Tag: horror

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…

A woman feels herself being watched, at first in quietly uncomfortable ways and then in horrifically terrifying ways. This is a delightfully creepy story full of paranoia and dread, playing with themes…

A representative of a feral cat rescue group visits an unusual colony of cats and their reclusive caretaker. This is a dark and twisty little story; it didn’t go quite where I…

A girl and her dog return to a witch’s forest cottage where she made a dangerous bargain ten years before. A fairy-tale-like story that pulls together a few of Haskins’ favorite themes…

The surviving members of a rock band attempt to exorcise an entity from one of their heroes. This story has an interesting spin on the typical possession story; it plays with the…

Advice is offered to a demon summoner when an exorcist arrives at her door. This playful story turns poignant and dark as it goes on, and the voice of the narrator and…

When a team mapping an Alaskan wilderness area disappear, a manager at a Google-like company and a group of friends who operate an adventure YouTube channel go looking for them, discovering that…

Two stories in a horrific pandemic – one a woman who is apparently immune to the disease that is killing her neighbors, one a police officer who is afraid of everything –…

Three friends rent a notorious video tape and are joined by a strange fourth boy, who proves far scarier than anything they can see on the television. This is a short, sharp,…

A dog takes a perilous journey into the underworld in search of a lost girl. This is the second of Haskins’ stories I’ve read from this collection that have a dog as…