. It started with a family trip to the carnival. Your dad and older brothers wanted to try out the…
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Stupid Games
Prophetic Ender Think your ripple has no meaning?Think a rifle won't leave men bleeding?I'm tired of preachers that are blind to their wordsI'm sick of acts that are silent to…
Read NowMy Therapist Wants Me to Kill Myself
"Maybe the world would be better off without you." These were words I never expected to hear from my therapist. Up to that point, she had always been on my…
Read NowAll Hallow’s Eve Circa 4047
At some point during the infancy of humans on Earth, they pushed past a point of no return. They saw the signs, heard the scientists, but like humans do, they…
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I Am Halloween
Halloween is my saving grace – the one night a year I can go outside without a mask. I don’t want it to sound like I spend all year waiting…
Read NowStillness of 7he 7ru7h
As of late, I'm losing more and more sleep each night. I stay up at night, watching the windows, knife in hand. Not much good it'll do if that thing…
Read NowThe Pale Emperor
I had always wondered what the bottom of a lake looked like, and now I know. It looks like the sun setting over the horizon, where the farthest depths of…
Read NowDeath’s Usher: An Unholy Crusader
Read Part One here “WHAT IS THE OATH of the Grave?” “Death’s first usher, the Dragon, first pledged it,” Great-Grandmother says. “Many did so in the past, but they’re few…
Read NowFollowers of the Flaming Hand
The camera didn’t look like something that should still work. Didn’t feel right from the start. When my sister handed me that box on my birthday, I could tell it’d…
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I Made a Computer Program To Predict the Apocalypse; It’s Not What You Think.
It began as a lark, really. I woke up one morning from a dream about the apocalypse. No, not a wild west apocalypse. Exactly how the world was ending wasn't…
Read NowThat Damn Buzzing Sound
Over the past month, I’ve been hearing this intermittent, buzzing sound. At first, I thought I’d be able to tune it out, but it just became more obnoxious over time.…
Read NowRazor Mouth
Have you ever had the feeling that you were being watched from the darkness? Do you live out in the middle of nowhere, where even if everything was normal, everything…
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This is Not a Place of Honor
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, huge numbers of formerly classified government documents were made available to the public for the first time. Such was the glut…
Read NowJuly 2014 Discussion Post: Creepy Anime & Horror Manga
Previously, we've talked about the best creepy video games, your favorite scary movies, the top paranormal podcasts and radio shows, and, of course, your best-loved books in the creepy/horror genre.…
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Arachnophilia
I live in a small, rural town that was nestled away from the hustle and bustle of city life in an area not that far from Richmond, Virginia. It's the…
Read NowVisceroys and Artisans
I have to say one of the things I hate the most is to have somebody walking behind me, doesn't matter if it's a friend or a complete stranger, I…
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Something Comes Into My Room Every Night
When I was seven years old, my mother and I moved to a small town in Massachusetts. It was a rough time for me as my father had just up…
Read NowZozo Phenomenon
It's time for another entry into our Real-World Creepy series! This particular topic was sent to me by Sobellium69, who sent me the following message: Recently I have come to…
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