The bedroom is all set up: candles lit, house deserted, cat on her nightly tour.Looking forward to the great midnightly spectacle, I check the pendulum clock on the wall: Friday, 11.58 pm—the perfect time. All is set up as instructed.I'm...
supernatural
Professor Raskin’s Magic Potion
"A student makes a bargain with his eccentric professor."
During the second term of my freshman year at City College in New York – this was the spring of 1974 – I had an unusual professor for one of my English courses. His name was Gordon Raskin, he was...
To Give and Receive
"Can you make it to midnight?"
9:00 AM"What the hell did you do?"Darrius felt the sensation burn his lips. An overwhelming sweetness swirled about his mouth, chocked the back of his throat, and warmed every inch of his skin. His mouth salivated, but as he wiped...
Love Yourself
""We need to learn to love ourseves first..." John Lennon"
It was a cabin in the Ozarks where two friends lived and shared their solitary lives. Mariah had a fairly new relationship with Lorraine. The ladies had met at a local fair where both were selling objects they had made of...
She stole into my bed,Gone midnight. She arrived, as an Angel of the darkness,Debauchery on her mind!Her senses were sharpened, Her body rippled like water, As she surrounded me.She came to overwhelm.She came to claim my body. She came to take my soul. She snapped her...
Have you ever had a nightmare when something happens to your sleeping, unconscious body in the physical world and your mind weaves the experience into your nightmare, making them the most realistic, terrifying, disturbing dreams ever? I had a few...
It happens to everyone. That moment you glance across the crowded room, and suddenly your pupils lock with a sinful pair of azure eyes. The stranger's razor cheekbones highlight the devilish grin sliding into place. He holds a whisky glass...
The Lovers Of The Forest
"If Disney made a horror story"
Sara raises her gloved hands to her mouth, warming them through with her breath. Winter will soon be upon them, and desperately she walks through the forest, using the final moments of the fading sun to gather enough herbs to...
Myths and Legends
"Sometimes, Halloween isn't what you expect."
There is no better way to spend Halloween than sitting round a camp-fire deep in the woods, drinking home-made hooch and telling scary stories, legends of dark deeds and ghostly ghouls. It was something that started with his grandparents when...
Teenage Banshee
"letting yourself go and screaming your head off can have disastrous effects sometimes"
Sinead slammed the front door and ran upstairs to her bedroom. Her mother raised her eyes as the bedroom door slammed too.In her room, Sinead sat on the bed, rocking herself slowly backwards and forwards. Her long dark hair hung...