Category Archives: Horror Flash Fiction

(Flash Fiction) Ghost

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Helen

This hospital has a ghost. Sadly the children here, being the most open, the most psychically acute, tend to see it the most. But on the other hand, they are young, and usually recover from both their bodily ills and the … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Alien

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Helen

So long ago, a millennium or more in your time, we evolved. We rose out of the whirlpool of our world to achieve what your Buddhists call the release from attachment. Perfect detachment. Our physical form relaxed and withdrew to … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Rock Star

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Helen

Davy was a rock star. Before he reached such illustrious heights he was just David, a friendly, kind of handsome lad who never really knew his own good looks or casual charm. He had an insecurity which drove him, I … Continue reading →

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Dark Water

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Helen

I knew a magician once. Not the kind that performs sleight of hand on stage, or hypnotises the gullible. The real thing, a magician who practised ritual and who believed, to his essential core, in the ultimate strangeness of the … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Doll

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Helen

Beware the doll. It looks so simple, so innocent, and it’s very, very old. Passed down they say throughout the generations, mother to daughter, a heart line and bloodline of mystery. It belongs to an older age, a time when … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Younger

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Helen

When I was younger I had little fear. I suppose those who have little knowledge cannot truly appreciate why one should be afraid. So little of life has touched one in childhood, if one’s childhood and one’s parents are largely … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) The Reaping

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Helen

We wait for you in the corn. You will come to us. You must come to us. We have been blooded, from birth, to prepare us. We are young but we are ancient. No child is a child in this … Continue reading →

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The Mystic (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Helen

The mystic brushes the leaves and dirt carefully, in a simple, meditative circular motion. In this as in all things he is precise, deliberate and on the brink of peace. The morning is only just breathing, the light of a … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Blackbird

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Helen

The blackbird came rarely, and when it came, it brought death in its wake. No-one knew why. It was just a bird, and acted no differently to its feathered kin. But time and again this one returned, and every time, … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Memento Mori

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Helen

My uncle had a picture that he hanged on his bedroom wall, above his bed. Unlike many who put a cross or other religious paraphernalia in such private places, he had the portrait of a skull. Underneath it he had written on … Continue reading →

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