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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.

A Lost Soul
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. A flicker of light piercing through the shroud of darkness in the starless night. A beacon, reaching out like a friendly hand, weaving between the trees until it came to rest on the body of Hest. Lost, alone, huddled against a tree wrapped in his thoughts of a life he once knew.
By Daniel Millington4 years ago in Horror
The Legend of Eagle Rock Mine
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. There was no mistaking it, its long wax torso slowly melting behind the reflection of the six-pane glass.
By Kyle Maddox4 years ago in Horror
Alone in Afognak
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Afognak Island was known for its abandoned Cabins. Trappers, gold miners, loggers, and simple old salts would come here to brave Alaska and her extreme lifestyle. They would survive one winter... maybe two before something pushed them out, whether it was the biting cold of the unforgiving winters, the darkness that would creep into the furthest points of the strongest of men's souls... or the animals that called the island home.
By Danielle R Bailey4 years ago in Horror
Flicker
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. The match’s kiss upon the tinderbox sparked briefly, as the man-willed flame manifest in the musty air of the derelict cabin. The previously birthed flame of the candle in the window battled the entrenched darkness of the cabin interior, awaiting reinforcement against the assembled gloom. Flickering and dancing gently, tantalized by the whispered wind infiltrating the cracked window panes and skewed frames. At last, the spark saw fit to heed the call to live and took hold of the wick within a second candle. The assembled group, three in all, took the lit candles, using them to ignite two others sitting idle on the fireplace mantle.
By Addison M4 years ago in Horror
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon
Soooooo…. Yeah. Uh, I think I need some help. I accidentally summoned a demon. I know, I know. It sounds both crazy and incredibly stupid. But it happened, and I’ve been living with it for almost two and half years now. And you know? Things were actually fine. Until lately, when things went to absolute shit. Because I can’t have nice things. Ugh, fuck.
By Linden Schneider4 years ago in Horror
Stella
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. "Damn kids," Stella thought to herself as she caught a glimpse from her bedroom window. The cabin always made her feel uneasy, even in the short time she had lived here, but there was little she could do. It sat just outside her property, and anytime she brought it up to her neighbors they would change the subject, clearly reluctant to even talk about it, let alone do anything with it.
By Lloyd Farley4 years ago in Horror
Return to the Abyss
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. I stared out my window, unable to pull my eyes from the sight. A candle was burning, there was no mistake about that.
By Emilie Turner4 years ago in Horror
What were you dreaming of, Kat?
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. It flickered in Katherine's eyes. With a world that had been filled with darkness and colourful wriggly worms under her eyelids, the sudden light was a shock to Kat. It demanded intrigue. It was the same curiosity that left Kat in the woods that night and that pulled her towards the flaring candle in the rusted cabin window. It was the unusual crunch underneath her boots and the strange scent in the air that never quite smelt of pine. Kat’s breath warmed the cold air and saliva slobbered from her mouth. The moonlight glistened like shards of crystals dancing in the sky. Kat walked one step at a time towards the cabin. The air around her was as dark as a veil. Kat flayed her hands through the air and could see nothing but blindness. It was the cool breeze that pricked the hairs on Kat's neck and the squawk of an owl that pierced her ears, deafening. And it was the quiet howl of the wind that caused her to shiver, the hairs on her head to flow past her blinded eyes and tangle on her face like the thin web of a spider. She took one more step. With a darkness between her eyes and feet. Kat could hear her fathers voice as she took another weary step.
By Eva sutherland4 years ago in Horror
The Cabin
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. It wasn’t close enough for neighbors to see the small sputter of the flame, hidden deep in the wooded mountains of Oregon, but he took precautions with his arrival anyway. They had guided him to the location; not really as a physical place but more of a feeling of where he was supposed to be. He’d even known about the candle, casting a glow a few feet around it. It tried to make the place a bit warmer, more inviting, as if someone lived there, but he knew only they lived there.
By Keeleigh White4 years ago in Horror
Wick
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Bleak wooden walls stand tall towards the ceiling. The window was frosted over. The candle was depleted, only lit at its base. A sound of wailing crawled through the rotting walls and out into the open night air. A shutter rolls over my body. "It's just the cold," a whisper meant to ease me from this horrible nightmare.
By Zach Harwood 4 years ago in Horror
Nightfall Hollow
“The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window....” It can be said that there is no such thing as there being a haunted house by those that had never fully experienced there being such a thing. It has been said that there is a cabin in the woods, said to be haunted. Based in legend, one would soon learn the real nature of how powerful hauntings can be. And how deadly!
By Jonathan Hinternish4 years ago in Horror
Servant
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. A single flickering flame was the only light in the empty building, sunlight and moonlight could not penetrate the inky blackness within. It had been so long since anyone had even looked upon the cabin, centuries even. Many had forgotten its very existence. That was their first mistake.
By C.Z.4 years ago in Horror