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...
Sometimes… by Clark Roberts
…I watch you sleep. Not as frequently, not nightly as it was in the beginning when I first moved...
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Like Father Like Son by Rene Mullen
Like Father Like Son Walking home from work late Monday afternoon, I saw the man, my father, whom...
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Tribute to Timothy Treadwell by Angela Dowdy
His life and mine beganIn the very same month and yearThey never intersectedOr truthfully even...
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The Scarecrow by Phillip Englund
The older teenagers clustered up to the door of the house and rang the bell while Matthew kept...
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Goodnight Kiss by Glenn Moss
“No, I get it. I wouldn’t drive in this weather either. Power lines will probably be down. I’ll...
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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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Broken Buzzer by Jedidiah Kirchner
Broken Buzzer The panel was crusted with dirt, and many of the names had peeled off. Most of the...
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The Monster Outside the Closet by Luke Evans
The Monster Outside the Closet The monster in the closet is little. He hides in my shoes...
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Bedbug by Luke Foster
The book fell with a thud, but failed to kill anything. “Crap!” Kayla Swanson shouted as the...
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A Test of the Emergency Alert System by Christa Planko
Crash! When the shrill alarm startled Willard Jenkins out of his sleep, he jumped from his...
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Jitter Issue #3
Jitter Press proudly presents “Jitter” Issue #3. Guaranteed to scare the hell out of...
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All the Wolves Are Coming to Dinner by Terry Miller
All the Wolves Are Coming to Dinner All the wolves are coming to dinner They harmonize in...
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