He walked along the country road as well as he could manage with the crutch. He knew someone would soon enough drive up the desolate road soon enough. He had chosen this road because it was out of the way and not well traveled except for the locals who knew it was a shortcut to … Continue reading
Stephen King Finally Just Says the Hell with It Forward: What is Horror and Why is it So Scary? First off, Dear Reader, thank you for buying my book. Believe me, I can use the money; it’s amazing how fast it goes once you start using stacks of fifties as kindling. Now, "horror" is not … Continue reading
I’ve always been interested in ghost stories, spending my early child reading every version of "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" and every "Time Life: The Paranormal" I could get my grubby little fingers on. But my own experiences with the supernatural were both unexpected, and unsettling. I had just started living my girlfriend … Continue reading
06.02.06 9/11 has been great for business, but it’s sure made flying a bitch. I was running late for my flight to begin with, and then the good folks at the security gate insisted I remove my shoes. Note to self: don’t wear combat boots on a commercial flight. The guys back at the lab … Continue reading
Blood. It was a simple enough word, thought Jack as he lay in the middle of the casino staring skyward at the hidden cameras that speckled the ceiling overhead. Of course he understood the complexity of what blood truly was. He’d had the anatomy course in college where he had managed to pass with a … Continue reading
An early, gloomy autumn morning never stopped Madeline from playing outside. She opened her eyes and yawned – still a bit tired, but bounded out of bed, got dressed and never even got a bite of breakfast before she went running into the woods with her dog, Barley, who was equally excited. Madeline never noticed … Continue reading
She smelled pink, like bubble gum and babies’ feet. When she would laugh, I could almost see music. We met for lunch one day, and by the end of that day, she was gone. Even now, my eyes are almost swollen shut and so red that a passerby might think I have something infectious. There’s … Continue reading
“Do you believe in ghosts, Mr. Grosvendor?” “An old man is his own ghost, Mr. Herrick.” Grosvendor replied, continuing to look from the window of the car to the great gypsum mounds smoldering pale rust beyond the skirmish of trees. Beneath the narrow gauge, young boys in bare feet moved awkwardly out of the dusk … Continue reading
my TRUE original Ghost Story, IS IT A GHOST STORY,IS IT A SINGER STORY,IS IT A REINCARNATED STORY,IS IT A TIME TRAVELER STORY…?no ITS my TRUE ghost Story- a Solid Ghost trueStory that is’by Dorothy Freeman. Listen up…first I must say this-I was driving my chevy car on the road one cold sunny feb 10th … Continue reading
She was silent when my finger curled around the full breadth of the trigger. Bathed in shadow where she lay on the cold concrete of the closet floor, her soft shape was hidden entirely save for the vertical razor of fluorescent light that cut through the partly open door and sliced gently across the left … Continue reading