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Horror Stories

We love Horror Stories! We've been collecting these new and old horror stories for years, and I"m so happy to bring them to you. Some of our authors are new. Some of our authors are established, and some of our authors are long dead.

Ant Death by Lorna Wood

October 26, 2020 by Every Writer

Useful. Keeping busy. Reading the trails, bringing home food.

Warm day, scurrying along, pavement warm, sun bright, right overhead.

“Hey guys, watch this.”

“God, he looks so big through that thing.”

Filed Under: Horror Stories

The Feral Nature of Werewolves, A History

October 22, 2020 by Every Writer

Werewolves never existed. Humans created them from lore used to explain their loss of livestock at night. Humans rejected the notation that mere feral wolves could so quietly and so effectively take down and devour whole cattle in the dead of night without being detected

Filed Under: Horror Stories

My darkest fear! by Wendy Montoya

October 16, 2020 by Every Writer

a scary picture

I sat up gasping for air; my throat felt tight again. I glanced at the clock; although I already knew It was 3:30 am. The same time I have been waking up for the past week!

Filed Under: Horror Stories

A Moonlight Fable by H. G. Wells

April 15, 2019 by Every Writer

A Moonlight Fable by H. G. Wells There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold and woven so that I cannot describe how delicate and fine it was, and there was a tie of orange fluffiness that tied up under his chin. And […]

Filed Under: Horror Stories, Wells, H. G.

The Birds Weep by Steve Carr

April 9, 2019 by Every Writer

the birds weep a story by steve carr

The air is thick with the scent of pine. Rays of purple, blood red and golden yellow are fanned out across the twilight sky. Kyle walks among the trees holding a bouquet of wilting lilies. Lost, he searches for signs of the path he wandered away from.

Filed Under: Featured, Horror Stories

Looking for the Unseen/Seen by Anshika Arora

February 2, 2019 by Every Writer

Looking for the UnseenSeen

On a sunny winter morning, I heard the honking of my school bus; dressed up in my new uniform I hastened to get to my first day in the assembly. Standing in the last queue I noticed a woman in a white cloak

Filed Under: Horror Stories

Ghost Witch by Patrick K. Hoople

October 19, 2018 by Every Writer

Native Americans refer to her as Skuda-ku-mooch or Ghost Witch. Tales that my, great grandmother would tell, entertaining my sister, Adelynn, and I late on autumn nights.

Filed Under: Horror Stories

What are We? By Wendy Montoya

October 10, 2018 by Every Writer

I wasn’t comfortable here, I should have just said “no!” The house was abandoned, and from what Kelly confessed to me while driving here, made me angry.

Filed Under: Horror Stories

Tales of Marlow, Pennsylvania by Brad Yaskowitz

September 26, 2018 by Every Writer

Mary Lewis, twelve-years-old, is awoken in the night to the sound of pecking at her window. When she investigates she finds a crow perched upon the sill. To her amazement, it speaks to her,

Filed Under: Horror Stories

Wolf Wolf by Mike Ward

September 8, 2018 by Every Writer

Werewolf by Paul Mudie

Darien was learning how to live again. There was no reason to deny it. She knew what she was. After all the nights, waking up in the woods with bloody hands, but it was getting easier. She found the right foods that didn?t hurt her stomach, did Yoga, and she was back to her job after 6 months of leave for ?exhaustion.? No one seemed the wiser.

Filed Under: Horror Stories

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