“It’s not too bad, is it, sweetie?” Humbly dressed and brown haired, Wilbert Snow smiled at his daughter, and Mary gently smiled back from the living room. Mary’s father, Wilbert, was searching for a home set on a few acres of land that he could potentially...
Author's Note: This story is a part of the By the Fire's Light series. Part One: By The Fire's Light Part Two: The Wanderer of Blazes Detective Carl Rourke pushed his chair back from his desk and rubbed his eyes. The book he had been reading fell on...
In mid-July of 1991, when Sam was six years old, he was holding his mother’s hand as they walked barefoot across the baking hot asphalt of the neighborhood pool’s parking lot. He had his other arm through the hole of his inflatable black inner tube,...
“Little solace comes to those who grieve When thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting And this great blue world of ours Seems a house of leaves, Moments Before The Wind.” -House of Leaves. (Pg. 563) Greg was asleep. He had been for some time, as was normal. Depression has a way of sapping...
When I was a child, the school which I attended was peculiar yet wonderfully interesting. Whether it was the fact that it was surrounded in places by overgrown bushes and opposite a strangely crooked wood which ignited my imagination, or perhaps the funny, eccentric, and...
Hello Darling, I am writing because I now realize that our relationship is fast approaching its end. While I’d love to believe it could go on forever, I’ve (reluctantly of course) grown tired of our silly routines. The spark has simply faded, and I can’t help...
To read about the horrific events caused by my freshmen roommate leading up to this, click here for the beginning and here for the 2nd part. -- Had I been thinking clearly, I would have made sure that Andrea didn’t see the pictures that “Zach” left me...
If you haven’t read the first part of this story, please click here to be brought up to speed on when I first started to notice something was off about my freshmen roommate. Time seems to slow down as I try to process what it means...
I've had some people ask that I set up a page with recommendations for scary books, movies, video games, etc - but since I'd surely leave out some quality stuff if I compiled the list completely on my own, I figured that the best way...
It didn’t take long for me to realize that my freshmen college roommate was a very strange guy. But that wasn’t all that surprising as I’d heard about plenty of people that got saddled with weirdos as roommates their first semester of college. He wasn’t...
I love jigsaw puzzles. So when I found one on my phone that allowed me to make any size puzzle I want with a snap of a picture I was hooked. I started by taking pictures of random shots in my room, clicked “cut” then...
My girlfriend and I have this special spot. This nice little place that serves up food, drinks, and amateur stage performances. They named it the Stage Harbor Dinner Theater. It used to be a loading dock but what was once a place for blue collar...
In Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, there is an abandoned amusement park known as Takakanonuma Greenland. It sits in the outskirts of Hobara, a section of the Japanese city of Date. Very little is known about this park, and its exact location is largely unknown. You can’t...
The Waterfarmer Tonight he had purpose. The number was to be twenty…twenty of the best. Or at least the best he could find. The twenty were to be found in the water; in their place of rest. They will be part of the offering; an offering...
"It's last call." "Hey, like in that poem you know? 'Hurry up please, it's time!' …sorry, I've had a lot to drink." "We all have. And I, for one, don't really feel safe going home after everything we've heard tonight." "But all those stories can't be true. Even...
"I just wanted to say, none of you have any idea what you're talking about." "What's that, lady?" "I couldn't help but overhear—" "How hard did you try?" "Don't give her a hard time. She looks like she has a story." "I do. It's not a story you'll like to...
"That reminds me of a story." "What does?" "What she just said about being late to catch the train." "Me? I didn't say anything?" "Well, I'm sure I heard someone mention it, and that reminds me of a story that scared the hell out of me. Do you remember...
"You want to hear the scariest story I know?" "Sure." "Is it scarier than the last two? If it is then I don't want to hear it. In fact, I think I'll head home. I'm sure I've had enough to drink already." "Don't mind him. The rest of...
"Do you know what the problem is when it comes to ghosts in this city?" "Chains are last season's look?" "All the cool ghosts moved to Portland?" "I'll think our waitress is a ghost if she doesn't hurry with those drinks." "Scoff if you all will, but I’m making...
“It's a simple question: Do you believe in ghost?" "I—" “Hold on; I’m not in the mood for ghost stories tonight." "Me neither." "I didn't ask for stories, I just asked—hold on, where’s that waitress? Has anyone seen the waitress? Like I said, I didn’t ask for stories, I...
I awoke with a start as I heard a loud bang out in the street. I HATED noise before 8:30 AM. I have OCD, so the tiniest things can set me off. Annoyed, I pulled on my bathrobe and walked out the front door to see...
I’ve always been a night person. Even as a small child, I can still remember my stepmother affectionately referring to me as ‘her little night owl’ when she’d wake up to use the bathroom and find light pouring out from beneath my doorframe. This natural tendency...
Dr. Ellen Kennedy was just locking up her office for the evening when her phone began to ring. She paused at the door. It had been a long and grueling day and a ringing phone this late did not bode well. She sighed. While it...
My wife is going to kill herself in 5 to 7 business days. I'd found the order for a jug of Xanaphril while clearing the internet history of porn and was contemplating it now. I'd known my wife Cindy had been unhappy but I guess hadn't...