Reading Time: 5 minutes“Everyone looks to the sky with mixed feelings, some welcoming of the arrival of Others, some dreading it. How we behave in that moment of revelation will speak volumes to those who need merely wait and watch, to know all they need to—about us.”
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe sudden appearance of the ghost of Bob, Dave’s best friend, leaves the latter feeling unhinged. Dave has just lost his wife, and Bob has returned to prevent Dave from following after her.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA creepy little trip down memory lane, suitable for inclusion in a Christmas nightmare gallery of speculative horrors and sensations.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn 18th century New England Christian tells of the terrible truth behind Thanksgiving.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRoger’s virtual digital assistant becomes possessed by the spirit of a vengeful ex-girlfriend who died of a broken heart. She wants to force him to dance himself to death to sixties rock music. The only one who can save Roger is the spirit of his deceased wife, Diane.
Reading Time: 4 minutesLovesick Serena is prepared to risk everything and uproot herself completely to be with the one she loves. But are her feelings returned?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is the tale of a young photographer looking to catch her big break by capturing the perfect shot in the woods supposedly haunted by the ‘Snow Witch’.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn unusual being is on a quest to find the perfect birthday gift for their lover. The tricky part is, they must leapfrog across several human bodies to get there.
Reading Time: 4 minutesTurner finds himself stranded in the middle of the highway late at night. As he waits for help to arrive, a strange girl appears at his car. Is she real or a ghost of his dark past?
Reading Time: 4 minutesA tween makes a deal with the local urban legend to ensure that his final Halloween Trick-or-Treating goes according to plan.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDubious captains, drones, economies built around recycled rocket boosters, and love.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA speculative riff on T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and the lack of interpersonal connection in the modern world. This is the way the world ends: When it can’t afford to pay the supporting cast.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a strange game the local children play in the woods, one where there are only three things you can be: the Witch, the Witch’s Wife, or Soup.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCara McHenry has only one chance to get a lead on her kidnapped sister, but the only ace up her sleeve is surprise . . . if she can hold her nerve.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe last two humans alive strike a deal with their mysterious caretaker.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn email subscriber becomes disillusioned and frustrated with the effects of a blog’s magical advice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA woman is forced to write to her neighbors about the beast she keeps secretly in her house.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is only a slender, fragile thread between hope and despair, happiness and fear.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA low-level worker at a biotech company attempts to cope with the impending apocalypse.
Reading Time: 4 minutesTwo space prospectors, Zdenek and Sarika, encounter an unusual unknown life form in space. Due to carelessness, the first contact with it turns out to be too harsh and the situation escalates…
Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes the value of true peace transcend the means of its own achievement?
Reading Time: 4 minutesHansel and Gretel’s love of sweets began long before they met the witch in the woods.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost folks say death on the premises is bad for business. For Hotel de Mort, it’s life.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA magical take on the pain of not fitting in, and rising above it.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat if, one million years from now, Hitler is paroled from Hell?
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the King it is love at first sight, but can love, no matter how intense and generous, be forced?
Reading Time: 3 minutesTrapped on a backward planet hundreds of light-years from home, a brave astronaut hides in plain sight among the resident aliens and laments the dying world he left behind.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA not-quite-human entity roams the world, hoping to find true love before her kind is erased from existence.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA mother, son, and grandmother evacuate a dark, frozen planet earth but dread something even worse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re married to a witch don’t make empty promises or you may find yourself learning a hard lesson.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesTrapped in a life pod attached to a dying spacecraft, an aging, battle-weary engineer has less than three minutes to live and an impossible choice to make. However, thanks to two computer programmers—over 100 years in the past—he’s not alone.
Reading Time: 5 minutesA tightly wound architect is forced to extremes when ridding her house of a man who keeps growing from the walls.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when today’s interstellar travelers meet those that arrived before them?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe hole in my floor descended deep into the ground. Damp, mildewy air wafted up.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnline dating can be predatory, but who exactly is doing the hunting?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s something I never told you, but I think you’re old enough now to know. I have a magic inside me. It lives between the lines in my fingertips and changes what I touch so I can fly away to a world far less frightening.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBenefits and pitfalls of undersea tourism exposed!
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA boy’s love for his mother helps him avoid a snare set by the Devil.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter fertility reached an all time low, fertile women are inseminated in an effort to save humanity. While caring for her dying child, one mother takes measure to ensure she won’t have another baby.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn author must tell his three elderly leading characters that he is handing them over to someone else.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn unusual rendezvous takes place in outer space. The synthetic creature known as Honeybee brings a young man’s soul to her lover, an entity called the Blot. Yet Honeybee begins to question her relationship with the Blot after it treats her poorly.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGertrude haunts an office chair at night. But how to get rid of a slightly-annoying ghost?
