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Hands

Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Sounds and Voices / / 14 minutes of reading

The worst thing I’ve ever done in my life happened about twelve years ago, when I was a sixteen-year-old kid living in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the early fall, when the leaves were just starting to turn orange and the temperatures were starting to fall, hinting at the freezing chill that was only a few months away. School had just started, but it had been going on for about a month now, so all the excitement of going back and reuniting with old friends had been replaced by the realization that we were captives in a place that only wanted to load work upon us. Understandably, my friends and I were all eager to do anything that might remind us of the worry-free, responsibility-free days of summer.

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Ooze

Classic Horror, Beings and Entities, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens / / 38 minutes of reading

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.

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The Devil is in the Details

Beings and Entities, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids / / 9 minutes of reading

It was the year 1992. Peter Ivankov’s life was never the same since then – firstly, because his home country had gone through a massive transformation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union the previous winter. Secondly, 1992 was the year Peter went blind. Early that year, Peter’s mother began

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The Artist

Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Jobs and Occupations, Strange and Unexplained / / 12 minutes of reading

There’s this painting my wife loves, called “Death and Life”, by Klimt. I don’t know what she finds so fascinating about it. I made all the right noises when she showed me her beloved framed print when we were first dating, “oohing” and “ahhing” and making up some bullshit about warm

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The Valentine House

Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Slashers and Gore / / 17 minutes of reading

“Damn, Valentine shit already?” I asked my friend Gabriel as we were walking inside a Wal-Mart post Christmas. “Yeah, bro, and it’s still December. It’s like they’re completely ignoring the months in between the other months that have major holidays.” “True, true, annoys the shit out of me though, you

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Clockwork: Your Time is Up

Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Famous Creepypasta, Medical and Hospitals, Slashers and Gore / / 26 minutes of reading

A little girl sat in her room. Her messy brown hair was put into little pigtails, as her hazel eyes stared at the door. She hugged her stuffed giraffe close to her little body and listened closely to the loud yells of her father and mother. “I never should have

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