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Tag: horror fiction
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.
Harvard’s Secret Experiment Opened a Door To Another Dimension That Should Have Stayed Closed
I was just a janitor mopping floors when a Harvard professor invited me to witness history – the opening of the first wormhole. What came next cost me fifteen years of nightmares.
Six Serial Killers Woke Up at the North Pole at Christmastime
When six of history’s most infamous serial killers mysteriously wake up at the North Pole on Christmas Eve, Santa offers them one final chance at redemption—but the Holiday Spirit doesn’t work on everyone.
I Was Forced to Shovel Snow Alone Next to an Abandoned House at Christmastime
On Christmas Eve, a teenager shoveling snow beside an abandoned house with a deadly history becomes convinced that Death himself is watching from its darkened windows—and waiting to collect.
The Terrifying Shadow In My Christmas Calendar Already Killed Three Children – Will I Be Next?
In the Christmas of 1965, a nine-year-old boy receives an Advent calendar that opens itself each night, revealing a shadowy figure drawing closer to his home — in a town where a child has been snatched and murdered every Christmas Eve for three years.
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.
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.
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.
HALLOWEEN: The Horrifying Audiobook of the Original 1978 Film | COMPLETE NARRATION
It’s the complete audiobook novelization of John Carpenter’s Halloween — a chilling adaptation that delves even deeper into the mind of pure evil than the film ever could.
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.
LABYRINTH: The Mansion Where Every Door Leads to a Different Death
When a jaded haunted house veteran receives a mysterious black envelope inviting him to ‘Labyrinth,’ he enters a palatial mansion where the rooms impossibly rearrange themselves and each door presents a progressively deadlier challenge making the man wonder if he’ll ever get out alive.
HE TOOK US TO AN ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK: My Terrifying Horror Honeymoon
When newlyweds accept a brother-in-law’s offer of a free honeymoon road trip to California, an unplanned stop at an abandoned amusement park becomes the most terrifying detour of their lives. It’s an original story of horror from Brandon Faircloth entitled, “The Honeymoon.”
MR. BLACK’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IMPOSSIBLE KNOWLEDGE: Some Books Should Never Be Opened
When a mysterious elderly salesman arrives at his door claiming to sell encyclopedias, a lonely introvert discovers the book contains impossible knowledge about his life – including his date of death and the identity of the father he never knew. But the price of learning his true heritage will force him to make a choice between the quiet life he’s always known or something darker than anything he could ever imagine.