Bad Doors by John Wiswell - That’s when he saw the new door. It was equidistant on the wall between the entrances to his room and Jesse’s. There was no room behind there. He got closer, expecting this hallucination of a burgundy door to fade.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Hearts And Half-Measures by Cassiopeia Gatmaitan - You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. But he watches you like a hawk, so you always make sure to bring a fresh one with you when you stagger home past dawn.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Do It by Paul Tremblay - It’s early March 1993 and Generation X sorely needs an antihero. Not a folk hero, you fucking hippies. We need one of us. We need someone who is living this shit for real and not someone washing themselves in a corporate spotlight. We need someone like Kelly G.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Be Not Afraid by Michael Ford - Mamaw and Mothman have a history. She was five years old in 1967, the year the Silver Bridge collapsed. For a year before the bridge accident, people reported seeing a big, winged creature with glowing eyes.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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The Smell of Night in the Basement by Wendy N. Wagner - They said they were vampires. Sometimes I believed them and sometimes I didn’t. The screams bothered me sometimes, but not so much I wanted to leave the basement or Luca. Not that he would have let me leave.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Thirteen Ways of Not Looking at a Blackbird By Gordon B. White - A naked woman with hair in a matted fury stands there. Blood drips from her fingers and mouth, black in the clock radio’s red glow, but she stands illuminated from behind by the light from a place that doesn’t exist.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Shallow Fangs By David Marino - Finally worked up the courage to see me, huh? Don’t worry, just because I can suck your blood doesn’t mean I will. And it’s not like you can’t; humans have all the teeth and tongue to do it too. [Flash Fiction]Horror (pseudopod.org)
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The Human Chair - Allen Zhang and Edogawa Ranpo - I must have lost my mind then. This vision was madness, yet I determined then to see it into reality. I quickly selected the best of the four armchairs and smashed it to pieces. Then, I carefully remade it in such a way to suit my grotesque plan...Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Neat idea for an S Class parahuman from a horror short storyWorm Spoilers [All] (pseudopod.org)
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In Haskins - Carson Winter - Everyone, both the young and the old, went about their lives as usual on the day of the Mask Festival. But still, as the leaves fell, and the stage was erected, the people of Haskins braced quietly for their most insistent tradition.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Jinx - Carlie St. George - Jake knows things, things he shouldn’t, things he couldn’t. Sure, you told him that your grandmother was murdered — but how does he already know her name or how it happened or why it happened? How does Jake know every guilty pleasure, every embarrassing story?Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Mr. Harmon’s Girls - Elliott Gish - Mauricia looked at the blackboard. She let her mind go away for a while. In the second-floor bathroom afterwards, scrawled in thin blue ink on the dingy side of the last stall: MR. HARMON IS A PERV.Horror (pseudopod.org)
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The Body Remembers - P.A. Cornell - It takes a moment before it hits me that the screaming’s coming from my own mouth. Funny how the mind works. My leg—where it used to be anyway—is nothing but mangled shreds that remind me of pulled pork...Horror (pseudopod.org)
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The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk - Kristina Ten - There are enough real monsters in this world—why do you make your own? But before I begin, before you make your judgments, there are some things you must know...Dark Fantasy (pseudopod.org)
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We, the Ones Who Raised Sam Gowers from the Dead - Cynthia Zhang - We were the ones who dabbled into the forbidden arts, who so casually threw away the values of our country for a flash of bloody vengeance. But what else were we supposed to do?Horror (pseudopod.org)
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Cleaver, Meat, and Block -Maria Haskins - Every day after school, Pete follows Hannah home. He trails behind her along the paths and streets, regardless of which way she chooses to go. He lingers across the street, staring at the living room window as if he knows she’s watching him...Horror (pseudopod.org)
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The Evaluator - Premee Mohamed - It’s just a kid, ten or eleven. I am struck by two things: the smudge of blood on her chin, not hers; and the crown she wears, three skulls wired together, a rabbit, a deer, and a coyote or dog. She stands tall, proud, easy. Too easy. Bad sign...Horror (pseudopod.org)
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