Category Archives: Horror Flash Fiction

Dream House

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Helen

She had a house she visited in her dreams as a child. While most dreams are ephemeral and never return – as individual and as special and as untrappable as a snowflake – this dream and this house returned, always … Continue reading →

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Frankie

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Helen

All Frankie ever wanted to be was a clown. My theory is he was a repressed child, and so he didn’t enjoy those younger years and was always trying to get back to them. Being a clown gave him a … Continue reading →

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Crow Man

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Helen

The Crow Man came to the village in the spring. While flowers gently, shyly bloomed and the air took on the warmer promise of summer, he brought a different, incongruent chill. Freshly grown grass would wither with his footfall, and … Continue reading →

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Out of the Mist

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Helen

They came out of the mist when they came. Technically, the mist came first. The first mystery, the mist. falling on our little town one morning, one bright, bright summer morning when mist is incongruous and just should not be. … Continue reading →

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Last photo

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Helen

This was the last photo taken of them before they disappeared. They had just been married, and the reception was in full swing, and they’d gone outside for a moment in the peaceful night together. Their photographer came out with … Continue reading →

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Ever Upwards

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Helen

We called her ‘ever upwards’. She didn’t frighten us, and perhaps she should have, but when we first saw her we were about her age. Thing is, we were eleven or so years old then, and now we’re adults, but … Continue reading →

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Black Eyed Children

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Helen

They called it an urban legend. The legend of the black-eyed children. I read about it online. I watched YouTube videos telling the story. I saw the commentary, the ridicule, and also the open credulity. Black eyed children, like little … Continue reading →

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Railway tracks

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Helen

She was seen first after the great railway crash of ’59. They called her the ‘ghost of the railway tracks’. No-one knew if she was one of the victims of that crash, though we all suspected it. But which of … Continue reading →

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Help Me

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Helen

“These days no-one can just kill anyone anymore,” Jason said with distaste. “They have to make a show of it, something arty and pretentious.” He had a point. I looked at the sign scrawled in blood on the wall: “Help … Continue reading →

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Forsaken

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Helen

After the war all signs of vibrancy were gone. We went, my friend and I, to the old mall where once we’d spent many a lazy, pointless morning. It had been a tribal rite of sorts, the meetings in the … Continue reading →

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