01 Aug

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

While I’m writing this letter, I don’t really know what I should write. I mean that I’m not sure if I’m going to wake up tomorrow, so I can’t decide if it should become a sort of my testament. My final goodbye to everyone I...

31 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Rites and Rituals

Are you familiar with this thing we call meditation? Well, that was a foolish thing to ask. Of course you know what meditation is. It's the thing new age gurus and hippies advocate to improve your well-being. Very simple stuff, y'know. You just sit cross-legged on...

30 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

It wasn’t long ago I noticed a strange noise coming from the air conditioning unit, in the wall of the living room. At first it was almost imperceptible from the other noises such a device would typically make. It started out as a slight clanking...

29 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

"Doctor Tabitha Lebarr, recording the story given to us during the psychiatric evaluation of David Shore, May 15th, 2013. Patient was admitted for treatment of what appeared to be an attempt to amputate his legs. It is worth noting that Shore is himself a psychologist,...

28 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Take a look around and observe your surroundings. Where are you right now? Are you sitting inside of a dark room? Is there anyone else with you? Are you all alone? Most sources indicate that a majority people read tales of horror by themselves. Something...

27 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

Don't look up at the mirror. You know how that always goes. They look up at the mirror and it's right there behind them. Just stare down and turn the sink handle. Reach over for the towel. No, whatever you just felt isn't there, bring your...

26 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

This is another entry in the Modern Monsters series. So I heard you wanted to hear the story of the Donkey Lady? Well, grab a beer; you’re in for a tale. It started back in the eighties, in a little town outside of San Antonio, Texas. I...

25 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

I didn’t ask for this, you know. I mean, sure, I was curious about what it would mean to be “enlightened,” but meditation was never a means to end. It was the end itself. Plus, I always thought you had to...

24 Jul

Posted at 07:14h in Announcements

First off: this post is ONLY related to those of you who were still waiting on a response from the April/May submission period. If you only recently submitted during the July open period, none of this applies to you and you do not need to...

23 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances

I hate it here. It seems redundant to say so, I realize this. Everyone hates it here… well actually I don’t know. Maybe except Len, but he’s a freak so whatever. Shit… where are we? I keep forgetting. France? We’re still here? Shit, have we made...

21 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

This is the sixth and final part of the By the Fire's Light series. Names we give have power As we discovered too late For we have named the nameless one And thus have sealed our fate. Our time has come full circle, And now we have the end Of lives or...

20 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

Nowadays, if you are fanatical Christian, you are mostly likely looked down upon by society. People are absolutely disgusted by your ways and your desire to spread your religion to others. As a teenager, you could get out-casted by the other kids because they wish...

19 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness

It seemed especially hot there in the middle of a mass of vehicles of all shapes and sizes, from all around the country. It was a miniature city of heat and exhaust fumes within the city itself. Not the most wonderful place in the world,...

18 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances

"Look at it go, sweetie!" the loving father joyfully called out to his little girl, pointing upward toward the kite flying high above the secluded beach. "Here baby, you try." The little girl stood there shy, timid and melancholy as she stared skyward at the pale,...

17 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Artifacts and Objects

We had found the dresser at a yard sale, beaten and broken, but it was an artifact of the 1920s and my husband insisted we bring it home and fix it up. I thought nothing of this aside from the fact to be noted that...

16 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Locations and Sites

The Ridges - previously known as the Athens Lunatic Asylum - is famous among Ohio University students. The other week, I ran into a friend who recently graduated from OU, and when the conversation turned to spooky things (summer is a classic time to tell...

15 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Locations and Sites

This is the final entry in Stephan D. Harris' Harlequin series. “Sometimes I wonder; what exactly is a monster? Is it really something to be feared, or is it something to be respected? Is that frightening, hideous thing that stalks your nightmares trying to tell you...

14 Jul

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities

This is part five in the By the Fire's Light series. Mira Grolinsky sat at her desk in the hotel room sorting through stacks of paper. A biographer by trade, she was used to gathering large amounts of information and then synthesizing it into one coherent...