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Milk Teeth
By the time Jean-Luc finally arrives, the only things awake are the moon and me. It sits in the sky a perfect, silver half-slice, dewy in the way all things…
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The Killdeer
In the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where rugged ridges jutted upward like the ancient, weathered spines of slumbering giants, and the valleys plunged into deep shadows that clung stubbornly…
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The Littlefork Bodysnatchers
Over the past few decades, a disturbing rumor has spread throughout the backwoods settlement of Littlefork. People there tell tales of so-called “alternates,” who kidnap and impersonate the small town’s…
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The Dollhouse Murderer
My mouth was covered by my older brothers’ hand, shallow, panicked breaths escaping between the sweat between the cracks of his fingers. Both of us whimpering underneath our house in…
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Vultures (The Well)
It’s captivating to believe in monsters and the horrors of the unknown, the things that go bump in the night. It’s an escape from reality, from the actual terrors that…
Read NowWe Share Intestines
On the 23rd of September 2025, I died. It was sudden and painful, but brief. For some reason my just heart gave out. It ticked away for years without issue,…
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Bystanders of the Ritual
Growing up, my family used to joke that I slept so deeply even a brutal murder couldn’t wake me up. I now know that’s not true. Screams echoed through my…
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The Town That Could Not Point
Everyone on the train was normal. Of course, Stuart didn’t care to notice that they were normal. When something is normal, the brain doesn’t pay it any mind. Why would…
Read NowMy Uncle was Obsessed with Holes
Recently my family was contacted by a storage unit company. They said my dad was listed as the secondary contact for a unit under my uncle's name. Which was strange,…
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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The Last Body I Ever Cut Open
Craig Brockwell was found by his wife, dead on their living room floor, a plastic garbage bag tied off around his neck, and an empty bottle of Xanax on the…
Read NowThe Shadow From The Stars
Horror begets horror. Seldom do instances of demoniacal dread possess the common courtesy to inflict themselves upon us in isolation. Rather, they enter our world accompanied by all manner of…
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Bon Appétit!
As I stood there in the hallway, halfway between the back door and the basement door, I began to realize how quiet it was. For a moment I thought I…
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A Lonely Machine
Roger glanced around the desert once more. Nothing but the cloudless sky and the sand scattering in the wind, with a few cacti dotted around the landscape. With nothing else…
Read NowI’ve been locked inside this warehouse for 42 hours and everyone is missing
1 I don’t know if anyone will end up reading this. Fuck I don't even know if theres anyone left outside this damn building. The last time I looked out…
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My One Night Stand Left Something Inside Me
Hi guys. My name is Violet, I’m twenty-three, and I’m scared. I don’t understand what’s happening to me, and I really hope somebody can help. It was Friday afternoon. I…
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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 NowConfessions of The Crawler
Now I’m gonna start this saying I’m not the smartest man in the world. I never did well in school, always getting in trouble of one sort or another. I…
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Berries in the Window
I met Elaine at the rim of a fountain. The water bellowed from the spicket in its ornate pattern. The fact it was running at all was a miracle for…
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Jane’s Retina
Have you ever heard of Jane's Retina? Unless you were big into the home brew floppy disk games scene in the 80's, specifically in San Francisco and the surrounding Central…
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The Jewett City Vampires
“I’m going blind,” I told my wife when we moved to our new gothic-style home in Griswold on a breezy day in early April. It was a wedding gift from…
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