Lowly and Solemn Be
While inspecting an abandoned school with his granddaughter, a maintenance worker begins to experience strange and disturbing feelings. This story, the debut of writer Carrie Mills, is based in part on a real experience…
Fiction
Here, you’ll find an expanding collection of some of the best British horror short fiction. Have a story you’d like us to consider for publication? Head over to our Contact page for info on how to submit your work…
‘McCleod’: Bloodline – Parts 1-5
A husband and father vows vengeance through the ages following the death of his family at the hands of the Witchfinder General…
Green Chain Walk
A quaint village, rural walks, good company and hospitality – surely the ingredients for a relaxing few days away? However, a fireside tale at the Haunted Man Inn leads to the boundaries of the Green Chain Walk, and events take a far from normal turn…
Dissection Of The Cockroach
In Steven Sheil’s disturbing dystopian tale, ‘Dissection Of The Cockroach’, the reader is taken on a disturbing and mesmeric journey, seen – literally – through the eyes of the main protagonist…
A Box of Lucifers
1860: Andrew Syms craved freedom from caring for his invalid mother. He reveals to our narrator the supernaturally-inflicted events that led to her death. Some things in this world are beyond explanation…
The Stinge
When two youngsters break into a garage, accidentally tipping over a beaker, they soon begin to realise that crime doesn’t pay…
That Last Kokeshi Doll You Bought
That Last Kokeshi Doll You Bought is a mystery story about a revenant and revenge, set in contemporary Japan, and told mostly as a dramatic monologue…
Rainbow Pit
Rainbow Pit is part of a series of stories that Ray has been writing for a project he calls Municipal Gothic – and is set in an underpass beneath a motorway where a troubled man is forced to confront a fatal incident from his teenage years…
Boys of the Old Brigade
Boys of the Old Brigade follows a veteran of the Irish war of independence, returning to ‘Blighty’ to open a butcher shop in Camden town; but will the ghosts of war follow him home, and will he heed the Banshee’s cry that follows him in his dreams?