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Stories in Horror that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.

Stranger Danger
Poet In The Arctic invited me to participate in her horror fiction challenge on Medium and I decided to give it a go. The challenge thrown down is as follows:
By Colleen Millsteed 2 years ago in Horror
Bringing the Light. Runner-Up in Campfire Ghost Story Challenge.
Advisory: swearing The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. It flickered with the movement of the presence inside, as it moved past it. The silence around the cabin was absolute. If you listened hard, you would be able to hear the wax spitting and crackling in the flame. The creatures of the forest had frozen, permitting no noise to break the calm. No calls, no crack of twigs, no squeal of prey consumed. Their instinct told them to draw no attention to themselves in that moment, to keep to the shadows where the flame did not reach.
By Rachel Deeming4 years ago in Horror
House of Pain. Content Warning.
This is in response to a challenge issued by Dharrsheena Raja Segarran , who can be found here on Vocal: The challenge was issued in True Crime, Horror Story & Dark Poetry on Facebook:
By Veronica Coldiron2 years ago in Horror
For Whom the Whistle Blows
You awake alone on a train with trees drifting slowly by outside. You sit in the window seat, in the first row, facing forward. Looking behind yourself, you see that every seat stretching back to the door is empty, light that does not shine glittering in the eyes of people who are not there. It is dark in the car, the attendant hasn’t been seen for hours, and the only light comes from a perfectly full moon in a clear, cloudless sky.
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Horror
(In)Coherence: The Halls
There it sits on an ornate mahogany reading table, a small composition journal. It bears neither title nor author, but it calls to me. It feels like I have been looking for it. I pick it up, its spine is well-creased and pages yellowed. I open it and begin reading. The writing is all in neat but faded pencil graphite that my eyes struggle to see.
By Ian Read2 years ago in Horror
Mirror mirror on the Wall.
Not long ago in the dark and desperate land of Longaria lived Snow white. This was not her birth name, but a name given to her by the kind spirit she embodied. She was the angel of light, living in a plagued land full of burden and despair.
By Lamar Wiggins2 years ago in Horror
The Call of Cthulhu
“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Horror
Angel
We call them Angels. Who coined the term first, nobody knows, but it caught on, unexpectedly, in a time when its original meaning from the biblical lore has long been forgotten.
By L Mincola2 years ago in Horror
Holidae
"Human! Human! We have a Holiday!" Kloey is run over by Blake. Unceremoniously, she tumbles to the floor, grumbling under her breath. "What the heck, Blake?" For someone so small, he packs quite a punch.
By Chloe2 years ago in Horror
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By Addison Alder2 years ago in Horror
Stay Awake, Stay Alive
I’ve been awake now for 48 hours and I know I won’t be able to stay this way for much longer. Who wants to die at 31—I know I don’t, but I’ll have to sleep sometime. Maybe the end will be painless, however judging by what I’ve observed, it will be anything but. This all started innocently enough.
By Mark Gagnon3 years ago in Horror
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Streaming services these days are ubiquitous. Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, Disney Plus, Prime Video—the list just goes on and on. It's hard to imagine a world without it, but not that long ago, none of these services existed. You don't even have to go back as far as VHS (or before) days to reach a point where streaming video just wasn't a thing.
By J.A. Hernandez3 years ago in Horror