Children and Childhood

17 Mar Huggy

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“Holy shit! Is that what I think it is?” Brandon’s eyes widened into saucers and, despite being filled with an unabated rage towards his older brother just a few hours ago, Michael couldn’t help but smile and nod at the expected reaction. Even with everything...

07 Mar I Met the Monster in My Closet

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Everyone has heard of the boogeyman. A creature, tall and dark who comes out at night and prays on fearful children. The story is a classic tale, one that every kid and their neighbor like to scare each other with during sleepovers. People have come up...

27 Feb Something’s Wrong with Madeline

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“No, Mama! Mama, no! Please, Mama, don’t let them take me! I’ll be good, I swear!” the girl screamed. Tears flowed from her eyes as she thrashed against the two-adult woman dressed in black. They held her arms firm and pulled her deliberately up a...

26 Feb I Made a Monster Out of Clay

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The top half of Councilman Jones’ body hung by a steel cable looped around his neck and tied off to an old oak tree on one end. It was still dripping blood, bones and veins and torn bits of intestines dangling down where the legs...

22 Feb An Unexpected Magi

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“Donde Esta Santa Claus” was blaring on the radio as Gary crossed over state lines into...

21 Feb Colwin’s Corner

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Body Horror, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Films and Footage, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Television and Lost Episodes 0 Comments

I usually like to watch TV with my little sister, Kimberly. She was only five, so of course, she watched all the cutesy kids' shows. I didn’t really mind, though. They made her happy and I liked spending time with her. She watched shows like...

18 Feb Home Alone

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Writing never had been of any interest to Patric. Throughout his life, it was his older brother, Sean, who had been the creative and artistic one, while Patric quietly had assumed the role of the unknown introvert. But for years now thoughts and ideas had...

15 Feb A Germaphobe’s First Love

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Psychological Horror 0 Comments

Erica hated the lack of hygiene. Erica absolutely despised unhygienic people. Just thinking about the slightest chance of her physically touching a “dirty” person chilled her spine. She refused to drink from another person’s cup. She avoided sharing food with others. She would be utterly disgusted by...

14 Feb Her Silence

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

He turns the steering wheel in different directions, taking different roads when he needs to. He needs to go through the woods to get to his destination. He’s confused, but not about that. What confuses him is why his sister is being so silent as she...

13 Feb World’s Best School Psychologist

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When I was twelve, I came to the conclusion that everyone in the world, including my own family, was against me. I was never a problem child, but my parents sure treated me like one. For example, I used to need to be home by 5:00...

13 Feb Jesus Camp

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Religion and Spirituality 0 Comments

I was raised Evangelical. Miraculous healing, speaking in tongues, God’s voice speaking through people, Jesus Camps, and Christian School. Yep. Christian School. My. Whole. Life. These were all realities to me- and my faith never wavered. You know what? That is a lie, and I...

11 Feb If a Child With Black Eyes Comes to Your Door Do Not Let Them In

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It started with three light knocks on our door. Tap, tap, tap. We seldom had visitors to our small apartment, especially not at this hour. “Are we expecting someone?” my wife asked. “No,” I said as I got up from our living room couch. I walked a few...

28 Jan The Shadow in the Lake

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It was nothing new. Just a normal trip to the lake. My friends and I had gone to lake Thunderbird many times on weekends, it was our favorite retreat from college and family and everything else that stressed us. I was 19 at the time,...

26 Jan Smuggler’s Creek

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Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 The dynamic of memory has confounded me for my entire life. Memory is itself a living being, eternally aging until it decays and fades away. Each memory lives through its life cycle. Full of vitality in birth and hollow and weak in...

24 Jan The Two-Headed Boy

Posted at 11:00h in Body Horror, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness 0 Comments

Watching TV has always been one of our favorite things to do. In the early years, this proved difficult. Remus, being the stronger of our halves, would pull me until the remote was always within reach of his arm and out of that of mine....

19 Jan Black Sap

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We were having another lockdown drill when I found out about Holly Reyes. I was in Social Studies, third period, when Principal Weston’s muffled voice spat at us from the ceiling. We all sighed and ducked under the long tables, limbs shoving aside plastic chairs...

16 Jan Why I Don’t Go Trick-or-Treating Anymore

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My name isn’t really important, but for now, I’ll go by Monty. A little backstory, I grew up in a small town just outside of Hartford, Connecticut. Real nice place where everyone knew everyone, you never locked your doors, had a real charm to it....

15 Jan Spiderland

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“Can we go on the roller coaster?” “Sure we can,” Kent assured his son, whose eyes brimmed with hope and enthusiasm. Little Brian ran ahead towards the ride as his father walked quickly behind. It was one of those old, rickety coasters that won’t keep you...

09 Jan All in the Family

Posted at 11:00h in Body Horror, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Toys and Dolls 0 Comments

He hoped the tape recorder would still work. It was one of those small portable ones often used in schools or libraries. Teddy didn’t even realize the irony of his action. Angie was, in fact, the one who had bought it for him....

08 Jan Never Stop At Roadside Memorials

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You know those people who you tell the time of events to 15 minutes early because you know they would be late? The ones who would be late to their own funerals, as the saying goes? Well, that's me. Prepare as I might. I can...

04 Jan The Basement

Posted at 11:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Children and Childhood, Dark Fantasy, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Journals and Diaries 0 Comments

Here is the journal I kept during my time at The Ash House. At times I was unable to write, so some entries are recorded by memory. At the time of this journal, I had just been dropped off to the Ash House by my...

30 Dec The Stars of Bigface Marsh

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It was cold. Cold and dark. That’s all I could feel when I stared into the black abyss, that made up its eyes. There was a tingling sensation in my feet, that slowly rose up in my body like panic trapped inside of me. I...

28 Dec Spring Flu

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Conspiracies and Government, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Illness and Injuries, Survival Horror 0 Comments

The spring flu had been going around the school like usual, but some people were sicker than normal. They didn’t just have fever and headache – their faces were blotchy, their eyes bulged, and they all wheezed like they’d just run up ten flights of...

24 Dec Santa’s Magic

Posted at 13:00h in Children and Childhood, Christmas and Holidays, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Slashers and Gore, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

The night of Christmas Eve 2008 is a blur, depending on how much medication I am given that day. I can avoid the nurses for a couple of hours, but not too long. I suppose you’ve heard about me in the papers or on your...