Author: Brimstone

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I Took A Job In Northwest Vermont: Entry One: Wendigo Psychosis
ByBrimstone May 23, 2026May 23, 2026

Read part one here So I thought I’d take some time to go over some of the Abenaki legends in the area. I mentioned some stuff about the Tall Men and Skadegamutc in the last part but this whole place is rife with some truly weird legends. This place is like the Bridgewater Triangle or…

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Beings and Entities | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances | Psychological Horror

Peripheral
ByBrimstone December 29, 2025December 29, 2025

I still remember the night it happened. I was nine. We were driving home from my grandma’s house late, rain pounding the windshield so hard the wipers couldn’t keep up. Dad was humming along to the radio, Mom was half-asleep in the passenger seat. Then the truck came out of nowhere. I don’t remember the…

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Beings and Entities | Body Horror | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids | Suspense and Thrillers

There’s Something Under the Boardwalk
ByBrimstone November 7, 2025November 3, 2025

If you’re reading this, it’s because I have no other choice. Nobody will listen to me, not even the police. It’s only a matter of time before they come for me, and when they do, this is the only evidence of the truth. There is something under the boardwalk in Paradise Point, and it’s hungry….

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Abductions and Kidnappings | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies | Torture and Cannibalism

The Night my ADHD Almost Got me Killed
ByBrimstone May 15, 2026May 15, 2026

I’m not what you would call a particularly smart individual. I generally like to think it’s my ADHD that caused me to perform so poorly in school. But I haven’t exactly been diagnosed with it or anything. My dad is about as much of a dumb ass as me, but he did a good enough…

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Dreams and Nightmares | Hell and the Afterlife | Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft | Religion and Spirituality | Strange and Unexplained | Torture and Cannibalism

The Unhinged
ByBrimstone April 30, 2026April 29, 2026

Read Part One here THERE ONCE WAS A PREACHERALL SKIN AND BONESNO ONE KNEW HIS FIRST NAMEHIS LAST ONE WAS JONES This clusterfuck all started on Halloween. At an emergency Town Hall meeting, we’d all come together to discuss the obvious: we were starving. At the rate we were going, we wouldn’t survive the winter….

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Hell and the Afterlife

Hell’s Tour Guide – The Labyrinth
ByBrimstone May 23, 2025May 23, 2025

Read part one here I’d like to say the waiting was the worst part, but sadly this wasn’t the case. Nevertheless, I had no peace in the weeks that passed following Lily’s first visit. Call her what you like – sales rep, emissary, con-woman, or succubus…but my entire life changed forever after Lily Burns came…

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Suspense and Thrillers

Gamble
ByBrimstone November 10, 2024November 10, 2024

As the sun sets in the distance, dark clouds hang in the sky above, absorbing the last glimmer of daylight. Ben, a middle-aged man with tired eyes and a thin beard, stares through the windscreen of his small, worn-down car while he waits at the traffic lights. He thinks about something his dad used to…

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Films and Footage | Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web

LIVE.com
ByBrimstone February 6, 2026February 5, 2026

“Have you ever felt like you’re being watched?” It’s odd to be 21 and still checking my closet and under my bed. My friends teased me about it when I told them, but it’s a habit I can’t shake. I lock my door. Even when my parents are home. I’m not hiding anything, but I…

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Demons and Possession | Hell and the Afterlife | Religion and Spirituality

Mind The Gap
ByBrimstone November 19, 2025November 17, 2025

Father Michael Hayes had stopped praying three years ago, though he still moved his lips during Mass. The words came automatically now, muscle memory from two decades of priesthood. Hoc est enim corpus meum. This is my body. Empty syllables. Theatrical gestures. He elevated the host and saw nothing but bread.The Piccadilly Line platform at…

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Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances | Strange and Unexplained | Suspense and Thrillers

Cancer Season
ByBrimstone August 1, 2025July 28, 2025

WHERE IS my daughter? I need her to come and say goodbye. Cancer isn’t the only thing eating me alive. My son-in-law John is standing next to me, as are my granddaughters Chandra and Kendra, but where on earth is Cheryl? She should be here, but I don’t see her. My sight is quickly failing…

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Body Horror | Drugs and Addictions | Slashers and Gore

Wounds
ByBrimstone March 17, 2025March 17, 2025

Mother said I’d regret it, staying away for so long. She was right, of course. I’d been avoiding him like a suspicious blemish, convincing myself that he simply did not exist. Meanwhile, my father wilted into some grotesque knot of wet flesh in the basement of my childhood house. Not that she wasn’t doing the…

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Investigations and Crimes

Supernatural Vigilante Association – The Time Traveller
ByBrimstone January 31, 2025January 31, 2025

Read Part One here Read Part Two here I stood on the roof of the derelict tower block, the cold night sky above me as I waited impatiently for my source to arrive. Glancing upwards, I failed to see a single star due to light pollution, and I found this depressing…suffocating even. The crescent moon…

