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Daily Writing Prompt | Chain Flaw Massacre

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 EditorialWriting Prompts

  He was just a down on his luck gas station attendant who, every other Friday, liked to strap on a mask and hunt tourists camping along the old river. But with the price of gas so high these days, […]

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The Day Mrs Higgins’ Cat Turned Inside Out | Lydia Trethewey

August 25, 2015January 13, 2016 cyber_onionsFree Short Stories

Tiny wings, sharp teeth, writhing in the undergrowth. No music, no laughter, the wrong kind of magic is waiting at the door.

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Writing Tips for Horror Stories

August 23, 2015September 5, 2015 Editorialwriters resources

Navigation: Writing Tips | Writing Tips For Horror Stories Horror Story Writing Tips “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”  – Stephen King   Writing great horror is a bloody art. And while the horror […]

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A Writing Competition With a Dark Perspective | The Hunter Award

July 29, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

it’s time to get in touch with your inner demons.

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Horror Short Fiction | More Misery by Daniel Norrish

June 23, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialFree Short Stories
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Daniel Norrish lends his trademark second person perspective to a disturbing horror short story. Read in the dark. Read under the covers. Just don’t read alone.

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Writing Prompts For Horror Stories in Pictures and Text

May 19, 2015May 15, 2016 Editorialwriters resources, Writing Prompts

Into the creepy, scary or just downright weird? NITH’s got you covered. Writing prompts for horror stories, for the Stephen King everyone.

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A Short Story About Madness | You Bring Poison by Adrianna Villasenor

April 20, 2015October 5, 2015 jana1343Free Short Stories

Katsaridaphobia suffers might want to steer clear of this short story about madness brought to you by Adrianna Villasenor on her NITH debut. For everyone else, strap yourself in for a truly insane spectacle as Adrianna takes us deep into the […]

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Short Story About Suicide | Excuses by Sebastian Melbourne

April 19, 2015June 29, 2015 sebmelbourneFree Short Stories

With Pyschological Horror as the theme for this week’s award we are guaranteed some deep and creepy short stories.  We begin with Sebastian Melbourne’s ‘EXCUSES’. Melbourne doesn’t pull and punches with this quickfire short story about suicide that begins like […]

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Yamauba | Ash Warren

March 16, 2015November 2, 2015 ashwarrenFree Short Stories

A bone jarring horror joint by Ash Warren. 

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Charming

August 11, 2014July 12, 2015 litatessCellar Door

Jenny Bowers never thought she would be the type of person to freak out over a sock. But sure enough, she was paralysed with fear when it appeared during the tidy up of her messy bedroom. A man’s black sock […]

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The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

April 7, 2014April 7, 2015 Editorialedgar allan poe, library

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe(1846)

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The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

April 7, 2014April 7, 2015 Editorialedgar allan poe, library

THE BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where […]

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Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

April 7, 2014April 7, 2015 Editorialedgar allan poe, library

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne. De Béranger.

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