Tag: horror

Two teenagers sneak into an abandoned mansion that was briefly owned by John Lennon and discover that an even more infamous and sinister former inhabitant still holds sway there. This is a…

A mysterious film wreaks havoc on the audiences and employees at a run-down movie theater. This is a dark and disturbing little story with a great premise.

A day at the beach turns strange and terrifying. This one had me thinking of Borges’ “Circular Ruins” – the neighbor family’s father dreaming among the sand piles that represent their neighborhood…

Two interviewers discover that their subject, an aging woman who was featured in a notorious horror movie, harbors many dark and surprising secrets. This story does a good job of building a…

A woman recounts to story of her parents’ courtship and the fire that destroyed her father’s business. This is an interesting retelling of “Bluebeard” – it’s no accident that the narrator’s father…

A man is tormented by a story and an experience of a haunted house. Good and subtly creepy, with a dreamlike sense of dread hanging on a very stark skeleton of a…

A dog walker encounters a strange man, his even stranger dog, and a woman who seems to be following him while out on the heath. This is a quietly unsettling little story,…

Two landscapers are drawn to a foreboding hedge maze on an old estate that is being converted to a hotel. The story is not unpredictable – certainly we would expect something dreadful…

The warming climate has awakened a vengeful spirit from an abandoned mine on Svalbard, and a woman with Siberian heritage dredges up an ancient memory to try to face it. This story…

The typical misbehavior of young children ratchets up to an alarming level. This starts as a fairly anodyne, “life among the savages” story of trying to get a young child ready for…