Category: Story a Day 2022

A story within a story – a man inherits the papers of a painter of fantastical scenes, and finds a memoir of the painter’s visit with the widow of another painter of…

A widower visiting his vicar brother in the country encounters a strange young woman on the moors and moves into an abandoned house with her, where they are pursued by the girl’s…

A man’s guilty conscious and his wife’s refusal to forgive him create a monstrous creature and its evil children that torment his dreams.

A woman seeks to create a perfectly un-man-like man through black magic but is unable to exorcise its worst traits.

A man has a panic attack and is granted premonitions into a horrific apocalypse he is powerless to alter or avoid.

The narrator seeks anonymity in a tourist town, apparently pursued and shamed for some undisclosed misprision.

A man is chased from house to house and city to city by a malevolent force until he makes a terrible bargain with it.

A man who has always been kind to insects discovers to his horror that the kindness offered by Earth’s monstrous insect-like invaders is anything but.

A girl who has grown up locked in an attic escapes and must face whether it is she or her mother who imprisoned her who is the real monster.