Mildred opened the back door and smiled into the burnt-orange glow that pooled behind the melting...

Bryce Weldon had been chasing tornadoes with his video equipment for well over ten years. It was...

Thick mud oozed through the window sill while Joey slept. The palm trees danced in the heavy air...

The older teenagers clustered up to the door of the house and rang the bell while Matthew kept...

Rules were rules, and fair was fair. Boone was always blabbing that to Richie. Richie thought the...

Doctor Reaper very much enjoyed his job until he came across the dead woman nailed to a wooden...

The day was grey and windless and, although not a drop had fallen, the smell of rain filled the...

A small mouse explored a patch of grass near a highway. A large bullfrog lurked behind him. The...

Frank was snoring. Carla might have prodded him to stop, but she knew she would not be falling...

10:00 AM Green eye, supercilious, appeared over Edna Biddle’s Brobdingnagian bosom....

Clembert Otery strode towards the abandoned church, broom and spade in hand, nervously and...

My parents divorced before I was old enough to know what it meant to lie to God about your...

The rusted hinges of the iron cemetery gate screamed out like a bird of prey in the moonlit night...

A scream cried out through the house, but the guests paid very little attention. It was, after...

She was nearly a full head shorter than I was, model-slim and startling in a long black dress with...

…I watch you sleep. Not as frequently, not nightly as it was in the beginning when I first moved...

The constant drone of pressure on her head was unrelenting, and deep sleep was impossible. She was...

Entomology is a peculiar hobby of mine. I’ve always had a fascination for the macabre, and an eye...

The old man lowered his gaze to the fire and poked at the simmering coals with the steal toe of...

I was driving Newfoundland route 480 that winter night. Crested a hill, slightly airborne, when I...

The valley lay below, misty fog shifting like a marshmallow cloud, sticking to my skin. The smell...

The highlight of my day is often the drive home from work. I live alone, and my job at the factory...

The TV news anchor sounded strange when he said, “We’re getting scattered reports of disturbances...

I’m in love with a girl called Alice, but don’t know what to do about it. Asking her out is...

She was sixteen and a runaway. Slightly built, but a heart the size of the mountains she had been...

During my Senior year at Binghamton University, I shared an apartment on the second floor of a...

Gray day. Dark day. Open curtains, but sun stops at window sill. Chew slowly. Dentures clack, only...

“No, I get it. I wouldn’t drive in this weather either. Power lines will probably be down. I’ll...

Nobody really believes in haunted dolls. Least of all me—after all, I got paid to ghostwrite...

“Tara, time to get up and come take your meds,” the male voice boomed. Tara squeezed her eyes shut...

Cliff Grady slowed down the instant he spotted flashing hazard lights, long before he got close...

“Detective Suarez.” Gabriel Suarez scanned his caseload updates as he answered the...