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Beings and Entities | Body Horror | Classic Horror | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids | Myths and Legends | Nature and the Outdoors | Urban Legends

Spring Blossoms
ByBrimstone July 23, 2026July 23, 2026

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 am not the kind of man who makes things up or tells tall tales to get attention. I have lived in this town my whole…

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Animals and Wildlife | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids

Penguins
ByBrimstone March 17, 2026March 17, 2026

“The penguins are coming.” An old man rocks in his chair and takes a drag of his cigarette. “What?” “The penguins are coming,” The old man repeats. “What penguins? We live in Missouri.” The other gentleman, Gerald, shrugs as he leans against a supporting beam of the porch. “Penguins going to be at the zoo?”…

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Artifacts and Objects | Strange and Unexplained | Suspense and Thrillers

A Mirror In The Bathroom
ByBrimstone March 16, 2026March 16, 2026

The apartment was quiet at 5:47 in the morning. The kind of quiet that sits in a room like a held breath, broken only by the quiet drone of the refrigerator and the distant moan of traffic on the street below. Clarissa moved through it the way she always did, on autopilot, her body running…

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Beings and Entities | Films and Footage | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness | Strange and Unexplained | Suspense and Thrillers | Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web

3:18 AM
ByBrimstone March 11, 2026March 11, 2026

I was awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of my phone going off. It wasn’t that of a phone call or a text, or even an alarm, rather, it was the familiar chime of the notification that I would get when my front doors’ doorbell camera was activated. That was strange,…

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Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances | Folklore and Folktales | Nature and the Outdoors | Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft | Rites and Rituals

The Wood Witch’s Ritual
ByBrimstone December 12, 2025December 11, 2025

A lot of questions have been asked of me lately by many different parties. My parents want to know why I almost refuse to leave the house anymore. My doctor wants to know what has been causing my insomnia. The police want to know my whereabouts and actions on the night of the 20th. However…

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Body Horror | Illness and Injuries | Journals and Diaries | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness | Psychological Horror

The Hand That Feeds You
ByBrimstone November 26, 2025November 21, 2025

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 me. Just dropped her key in the bowl by the door and checked I had the right bank details to return her deposit. The flat…

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Beings and Entities | Children and Childhood | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances | Ghosts and Spirits | Hell and the Afterlife | Investigations and Crimes | Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft | Paranormal

She Still Burns
ByBrimstone July 21, 2025July 21, 2025

When Jacob Housley turned up dead, it didn’t take long for me to hear about it. Just about everyone knew everyone, back in the old town, and I was more than familiar with the Housleys. Well, I used to be, anyway. Jacob was one of my fathers closest friends–almost an uncle to me in my…

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Beings and Entities | Children and Childhood | Ghosts and Spirits | Paranormal | Strange and Unexplained

White Things
ByBrimstone November 29, 2024November 27, 2024

On one dark, foggy morning a news station began the daily evening broadcast to Sevier County, a low-population area in the middle of nowhere. It began with a poppy intro song, canned footage of various county locales, and fast-forwarded time lapses of the weather. When the intro wrapped up, the station’s logo appeared briefly on…

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Beings and Entities | Body Horror | Classic Horror | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies | Folklore and Folktales | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids | Myths and Legends | Paranormal

The Old Mine Shaft
ByBrimstone September 11, 2026September 11, 2026

We stand in the overgrown lot, staring at the cluttered remains of the large wooden building in the deep reaches of the West Virginia Mountains. Nature had taken most of the area back, with just a few remaining structures of the old town left. If you didn’t know it, you would not be able to…

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Beings and Entities | Dark Fantasy | Jobs and Occupations | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids | Paranormal

I Drive a Taxi Between the Realms: Entry One: Dering Wood
ByBrimstone April 23, 2026April 23, 2026

‘I need a cab, at Lexington square, Richmond, Virginia,’ the text reads. “Where are you headed?” The reply doesn’t come right away. This is nothing new–not in my job. Sometimes, my fares are not so forthcoming with their destinations–something quite perplexing to me, given that they are requesting my services. I just climb out of…

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Ghosts and Spirits | Paranormal | Psychological Horror

The Long Porch
ByBrimstone April 18, 2026April 18, 2026

My aunt left me her place on Hensel Lake when she died last September. I had visited once as a boy and remembered almost nothing about it, so I drove up alone on a Friday afternoon to see what I had inherited. The road in was a dirt track with a spine of grass down…

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Abductions and Kidnappings

Lagiasma
ByBrimstone April 5, 2026April 5, 2026

Saltarello wasn’t the kind of place you stumbled into while looking for cheap plastic beads and a frozen daiquiri on Bourbon Street. Tucked away in the damp, shadowed heart of the French Quarter, it was a sanctuary for the city’s nocturnal intellectuals. The air inside was thick with the smell of old mahogany, expensive bourbon,…

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