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My Nightmares
Just remember, if you don’t want things to go bump in the night, don’t tell anyone else about them.
Even now the shadows in my room play havoc with my subconscious, so I turn the light on and sleep with one eye open. Also, when my computer starts to go on the fritz just as I write a particularly spooky part of a story, I chuck it up to chance and swallow a little harder before checking to make sure that I have only one shadow. It’s amazing that I still get so scared as an adult. You sure would have thought that for someone who makes a living scaring people, I would know better, right?
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You Can Ask The Flowers
The townspeople who had survived his initial assault were now scattered throughout Millbrook, hiding in basements and attics, praying to a God who seemed to have abandoned them to supernatural predation.
"He's not hunting randomly," Iris observed, her voice carrying the clinical detachment of someone who had learned to analyze horror in order to survive it. "He's choosing specific victims, drawing out the hunt to maximize the psychological impact. She's not just broken his restraint; she's turned him into an artist of terror."
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Delirium: A Dark Erotic Psychological Horror Romance
I could feel the horror rip through her body, the way her breath hitched, the way her pulse throbbed like a frantic bird trapped in a cage.
She stared at the lifeless man on the floor, her small hands trembling, her lips parted as if she wanted to scream but didn’t dare.
Good girl.
She didn’t move.
She didn’t run.
Because there was nowhere to go.
I circled her, unseen, but everywhere.
I was the cold press of air against her skin, the whisper of shadows creeping along the walls.
She felt me, even if she couldn’t see me.
Not fully.
Not yet.
"Now you see, don’t you?"
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Killer instinct- a tale of unspeakable horror
Now imagine what you can do to me if I dare argue with you.
‘You know I will never hurt you Billy, I love you.’
‘Bye Petunia.’ With that, he left. I knew that not only will loneliness and darkness will be my refuge that night, but I was going to be haunted by all of my sins. I lived every day, haunted by the look Naledi gave me before she died, now all I could see was Anna’s wriggling feet, my strong grip on her mouth and the cold eyes I regained consciousness to. The way Billy looked at me didn’t sit well with me. He looked at me with disgust but mostly fear. The guy that I thought to be my everything, feared me. I was a monster like Anna had said. Why else would the person who sent me to k
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Reincarnation : A paranormal horror
I apologize that this book is really short with less than 30k words in all. I plan to edit it at some point and make it better.
I figured that a really long Horror book might be less interesting and would just seem drawn out. I've not read a lot of them but I watch horror movies so I wrote this like I would picture an Horror movie.
I appreciate all those who stuck with me and read Reincarnation regardless. Thank you all.
After saying this, I would love and appreciate your feedbacks and things to watch out for when I do edit the book. It would be really helpful and appreciated.
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Horror Game, More Like a Family Reunion
Her mouth was stretched wide in a horrifying shriek.
A wave of pure hatred rolled off her, so cold it burned the air.
The chat stirred to life again.
[Here we go! Classic jump scare!]
[That's one of the manor's most vicious ghosts! It feeds on the players' fear!]
[This newbie is toast! She won't even have time to react!]
[I can already picture her getting torn to shreds...]
But I didn't scream. I didn't run.
Of course, my heart condition chose that exact moment to flare up. The pain was so bad I could barely stand.
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Breed Me A God
• Psychological manipulation (gaslighting, mind games, blurred reality)
• Dubious consent / non-consensual themes (coercion, power imbalances)
• Obsession & possessiveness (stalking, toxic attachment, unhealthy control)
• Graphic violence & gore (blood, injury, death, explicit descriptions)
• Torture & pain infliction (psychological and physical torment)
• Cults & rituals (dark family traditions, blood oaths, disturbing ceremonies)
• Abuse & trauma (emotional, physical, sexual abuse)
• Murder & death (brutal character deaths)
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Haunted
“I believe you Polly,everything you said about this place is true…its haunted!At first I only felt it,but now… I have seen this evil with my own two eyes!”
“Oh God!”Polly gasped.She wasn’t crazy after all.The last five months had been nothing but sheer torture.Even Royce thought she just had a fanciful imagination,but now her own sister had become privy to the manor's supernatural aura.
What was this darkness clouding her marital home?What did it want?
“I was getting dressed,”Ginny continued.”All of a sudden I felt the room grow cold.I thought I must have left the window open,but when I checked it was closed.The cold seemed to come from everywhere.”
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BLACK ROSE
A female police officer shouted: “Could it be that he is Albert, the famous criminal psychologist detective who has solved many difficult cases. I still have his book The Punisher here. The book is about the tough murders he has solved, including his analysis of the psychology of criminals in detail. I didn't expect him to be so young and handsome."
Albert entered the room, meeting his eyes was a very strange atmosphere. In the dim light of the white room, a middle-aged man was lying at the far end of the room; in the center of his chest were numerous stab wounds. He lay in a pool of blood with his eyes wide open, and inside those eyes were fear and despair. The most striking thing is still
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Frequently Asked Questions
I've always found the slow-burn, reality-bending kind of horror more unsettling than any monster. The dread creeps in when you can't trust your own perception. Shirley Jackson's 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' is a masterclass in this—it’s less about ghosts and more about the quiet, poisonous madness that grows in isolation. You're constantly questioning Merricat's perspective and the family's history, and that ambiguity lingers long after.
More recently, 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' by Iain Reid messed with my head for weeks. The whole structure feels off-kilter, like a logic puzzle made of anxiety. It’s a short read, but the sense of impending wrongness builds so relentlessly. It’s the kind of book where you finish it and immediately want to flip back to page one to see what you missed, because the psychological landscape shifts entirely on a second pass.
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