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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.

Channel 19
I’ve driven nights for nineteen years. You learn what the road sounds like when nothing is wrong. Tires hum, the engine keeps its low note, and the CB hisses on channel 19, with now and then another driver complaining about the weather or a weigh station.
By zenGaze4 days ago in Horror
Dad (Home)
The first voicemail arrived on a Tuesday, at 3:12 in the morning, from a number I had paid to disconnect four years ago. I know it was that number because I had never been able to delete it from my phone. Dad (Home) . The little photo next to it was him squinting into the sun at the lake, holding a fish he was clearly lying about.
By zenGaze4 days ago in Horror
Thank You for Listening
The overnight shift at 89.3 was the loneliest job in town, which is why I took it. The station was a one-room cinderblock building behind the feed store, and after midnight it ran itself. A computer played the music library in a loop. A transmitter hummed in a rack by the door. My job was to sit in the studio, check the meters every hour, and write the numbers in a logbook that nobody had read since 2009.
By zenGaze4 days ago in Horror
Side B
I paid two dollars for the recorder, and the woman running the sale threw in the tape because it was already inside. A little silver microcassette recorder, the kind journalists used to carry, with a cracked case and a strap worn smooth by someone else’s wrist.
By zenGaze4 days ago in Horror
Static Whispers. Content Warning.
The baby is due next week. A long-awaited bundle of joy after years of loss. You sit in the nursing chair, swinging back and forth, clutching your bump. Your trance is interrupted; the monitor crackles. Your eyes dart to the flashing green light across the dimly lit room. A surge of adrenaline steals your breath; the baby monitor wasn't plugged into the wall.
By Sharna Halliwell4 days ago in Horror
Whitewater, Wisconsin: The Second Salem
Whitewater, Wisconsin: The Second Salem Where the witches never quite left, the dead have unfinished business, and the shadows know your name.
By Lilithea Adasia4 days ago in Horror
THE ISLAND OF THE DOLLS
THE ISLAND OF THE DOLLS She Lost Her Life in the Water. Something Stayed Behind. By Miss Lil | Dark Corners & Forgotten Horrors
By Lilithea Adasia4 days ago in Horror
Hello?
I still couldn’t believe my mom was gone. It was a few days after her funeral and as the only child, it was up to me to go through her belongings and decide what to keep and what to get rid of.
By Mel Aki4 days ago in Horror
A New Arrival. Top Story - October 2026.
Chloe rests her elbows on the kitchen island in her family’s new home in Fairfield, Connecticut, already exhausted by 11 a.m. She calls the only person who might listen.
By Scott Christenson🌴4 days ago in Horror
Now We Have Unfilled Holes. Top Story - October 2026.
The industrial park tucked away in the folds of the ghetto was built during more prosperous times, when business boomed throughout the city.
By C. Rommial Butler4 days ago in Horror
My Family Has Avoided One Room in Our House for 40 Years. AI-Generated.
The One Rule Nobody Questioned When I was growing up, our house had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and one room nobody was allowed to enter.
By Hardik Barot5 days ago in Horror
Winter
The quill pen gives an icy burn to my fingers as I pick it up. Subconsciously, I know what to do. I don't need an explanation for the quill, or the long scroll of parchment with decades of writing in a language I'm no longer familiar with.
By J "Griffin" Rooms5 days ago in Horror