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Horror fiction that delivers on its promise to scare, startle, frighten and unsettle. These stories are fake, but the shivers down your spine won't be.
Practicing
There was just one test to take. No need to measure aptitudes or abilities. The baseline requirement was a minimum of two years of doctoral studies and a thesis that showed readiness to work in two disciplines. There were few enough of those who would sign up for this project. So it was just a standard Meyers-Briggs test, the plain version that organizations use for team building. 4 axes designed to forecast interaction and co-operation of a team. 40 or so simple questions. The outcomes? On a scale of 1-10, how much of an extravert are you? Or if not, how much of an introvert on the same scale? Same with the other qualities. E for extravert, I for introvert; T if you approach questions mainly by thinking (again 1-10), otherwise F if by feeling. S for sensing, and on the other side N for intuiting. J for judging versus P for perceiving. Not the subtlest way to parse people, but worth doing to sort us into groups. Over the next three months of working together, how would different personalities interact? Would they get along? This way we could be sorted into pods, each one with a variety of Meyers-Briggs profiles, I guessed.
By Paul A. Merkley2 days ago in Horror
Who was that?
{TING!} Malcolm’s phone sat on the edge of the table. The message came in just as the server was placing their appetizer between them and he had instantly turned his phone screen-side down. The only thing Britta saw was that a message had come in from someone who’s name also started with B. Was it his brother? She knew Mal made up funny names for the contacts in his phone. What did he call his brother? Was it Broseph? Had he made a portmanteau of Joseph and brother for that? Britta couldn’t recall. “Who was that?” she asked.
By M. Michael TRARP2 days ago in Horror
The Mountain
From an abandoned tape recording: You might think I’m creepy, future people who find this, but I don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow. Everyone here is freaking out over Y2K, and I don’t trust anything connected to computers to save this info. I could write this down later – that’s a plan – so maybe this isn’t such a bad idea. And J. said she’d call me soon so that we could head up. But let me talk about what’s happening here.
By Kendall Defoe 2 days ago in Horror
Washed Away
Prelude Imagine waking up from sleep and not knowing whether you are “ living,” in a timeline or you have been totally “erased,” out of existence. The kind where everything around seems like an existential threat. It’s a time where the usual survival tropes don’t work and the wrath is unobservable—yet, it exists!
By Madhu Goteti 2 days ago in Horror
Ice Cream. Top Story - September 2026.
The town of Wickley practically closed down during the autumn/winter seasons. It wasn’t exactly a bustling tourist attraction in peak summer, but it managed to entice enough holidaymakers, weekenders and those from neighbouring towns and villages during the warmer months to sustain a number of businesses, including This and That.
By Matthew Batham2 days ago in Horror
The Confessional Box
It had been two months since his last confession, and his mother and father and the priests had been badgering him to go to church and confess his sins. He seldom told the truth but never said that at confession, but making an appearance and saying a few words about some unsavoury deeds usually resulted in ten "Hail Marys" or "Our Fathers", which was a bit like the lines he always got at school.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 days ago in Horror
“Flying Saucers”
At first, no one believed it. No one who paid attention to the signals caught by scientists believed it. No one who heard rumours about those signals believed it. And when the press finally took the men and women in lab coats seriously, they still did not believe it. But it was true. Earth had received a signal and it was a message they could all understand: the planet had made first contact with life in outer space.
By Kendall Defoe 3 days ago in Horror
