16 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers

I grew up in a tiny town in Vermont. Tiny in terms of population, not size—there were huge sprawling farms and wooded areas, but almost no people. More cows than people, which is standard for a lot of small towns in Vermont. So, clearly, not...

17 May

Posted at 13:00h in Beings and Entities, Classic Horror, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens

I. In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajuns—that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century—stands a strange, enormous ruin. Interminable trailers of Cherokee rose, white-laden during a single month...

28 Apr

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers

Did you know that, once introduced to routine, our brains are capable of accepting it to the extent that when something changes, it doesn’t notice? The change could be small and harmless, an object there that wasn’t, or something moved to another room that you...

22 Mar

Posted at 11:00h in Body Horror, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Military and Warfare, Psychological Horror, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web

Roger glanced around the desert once more. Nothing but the cloudless sky and the sand scattering in the wind, with a few cacti dotted around the landscape. With nothing else to do, he checked his magazine, already knowing how many bullets he had. Full. Adjusting...

21 Mar

Posted at 13:04h in Beings and Entities, Demons and Possession, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Religion and Spirituality, Rites and Rituals, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web

I think when most normal people think of the Internet, they're thinking social media, online shopping, news, and the occasional porn site.  Now people talk about “The Dark Web,” a place of untamed wilderness, where gangsters are selling guns, using Bitcoin to do untraceable transfers...

15 Feb

Posted at 11:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends

“They say the tree bleeds when you peel off the bark.” Liz’s eyes flickered in the orange light. Her lips curled into a small smile, as if she enjoyed that particular detail. “That’s ridiculous. There’s no way a tree could bleed,” Tucker said, yanking his burning marshmallow...