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A supernatural, mythical being dies in front of a college freshman, and the young man absorbs the entity's powers. He does not understand how this occurs but he quickly finds that he feels a strange, innate connection to the dark powers now coursing through him.
David Silva was used to failure. Supernatural fiction writers haven't exactly been successful since the forties, since the world's old dreams and nightmares were brought into being and new ones were spawned. Why would anyone want to read about the things that go bump in the night, when they can just go out and talk to them?
Still, David didn't expect to even fail at dying.
Carza vo Anka is a recently graduated anthropologist and linguist from the renowned Court of Ivory in the city of ALD IOM. She loves her home. She loves her typewriter, her books, her peace...
And now she's leaving it all behind. Because apparently she can't become an accredited scholar with her damn office unless she embarks on an expedition. A gas mask, some clippers for mutations, a pearl-handled pistol, enough currency...
...that should be enough to deal with frostbite, malfunctioning...
Tanner Magg is a woman of three cities. Of Mahar. Of Jovan. And of Fidelizh. And gorging on three origins, she has grown. With rites and with knowledge... and size. By the glittering of Maharite throat-jewels and satin gloves, by the austere hierarchies of the Jovanian lodges, and most completely, under the aegis of the Golden Parliament of Fidelizh, immersed in the traditions of the Judges of the Golden Door.
Now, she hides her massive back under a judge's robe, swaddles her stone-carved...
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An employee of a Cinema 13 explains the... 'unconventional' aspects of his job, and recounts a hectic day at work. A horror/comedy with fun characters and eerie encounters.
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The year is 1980. A group of actors and actresses are preparing to put on a stage play for their local community in Tokyo, Japan. However, trouble strikes when a mysterious killer starts picking the cast and crew apart one by one. Will anyone within the troupe be able to survive?
Gabriel is a lonely child, but their one and only friend plans to fix that as best she can, inviting them on a trip for the weekend of Halloween to a pair of cabins rented by her girlfriend.
They agree, not knowing that the journey will involve him making various news frends, and also discovering fundamental things about themself they likely would have never even guessed.
Oh, and also, an infamous serial killer escaped from an asylum and is headed their way, because sometimes people really...
Strife Saint-Scene becomes increasingly uneasy about her girlfriend, Raea Torna, who seems too perfect in every way. Strife's suspicions grow when she realizes that Raea never exhibits any bodily functions, leading her to wonder if Raea is even human. As a city-wide cold wave hits, the power goes out in their apartment building, and Strife begins to fear for her life as she realizes that Raea is not only not human but is actively trying to kill her. Strife must fight for survival against her...
Abstract: In this review, we highlight recent findings in the studies of the eusocial insects Homo sapiens sapiens and their behavior in their natural habitat of the officium that advance our understanding of their evolution and possible future developments.
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Bitten by a radioactive gecko, Phillip Palmer became the astonishing Gecko-Man. But that was a long time ago. Now, he is a middle-aged science teacher, struggling to let go of his glory days. But what if he could go back and do it all again? Would he want to? And what would he have to give up in exchange?
Plugging your brain into a psychic network for Elder Things to watch through your eyes as you hunt down monsters using gross body horror superpowers? In this economy? Well, if it pays the bills!
A man who forgets how to dream dies a little each day. A man who doesn't know what he wants will wander forever. Nathan Ward has been doing both for years now, but as it would happen, fate, or perhaps something else entirely, has other plans for him and his friends. And it all begins with a box and a book...
An original tale of weird fiction, strange romance and self-discovery!
On The Nature Of Becoming
I often look up at the sky.
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A romance story about a monster who can't help but to enjoy hurting others, a woman who can't help but dream about being hurt, and the impossibly difficult task of mercy. Lurid and sometimes pornographic.
Contains an exploration of a fetishistic D/s relationship.
Love bites... Sometimes literally.
Will I come up with a better header someday? Maybe.
Aren’t we, authors and narrators, playing god and puppeteering the lives of our creations?
If that is true, who says there isn’t some deity puppeteering humanity and creating what we call History?
Tempus Fugit just wanted to get through the day in peace. Day shift at the store packing shelves. Night shift in the shadows hunting monsters. Some time spent with his boyfriend in-between. Rinse and repeat until the end of time. But then the man on the TV had to start talking.
A novella in three parts and an epilogue.
The itch for it is impious.
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In the last days of 2012, at the final stroke of the old Mayan calendar, a group of technological dreamers have initiated a dangerous and deceptive plan to steal the 'cheat codes' for the psychic evolution of humanity and remake the world-consciousness according to their desires.
As the main obstacle in their path, Fate has placed a rag-tag coincidence of elves, ghosts, and lost-property magicians who aren't entirely sure what is going on and are mostly worried about making sure their...
BURIED - The Earth we know of is long gone, adrift in a far away galaxy that cruelly tossed its people through the stars.
Shattered and broken crusts of once great nations hangs on a precarious ocean of wrecks and blackened ooze. The signs of an ancient, great battle still litter the world, technologies that have long since been forgotten buzz in their inscrutable tongues seeking masters that are long gone.
Humanity perseveres through a hostile landscape filled with horrors that are so...
Nishifune Nozomi is a cursed witch in a Tokyo not quite like our own, trying to survive love, politics, crime and the minions of the outer dark.
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Losing yourself, piece by piece...
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It spoke to me a light; “My child, are you not tired of this sin filled world?” “Come and embrace me. Accept me.” It called to me; A Paradise. It granted to me; An Eternity. It brought to me; Salvation. No pain. No fear. No evil. No sins. No deaths. For this world is Eden. And it shall burn.
a series of snippets i write occasionally.
warning: things will get weird. there is a tiny bit of chaos level horror in some of the snippets.
Hi, this is A Guide to American Djinn. A story I started on reddit and have decided to migrate to SV. Updates will ve sparse, if they happen at all, once I've posted the original three stories.
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As many of you probably know, the 2017 Horror Contest has been going on for a while now, and it...
A friendly warning to all who read this. This piece of fiction while my own work will see...