Gabriel claims to know true fear. One fogbound night teaches him that fear can know his name as well.

“True fear begins when what is following you knows the road before you do.”

Horror, Supernatural fear · 4 min · 5 pages

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Inspired by Guy de Maupassant

After Véra’s death, Théodore preserves every detail of their life together. Little by little, the house accepts his lie.

“He had denied her death for so long that death itself began to doubt.”

Supernatural, Gothic love · 4 min · 5 pages

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Inspired by Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam

In an old bedroom, Émile watches furniture and portraits return to life. But the midnight ball wants more from him than a dance.

“At midnight, the objects remembered the people who had loved them.”

Romantic supernatural, Ghosts · 4 min · 5 pages

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Inspired by Théophile Gautier

Adrien accepts a mission inside a château sealed for years. The woman in white waiting there already knows his name.

“She did not want to leave the house. She wanted Adrien to enter it.”

Supernatural, Haunted house · 4 min · 5 pages

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Inspired by Guy de Maupassant

Lucien thought he had silenced a gaze. Five nights later, the entire house begins to beat.

“The heart was not beating beneath the floorboards. It was beating inside the wall.”

Supernatural, Psychological horror · 4 min · 5 pages

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Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

A traveling homicide consultant arrives in Highfield, an Appalachian town, over the murder of a young archivist. What he digs up in Blackwood Hollow is something no one wanted him to find.

“When someone is killed, the universe is owed a debt.”

Crime, Horror · 23 min · 9 parts

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By u/Impressive-Level-971

On a Mardi Gras night, a man follows a masked friend to a strange ball outside the city walls. In the hall, every guest wears the same mask.

“I had heard neither bell nor door.”

Supernatural, Classic · 10 min · 5 parts

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By Jean Lorrain

One evening, an examining magistrate tells a circle of ladies the strangest case of his career: a solitary Englishman in Corsica, a flayed hand chained to the wall of his black drawing room, and what happened the night he died.

“It wanted always to go away. This chain was necessary.”

Supernatural, Classic · 10 min · 6 parts

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By Guy de Maupassant

Every night for a week, his girlfriend pushes him out of bed to make sure there’s nothing underneath. There never is. Then little everyday things stop adding up.

“My girlfriend keeps asking me to check under our bed.”

Horror, Everyday life · 5 min · 4 parts

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By u/donavin221

In the Rockies, a wolf pack fitted with GPS collars circles a valley without ever entering it. Two biologists head into the field for three days to find out why.

“The wolves we study refuse to enter a valley.”

Horror, Nature · 19 min · 7 parts

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By u/NoCardiologist1353

For six years, their father swore the noises in the attic were rats. Clearing out the house after his death, his children find a mattress, leftover meals, and thirty-seven drawings of the sleeping family behind the insulation.

“My dad told us the noises in the attic were rats.”

Horror, Domestic horror · 13 min · 6 parts

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By u/BiGDaDdY401

Léa, a twenty-six-year-old physicist, sets her machine to August 12, 2012 to repair humanity’s mistakes. She wakes under a blood-red sky, in a city where faceless silhouettes crawl across the facades.

“You should never have done this…”

Horror, Time travel, Apocalypse · 12 min · 5 pages

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By Ethem