Archive for Horror
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CAN YOU DIG IT? • by Brett J Cryer
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Leech leant against the stone angel and struck a match on the broken wing. Shielding the flame from the driving rain, he lit his cigarette and sucked greedily on the filter. He exhaled a cloud of grey smoke into the murk and fished the can of Special Brew from the pocket of his dirty overalls.
Horror, Stories
“Hair [...]
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THE NOTE • by Ty Johnston 17 Comments
Note pinned to the blouse of a dead woman surrounded by broken glass on the sidewalk outside a twenty-story hotel:
Horror, Literary, Stories
“For the love of God, my children are being held hostage in room 1828.
This was the only way I could get help. They said they would shoot me if I tried anything.”
Ty Johnston has been writing [...]
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A FUNGAL FRIEND • by Lee Beavington 14 Comments
I literally jumped the first time the fungus spoke to me.
Horror, Stories
Claire, I need your help.
The words were sultry, beseeching, a dull echo inside my skull. I saw the Petri dish on a demonstration table filled with fuzzy yellow growth. I did what any sensible person would do in my situation: I ran out of the biology lab and [...]
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STYLE • by H. Earl Wilkinson 17 Comments
“I know you’re out there! You can lose the dry ice ’cause you won’t scare me!” Her footsteps, hesitant at first, actually gained confidence as she crossed my bridge.
Horror, Stories
Snapping my fingers, I called off the tendrils of sunset mist and revealed myself.
“Prithee, why am I, who have terrified men for centuries, not frightening?”
She snickered. “Nobody’s [...]
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WALKING BETWEEN THE RAIN • by Ty Johnston 28 Comments
New York City, September 1988
Horror, Stories
Kali sees him across the room through the flashing lights and the smoke and the darkness of Club Totentanz. He has been coming here at least once a week for two months, his dark hair slicked back and tied behind his head. His gray suit is immaculate, pressed as if he [...]
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UNCLE LESTER HAD A HAMMER • by Nicholas Ozment 16 Comments
“I had a blow-up earlier. I may be going to jail.” The big, shirtless man who stood in the foyer grinned when he said it.
Horror, Stories
Tammy frowned. “Uncle Les, don’t say that. Why don’t you have a shirt on? Go get a shirt on.”
Lester, still a hulking brute though well into his fifties, shuffled out of [...]
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BROTHER SOLSON AND SISTER LUNA • by James Enge 15 Comments
At dawn, Marv Solson broke the seals on all the shutters and let the light come streaming into his narrow little house. In the old days he’d been a night person, never getting up before noon if he could help it. But these were the new days, and he tried to make the most of [...]
Horror, Stories
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SILVER SHELLS • by Michael D. Turner 22 Comments
I stumbled through the cabin door and shot the bolt behind me, for all the good it would do. A step-hop over to the lone cot and I was finally able to spare time to tend my leg. My trouser leg was a complete loss but the bite wasn’t near as bad as it felt.
Horror, Stories
They [...]
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MINOTAUR • by David Dunwoody 7 Comments
A child stops on the sidewalk. An ant crosses his path. What does he do?
Horror, Stories
You know the answer. But do you know why?
Because he can.
I have been a silent sentinel over these fields for untold ages. I have felt the insects burrowing in my chest, I have felt the birds tugging and tearing at my [...]
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MONOCHROME • by Steve Goble 11 Comments
Bob awoke to teal numbers on a teal background on a teal box that blared “Sounds of the Eighties!”
Horror, Stories, Surreal
He blinked. He opened his eyes wide.
Everything was still teal. Walls. Curtains. Carpet.
Bob stifled a scream. Don’t panic. Call the ophthalmologist. Figure this out. It’ll be OK.
He stumbled from the Sunday morning bed, disoriented. Without color, everything [...]
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THE CHAIR, AGAIN • by Tom Pollock 6 Comments
The chair, again. I can feel its chilly metal before I open my eyes. I can smell the antiseptic she cleans the floor with.
Horror, Stories
Panic.
No, don’t panic, try to calm down. Breathe slowly: in through the nose, out through the mouth. I can’t open my mouth. She hasn’t reconnected the nerves. My lips remain stubbornly sealed [...]
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TICK TOCK • by John Raybould 9 Comments
‘Tick Tock.’
Horror, Humour/Satire, Stories
Simon had been a clock maker for forty-three years, and had worked on thousands of them, but this was his favourite, the old skeleton-style church clock.
‘Tick Tock.’
This was definitely one of the largest, and had been a bit of a challenge. The ten-foot chime gear had jammed, and he’d had a real struggle to [...]
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SHADOWS • by Scott M. Sandridge 14 Comments
There’s a monster under my bed. I know. I saw it once when I peeked. And two green eyes looked back at me and blinked. I don’t know what it looks like; it’s never there when the lights are on.
Horror, Stories
Sometimes I hear it growl, other times it purrs like a kitten. But it’s the moments [...]
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BEHIND THE CURTAIN • by Nicholas Ozment 16 Comments
Hal was a strait-laced guy, except for one odd habit: whenever he went into a bathroom, if the shower curtain was closed he’d draw it back. He just had to satisfy some irrational part of his brain that someone–or something–was not lurking behind the curtain waiting to leap out while he urinated. I knew this [...]
Horror, Stories
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THE RAVAGES OF TIM • by Sarah Hilary 26 Comments
The first was a flat tyre. Tim rolled up in good time, wrench in hand, smile in place. “Knights of the Road.”
Horror, Stories
She laughed with relief. In her forties, bottle-blonde highlights. Hint of desperation that predated, he guessed, the roadside recovery. High heels snagged at the tarmac as she watched him work. He got her going [...]
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THE LOST LITTLE GIRL • by Anthony J. Rapino 14 Comments
Cowering–the small girl blends with nighttime bark and organic shadow. Whimpers rise like bird calls. She could be a tree stump, hidden behind black-curtain hair and a long-sleeved shirt pulled over her knees.
Horror, Stories
A heavy man walks past with one eye forward and circles back. He stares with hands-in-pockets curiosity at the lost little girl and [...]
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF PHILLIP FLETCHER • by Juleigh Howard-Hobson 8 Comments
I must say that my initial impression of Phillip Fletcher was a favorable one. I believed that he was what might be called blessedly ignorant. He had no idea whatsoever that his father was involved with what the papers were beginning to call “The Werewolf Affair of Haddington Heights”. Of course, in the end, I [...]
Horror, Stories
