Where the Hell Is Amy? by Joseph Cusumano
Amy watched her cat, Milo, approach the latest acquisition, an antique three-panel mirror which...
Free Horror Short Stories and Dark Poetry
Read 187 free horror stories, flash fiction pieces, and dark poems from all nine issues of Jitter Press. Start with our editors selected scares, explore fiction and verse, or browse every published work in the Complete Archive.
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The Lines by Frank Coffman
The Lines “But it now struck me for the first time that there must be one great and ruling...
Stained Glass by C L Killgore
Nell tucked the phone between her ear and shoulder, “No, you’re not interrupting anything, I’m...
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Playground Secrets by Susan Gentry
Playground Secrets by Susan Gentry Secrets hide in playgrounds Tall shadows for concealing...
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Life by a River by Jon Simmons
Life by a River The fetid smell of the water It masks the stench Pulled from the river The...
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Dusk by Russell Schneider
I looked upon a child playing One early morning, In the sand, he crawled Building his world, There...
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A Halloween Haiku by Robert Baldwin
You’d expect Bashomight leak from my pen tonight;Instead I bleed…Poe.
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Dance of the Death by Megha Sood
The clutching bonesmakes the rattling soundand that grim reaper makes hiseerie presencefelt around...
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Mother Love by Alyson Faye
Mother Love Ernest suspects his Mama is mad. The nasty gnawing idea has been growing...
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The Recipe by Kelly Stolle
I lick the tip of my fingers watching that water boil, and the oil as it starts to simmer....
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Vacation by Leslie Bohem
Vacation David was the first. At least he was the first that I noticed. We were on vacation. The...
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Fallen by Ann Christine Tabaka
the sign said open so she walked right in checking her wings at the door red papered walls...
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Special by Emily Cohen
Special He had never seen the girl in room 201. He knew it was a girl because of the long,...
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Chain Letter by Zoё Woodard
Chain Letter Anton Deveau had a schedule. 6:00 a.m.—start the day, hot shower, shave,...
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