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...
Johnny by Arthur Walterson
Johnny Johnny wanted a doll. You know the kind, the kind that acts and sounds and looks like a...
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Among the Cypress Trees by Edmund Stone
Among the Cypress Trees Along this dark and craggy path of dirt and stone, strewn among...
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Last September’s Cobwebs by Scott J. Couturier
Clembert Otery strode towards the abandoned church, broom and spade in hand, nervously and...
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The Abandoned by S. Alessandro Martinez
The Abandoned Right into here? My full name? Okay, sure. Cassandra Evangeline Stoica....
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Under the Skin by Trent Phillippe
Turk pulled through the front gate and drove down the narrow dirt driveway. His work truck bounced...
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The Mansion, the Chandelier, and the Belle by Joe Taylor
The Mansion, the Chandelier, and the Belle While working for his older brother, Butch...
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A Forest Quickening by Christine M Offutt
MAGDA1862, Bear Creek, ME She was eleven when I wrapped her in a wolf pelt and left her, alive, on...
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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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Asylum by Richard G. Bouchard
Asylum Somber, snow-covered vales. Windless calm. Winter shadows sleep soundly on the frozen...
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Things by Rick McQuiston
Things With great effort, Chad heaved the corpse up onto the bumper and into the trunk,...
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The Change by Alan Meyrowitz
Frank was snoring. Carla might have prodded him to stop, but she knew she would not be falling...
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servant by Greg Schwartz
servant her magic calls to him echoes on the breeze rise she whispers to the wind. ...
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