When a young orphan moves into his elderly cousin’s sprawling estate, the warm welcome he receives makes everyone in town suspicious — especially after he learns what happened to the last two children who stayed there.
Tag: dark fiction
I Watched the Television Episode We Never Finished, Now I Can’t Stop It
Mark thought he was just another overworked TV writer burning the midnight oil, but when his dead colleague sends him an email with a lost episode eerily mirroring his own life, he realizes some scripts aren’t meant to be written—or watched.
Claws, Contracts, and Close Calls: One Last Fight For Filmore
Double-crossed, beaten bloody, and staring down a title fight he can’t win, Larry Filmore’s last night on Dornel IV might be his last night anywhere. Might as well start a bar brawl.
He Walled Up His Wife’s Corpse. But Something Else Was Trapped Inside With Her | The Black Cat
A man who once loved animals more than anything confesses from death row how a single act of drunken cruelty against his beloved black cat set him on an inescapable path toward madness, murder, and supernatural vengeance.
The Girl At The Bar Told Me That She Was Satan, I Believed Her When She Said Hell Is Already Here
A disheveled stranger sat down next to me at a London bar and claimed to be the Devil. By the time she finished telling me the truth about Hell, I believed every word.
The Rules We Follow at a Paranormal Army Base in the Desert
I thought my new coworkers were hazing me when they told me the rules of this desert Army base, but then I met the faceless men in the sand.
No Way Out: They Entered an Abandoned Building. One by One, They Vanished.
When a crew filming in an abandoned building encounters strange disappearances and shifting hallways, they quickly realize they’re trapped in a reality-bending nightmare where every door leads further into madness—and no one is safe.
A Strange Christmas Game: The Christmas Disappearance at Martingdale Manor #SpookySanta
For forty-one years, the halls of Martingdale echoed with unexplained footsteps and banging doors every Christmas Eve — until the night we stayed to watch, and the dead finally showed us what happened.
The Hospital Patient With An Impossible Gift That Was Also a Horrible Curse
A mysterious man collapses on the steps of a church with no identification and no explanation — but when patients near him start making impossible recoveries, a nurse discovers his gift comes with a devastating price.
I Was Sent to Debunk the Mountain Shrine. I Couldn’t Explain What I Saw.
Edward Blair only wanted a quick, quirky feature story from a secluded Japanese shrine—but what he found was a girl who defied explanation, a priest with powers beyond science, and a warning about the dangerous cost of controlling the universe.
A Girl Made a Wish… Her Descendants Paid Every Christmas In Human Flesh #SpookySanta
Two centuries ago, a desperate young servant girl buried a piece of amber in the frozen Nova Scotia earth and summoned something with rows of gleaming teeth and an ungodly stench. Every Christmas Eve since, it returns to collect its payment — in flesh.
THE TWELVE SLAYS OF CHRISTMAS: What If a Killer Used This Christmas Song as a Murder To-Do List?
After his wife divorced him at Christmas, a man snapped — and used the classic holiday carol as a twisted blueprint for a cross-country killing spree.
WEIRD AFTER DARK: “The Monkey’s Paw” and “Pickman’s Model”
Our Ghost Stories discuss tales from two master storytellers, two very different nightmares, one devastating truth — whether you’re wishing on a cursed talisman or descending into an artist’s cellar, some doors should never be opened. Join your ghost hosts as they dissect the hidden horrors lurking beneath W.W. Jacobs’ domestic tragedy and H.P. Lovecraft’s subterranean terror.
“The Monkey’s Paw” & “Pickman’s Model”: W.W. Jacobs & H.P. Lovecraft, Masters of Dread
A grieving couple’s desperate wish brings something to their door in W.W. Jacobs’ 1902 classic, ‘The Monkey’s Paw.’ Then, H.P. Lovecraft reveals the disturbing truth behind one artist’s unnervingly lifelike paintings in ‘Pickman’s Model.
I Died and Woke Up as a Contestant on a Twisted Afterlife Game Show
A lonely widower’s heart stops after a woman with his dead wife’s face and name walks into a bar — and he wakes up strapped to a chair as the unwilling contestant on a horrifying game show in Purgatory.
ELSEWHERE, KENTUCKY: The Government Buried It In Concrete And Erased It From Every Map
When an urban explorer discovers a town that’s been completely erased from maps, he learns too late why the county went to such extreme lengths to make sure nobody could ever find it again.
“ADVENT OF EVIL” – Presented by Weird Darkness | Written by Scott Donnelly; Based on a Concept by Darren Marlar
Twenty-four days. Twenty-four doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve.
The Moment of Decision: The Story Too Disturbing For “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”
When a retired magician and an arrogant estate owner clash over property changes, their feud escalates to a deadly wager—one that traps a man in an ancient torture device with only an hour to escape, while his fate hangs on whether his rival will open the door in time.
DUTCHMAN’S HOLLOW: Something Has Been Hunting in These Woods Since 1656
A young true crime author’s investigation into a remote Pennsylvania hollow where 136 people have vanished leads him and his friend into an encounter with something that has been watching from the forest… possibly for centuries.