fiction
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.
Pandora
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. Sera had always been told it was off-limits. The door had been part of the lab for as long as she’d worked there, a quiet, unassuming presence at the end of the hall. She’d walk by it every day, the warning etched into her mind—don’t open it, no matter what.
By E.K. Daniels2 years ago in Horror
The Art of Sacrifice. Top Story - October 2024.
The commission had been irresistible, a studio furnished with rare pigments, including mummy brown—the infamous paint ground from ancient bones. The patron knew of Harper’s fascination with the occult. He gestured her in, leaving a single cryptic instruction: “Don’t open the door, not until it's complete.”
By H.M.Warden2 years ago in Horror
Great Old Ones
There was only one rule: don’t open the door. We’d read the words a thousand times. Did the mad Arab trust us to obey? His abhorrent mind should never have set forth inking into eternity those ancient primal rites of preternatural origin. The arcane was simply a foretaste of oblivion—had he known what cosmic terror stirred? Or was he simply its first acolyte, and this Necronomicon his holy homage to a primal horror of immeasurable and undefinable magnitude?
By R. B. Booth2 years ago in Horror
High Up on The Water Tower
"There was only one rule: don't open the door." "That's a stupid rule, of course he would open the door! It's freakin' reverse psychology man." Rick rolled his eyes at the lame hook his buddy tried to start with and signaled for him to pass the blunt.
By Oneg In The Arctic2 years ago in Horror
