Suspense and Thrillers

27 Jan News From the Front

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Historical Fiction, Military and Warfare, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

Awash with terror, I lay in bed jumping and flinching at every creak. The old country house had always made such noises at night. The beams would creak, the windows would knock and the wind would howl down the fireplace. I had not always been so...

15 Jan Spiderland

Posted at 11:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Insects, Spiders, and Parasites, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Psychological Horror, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

“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...

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...

23 Dec Snow Day

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Psychological Horror, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

Jake Thomasson pulled the sleeve of his sweatshirt down, covering his hand, and wiped away the condensation from the window. It was the third time he had done this in the past ten minutes, but he didn’t want to miss seeing if any cars drove...

14 Dec Toys in the Attic

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

Christmas has always been a hard time for me. Childhood memories of bickering relatives, drunken tirades, and hostile dinner conversations made me wince at the mere mention of the holiday. In the Christmas of 1989, I broke my collarbone on my new toboggan. In the...

23 Nov Plot Holes

Posted at 14:00h in Beings and Entities, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

The day I found my first hole was the day my best friend came back from the dead. We were in high school and stupid. Jake was his name and we liked to go out to this old abandoned house in the woods after school to...

06 Nov The Statues

Posted at 11:00h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Demons and Possession, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers, Urban Legends 0 Comments

I never liked going to my aunt Paola’s house. Honestly, I never liked her either. She’s a creepy bible-thumping Jesus fanatic and she’d always circle over me like a vulture. But none of that creeped me out like her house did. It was old, run-down...

13 Oct The Halloween Mask

Posted at 10:18h in Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Halloween Stories, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Suspense and Thrillers, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V52EBbDvVDc[/embedyt] Ding! I jolted awake. My phone lit up on the nightstand. It showed one new notification: Motion detected at your doorstep. 3:17 AM. My heart pounded as my fingers slipped across the screen. I clicked on the security camera video feed. A man stood on my doorstep. He stayed...

26 Sep The Man In My Bedroom Window

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

For as long as I can remember, there has been a man in my bedroom window. It seems strange to say, I know, but it is true. From the earliest, fuzziest memories I have all the way up to now, he’s been there. Looking at me. In...

13 Sep I Don’t Experience Thursdays

Posted at 11:00h in Journals and Diaries, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

I’ve had this problem for as long as I can remember. In preschool, I remember being confused when they told us there were seven days in a week, because I could only ever count six. I’ve never told anyone this, not even my wife, so I’ve...

03 Sep An Amateur

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Psychological Horror, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

When it comes to my car, I have one rule and one rule only: no hitchhikers. My car is everybody’s car. Really. If the good Samaritan had a car, I’d be in the bible. I had friends and family do everything to that tin can on...

31 Aug Biting At My Heels

I enjoy running quite a bit. It might come off as a bit odd to say, but it really is important to me. I found my love for it back in high school, when I ended up drifting aimlessly onto the cross country track teams....

07 Aug Never Meet your Number Neighbor

Posted at 13:00h in Investigations and Crimes, Suspense and Thrillers, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web 0 Comments

Has anyone else seen the post yet? The guy messages someone whose phone number is identical to his apart from the last digit, which is either one number up or down. I scrolled past it like any other post you see on the internet, gave it...

20 Jul Nobody Lives Here But You

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 0 Comments

About half a year ago, I moved into a new apartment downtown. It’s hands-down the most upscale place I’ve lived in—rooftop access, a fitness center, a pool, huge windows with beautiful views of the city… this place had it all. My leasing agent said apartments...

13 Jul Distorted Warning Signals

When I got the first one, I was literally seconds away from stepping onto the plane when a call from “UNKNOWN” blared from my cell phone. It was a ringtone I hadn’t heard before, one I was pretty sure hadn’t come with the phone. Normally, I...

16 Jun The Thing That Will Kill Me

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...

06 Jun 11 Bodies Hanging From 21 Trees

Posted at 11:00h in Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

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...

29 May Witness

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Ghosts and Spirits, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Sounds and Voices, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

I am currently sitting in front of my computer, scared witless. Any moment now I am going to be killed. Today a friend of mine told me a story. His aunt had taken care of him since he was a small boy, and she told him last...

28 May Don’t Let Them In

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Drugs and Addictions, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

Addiction took our mother slowly, rocked her through it and sung her to sleep sunk deep into the mattress on her bed. When her back teeth fell out, she left them on the side of the bathtub. I was seven, and I kept them in...

19 May Locked

Posted at 11:00h in Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder when I was five. I have always struggled to interact with people because of this disorder, spending large amounts of time attempting to fix imperfections around me. I would lash out harshly at people around me if they touched...

07 May It Watched From the Roof

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Slashers and Gore, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

I had the house to myself, my parents were spending the weekend in Toronto, and I’d spent the day hanging out with my girlfriend. Up until I dropped her off at home later that evening, it was an ordinary day, as close to perfection as...

28 Apr The Hallway Wasn’t Empty

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 0 Comments

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...

06 Apr Cold Wind, Cold Earth

Posted at 11:00h in Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

"With little evidence towards his innocence, he is to be hanged the Monday from next on charges of military treachery and murder...

03 Apr The Observer

Posted at 11:00h in Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Psychological Horror, Suspense and Thrillers 0 Comments

It was on the wall, right in front of me, over my bed, hung like a painting. It had one limp hand draped, with bony, serpentine fingers, just above the clock, and its skeletal body cast an eerie glow into the dusty haze that had...