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Is There Life After Death?
I’ve told this story many times, and without exception it has provoked the same reaction - disbelief. No matter how difficult it is for people to process, and no matter…
Read NowDeath’s Usher: Unhallowed Ground
Read Part One here Read Part Two here Read Part Three here TRAVEL is an eye-opening, life-changing experience. That’s what merchants and adventurers at the Pit always told me. They…
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Behind the Shadows
This will not be a typical story. In fact, what I intend to share includes several different events, which I have only recently come to see as being linked. Despite…
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Book 159: 7 of Them
1. I remember it very well, that one day in October. I came home later than I usually would. We were understaffed and I had to work over hours. What…
Read NowCarnival Burgers
As many college students do, I practically lived off fast food and pizza delivery during my years as an undergraduate. I went to a school in my home town, so…
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Death’s Usher: Curse of the Dhampir
I CAN’T MOVE. I can’t speak. I can’t breathe. The only thing keeping me alive right now, despite the stake in my chest, is the black substance running through my…
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He Won’t Stop Tapping
I live in an attic, a small renovated space in a house that’s older than most. I always pay my rent on time, keep quiet after 9 PM, and am…
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Black Wolf’s Sedan
Taking out the old man had been simple for Black Wolf: locate, break-in, kill him, and secure the body for transport. The job had been clean and bloodless, leaving no…
Read NowAdmin Update 1/5: Important New Rules
FROM NOW ON, IF YOU IGNORE THE FAQ AND ASK ME FOR ANY SPECIAL TREATMENT, YOU FORFEIT YOUR SUBMISSION. Did I get your attention? Good. For the sake of the…
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…And We’re Back
Yesterday… …And we’re back in five… four… three… two… one… [talk-show host] Greg, tell us your thoughts about the movie; the release is only three days after the anniversary of…
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I Hunt Cryptids
The US Department of Interior decided decades ago that the belief in unnatural beings was well spread enough to warrant a database for any and all cryptids in the US…
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I Think I’m Trapped in a Sitcom
Room 371. Some hotel near the Cape. I was on a business trip with my boss, closing in on the final set of investors we needed to launch our latest…
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A man washed ashore last week. He looked as though he had not eaten in weeks and was barely clinging to life. I, along with much of the town, was…
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My daughter was attacked on FaceTime
I'll be honest, I'm not much of a family man. My career kept me away from my family for most of my daughters childhood, and once my wife died-absentee would…
Read NowOctober, 1973
My doctor gave me this journal to tell my story, since it's easier to write it than to speak it. Dr. Henley says the act of writing might help me…
Read NowThe Gallery of Henri Beauchamp
If you go into this one tiny, dingy one-story bar in Paris, and the right bartender is behind the counter that night, you might be able to see a very…
Read NowI Drive a Taxi Between the Realms. Entry Three: Otherworld
Entry One Entry Two It's been a solid month since my unsettling trip to Tartarus. I still haven't heard anything about the woman I picked up. I suppose that finding…
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Something is Wrong
It had been a while since I had visited my cousins. Believe it or not, it had been five years since I saw any of their faces. The last time…
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I found a journal with the world’s secret inside… we’re our own worst enemy.
I stared into the mirror, watching myself closely. “Could I be imagining it?” I thought to myself. No, no way. I repositioned, watching every movement of my reflection carefully. It…
Read NowFor The Greater Good
I stood in the ice-cold morgue, looking down at the butcher’s latest victim. Her naked body lay upon the metal gurney, her appalling wounds clearly visible – evidence of the…
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Into the Velvet Hallways
In 2017, I tasted death for the first time. Naturally speaking, I wasn’t dead, but I wasn’t alive either; I do not know what I was, or where I was.…
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