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A Normal Restaurant
I smiled as the waiter came up to me. I heard some stories about this restaurant being disturbing, but everything was fine. Until this point. I felt my grin slip…
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Southpaw Complex
A couple of months ago, I was wheezing and gasping. Lots of ums and ahs. At one point, I was angering some people. And then there was that incident. The…
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Unconscious Objection
I couldn't sleep. I didn't want to sleep. Sleep has eluded me for several days at this point, but to sleep is to give up and let guilt destroy me.…
Read NowBill Nye the Horror Guy
I have been suffering from insomnia for quite a while now. No, it's not because of Reddit. When I do sleep, I have this reoccurring dream. I suppose "reoccurring dream"…
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False Awakenings
Right now, I'm not writing this just to tell a scary story. I'm fucking scared shitless and I need somewhere to vent. It is currently 1:07 AM and I'm typing…
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All in the Family
He hoped the tape recorder would still work. It was one of those small portable ones often used in schools or libraries. Teddy didn’t even realize the irony of his…
Read NowTake a Deep Breath
Frank woke up sweating again, five minutes before his alarm went off. He couldn’t remember much about the dream, just some green grass and maybe a half wall of reinforced…
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Let Me Take Your Picture
Guys, I need help. I’m posting this from my car parked at a truck stop just outside Keiser, Arkansas. My parents own a cabin in rural Tennessee. Since they’re getting…
Read NowThe Soft Nowhere
Hi. I'm Caitlin and I'm eleven years old. I think. I may have been here for ten minutes or ten years. Every second in this place feels very long. Who…
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The End of The Bench
It’s funny how the silence of a park at night can feel like both a sanctuary and a prison. For me, it had always been the former. I’d sit for…
Read NowYoung Again
"Youth is wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw The old, hate-filled woman had been staring at the bathtub for a whole 15 minutes until she was entirely satisfied…
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The Ticking of The Clock
"There are no clocks in Hell, only an eternal ticking..." - Bridaine He walked inside, a man’s man, home from a hard day of labor, in no mood for sass…
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…
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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 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…
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The Inventor
“The Inventor” “Thank you kindly, sir,” I said, handing the coachman a dull silver shilling. “No need to wait for me.” I stepped out onto a cobblestone terrace amidst a…
Read NowOverburden
A stone quarry is an awful place to be at night if you’ve got a nervous disposition, like I do. The silhouettes created by the hewn rocks look like stalking…
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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 NowMirror Mirror
I rushed over to the wall to flick the light switch. Something was in my room, watching me. It was lurking somewhere behind me, sitting in the shadows, and staring…
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