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Anita Mechler: Restless Spirits, Part 1
Margritte was an undeniably haunted child. Some say it was the death of her mother Véronique, who committed suicide by drowning when Margritte was only 10. One of her earliest memories was of seeing...
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Elizabeth Gomez: List of Top 10 Frightening Rom Coms
10. Death Actually: Follows the lives of an all star cast of very deadly vampire couples dealing with their love lives in interrelated tales during a frantic month before Halloween in London during...
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Kim Nelson: Last Call (A Tale of Horror)
The night was already not going how Lana had planned, and she was pissed. “Come on!” her friends had begged her earlier that week. “A zombie pub crawl on Halloween night! It’ll be soooo much fun. Don’t...
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Dave Hughes: Spooktacular, For Kirk
My hand trembles as I reach out to brush my fingertips against her cheek, as if I hope the lightest of touches won’t corrupt this image. My stomach is lurching, too nauseated to vomit. I focus every...
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Kim Nelson: The Skeleton Man
We made fun of it the first time we saw it, just another silly piece of graffiti scrawled in sharpie on the side of the train shelter on the dirty old paint. “Skeleton Man ‘exsists’? Skeleton Man can’t...
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Kim Nelson: Real Life Scary Stories
You’re a single woman on a business trip. At the end of a long day of meetings, you go to the hotel bar to unwind and order a cocktail. There’s a handsome stranger sitting nearby who buys you your...
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Jeff Phillips: General Blows Chicken
Big kids know how to treat themselves. I’ll always remember four Halloweens ago from the one coming up. In the space between I could’ve earned a degree, instead I just racked up a series of unfulfilled...
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Jeff Phillips: Stuck Forces, A Meditation on What It Might Be Like To Be A Ghost
With Halloween creeping up, I’ve been embracing my fascination with the spooky, in particular, a good ghost story. In exposing myself to both fictional and nonfictional accounts of ghosts, I find...
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Conor Cawley: Picking Halloween Costumes – A Timeline
Two Months Until Halloween: The beginning of September reminds you that summer is over. In a desperate attempt to console your sadness, you start thinking of all the great holidays on the horizon....
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Kim Nelson: Haunted
The things we fear most are things unseen; Wispy shadows in the corner; the groaning creak in the stairs when no one else is home; Fragile ripples atop calm waters, hinting at something primal in the...
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Murphy Row: Short Order Horror: Terror by Text
For a special Halloween theme post, I challenged myself to write a horror story as a short story. The specific challenge was to make the reader gasp or get chills in as short of a story as possible. So...
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Kirk Novak: Spooky Halloween True Story
Write about a memory of a physical injury. I ran out of the abandoned warehouse. He had a chainsaw. I heard it start. He was behind me. I ran. I ran. I ran. I fell. I fell down to the bottom of a deep...
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Kim Nelson: Real Life Scary Stories (Repost)
You’re a single woman on a business trip. At the end of a long day of meetings, you go to the hotel bar to unwind and order a cocktail. There’s a handsome stranger sitting nearby who buys you your...
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David Jester: Do You Make that Costume in Sexy?
I would like to address a serious social issue I feel is plaguing our country, nay, the world. It’s almost Halloween and you know what that means. It’s that time of year when gender discrimination is...
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I couldn’t believe I met him. I was just strolling along, my bag of candy dragging on the ground. My wife told me 36 was too old to Trick or Treat, but ten pounds of candy proved otherwise. I was still...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Ghost Dog
“Seriously? You have an imaginative side?” “Ya,” Brandon laughed, taken aback by her surprise. “Is that so hard to believe?” “No, I just,” Francesca stammered. “Now, don’t take this the wrong way, it’s...
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