A misanthropic man and his partner go to the Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy to watch the tide, and other horrors, rush in. This story has echoes of “Ringing the…
Category: Story a Day 2022
“A Night’s Work” by Clive Barker
A man wakes from a dream and tries to write it down, but discovers that he’s still dreaming. A nice little story of recursion and existential uncertainty.
“The Next Glade” by Robert Aickman
A woman meets a strange man at a friend’s party who invites himself for a hike in the woods near her home; later on a family outing in the same woods she…
“The Sailor-Boy’s Tale” by Isak Dinesen
A young sailor sneaks ashore and has several life-threatening adventures; he is saved in the end due to an act of kindness he performed on an earlier journey. This has a fairy…
“The Desert of Wounded Frequencies” by Betty Rocksteady
A man driving across the desert in a broken-down car catches disturbing sounds among the static on the broken radio and is forced to face his own darkness. A grim little story…
“The Boy Upstairs” by Joshua Ferris
A woman at the periphery of a putative tragedy finds her life unraveling as she ponders whether she would bargain away her happiness for the sake of another person. As New Yorker…
“The Cicerones” by Robert Aickman
A British traveler has an unusual tour of a Belgian cathedral. This is a quietly unsettling Aickman story, with the weirdness building gradually with each morbid piece of artwork in the cathedral…
“The Reaper’s Image” by Stephen King
An antique mirror displays an image of the Grim Reaper to some who gaze into it, causing them to disappear without a trace. This is an enjoyable weird tale that bridges the…
“The Botany of Desire” by Betty Rocksteady
A young man’s life takes a turn when he discovers mysterious flowers growing from his apartment’s walls. Enjoyably weird and dream-like.
“The Unsettled Dust” by Robert Aikman
An officer of an historic trust stays in an old manor house occupied by a pair of sisters, a wistful ghost, and a lot of dust. Like most Aikman stories, this one…