Bob and Big Dave
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.
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Interlude In Gehenna
Reading Time: 18 minutesHe should have killed the man when he had the chance. Now there was nothing to do but wait for retribution in a town just a shade removed from hell.
Under the Mistletoe
Reading Time: 3 minutesA creepy little trip down memory lane, suitable for inclusion in a Christmas nightmare gallery of speculative horrors and sensations.
A Voice From the Past
Reading Time: 18 minutesThe young archaeologist Edward Campbell, is obsessed with the idea of knowing what happened to his father, who died years earlier while exploring an unknown tomb he discovered in an isolated area of Egypt.
Auschwitz Dancer
Reading Time: 16 minutesThe spirit of famous Jewish ballet dancer, Franceska Mann, is stuck in time in a parallel dimension in 1943 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland.
Dead Station: Rebellion
Reading Time: 11 minutesAn ancient horror slumbered beneath the wastelands of Titan, waiting for us to find it – and now we have. Contact has been lost with the outer mining colonies and an emergency recovery team mobilized. They expected the miners to be dead. What they find is far worse.
A Feast for Saints
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn 18th century New England Christian tells of the terrible truth behind Thanksgiving.
Giselle and Mr. Goebbels
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.
Portrait
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn 1921, a London painter’s encounter with a beautiful Romanian woman leads to a portrait sitting with hellish consequences.
I Know Who Killed Natalie Roane
Reading Time: 6 minutesHorror meets the near-term sci fi of additive manufacturing in a ghost story unlike most that came before it.
Chlorophylliation
Reading Time: 5 minutesColonists struggle with a strange, addictive plant that is strangling their settlement.
For Warmth and Trinkets
Reading Time: 4 minutesBrrr’s investigation reveal his ice planet is losing cold and fledglings because of bureaucrats chasing profit with human aliens.
Deracination
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?
Clean Slate
Reading Time: 21 minutesOn a Saturday morning, Grace Merritt vomits up a pocket watch that she’s never seen before.
Occupational Hazards or The Quite Curious Tale of Astridr Grimsdottir
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking to a deadline can sometimes lead to astonishing conversations, even revelations. Does the artist dictate the art? Or the art the artist?
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Enough
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’.
Mired
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this short historical horror, a soldier on WWI’s Western Front struggles with the enormity and guilt of having volunteered to enlist.
A Voice for the Scavengers
Reading Time: 23 minutesA government Hunter in a post apocalyptic world is challenged with either changing his allegiance or living a lie.
A Substitute for Salvation
Reading Time: 23 minutesA post-apocalyptic love triangle inspired by “Casablanca” that revolves around a misanthropic bar owner, a Mars-bound clone fighting for his freedom, and a repurposed sex droid.
Those Halcyon Days
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe had spent the winter together, sleeping on ice caps, pointing out constellations far above us in the sky.
The Belly of The Beast
Reading Time: 23 minutesWhen nothing is as it seems, how much are you willing to sacrifice to save mankind…
In the Bowels of the Theater
Reading Time: 20 minutesThere is magic in the theatre, ancient and powerful – not just of the stage, but of an elder and mighty god…one which Sucunde would see freed and restored.
Fidget
Reading Time: 3 minutesDubious captains, drones, economies built around recycled rocket boosters, and love.
Club Fiends
Reading Time: 20 minutesThe wild hunt calls, and it’s time for Ondine to depart this world, alongside her club-obsessed brothers and sisters. Yet she’s in love with a mortal – or is she? Her decision to stay or go must be made fast, for a terrible monster hunts her
Checkpoint
Reading Time: 16 minutesOn a distant planet, a young alien and his human neighbor plot to escape to the paradise known as Earth.
Speed of Shadow
Reading Time: 16 minutesWhen a mysterious, dark figure keeps up with a family’s car at highway speeds, one little girl must inform her dad of the danger before it’s too late.
I Got Dem Ol’ Apocalypse Blues Again
Reading Time: 19 minutesJackson, a wanna-be bounty hunter in a post-apocalyptic city, has been hired to find the people responsible for several acts of industrial sabotage. A moral person living in a city where morality isn’t a particularly good survival trait, Jackson ends up facing a crisis of conscience.
Mortimer the Maus
Reading Time: 14 minutesIn “Mortimer The Maus,” Picco conveys the childhood terror of becoming lost in a large crowd, and the perils of being found by something else.
The Feather and the Lamp
Reading Time: 11 minutesA magic lamp should have been a gateway to Imperceptibility’s every desire. So how did she end up in the underworld covered in slobber from a three-headed dog? And then there’s capture by fanatical priest-mercenaries, sacrifice to a quantum dragon, and getting trapped in a chicken coop. Will she ever find her way back home? More important still, what’s a goose feather got to do with any of this?
Annihilation Plan: (Mars Wars Book 3)
Reading Time: 9 minutesIf you happened to have an illegal telescope, or proxied your galaxynet address well enough to pirate your way to satellite images of Mars, you might glimpse a damaged but operational Mars Orbiter 1, alive with ‘rebels. If so, you’d be witnessing Mars Wars.
Virtually Yours
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn a world of seamless surveillance where virtual and real coalesce in a teasing dance, love is the trickster
Mother Worked Nights
Reading Time: 5 minutesA boy struggles to come to terms with his absentee mother. His father insists it’s due to her busy work schedule, but something doesn’t seem right.
Playing House
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree sisters play a dangerous game in a house which mysteriously appeared–and which could vanish again at any moment.
Arachno Thank You
Reading Time: 5 minutesThomas makes progress with his shrink, but the process of opening up and sharing his dreams has an unintended effect.
Changeling
Reading Time: 6 minutesMarion recalls a tale her grandma told which she has never forgotten. The story of Kara O’Brien, a strange looking child who attended the village school in Connemara, Ireland, where the old lady grew up. Marion’s grandma reveals a secret that was known only by herself and her Aunt Josie. Kara O’Brien was no ordinary child.
Incandescent
Reading Time: 14 minutesSarah moves back to her old stomping grounds and buried memories return to haunt her. The only way to exorcise them is to face them head on, but she’s not sure if she’s ready to shine a light on the horror that lies within.
The Laws of Nature
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…
Simulacra
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe alarm blared. Tim Jorgensen opened his eyes and sighed. The clock was yellow. It should have been red!
Living in a buggy computer simulation is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The Sleepy Warrior
Reading Time: 14 minutesEven on the sunniest of days, a whirlwind of violence can form in the calm.
The Savage Year
Reading Time: 23 minutesIn 1968, mage Artemis West has a dull government job double-checking the bindings of ancient demons. Only someone’s just set one of them free. With the help of a teenage vagabond girl, Artemis has to catch a cosmic horror or America won’t make it to 1969.
