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...
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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Captive by Lianne Kamp
Captive In the dream – she runs, muscles pumping the air which grows thick and...
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The Recipe by Kelly Stolle
I lick the tip of my fingers watching that water boil, and the oil as it starts to simmer....
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The Mistake House by Briana Morgan
The house was all wrong. On the outside, it looked fine. Blue Victorian two-story. Gray shingles....
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All Dolled Up by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Nobody really believes in haunted dolls. Least of all me—after all, I got paid to ghostwrite...
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King’s Tavern Blues by Russell Richardson
King’s Tavern Blues At nine, I searched the crowd in Quincy’s Bar and found...
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Memento Mori by Gary Buller
Memento Mori Enshrouded in a deep, impenetrable darkness, I awaken from a troubled sleep. My eyes...
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The Forgotten One by Dan Allen
The Forgotten One It is cold and dark. I can hear them. They are above the rotting old...
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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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Iron Eyes by Myke Edwards
Cold steel rang dull in the dusky sky. Milo’s shovel hit something hard. Multiple thumps...
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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...
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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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