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.
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The Lines by Frank Coffman
The Lines “But it now struck me for the first time that there must be one great and ruling...
Mr. Wooffles by Jason R. Barden
Dr. Simon Peterson has a big secret. An awful secret. Its name is Mr. Wooffles. Simon is a...
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Like Father Like Son by Rene Mullen
Like Father Like Son Walking home from work late Monday afternoon, I saw the man, my father, whom...
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Where the Hell Is Amy? by Joseph Cusumano
Amy watched her cat, Milo, approach the latest acquisition, an antique three-panel mirror which...
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Beat Cop by John Reilly
I didn’t realize how nervous I was until I stepped out of my squad car. When my feet were on the...
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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...
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The Monster’s Wife by Stephanie De Haven
The Monster’s Wife That high cruel laugh behind a heavy oak door, and the soft...
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Echoes of Silence by Edward Ahern
Abbot Gregory watched Alan Carstairs shiver in his chair. It was November, and the stone monastery...
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Fish and the Kid by James Edward O’Brien
He lights a Chesterfield King and takes a swig from his hip flask. Vices abandoned by most. Even...
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Asylum by Richard G. Bouchard
Asylum Somber, snow-covered vales. Windless calm. Winter shadows sleep soundly on the frozen...
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My Fear by Jon Simmons
My Fear Terrifying specters writhed all around me I did not run or call for help Their...
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Greensleeves by Glenn Moss
During my Senior year at Binghamton University, I shared an apartment on the second floor of a...
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Cul-de-Sac by Edward Ahern
I was driving Newfoundland route 480 that winter night. Crested a hill, slightly airborne, when I...
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