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Her Protection
In every major town and city, there is a house of which no official record exists, and whose windows have been boarded up for longer than anyone around can remember.…
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Season of Storms
“What a frickin’ mess this is.” Detective Mike Barrow stood atop a muddy ridge on a humid Monday morning, looking down at a small crew of police personnel in a…
Read NowThe Washday Demon
My mother, dead now these past eighteen months – may God rest her soul – was a fanatically superstitious woman. Her ancestry, a combination of strict Catholicism and Irish folklore,…
Read NowThe Great Occam Cobb
Chapter 1 Jonathan was fascinated by magic. For as long as he could recall, it was something that undoubtedly enthralled him. Perhaps it was that the enigmatic nature that drew…
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Elf on a Shelf (with a Knife)
“It’s creepy,” Dan balked. “It’s cute,” Julia countered. “Besides, it’s fun. I mean, geez Scrooge, where’s your Christmas spirit?” Dan picked up the doll and turned it over in his…
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I made a horror game about liminal spaces that nobody will ever play
I'm sure there isn't a single person reading this that doesn't know what liminal spaces are by now. But, just in case: The concept of liminal spaces relates to physical…
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The Witches’ Tree
“Danny!” Martin screamed into the vacant abyss of the woods as he searched for the missing schoolboy. “Danny!! Where are you?!”He heard nothing back, only the eerie sound of the…
Read NowThirty Days
Log found on IP ████████████ on December 15th, 2003. Nothing else in the memory other than the following that are dated the entire month of September. Laptop was found in…
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Campfire Tales
My name is Marcus, and I'm an alcoholic. I know what you're thinking: this is just another sob story about some loser whose life went off the rails after he…
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All You Need Is A Bucket Of Snails
It all started with a simple schoolyard rhyme. No one knew the original incarnation, only a fragment of it survived and was circulated amongst our school. “A pail of snails…
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Did you hear the Ice Cream Man last night?
I used to think of Hell as a faraway place. For those of you out there who still hold that belief, this piece of my life is for you. Don’t…
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The Dowsing of Bolsom Ranch
Water divining did not come as natural to me as it did for my grandfather. He could reveal a well in Death Valley at the peak of summer. My sisters…
Read NowThe Wolf and The Blade
In the end, I know that I’m damned. I've lost them twice over; once in failing to save them, and again in failing to avenge them. Whatever mercies God might…
Read NowDon’t Peek
I lay awake under the covers of my bed. I’d grown accustomed to sleeping with my head completely underneath due to the extreme coldness in my bedroom. We had recently…
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The Tall Man of Briarbell, Missouri
We had all liked Mr. Winscot. He didn’t mind when we used the sledding hill on his property and he always gave out the best Halloween candy in the neighborhood.…
Read NowThe Christmas Tree
Staring at the tree, whiskey in hand, Pete was pleased that this year would be different from the last. It had been the strangest time of his life, but he…
Read NowThe Guardian Angel
And I am always with you. I was there from the time you were born. I stood in the delivery room, staring down at you before you could even open…
Read NowThe Masked Man
Tuesday, October 11th Today, I drove my 7-year old son James into town to go Halloween shopping. I didn’t have to buy any candy this year because we live in…
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The Terror in the Tunnels
I have two very unusual keepsakes on one of my many bookshelves. One is an empty glass vial, the contents of which dried up long ago. The other is an…
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Loon Harbour
I got called out to Seal Cove on the coast about a year ago for duty. Small town on the coast, you know how it is. Maybe 700 people, tops.…
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