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An Uninvited Guest
This is from a prompt in True Crime, Horror Story & Dark Poetry which you can read here and maybe submit your own story. What is a guest? A guest is someone you give an invitation to, to come to your home or other social meeting place, so the concept of an uninvited guest is an oxymoron. If you didn’t invite them they are a gatecrasher or something similar.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 5 months ago in Horror
The 12 Constellations
--- They weren’t supposed to stay after dark. That was the first rule. The second was simpler: never look up alone. Of course, no one took the rules seriously.
By Ajan Lori A. 5 months ago in Horror
The Retreat. Top Story - May 2026. Content Warning.
As the church bus came to a stop in the empty parking lot, its ten young passengers exchanged nervous glances. Reverend Lewis, his wife, Louise and his new assistant, Jason, looked back from the front of the bus with knowing smiles. Jason looked to the pastor for approval.
By Dana Crandell5 months ago in Horror
Skinwalkers: The Shapeshifters That Still Haunt the American Southwest. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
In the deserts of Arizona, across lonely highways cutting through Navajo land, and in the endless darkness surrounding abandoned ranches in Utah, there are stories people refuse to tell after sunset. Not ghost stories. Warnings. The Navajo call them yee naaldlooshii — “with it, he goes on all fours.” To outsiders, they are known simply as Skinwalkers: witches said to possess the ability to transform into animals, imitate human voices, and hunt people beneath the cover of night. Unlike modern internet creepypastas, the legend of the Skinwalker did not begin online. It is rooted deeply within Navajo spiritual belief, where discussing these entities openly is considered dangerous. Even today, many Navajo elders avoid speaking about them entirely. And perhaps that silence is what makes the stories so terrifying. Because the people who claim to encounter Skinwalkers often describe the same horrifying details. Yellow eyes. Animals standing upright. Voices calling from the darkness. And something impossibly fast chasing them through the desert night.
By E. hasan5 months ago in Horror
Alice, Sweet Alice (a.k.a. Communion, Holy Terror)
I suppose there’s something to the fact that I’m writing on Walpurgisnacht about Alice, Sweet Alice, the gothic Catholic family horror slasher drama wherein we expect some sort of supernatural terror, ala The Exorcist, but instead get psychological corruption, familial dissolution, and general social malaise in a 1960s Patterson, New Jersey, very Catholic family named the Pages. (Note: Walpurgisnacht is the high unholy day of Satanists and black magicians since time immemorial; it was that day when the witches were said, long ago, to fly to the Brocken in the Herz Mountains in Germany, to perform the rites of the Black Mass, cavort with the Devil, and kiss his ass.)
By Tom Baker5 months ago in Horror
The Cursed Canvas: A Painting That Refused to Be Owned...
There are objects that carry stories. And then there are objects that seem to carry something else entirely. In late 2023, tucked between mismatched teacups and forgotten paperbacks in a quiet UK charity shop, a painting appeared for sale. It wasn’t particularly large. Nor was it by any known artist. To most passersby, it might have looked like just another discarded relic, something once cherished, now abandoned.
By Veil of Shadows5 months ago in Horror
Weekend Getaway
“Ava! Are you sure this is okay?” the girl whispered, her voice barely louder than the wind brushing through the trees. Caitlyn stood at the edge of the forest, her fingers tightening around the straps of her duffle bag. The air smelled damp and earthy, like moss and something older—something untouched. A faint chill crept up her arms despite the warm summer evening.
By Mallory Farnum5 months ago in Horror
The Dybbuk: The Possessing Spirit That Refuses to Die. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
There are monsters that kill from the shadows. And then there are monsters that wear your face. The Dybbuk is one of the oldest and most terrifying entities in Jewish mysticism — not because it tears flesh apart like a beast, but because it crawls into the human body and slowly destroys a person from within. According to centuries of folklore, a dybbuk is the restless spirit of a dead person, too corrupted or tormented to move on after death. The word itself comes from the Hebrew term meaning “to cling”nor “to attach.” That single definition captures the horror perfectly. A dybbuk does not haunt a house. It clings to a living soul.
By E. hasan5 months ago in Horror
The Stalking of a Stalker. Honorable Mention in Stay a While Challenge. Top Story - May 2026.
Franklin grinned wickedly. To anyone looking on, it would seem more like a humorless grimace, he had long forgotten how to laugh with feeling. He watched them approach from his well hidden vantage point amidst the trees... a deep sense of excitement beginning in his toes and radiating upwards to the pit of his stomach.
By Novel Allen5 months ago in Horror
The Noppera-bō: Japan’s Faceless Nightmare. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
There are monsters that kill with claws. There are demons that hunt with teeth. And then there are horrors so unnatural that they don’t need violence at all.
By E. hasan5 months ago in Horror
Oakhaven
The silence in Oakhaven seemed to be louder than the actual chaos of the city. It was an empty shell that had been created when five thousand people vanished in a single afternoon thirty years ago, leaving behind half-eaten meals and cars parked at odd angles. No one knew what had happened, but the "exclusion zone" had become a mecca for legends. Most people swore it was haunted. No one had been brave enough to venture inside and find out.
By Sara Wilson5 months ago in Horror
10 Things to Know About 'Splatter University' (1984)
Splatter University was the debut feature of director Richard W. Haines whose rise through the ranks at Troma Films was quick and filled with notable work. His first job after graduating from NYU Film School was providing background noises for the 1980 Troma flick Mother's Day.
By Movies of the 80s5 months ago in Horror