Category: Stories

• IN THE DEAD OF DAYLIGHT

  If you come around here enough, then you’ve been to Valmar, Delaware and know what awaits you there. But have you been over the bridge to South Jersey? I have. I spent most of my life there. Come on. Let me tell you a story about the Down Jersey Dread…                                                                                            1992           Jericho Road runs…

  Will Mowass

  September 23, 2024

  Stories

• Wrong Turn

  A short story by Jack Tyler “Hospitals?” Renato shouted. “I hate hospitals! Don’t even get me started.” “You hate everything,” his older partner countered, taking a pull of the beer I’d bought them. “And not without good reason,” the young Latino declared. “The best place to be if you’re gonna spend time in a hospital…

  Jack Tyler

  August 29, 2024

  Stories

• Story Structure for Horror Stories: Part One

  

  They say that there are two types of writers: those who plot and those who fly by the seat of their pants. Those who “pants” their stories are probably looking at this title and immediately clicking away. Don’t! It’s ok! There is absolutely no pressure to follow this outline, and this is just one option…

  bryceraffle

  August 15, 2024

  Stories, The Craft

• Horror in the Hundreds: There is no house except THE house

  by William J. Jackson GOOD DAY TO YOU. I SEE YOU’VE ONCE AGAIN COME TO DELAWARE FOR A RELAXING SUMMER. THE BEACHES ARE CLOSED. BUT VALMAR IS OPEN. PITY…                                     With passionate regret I purchased the house where Clotilde died. She rested now, immaculate in a lawn that never needed mowing,  beneath a stone cross…

  Will Mowass

  August 1, 2024

  Stories

  cosmic horror, horro, horro fans, indie authors, short story, Thursday

• The Indian

  Arguably the best short story I’ve ever written, The Indian follows two detectives with very different views of law enforcement as they race to bring down a murdering bank robber who strikes without warning and disappears before anyone can react. It’s a fairly short read at 3300 words, so bookmark it to read over a…

  Jack Tyler

  July 22, 2024

  Stories

• AT THE AUCTION BLOCK FOR RUPTURED SOULS (a Horror In The Hundreds short story)

  [WARNING: While looking for a new story, you chanced upon the quaint shores and fertile pines of Delaware. But the First State and its unique hundreds are not for the feint of heart…] Valmar, Delaware The Creek Motel, Room 17 February 22, 1970           “Torture be more art to them than labor, blood excites their eyes.…

  Will Mowass

  June 17, 2024

  short story, Stories

  horror, Horror In The Hundreds, short story

• Pi Day

  

  As today is 3/14, it’s come to be recognized as International Pi Day. It also happens to be Albert Einstein’s 145th birthday. Both of these facts appeal to me because years ago, I obtained a degree in astrophysics from a small school in the desert Southwest called the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.…

  David Lee Summers

  March 14, 2024

  cosmic horror, Horror Favorites, Publishing news, Stories

  Arithmophobia, C.J. Henderson, cosmic horror, dimensions, Einstein, inspiration, John L. French, mathematical horror, Oppenheimer, Pi Day, Robert Lewis

• WILD WAILING IN THE WOOD

  Howdy. Would you like to hear of another tale from the wicked land of Valmar, Delaware? Well then, here you are. Stay aware, and stay safe. SEPTEMBER 10th, 1970           Middle age injected a yearning for the hunting life into me, and so, on the advice of a friend, I purchased a small house in the…

  Will Mowass

  March 4, 2024

  Stories

  cosmic horror, free story, horro, indie authors, short story, Threads That Bind

• PATRONYMIC

  Greetings. It’s Monday, and I have another dark thread to pull for y’all. This came to me on a bright Sunday morning, and I wrote it right away. Please partake, share your thoughts, and enjoy.           I inherited the land on a torrential Tuesday, a sparse acre of unattended, torpored grass and covert woodlands just outside…

  Will Mowass

  February 26, 2024

  cosmic horror, Stories

  cosmic horror, Cthulhu Mythos, horror, hp lovecraft, loecraftian, short story, story

• COBBLESTONES HOLD THE DARKEST MATTER

  Hello. Would you like a piece of flash fiction horror for your day? Very well. May I introduce you to ‘Cobblestones Hold The Darkest Matter’. Enjoy. February The Fifth, 1844           Gabriel Johns followed the changing shape of the world before him. The Delaware river in the distance, vast, still, the greatest harbinger of peace he…

  Will Mowass

  February 8, 2024

  Stories