Tag: horror

The only girl – who doesn’t feel much like a girl to herself – on a high school wrestling team gets some unexpected help against her bully. This is another disturbing little…

A call center, a cell tower, a brutal murder, and birds falling from the sky coalesce in this unnerving little story. This one has some disturbing and haunting images, and a strange…

A new member unsettles and disrupts the normal flow for a group of survivors of suicide attempts, with disastrous consequences. The story is told from a collective point of view, the group…

Through imagination and ritual, two girls conjure a deadly game into the world. This is a fun story with a couple of interesting twists, almost cute but for the carnage.

After her captain and most of her crew abandon ship, a freighter carrying mysterious bioactive chemicals runs aground on an abandoned Caribbean island, causing runaway fecundity. This feels similar in some ways…

A woman recounts how she became a sort of vampiric monster to a police officer who was there at the beginning. This is an interesting and subtle story, much more about the…

A dismembered girl who stitched herself back together hunts for her lost brother, and her missing arm, in her grandmother’s horrific root cellar. This is quite a mix of fairy tale and…

A woman discovers a haunted Camaro and uses it to take revenge on her ex-fiance. This is a very Stephen Graham Jones story – nods to horror movie lore, working-class characters in…

A girl recounts her encounter with a monster who wasn’t a monster but a man, which didn’t kill her except maybe it did. This is a dark little story, couching generational abuse…

A woman who has fabricated much of her life since high school discovers a past she had forgotten about that throws everything into question. This is a strange and slippery tale, with…