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Plot Holes
The day I found my first hole was the day my best friend came back from the dead. We were in high school and stupid. Jake was his name and…
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Monster Hunting and Other Inadvisable Behavior
3:30 p.m., 1-September: One three-person party entered the Rio Grande National Forest in Hinsdale County, Colorado. They consisted of Trevor Nyson (37 years old) and Matilda Nyson (33 years old),…
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Pickman’s Model
You needn’t think I’m crazy, Eliot—plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this. Why don’t you laugh at Oliver’s grandfather, who won’t ride in a motor? If I don’t like…
Read NowThe Cabinet
Every family in every town in every country on every continent has one. It’s a cabinet, not particularly odd, not out of place. The paint was peeling a bit on…
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The Eye of the Storm
The storm slithered across the countryside, consuming all in its path. Hurricanes are nasty, especially in southern Florida. This one was a category four, with sustained winds of 150 miles…
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Fish in a Barrel
Daniel Truman was an older guy I used to work with. All things considered, he was a decent person, though he was one of those folks who had a story…
Read NowSpooky: Horrors of the Battlefield
It’s a wondrous thing, getting to work in the U.S. military. Sure, to each their own, Army does its thing, the Marines, the Special Forces, the Navy. I always wanted…
Read NowThe Mystery Behind the Smile Dog Image
Imagine receiving an image from someone online, opening it, and realizing that you have just become part of a curse. That’s exactly what internet users experienced back when the image…
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The Debt Collector
Grant could not have asked for a prettier day to drive on. He had only been driving for Uber for a couple of months now in his free time, but…
Read NowOne-Man Hide and Seek (How to Play Hide and Seek Alone)
Introduction The "One-Man Hide and Seek", aka the "One-Man Tag," is a ritual for contacting the dead. The spirits, which are wandering restless on the Earth, are always looking for bodies…
Read NowThe Secret Faith of the Spiders
Author's Note: This is both a tribute and a shout out to anyone out there who has experienced similar events or has met someone that had them. I've tried to…
Read NowSpectrophobia
You have been this way since you were five years old. It started with a family trip to the carnival. Your dad and older brothers wanted to try out the…
Read NowStillness of 7he 7ru7h
As of late, I'm losing more and more sleep each night. I stay up at night, watching the windows, knife in hand. Not much good it'll do if that thing…
Read NowDeath’s Usher: An Unholy Crusader
Read Part One here “WHAT IS THE OATH of the Grave?” “Death’s first usher, the Dragon, first pledged it,” Great-Grandmother says. “Many did so in the past, but they’re few…
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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I Made a Computer Program To Predict the Apocalypse; It’s Not What You Think.
It began as a lark, really. I woke up one morning from a dream about the apocalypse. No, not a wild west apocalypse. Exactly how the world was ending wasn't…
Read NowThat Damn Buzzing Sound
Over the past month, I’ve been hearing this intermittent, buzzing sound. At first, I thought I’d be able to tune it out, but it just became more obnoxious over time.…
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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…
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Where Power Lies
I watched my copper mailbox dangle from the door of my bar through the blurs of my windshield wipers. They made that tight squeeze against the glass, not a forgotten…
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Faces in the Pumpkins
“She was right again.” Old Farmer Bill threw one more load of hay in the trailer.“I thought I’d be able to finish it today. Agnes knew what she was talking…
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