The Last Bus to Bellweather
Each night at 11:40 someone wipes the rain from the Bellweather Road timetable, showing a school bus due at 11:55 that stopped running thirty-two years ago.
📚 Horror Stories
79 stories
The Hero of Thursday
Daniel Mercer has spent days building a plan he is certain is perfect, and the cafeteria's indifference to him is part of it. Then he whispers to Ethan Cole.
I Have Never Been Good at Sleeping
Sleep paralysis has followed the narrator since childhood, with an explanation that makes sense by daylight and none at all when the room goes dark.
The Color of Last Period
Since the age of seven the narrator has seen colours around people, green for years and red for death, and the first day of school is never simple.
Eight Days in the Spare Room
A spare-room key arrives in Daniel's mailbox, tagged in Ruth's handwriting. It opens the door to an apartment he left, and to eight days he cannot explain.
The Computer That Wouldn’t Start
A photograph slips from under Claire's keyboard: her younger self, a thin man in glasses, an old computer. Daniel works the basement and never asks.
The County Line
Grieving Daniel and a narrator who buried his father drive into the North Georgia mountains to camp. One bare bulb burns where no insects gather.
I Know You’re Awake
Footsteps stop outside a boy's bedroom door, too slow and deliberate to be his father. He shuts his eyes to slits as the handle turns and a man steps inside.
My Neighbor Keeps Staring at His Door
Mr Johnson has vanished, yet his newspaper disappears from the concrete each morning. Across the courtyard stands a door with no number.
Abandoned Road
Fortune cookie advice tells him not to leave his path. Fog, a blocked highway and a GPS detour lead him onto a muddy trail where the signal dies.