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Are You Expecting?
May 27th, 2030. 10:30 Am-10:35 Am.The hum of the fluorescent lights, the smell of antiseptic, and the squeaking of chairs as men in white lab coats roll around the porcelain…
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The Stygian Child
“We’re doing our best to keep your brother comfortable. However, at this point I’m afraid it’s all we can really do for him,” said Doctor Norman, resident medical coordinator for…
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The Obituary of Bluto Hansen
Copy and pasted from reddits paranormal board is the following post, posted by user itdwellsstill. The text is rendered from a 2013 copypasta that has been traced back to the…
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The Windwhisper
There was once a story my mother used to tell me, in hopes I wouldn’t turn out like my father. “Treat your children right, Tommy or the Windwhisper will come…
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I’m So Thirsty
“I'm so thirsty” The words echoed around in my head. I stood staring at the water tumbling from the tap. I'd been standing for what felt like hours, just watching…
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Summer Nights
Summer nights in the small college town were something straight out of a Pulp magazine: a risqué combination of nostalgia, science fiction and impossible stories. Every year from May to…
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I Will Give Birth to the End of Mankind
I tried to warn them, but they wouldn’t listen. I warned them immediately after I was returned to the marsh, but they decided to detain me and ignore my claims.…
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The Camelford Forsaken
1 A couple of years ago, me and my now wife, Anna, decided we needed a short break away in the country to recharge our batteries and enjoy the outdoors.…
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Dr. Greenwich’s Flesh Clinic
Superintendent Harlowe and I stepped into the interrogation room. It was strange performing an interview in here with one of our own, and not even for a crime. Officer Molloy…
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Jerry Southerland
I have sat with the knowledge of that night for ever such a long time now. I have flirted with the idea of telling someone – maybe the police –…
Read NowThe Eyelid Man
The tale of the Eyelid Man is still young. Based on the unfortunately minimal amount of information I can find on what I saw, my experiences with it have been…
Read NowThe Unseen
Read Part One here Read Part Two here “You can’t fight what you can’t see or hear.” – Marion Strickler “For good to have any chance, there needs to be…
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Long Fingers
For as long as I could remember, my Uncle Chet was always a strange fellow. I can still imagine him clearly, even after all these years. He was a gaunt,…
Read NowThe Hand That Feeds You
12th June Marie picked up the last of her stuff today. I'd hoped that some of the tension would have dissolved with time apart, but she wouldn't even look at…
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If you are reading this, then I am more than likely dead. I want you to understand something before you read any further. I am not a dramatic person. I…
Read NowI Inherited the World’s Worst Genetic Condition
You think you know your family. What they look like, how they speak, how it feels when they pat you on the back and say ‘welcome home’. None of us…
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Dr. Greenwich’s Flesh Golem
Read Part One Here I’d come back from another visit to the forest by Dr. Greenwich’s former ‘clinic’, when Harlowe gave me another of her trademark looks. I was barely…
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Why I Buried My Dog
I buried my dog last month, I think. There was so little left of him, and his once golden rich coat was so faded and sallow that this empty, sickly…
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The Pain Doctor
I have always wondered what it would be like to stare evil eye to eye as equals. To sit across a table from and break bread with it. This lifelong…
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King’s Horses
I started working as a morgue attendant the same September that most of my friends entered college. I’d applied to a few public schools, but I had no idea what…
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Bread and Circuses
WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME, everything changed. Small towns rebuilt themselves into boisterous cities overnight. Weary farmers and their wives glowed with renewed vigor. Life was transformed from a series of…
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God’s Accursed Share
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Janowska/Yanivsky was an actual concentration camp in Ukraine during WWII. Its commandant Fritz Gebauer, AKA “the Choker,” and his torture methods were also real. As are the books…
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