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The Snow Against my Window
I was born in Florida, and lived there for most of my life. I always loved talking with and helping others, and all my friends agreed that I would make…
Read NowThe Orchard Cemetary
Outside of my city, there is an apple orchard, with a small cemetery at the end of it with only about 5 or 10 graves in it. If you visit…
Read NowSolar Influence
"Don't look at it," Kerryn whispers, tugging on my sleeve. "Leela, don't!" I glance down at her, noting the concern in her baby blue eyes. She's just a child, she…
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A Bump in the Night
Eider listened silently to the long and terrible creek that echoed through the silence of the night. It was far past his bedtime, the light up Spiderman clock mounted on…
Read NowNight Hike
When I was in the 6th Grade, I went on a school sponsored camping trip with my class mates. It was kind of like an immersive science lesson. The trip…
Read NowJust a Joke
They laughed. The group has just arrived at their dorm from another night of ghost stories. They weren't afraid. At least, they wouldn't show it. They were, after all, men.…
Read NowHe Who Should Really Not Be Named (Candlejack)
In this world, there exists a spirit neither male nor female. This spirit is covered with a dark cloth, with a separate white cloth to cover its head. It is…
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Sprawl & its Discontents
Alice is telling the guys she doesn't know that she wants to see the end of the world. They aren't talking to her. No one is talking to her. The…
Read NowOnce You Know…
I recommend that you stop reading this now. Don't say you weren't warned. When I was younger, I would always get scared watching horror films and reading horror stories, just…
Read NowI Drove Out to the Desert
I was driving out to the desert. The panorama of distant rock, endless sand, and occasional cactus slowly blurring in my peripheral vision. Sparse cloud cover traversed the sky overhead,…
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We Few Are Many
Just the concept alone was enough to draw me in. “An internet underneath the internet. The dark web,” is how my old friend Kyle described it to me. It wouldn’t…
Read NowThe Legend of Icthos Thanos
Camp Royaneh, the Boy Scout camp where I work has been around for many years. 86 years to be precise. However, what people often forget is, prior to becoming a…
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Maximilian Schäfer
The image above is a sketch by Maximilian Schäfer, a criminally insane arsonist formerly committed to the now-defunct Gelassenheit Asylum outside the city of Linz, Austria. Weeks previous to his…
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The Mysterious Christmas Tape
Do you remember those home videos from back in the day? You know, when every special moment of your life was recorded on a video camera before smartphones existed? Well,…
Read NowThe Splendor Man
If there is one day in my life that has defined me it has to be back when I was a younger lad. I must give a bit of background…
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The Truth About Peter Pan
Peter Pan is not what most people think he is... or I guess I should say, would be, but honestly, he's real. I have not only seen him, but have…
Read NowCorrections
I, I’m glad I found you. Sorry for my disheveled appearance, but I haven’t slept well, and when I saw you, I knew I had to talk to you, tell…
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The Pillow
Awake. Lisa bolted upright in bed, hazy vapors of fear still wavering in her periphery. The details of the dream were quickly escaping leaving only the overwhelming terror that had…
Read NowThe Dark Wraith
Most of the information known about these spirits is unsurprisingly dubious at best, as the survivors have often been paranoid to the extent of insanity. From what I have seen,…
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Beware The Soulless
It's been 13 years. 13 years since they found me. I want to run, but I can't. They won't let me leave. NO ONE leaves. This place traps us here,…
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The Hollow’s Burden
Poised in a crouch, I watched as he paused to drink from his canteen. I smile inside my mask, fresh blood still dripping down the plastic, stinging my tongue as…
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