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The Wedding Dress
As the movers drove off, Susan entered her new home - an old Victorian-style house, with drafty windows and creaky floors. The house had been purchased in an estate sale at a bargain price and she had fallen in love with it. A good coat of paint was needed and quite a few repairs, but it was all hers.
By Catherine Valente5 years ago in Horror
A Funeral
Testing the limitations of his hand rolled cigarette, Corrado rapidly inhaled the soothing chemicals deep into the depths of his sixteen year old lungs. His large hands shook with each drag, reminding him of the painful tremors his late father had once suffered from. Unconcerned, he continued to smoke through the pain. Finishing one then quickly lighting up another. After chain smoking his entire stash, he was convinced that his shaking was due to the excessive amounts of nicotine he had just ingested. Combined with overwhelming anxiety and stress, he was able to calm his mind from the idea of succumbing to the same genetic fate of his father.
By Kale Sinclair5 years ago in Horror
On Hunting
The Hunter squinted at the sunlight playing upon the rippling water of the lake. Big game made it their watery home, he knew, hidden among the seiches, snake-necked dlonghos and the great mottled Poid-poids occasionally breached with their grey-green fins. Rarnh sat on his haunches with his spear athwart his sinewy shoulders.
By Rhys Barnard Jones5 years ago in Horror
The Harmony Slasher: Mr. Winslow's Revenge
“ESCAPED!!” I screamed! Scrambled and in shock, I started to pace around my apartment, “How did he escape?” I was scared to death. He would come after me; I knew he would. I was the reason he got caught in the first place. I thought after all these years, I would be safe. I was just starting to move past all of the psychological trauma caused by Mr. Winslow's murdering spree.
By Stephanie Downard5 years ago in Horror
The Monster You Know
*Trigger Warning: domestic violence and rape* I pass the Thing in the Shadows every night I walk home from work. Everyone in town knows about the Thing in the Shadows, though you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to talk about it. It mainly lives in the alley between the 7-Eleven and the head shop. No one is quite sure exactly what it looks like; it’s a tangle of formless dark, lanky, shifting shapes. Occasionally someone in the area vanishes, usually a street dealer or someone up to no good, and there will be whispers that the Thing in the Shadows took them. Usually, it’s not someone that anybody misses, and the gossip quickly moves on.
By Katt Kantack5 years ago in Horror
Book Review: "Earthlings" by Sayako Murata
I have read some pretty disturbing books in my time. From Chuck Palahniuk’s “Haunted” to Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho”, from “The Girl Next Door” by Jack Ketchum all the way back to “120 Days of Sodom” by the Marquis de Sade. These books are some of the more extreme ones I have read. When we come more and more into our own times we see names such as Stephen King, we see names such as Lionel Shriver - author of the traumatising novel “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and we also see the more recent works of Cormac McCarthy. From the Sci-Fi terror of Harlan Ellison to the disturbing love stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Iain Banks, Joyce Carol Oates, V.C Andrews and many more - the world of the psychological thriller is filled with intense stories of absolute horror. But, I have to say that one of the most disturbing things I have read in the last five years has got to be “Earthlings” by Sayako Murata - the author of the famed “Convenience Store Woman”. It is not only a psychological thriller, it is a post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare, it is a political system which regards itself as an overlord of the planet, it is a fight for survival when one defers from the path given to them. From murder to incest, from cannibalism to rape - this book is quite possibly one of the most disturbing things you will read to date. Her is a tip for doing so: make sure you are not eating anything at the time.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Horror
The Reckoning
storm rages It was a dark stormy night and Bobo the Clown was sitting at his makeup desk. He hadn’t stopped crying since it all happened. He had seen a lot in his circus career but tonight was the exception. He threw his wig in the corner of his tent as he reached for his bottle of wine. He took a drink of the wine and grimaced as the warm liquid ran down his throat. He didn’t really care it eased the pain in his heart and his head. He got up from his chair and looked in the mirror. The bandage on his head was still there for all the good it did. He strolled to the door of his tent and looked at the lightning flash in the southern sky. What a night it had been and now it was only going to get worse. He took another long swing of wine and sat back down in his chair. What went wrong? How could everything have gotten all screwed up?
By Mark Lewis5 years ago in Horror
Christmas Nightmare Inn
Outside of her best friend’s house, Paige honked the horn for the third time, sighing in frustration when she saw Tabby through the window, yapping away on her cell phone. This was supposed to be their time away from all the bullshit Serenity was full of this time of year. The Christmas parades, the decorations, and the infernal Christmas music everywhere drove her insane.
By Susan Dickson (Author Skylar McKinzie)5 years ago in Horror
