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.
Tag: short story
“Mother’s Mark” by Brendan Vidito
A woman seeks to create a perfectly un-man-like man through black magic but is unable to exorcise its worst traits.
“Walking in Ash” by Brendan Vidito
A man has a panic attack and is granted premonitions into a horrific apocalypse he is powerless to alter or avoid.
“They Are Still Out There, You Just Can’t See Them Anymore” by Jonathan Lees
The narrator seeks anonymity in a tourist town, apparently pursued and shamed for some undisclosed misprision.
“Haunted Inside” by Gabino Iglesias
A man is chased from house to house and city to city by a malevolent force until he makes a terrible bargain with it.
“Peripheral Vision” by Richard Thomas
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.
“Roses in the Attic” by Cynthia Pelao
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.
“Don’t Open the Cellar Door” by Jo Kaplan
A girl is haunted by her mother’s abusive boyfriend, who may be a putrefying corpse beneath the floorboards or a malicious ghost.
“Dungeon Punchinello” by Josh Malerman
On the tenth anniversary of their captivity in a sadistic torturer’s dungeon, two men face their starkly different responses to the experience.
“Mooncake” by Lee Murray
A woman goes to clean out her grandmother’s house hoping to find mementos of her dead mother, but finds that her grandmother was harboring something very different than she expected.