Horror Stories

For fans of programs like Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside,13 weird tales set in a seemingly normal suburban neighborhood, with a hidden underbelly of supernatural happenings.

• Why is the guy across the street always mowing his lawn? (“Lawn Wars”)
• How about the house that always seems to be for sale again? (“The Bad Luck House”)
• What’s...

This anthology gathers 20 stories of the bogeymen that follow us into adulthood. The monsters that shadow us for our entire lives

Featuring tales by:
Jacob Marsh, Lawrence Harding, L.b. Shimaira Tom Coombe, Rami Ungar, Mir Rainbird, Eric Nash, Samantha J Bryant, Oli Jacobs, Gree, Theodore Snapdragon, Autumn Rain Christine Cunningham, Bruce...

13 Authors. 1 Thread.

Beneath the wide, shadowed canopy of horror, these twisted tales weave their own path: from dark rituals, cults, and cursed objects, to stalkers, ghosts, and science gone too far — prepare to entangle yourself in stories of love, hate, and the dark fears that haunt us all.

Be warned. Once you start pulling, there’s nothing...

Love blooms as swiftly as it devours.

Pull back the layers to delve into the devotion and longing, the lust and the love, the triumphs and tragedy in this sapphic horror collection.

Featuring stories by Rebecca Bennett, Samantha Bryant, JJ Carpenter, Alchemy Dawn, Cat Delani, Wren Handman, Mirella Higuera, Toshiya Kamei, C. A. Larkin, Frey Lylark,...

A collection of workplace horror to thrill and delight. My story "Say My Name" is about an icebreaker activity gone wrong.

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From the fluorescent-lit boardroom to the desolate isolation of a lonely spacecraft, Dread Mondays collects stories transforming the abstraction of mundane repetition into...

"The Mushroom Child" follows a woman off the path, into the woods, and into trouble.

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Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror:

• A food blogger hunts for a killer recipe.
• Ceaseless rain drives a lonely man into his fungus-covered town.
• A grieving son purchases a kit to regrow his dead...

A multi-author collection of horror stories about what remains hidden. My story, "She Cries in the Night" is a sad and scary piece about a woman haunted by her own mistakes as well as by a night creature.

My story, "His Destroyer," is set during the 10th plague of Egypt. It's one of my favorite pieces I've ever written

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Mocha Memoirs Press is proud to present SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire — a revolutionary anthology celebrating vampires of the African Diaspora. SLAY is a groundbreaking unique collection and will be a must-have...

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" is a story of vengeance…and carnivorous plants.

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A thwarted female defense attorney releases the baying of the hounds under a full moon, signaling the death of an era—and the birth of a new one under the Old Gods.

Most funerals are celebrations for the living—unless the guests decide to tempt fate...

"The Other Jack" has an urban legend feel and is about a case of mistaken identity.

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On the European front, there are worse things stalking the battlefield than enemy soldiers.

A laid-off ad exec’s second career takes a turn for the bloody.

The halls of Shy Rock High welcome the Class of 2005—but why so few attendees to this shadowy...

"The Cleaning Lady" might not sound like horror, but it's all in what you have to clean up.

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As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.

Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.

A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying...

In a world of shadows, joyful colours are an act of heroism.

Modern tales are filled with clowns who invoke fear not laughter: painted grins covering fanged maws; baggy costumes concealing unspeakable horrors; malevolent parodies of nature.

But the tools of a clown work for good as well as ill: only a trickster could tweak a monster’s nose;...

We fear discovery when we should fear what there is to discover.

Lovecraft and his successors show a world where human civilisation is only a thin veneer over black seas of ignorance. A world where men exalted for their reason uncover logic-defying truths. A world where the marginalised discover uncaring horror on the fringes of a society that...

"If the Moon is Real" follows a young girl raised underground to the surface of her world for the first time.

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You’ll see all types of the family corvidae in here: Ravens (of course), blue jays, choughs, magpies, lots and lots of crows, and even some alien corvids. The corvids are main characters and supporting players; they’...

"I Should Have Known" might all be in the narrator's head, or maybe her girlfriend really is becoming something else.

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2020.
In a year where nobody can go anywhere, nine authors take you to near futures, far-off worlds, the heights of passion and the depths of terror. But whether you’re stuck in a time loop, caught in a...

"The Girl in the Pool" is a daylight ghost story.

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Spooky ghost stories! Eight paranormal tales sure to keep you sleepless...

Punkin-the-cat knows there’s something terrible in the walls of their new house in Shadow Hill, something BIG. He’s going to need Shannan’s help, but sometimes communicating with your human pet is…challenging.

This story is also included in the collection, Stories From Shadow Hill.

Elin’s across-the-street neighbor has gotten a little obsessive about mowing the lawn. Shadow Hill’s HOA isn’t that strict. Is there something darker going on? Or is Elin just letting her imagination run away with her?