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...
Don’t Pick the Flowers by Kirk Eckstine
I remember when the world ended. The “end” fell to earth while I slept. It arrived with an ear...
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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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Creep: an Homage to Classic Horror by Daymond C. Roman
From a high vantage point, where the city’s night lights twinkled brighter than the stars in the...
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Wishing Star by Lamont A Turner
I Basil had never seen anything like it. Just a few minutes before, he had been minding his...
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A Test of the Emergency Alert System by Christa Planko
Crash! When the shrill alarm startled Willard Jenkins out of his sleep, he jumped from his...
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Stained Glass by C L Killgore
Nell tucked the phone between her ear and shoulder, “No, you’re not interrupting anything, I’m...
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The Monster Outside the Closet by Luke Evans
The Monster Outside the Closet The monster in the closet is little. He hides in my shoes...
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Darkness by Kristyl Gravina
Darkness He has inhabited my heart Ripping and brutally tearing the flesh apart He, who sucked the...
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In Emulation of Gretel by Thomas Kleaton
In Emulation of Gretel Where had the time gone? Edmund sat on his mother’s weathered iron bench...
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Last September’s Cobwebs by Scott J. Couturier
Clembert Otery strode towards the abandoned church, broom and spade in hand, nervously and...
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Demon Night by Jesse Thompson
The air is stillBut for the soundOf beating wingsAnd a voice that carriesA whispered chant. I look...
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Broken Buzzer by Jedidiah Kirchner
Broken Buzzer The panel was crusted with dirt, and many of the names had peeled off. Most of the...
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