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Candle Cove
It comes most often at night. That niggling memory, gnawing in some corner of your mind like a rodent chewing the corners of the drywall. The memory of some brightly…
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Squidward’s Suicide
I just want to start off by saying if you want an answer at the end, prepare to be disappointed. There just isn't one. I was an intern at Nickelodeon…
Read NowThe Grimes Home
(The following was found in an envelope on a bus bound for Chicago) My name is Jason Grimes and I am writing this so that when the room is eventually…
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Suicidemouse.avi
So do any of you remember those Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 1930s? The ones that were just put out on DVD a few years ago? Well, I hear there…
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1999 – Creepypasta
The year is nineteen-ninety-nine. That sentence brings me back to my senior kindergarten class when I was five years old, where we used to read out the date on the…
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There’s Something Seriously Messed Up With My New TV
There’s no interesting backstory here; I didn’t buy this thing from some, like, creepy garage sale. I didn’t get it as a gift from some estranged relative that doubled as…
Read NowWhere Bad Kids Go
I must have been six or seven when I lived in Lebanon. The country was ravaged by war at the time, and murders were common and frequent. I remember during…
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Lost Kevin
I know it’s wrong to download movies and we shouldn’t do it, but I’m poor and those guys are rich. Either way, it’s not important. I’m only writing this to…
Read NowThe Haruo Reel
I work as a digital restoration specialist for a boutique distribution company in Los Angeles. We handle high-end Blu-ray and 4K releases of cult classics—mostly Italian Giallo or obscure Hong…
Read NowThe Last Channel
My grandmother died at 3:33 AM on a Tuesday, and her TV wouldn't turn off. Not wouldn't—couldn't. We unplugged it. We cut the power to her room. We even took…
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Coming Home
Before I start I should mention that the names of the crew who worked on the movie have been either changed or omitted. That being said, in 2016 an up-and-coming…
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Your Life: The Final Season
I'm sorry for this. Recently, I received a package in the mail. I didn't recognize the sender. It seemed harmless enough. So, I opened it up. It was a DVD.…
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The Static Man
I always thought the old TV in my grandmother's attic was broken. It would never receive channels, only emit a hiss of static when you tried turning the dial. But…
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The Little Girl with the Pigtails
When I was younger, like many others, I loved to watch television. I know that’s not an experience unique to myself, but it was truly my favorite thing to do.…
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Face Your Fears
Emma Fraser sat in the back row of the audience, trying to stay inconspicuous under her blonde wig, head scarf, and fake glasses. She was attending this live filming under…
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The Brain’s Genocide
It's been nearly SIX YEARS since my internship at Warner Brothers! How time flies, right? Well, most of my memories are positive. I had a great time, learned a lot,…
Read NowThe Things Without Feelings
It's odd the things we remember sometimes. I was walking down the toy aisle a couple days ago, looking for something to give my two (soon to be three) year…
Read NowBill Cosby Commercial
Last week, on a wet and windy night, with no motivation to finish my college assignments, I began to peruse the Internet as a way to procrastinate, as we all…
Read NowTonight’s lucky customer
It’s late October, and I’m stuck in this dead-end job at Marty’s Video Rentals. Halloween’s coming, so the place is crawling with people who think they know horror. They don’t.…
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Treehouse of Terror
Halloween, such a simple concept yet something that has bought countless years of joy to me. There is something about taking all of societies standards and throwing them out the…
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