Tag Archives: Horror

Catacombs

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Helen

Down in the catacombs Rhys, David and me Looking for danger Insolent, free Our bloodied hands A warning sign Destroy all that’s innocent Everything fine Down in the catacombs Rhys, David and me Only fools trespass Down in the mines … Continue reading →

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Memory

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Helen

I don’t remember when I began to forget I’d been taken. Time melded in my place, the basement, so seamlessly that in the end my former life was but a dream and the walls around me prescribed my only reality. … Continue reading →

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Broken Chair (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Helen

A desolate house and a single broken child’s chair was all the police found upstairs. The house had been deserted, clearly, for many weeks. The man who lived here was long gone, and only these memories remained. Underneath the house, … Continue reading →

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The Owl (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Helen

When the owl comes one of the children must disappear. All the townsfolk know this, and guard their children close every night in case the mystical sound of the owl calling, hooting as it descends, should reach their vulnerable ears. … Continue reading →

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Little Zombie Girl – Horror Nursery Rhymes

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Helen

Little zombie girl With you tongue unfurled Our survival hangs On your hunger pangs Little zombie child So debased and wild Hiding underneath With your grinding teeth Little zombie lost Such a dreadful cost Those that love the most Find … Continue reading →

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Infection (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Helen

They infect him with electricity. In the laboratory he was sedated but now, in day to day life, assaults come unexpected and unprotected. They are testing their limits, he knows. He knows everything about them because they are a virus … Continue reading →

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Birthday Choice (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Helen

She knew her father was different to other fathers. He was far more clever, and some say he had magic in his soul. And she was not like other little girls, she knew that too. How could she be, with … Continue reading →

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Hungry Ghost (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Helen

She was a hungry ghost. One of the new ones that modern medicine so blindly made. Transplants after an untimely death, of vital organs still with a spark of life, seemed a blessing and little else. She’d signed the donor … Continue reading →

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Old City (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Helen

Any alchemist will tell you that it is in the oldest cities that all the power and wisdom of the ancients lies. Down copperstone streets that run like the arteries of the cosmic body or in buildings that rise like … Continue reading →

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Nasty Boy (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Helen

Wilson was a nasty little boy. I always knew it. I was about five years older than him, and he was my neighbour. He looked like a little angel. Shock of pure blonde hair on the whitest of skin, a … Continue reading →

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