05 Feb

Posted at 20:00h in Abductions and Kidnappings, Beings and Entities, Body Horror, Children and Childhood, Cosmic Horror and Lovecraftian Stories, Curses and Cursed Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore, Folktales, and Superstition, Myths and Legends, Period Pieces, Psychological Horror, Religion and Spirituality, Strange and Unexplained, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers, Torture and Cannibalism

Investigative journalist Flora Sampson has unraveled many mysteries in her career, but none as strange as James Hawkins. His past is a puzzle—missing records, contradictory accounts, and an unsettling familiarity with stories best left in childhood. As she presses for answers, Hawkins reveals an unbelievable...

16 Jan

Posted at 11:00h in Body Horror, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Folklore, Folktales, and Superstition, Investigations and Crimes, Isolation and Loneliness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Natural Disasters and Storms, Psychological Horror, Sounds and Voices, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers

When a series of brutal killings shakes the remote town of Port Smith, Sheriff Caleb Dunn is thrust into a fight for survival against an unseen predator. The victims are found mutilated, arranged in ritualistic displays, and eerily stripped of their clothing. With an unforgiving...

13 Jan

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Act I: The Conflict Theater 201 — School of the Art Institute of Chicago —Professor Robert Wellers “Class—listen up, please. Who would be the first to show me you’ve actually done your reading assignment and tell me what the ‘4th wall’ means in stage terminology?” I tapped my...

04 Jan

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

It is truly amazing just how much pain the human body is able to endure with the proper motivation. For weightlifters and athletes, it’s the goal of looking better and becoming stronger that helps them push through the pain of exercise. For those trapped in the...

10 Dec

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain

Drawn to a remote island by the sound of an otherworldly call, Bassett, a naturalist, embarks on a perilous journey into the heart of an untamed jungle. What begins as scientific curiosity soon becomes an all-consuming obsession, as he uncovers a secret that defies imagination...

12 Oct

Posted at 11:00h in Editor's Choice, Uncategorized

Chapter 1 Ethan Hull’s eyes scanned the crowded emergency room of Forestview Medical Center, his mind already in overdrive despite the shift having only just begun. The ER was packed, as usual, with the unmistakable chaos of a Monday morning. Nurses and doctors darted between curtained-off...

05 Oct

Posted at 11:00h in Editor's Choice, Uncategorized

Part I The storm arrived faster than anyone expected. Six-year-old Evelina McIntyre sat cross-legged on the carpet in her bedroom, a small, cozy space nestled on the lower level of her family’s home in Georgia. The room, with its pastel green walls and neatly arranged shelves...

28 Sep

Posted at 11:00h in Uncategorized

Troy Davis, a stalwart of the mines for over three decades, lived a life shaped by the grit and grind of the subterranean world. However, one ominous morning, the very mines that defined his existence became a perilous trap. A reckless explosion had reverberated through...

25 Sep

Posted at 11:00h in Editor's Choice, Strange and Unexplained

The Owl Witch On a Wednesday shortly after 3 PM, a taxi pulled up to an old house in Rosevine, Texas, an unincorporated community in northwestern Sabine County in Texas.  Thiago Angel Martinez, a stocky fifty-year-old man with a bald head, large mustache, and covered in...

23 Sep

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Go, Light Your Torches A thin cloud of red dust whips outside the airlock window. I press my forearm against the glass and lose myself in the soft hiss of sand moving against the hull. Wind. The thought almost makes me laugh. I always thought it was...

17 Sep

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

The air in the room was frigid and stank of rotting meat. The unearthly groans spewing from the small, spindly creature’s mouth chilled Maddie to her core. The vile words it used to remind her of her every mistake and shortcoming filled her with shame...

27 Oct

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Ellie’s morning consisted of organizing the paperwork of her first client, Edgar Zavala. She was a newly hired caregiver at Lakeside Assisted Living and had just completed her two-week training course. Edgar’s profile was unremarkable. Hispanic male, sixty-eight years old, widower with no military service. Previous...

26 Sep

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

“In the desert, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.” — Loren Eiseley Chapter I — The Saloon Laying in the thoroughfare outside the saloon was a pile of twenty smouldering bodies stacked on top of each other like logs. The gang of bandits that...

10 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

“Alice Smirnoff quits, and Bartholomew Brown makes prosecutor.” Shirly sighed as she draped her arm around Bart’s neck. “And to think, Mother said you’d never amount to anything.” “Well, you can hardly blame her.” Bart smirked, letting his hands linger on the curve of her hips....

08 Jun

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Shorty Small, a man neither short nor small, drummed his fingers on the ornately carved oak bar. The location being a well-established watering hole on Bourbon Street. Fat Tuesdays only entertained a handful of tourists on this early spring afternoon. With the summer vacation season...

30 Mar

Posted at 11:00h in Strange and Unexplained

Warrior Biting my cheek, I glance up at the clock on the wall. The minute hand crawls out from behind one of the bars protecting its face. Quarter till three. The lead ball that’s been sitting in my chest since Mariana dropped me off falls to...

10 Nov

Posted at 22:36h in Strange and Unexplained

This whole thing started with a Rubik’s Cube.  Once I learned the algorithm and figured it out, I was able to solve it in record time.  I competed in a tournament or two, but eventually, I started to get bored.  It became too easy for...

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