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...
Heads by Alan Meyrowitz
Heads Much has been said about the horrors of war. I have learned firsthand there are horrors...
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Chain Letter by Zoё Woodard
Chain Letter Anton Deveau had a schedule. 6:00 a.m.—start the day, hot shower, shave,...
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The Return by Maria DePaul
Rubbish strewn boneyardNeglected family plotFallen fiancé Abandoned farmhouseWebs span shattered...
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Untitled by Greg Schwartz
Untitled zombie plague interviewing babysitters again
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Things by Rick McQuiston
Things With great effort, Chad heaved the corpse up onto the bumper and into the trunk,...
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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...
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Keep Away by Kent Rosenberger
“Well whadda we gots here?” the lanky teen in a blue muscle shirt asked rhetorically as he...
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The Big Peel by A.Poythress
Twice a year, her skin peels off. It always starts with her fingers and toes. They ache for days,...
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Mother Love by Alyson Faye
Mother Love Ernest suspects his Mama is mad. The nasty gnawing idea has been growing...
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The Candy Apple Man by Chantal Boudreau
The Candy Apple Man Saul Gordon had earned the nickname “The Candy Apple Man” because every...
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A Good Day by Josh Sczykutowicz
A Good Day Oh, Lord; I’m out of coffee. I stand up to refill it, the blue clay cup in hand that...
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The Abandoned by S. Alessandro Martinez
The Abandoned Right into here? My full name? Okay, sure. Cassandra Evangeline Stoica....
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