Where the Hell Is Amy? by Joseph Cusumano
Amy watched her cat, Milo, approach the latest acquisition, an antique three-panel mirror which...
Free Horror Short Stories and Dark Poetry
Read 187 free horror stories, flash fiction pieces, and dark poems from all nine issues of Jitter Press. Start with our editors selected scares, explore fiction and verse, or browse every published work in the Complete Archive.
Dark
The Lines by Frank Coffman
The Lines “But it now struck me for the first time that there must be one great and ruling...
Life by a River by Jon Simmons
Life by a River The fetid smell of the water It masks the stench Pulled from the river The...
Read More
Under the Skin by Trent Phillippe
Turk pulled through the front gate and drove down the narrow dirt driveway. His work truck bounced...
Read More
Little Girl Bones by Cameron Kirk
She was sixteen and a runaway. Slightly built, but a heart the size of the mountains she had been...
Read More
Mr. Madfhy by Dan Thorn
Mr. Madfhy Day 1 Locked outside in a vicious hailstorm, Brett senses something in the living room...
Read More
The Recipe by Kelly Stolle
I lick the tip of my fingers watching that water boil, and the oil as it starts to simmer....
Read More
Bump in the Night by Marcus Hawke
Bump in the Night Jill was just about to turn off her bedside lamp when there was a soft knock at...
Read More
Doctors and Patients by Mark Keane
Doctors and Patients The doctor eyed his pipe in its stand, freshly packed with Virginia...
Read More
Chain Letter by Zoё Woodard
Chain Letter Anton Deveau had a schedule. 6:00 a.m.—start the day, hot shower, shave,...
Read More
Tribute to Timothy Treadwell by Angela Dowdy
His life and mine beganIn the very same month and yearThey never intersectedOr truthfully even...
Read More
Reaper Inversed by Willow Schafer
Doctor Reaper very much enjoyed his job until he came across the dead woman nailed to a wooden...
Read More
Cold Case by Christopher Malone
Cold Case For well over a century, the modest, one-story house had stood at the end of an old...
Read More
Feeder by Mike Murphy
Feeder The buzz felt good. Billy Hunter didn’t go to restaurants often, but when his old...
Read More
