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The Bad Dream
"Daddy, I had a bad dream." You blink your eyes and pull up on your elbows. Your clock glows red in the darkness—it's 3:23. "Do you want to climb into…
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Heavy Rain
It was supposed to be such an uneventful day, but overhead the clouds churned and plotted. Rebecca Madison saw and heard the roaring of the wind against her car, but…
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Beneath the Veil of Shadow
It appeared just after sunset, as darkness began to permeate the woods around my family's hunting cabin. I wouldn't have seen it in time if it weren't for the silver…
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I Hunt Down the Government’s Mistakes
Part 1 If you are one of those people who think the government is hiding countless secrets from you, and constantly covering things up, then you would be absolutely right.…
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Loser’s Leap
I never believed in ghosts. Nothing could stay hidden for that long. And I mean, how could one not have been recorded by now? By someone credible? Or on better…
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The Black Fog
Everything, all of this chaos and madness, all began with the Black Fog. It was just an ordinary day when the news reported a strange phenomenon, a wispy black cloud…
Read NowThe Midnight Lock-Up
October 2nd, 2012 This story began about five days ago, but I've only now just gotten around to writing it down. I'll take my time to make sure I share…
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The Schoolhouse
Storytelling has been a popular pastime among humans as long as language has existed. Through this telling of stories, folklore of strange creatures, haunted places, cryptids, witches, and other supernatural…
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Among The Wolves
Piotr Kowalczyk lived by a simple mantra, “Sweep and live.” He was an old man, nearly sixty-five, in July 1943 when the Nazis had rounded up all two hundred and…
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Sometimes It’s Better to Leave Survivors Behind
They said it was nothing. A routine rescue op at a facility known as the Tantalus Site. But that quickly proved untrue. Terribly, horrifically untrue. The report said we’d be…
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I Live Alone but There’s a Woman Sitting on My Couch
I live alone in a one-bedroom apartment. So can anyone tell me why there was a woman sitting on my couch watching TV? I was in my room getting some…
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The River Serpent
My best friends Darius and Jordan learned about my fear of swimming during an impromptu tubing trip on the Farmington River. The summer after I turned twenty-six, Darius and Jordan…
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Things Darker Than Man
It was 3.00 AM on July 17th, 2004 when I found myself outside the site of the seventh murder in four weeks. My partner Jim McAllister and I had been…
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One Last Trick-or-Treat
It's that time of the year again. I know how I’m going to be spending Halloween. Same way I have for the past two years, slowly nursing a beer in…
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Eyeless Jack
You wake alone in your room, disturbed by some noise close to you bed. At first when you open your eyes all you see is darkness and black. You stare…
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How Do I Take Off My Skin?
Hello. I am Sarah. I am eight years old and I live in Wainsbury which is in England. My family is Mummy, Daddy, Josh and Peter. Peter is a rabbit.…
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Family Roots
Grandpa Cobalt hated letting things go. Whether it was the wobbly chair he kept in his study or his favorite warped record he fed to the gramophone—looping the same groove…
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I’ve traveled to parallel universes. The worlds I’ve seen are terrifying
I’m probably signing my own death warrant by writing this account. I know for a fact that I’m breaking at least a dozen federal laws with penalties that could send…
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The bright yellow terror
''They are down there in the water. I saw several glimpses of bright yellow popping up from and then retreating down below the surface, only to pop up again in…
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Ties That Bind
People kept going missing from my town over the last couple of years. Their mangled remains were all that were ever found of them (if anything was found at all),…
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The Wolf Below and Above
I don’t need to watch to know where the woman has decided to hide. It’s always one of three places, and out of those three it’s usually one specific spot.…
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Vilification
Vilify [vil-uh-fahy]: verb (used with object), 1. To speak ill of; defame; slander 2. To make vile. * * * * * * He awoke into an imperceptible brightness; lights,…
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