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Priest and his daughter
The trembling crucifix dug into Patrick's hand as he squeezed it tight, a bulwark against the insanity raging on the bed. Mrs Jones -- the current possessed -- baked the best pasties in all of Saint Ives. At least, she'd used to before the demon had come upon her. The air of her house still echoed with sweetness of dough, but it was almost perverse under the prevailing stench of urine and vomit. Of despair.
By Sleesh Top6 years ago in Horror
Who Lives In Apartment 48
Chapter 1: Moving into Apartment 48 I've often wondered since moving into apartment 48 how the former resident's had lived here. When I moved in, dirt coated everything in the room. Black, thick graveyard dirt, to be exact. My only thought of course, is that they were gardeners or were grave diggers. However, that didn't explain how the dirt got on the walls, ceiling and all the lightbulbs. I've spent hours cleaning this place, only to go to work and come back to find the dirt has returned seemingly out of nowhere. I never gave much thought to this, I just rationalized it as I'd been missing spots when cleaning that I didn't notice before.
By Tiffanie Dotson6 years ago in Horror
Silenced Genes
In the meantime, the traffic jam that happened as a result of this accident turned blood bath caused the bus with the elementary students to let the children out farther down the road than the regular bus stop. The bus turned down a side street and disappeared before the line of traffic trapped it on the main road. Seventeen children between kindergarten and fifth grade stepped off the bus and immediately started walking over to see what the crowd was doing. Ricky saw the yellow blur out the corner of his eye as it took the corner. In the commotion, he had forgotten that he was waiting for the boys, forgotten there were other children – his sisters' friends – still over there too. He felt his stomach lurch, but he turned mid-stride and raced back to the children, screaming, “Hey! Don’t go over there! Run home!” With all the other noise, Ricky knew it was pointless.
By Rebecca Tkacs6 years ago in Horror
A Bite to Remember
One night while my family and I were driving home a huge storm hit and made it very hard to see. We were on vacation. My mom Karen, dad John, older brother Tyler, cousins Candice and Darrick and I were all piled in the car. As we drove along through a wooded area, Tyler and Candice had started arguing. Tyler and Candice always argued. They were both the oldest in their families, but Candice was older then Tyler by about 4 years. That didn't stop Tyler from thinking he should always get his way. Tyler was short for his age, in fact I was taller then him even though he was 2 years older, but mom and dad were trying to help him with that. Tyler was going to be starting hormone therapy shots to help him grow. His brown hair was in what him and dad called a "buzz cut" hair style, he had a round chubby face and round metal framed glasses. Candice was a skinny girl. She had long brown hair that went to her shoulder blades. Just like always, she had a head band in her hair, this time it was purple. As I looked back at them in the back seat fighting, I rolled my eyes and thought, "I wish they would shut up. They are giving me a head ache." Beside me is my cousin Darrick. Like usual, Darrick is sitting quietly and just staring out the window at the storm. Mysterious are weird are words I would use to describe Darrick. He didn't talk much and didn't really like to play much either. He was my age. We were born about 3 months apart, but he had no interest in toys. Darrick liked catching bugs and snakes and other critters like that and blowing them up with firecrackers. Tyler liked to go with him at times. Even though I don't like bugs or snakes, I never liked that they blew them up. It was wrong and mean in my opinion. In front of me was my mom. In my opinion she has never changed in how she looks. The age I can remember is 30, and even today(20 years later) she still looks the same. Mom's hair was dark brown and shoulder length that she kept in a ponytail most of the time. Mom and I had a love of music. I loved going on trips with her(even if it was just to the store) because we would turn the music up really loud and just sing and dance! It was always so much fun! Driving the car was my dad. He was a tall man with short dark brown, almost black, hair that he always covered with a hat. He was wearing his teams baseball hat. It was white with a big purple 11 on the front and the words "film at" in yellow above the 11. Dad still played baseball with community people around where he worked. He was a good ball player and knew a lot about sports in general. Mom and dad were discussing what we should do.
By Asina Michelle6 years ago in Horror
Maggot
Topo grabbed the corpse roughly by the shoulder and turned it on its side. The blood, already drying, made a ripping sound as the body was separated from the cheap plastic cover on the couch. Viscous strands of it still connected the dead man to his furniture. Topo inserted a dirty forefinger into one of the sixteen knife wounds he’d helped inflict and explored until he scraped a rib. He grunted in satisfaction.
By Arnaldo Lopez Jr.6 years ago in Horror
Don't Look Back (2020) Review
If you loved the "destiny eventually comes for us all" approach of the Final Destination franchise, then the chances are pretty good you'll like Don't Look Back, and with good reason. (Jeffrey Reddick, the illustrious writer of the now-iconic Destination films, also wrote and directed Don't Look Back.) The tagline "karma comes for us all" promises a similar ride, but does it deliver? And is this horror film covering ground that's perhaps too familiar to make it worth seeing in the first place?
By Christina Dee6 years ago in Horror
Retracing the Vaults
It’s the dead of night dark clouds covering all light from the fireflies of the sky. The branches sticking out like the crippled dead fingers of witches all pointed in different directions. The Hospital long abandoned the screaming of the dead still echoing through the halls. From the outside, it looked busy lights flickering every few seconds, and as he stopped the windows filled with shadows almost staring at him. Jon knew the only way to help his family was in this abandoned hospital in the middle of the wood. As he stared, the shadows seemed to stop moving and stare at him. He shrugged it off as a trick of the light and kept moving. Jon hears a static echo through the hospital he made sure to study the open waiting area around him looking at the reception desk abandoned with labeled notes and papers spread across the desks around him in the lobby. As he progressed through the entrance he noticed the smell change, it was no longer sickly clean, instead, an uncomfortable stingy smell closed around him with mold and that of the undead.
By Atlas K Ridgely6 years ago in Horror
My reality
Have you ever wondered why you're alive? What your purpose in life is. I use to wonder that every day till one day it finally smacked me in the face. It literally put a fist in my jaw. You see I'm not human, well not anymore. I haven't been a human in over 500 years. This is my story of how my brother and I were taken from our family and turned into monsters.
By Tabitha Alexander 6 years ago in Horror
Krampus - A Movie Review
Are we expecting somebody else for Christmas? No? There’s a dark figure outside. Ripped out of Christmas wrapping paper in 2015, Krampus is a Christmas-horror movie about a dark figure stalking a family. While trying to enjoy the holiday season in their family dysfunction, members of the Engel family disappear one by one.
By Marielle Sabbag6 years ago in Horror
The Cold Ones
Darkness creeps over the icy tundra as hundreds of thousands of unique snowflakes fall onto a family of six trekking through the blizzard-covered ground. Squinting through the icy sheet of snow in front of her face, Gabrielle trudges through the inches of powder on the ground. Following closely behind her are her father, mother, brother and 2 cousins. Gabrielle fruitlessly shakes the freezing flakes off of her face as her father comes up beside her.
By Anthony Hall6 years ago in Horror
