Folklore and Folktales

05 Dec The Trunk

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Folklore and Folktales, Halloween Stories, Myths and Legends, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Moving day. A chance to start fresh in a new place. New opportunities, new community, new home. Home. Not just a house. To Eric Sherman, this was a place he could finally call home. No ex-wives to hound him for alimony. No disapproving parents to...

11 Sep The Watching Woods

Posted at 11:00h in Dark Fantasy, Folklore and Folktales, Nature and the Outdoors, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

The trail was too quiet. I knew she was watching me from somewhere either up the steep slope to my right or from the tangle of undergrowth to my left. I would have welcomed the snap of a twig to alert me to her position...

22 Jul The Truth About Peter Pan

Posted at 11:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Dark Fantasy, Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Slashers and Gore, Strange and Unexplained, Torture and Cannibalism 0 Comments

Peter Pan is not what most people think he is...

14 May Mamzer

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Demons and Possession, Folklore and Folktales, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids 0 Comments

Simza stumbled through the dark forest, tripping over indiscernible tree roots in the darkness. She sensed that something was wrong with the baby, and was afraid, but she had no one to confide in. She had wandered away from the camp when she started feeling...

12 May The Monkey’s Paw

Posted at 15:47h in Artifacts and Objects, Classic Horror, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into...

29 Apr The Roots of Wewoka Cemetery

Posted at 19:00h in Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Folklore and Folktales, Ghosts and Spirits, Historical Fiction, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

After a short time of exploring the Oklahoma territory where they were forced to go, a group of Native Americans stumbled upon a mysterious plant while hunting. This plant looked like a gnarled tree root, with so many twists and turns within its seemingly fragile...

02 Feb The Unicorn in the Woods

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

We all have that friend who we wish we could have done more for. Who we wish could have done better. I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently. See, it all goes back to my friend Clark, and the horror we both encountered six...

23 Jan Ghost Lights

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Ghosts and Spirits, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. Now when I say that it’s a small town, I mean other people from my state have never even heard of it. That being said, for such a small town it actually has a pretty...

29 Dec I Met the Rat King

Posted at 19:00h in Animals and Wildlife, Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

I found it three weeks ago, or rather, I found them. A knotted circle of fur, claws, and death. Six rats, tangled together by their tails, thrashed about my front lawn with little direction. Their shrieks pierced the air of what was normally a quiet...

05 Dec The Spindler

Posted at 19:39h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales 0 Comments

“I want to hear about the Spindler.” Logan listened as the voices of his three friends talked. He watched as the fire before him dwindled. “You sure you wanna do that, Lexi? In these woods?” Logan’s back was firmly set against the back of a broad, old oak;...

13 Mar The Molendinar Burn

Posted at 12:58h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Jack Mckay huddled in the cold midnight street with a pale green sleeping bag encasing his lower half. Spindled trails of light reflected off the gleaming roads from damp lampposts. But the cold wasn’t what gave Jack his nightly jitters—not by a long shot. The...

22 Dec Another Fairy Tale

Posted at 15:57h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained 0 Comments

Once upon a time in a land far, far away there was a story that became well known in all the kingdoms of men. It started as a whisper in the back of ale-houses and progressed to the point of street-corner news barkers. No one...

29 Mar Crossroads

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Poems and Poetry 2 Comments

During nightly hours of yore, in a time of horror and war, I would sit on a dank oak bench with my eyes shut, calm and closure. Then, my eyes open when I sense a figure approach me with grace. One of nature’s eccentric frights perched itself above...

23 Mar The Merton Account

Posted at 00:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends 5 Comments

Dear Mr. Valentine, As per your request, I've collected reliable morsels of information from the many and often incoherent accounts that detail the events which transpired in Merton on September 2nd, 1996. It is only with great reluctance that I reveal this information to you, for...

14 Mar Die Teufelsbrücke

Posted at 00:00h in Folklore and Folktales, Historical Fiction, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends 10 Comments

People always get the wrong end of the stick when I tell them that my grandad was a Nazi. I mean, of course he was in the Leipzig branch of the Hitler Youth as a teen, joined the party when old enough and, in December...

12 Mar The Mummers

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained 9 Comments

When I was a child, the mummers came to town. It was not quite Solstice’s Eve yet. The nights were long and dark, and most nights a thin, jagged coat of haw frost would top the trees in glistening frigidity. What few horses the rich owned...

11 Mar The Banshee

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends 10 Comments

I consider myself to be a logical being. My experiences in life have led me to such a conclusion that approaching problems from a skeptical and logical viewpoint is in my best interest and is, as far as I understand it, the best way to...

07 Mar The Coldest Day

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends 10 Comments

Bitter cold was nothing new for Northern Alberta, especially not for January, and the cacophony of wind that tore through the woodlands was nothing if not wholly familiar and almost comforting to the one that huddled in the tree line, obliterated from vision by the...

06 Mar Abgar’s Story

Posted at 00:00h in Based on True Events, Folklore and Folktales, Historical Fiction, Myths and Legends, Science Fiction and Aliens 10 Comments

I’m unsure of what to say. All I can say is that I’m scared. Very scared. My hands shake violently as I hastily scribble down a few words onto the coarse wooden tablet. This is my only hope. “In the month of Tammuz, day 25...

04 Mar Hidden People

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends 5 Comments

It had to be close to 12 now. The silver gleam of the full moon was spilling through the woodland trees, illuminating all it touched. Evan looked at his watch. It was 5 minutes to 12. Although it was not a necessity, Evan wanted to get...

18 Jan The Pixies

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends 18 Comments

Chapter 1 What I'm about to tell you will seem unbelievable, inconceivable, and I'm sure downright made up. I can't help the way that it sounds. I can only tell you what happened, what I remember, and hope that someone finds it within their compassionate soul...

30 Dec Stonehenge

Posted at 00:00h in Folklore and Folktales, Historical Fiction, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends 6 Comments

Stonehenge is one of the great mysteries of our world. Erected almost six-thousand years ago, these ten-ton slabs of stone make up one of the seven wonders of ancient times. But how did it get there, and why? ---- Nan’uk stepped cautiously on the grass, his...

29 Dec The Maiden and the Lost Villagers

Posted at 00:00h in Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends, Zombies and the Undead 4 Comments

The young maiden knelt amongst the rubble and smoldering wreckage that was once her simple home. Smoke plumed into the sky and ash hung thick in the air. It stung her eyes, but that was not the cause for the tears streaming down her cheeks....

15 Dec The Facility

Posted at 00:00h in Beings and Entities, Folklore and Folktales, Myths and Legends 6 Comments

It only took her a moment to figure out that this wasn’t where she wanted to be. The paint chipped and wallpaper peeled down as if bowing its head in resignation to the dilapidated state of the facility. She walked gingerly up the hall, dodging...