Ghost Stories
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Shadows Crawl (poem)
by Alisha Magson
In the darkened room shadows crawl just hanging onto the windows. He screeches and...
The Waiting (story)
by Samuel Blackwell
I was five years old when I first saw you; it was the day you took my grandfather. Grandpa lay in the...
Graveyard (poem)
by Raven Black
Emotions and thoughts as dark as the night. Orange clouds masking the moonlight. It is here that I...
Survivor (poem)
by A M Kraft
You lay in your grave cold and dead, though not from the bullet I wished for your head...
Loose Thread (story)
by Stephen Collicoat
They saw him far ahead. He was lounging by a long, flat stretch of highway, smoking as he leant against a tree. Seeing the car slow, he...
Knock, Knock at Midnight (story)
by Erin Bennett
The baby had fallen asleep in Carla's arms. She had to shift her weight while climbing the stairs to his bedroom. Carla loved to...
The Cemetery (poem)
by Erin Bennett
The smell of death, Alive and fresh. The sound of people, By the steeple...
A Demon on the Prowl (poem)
by Ronald Dailey
I am a deadly darkened demon they call me DDD I come from the depths called reality...
Triggar Me (story)
by Morgan Clevenger
Tuesday afternoons are always slow in the fall. The skies are cool and cloudy, like you have permanent sunglasses on. From inside her room I can...
Of Life and Death (poem)
by Diana de Hoyos
From the moment we are born we start to die there's no answer to the question yet...
Twisting Paths (poem)
by Randy Lane
Concentrated and sedated, through shackled eyes I perceive...
Larry's Long Nap (story)
by Samuel Blackwell
Hungry, Larry mumbles from underneath his paper. Without hesitation Colleen puts the shirt that she is working on in her sewing box, and...
Fallen Angel (song)
by William Crow
The flames of Hell engulf your mind, And you're covered in filth, Blood pours through your...
Rosa Delgado's Secret Admirer (short story)
by Samuel Blackwell
The bus is cold tonight. Looking out the window all I see is my reflection. Where are we? I say to myself as I...
Mirror (poem)
by Desiree Walsh
I open my eyes and there I see, a girl crying like her life is ending...
A Desolate Report (short story)
by John Louis and Kyle Fleming
Opening the flaps of the weathered brown refrigerator box, Williford Tod, a jumble of tattered sleeping bags and rusty, dirt covered...
Dark Art (poem)
by Stephen Collicoat
Still, You catch by drifting tails, Strings of balloons, Bobbing against...
The Bleeding Tree (short story)
by Lamaloth
The woodcutter took the axe from the ground. He did not pay attention to the broken blade but continued cutting, as he had done until now. With each blow...
Forgotten (poem)
by Amanda Baxter
As a petal falls, An other mortal is about to die, He stays in his room and calls, He lies in bed and cries...
Never Again (short story)
by Matthew Smith
It's about time. He said, as the smoke swirled down to his feet before the wind caught it and sent it up towards the sky...
Death (poem)
by Stacy Ingram
The end is near, do not be afraid as the dark shadow falls upon the land...
Malkir (story)
by Nicholas Keslar
Mark Windsor came home to his North Hills apartment in Pittsburgh with his lips stretching from ear to ear...
The Vanishing Face (story)
by Stephen Collicoat
A young painter accepts a commission to paint the portrait of a society hostess. He knows that if he succeeds...
A Tale of Darkness (story)
by Michael Toney
I don't know how long I've been in this incapacitated state, for time has surrendered its relevance...
Nocturne: Nothing Is Heard (poem)
by Xavier Villaurrutia
In the middle of a silence deserted as a street before a crime not even breathing so that nothing will disturb my dying...
Gargoyle's Lament (poem)
by Robert Rice
Now plummet, scorched a bitter doomed sight To make some sense of pitch dark night...
A Man Crying (poem)
by Joshua Willson
Ice melts from his heart on to his face from his eyes...
The Raven
(poem)
by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
The Bellman
(poem)
by Muriel Stuart
Bring out your dead before you reap. From lips beloved infection dread...
Premonition (poem)
by Robert W. Service
'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright (Oh, I remember so well, so well);...
