This is a horror blog, but not the kind with screaming teens and buckets of blood.
The Smile Motel is one of those places you only notice when your high beams hit it at 2:00 AM. It sits on a desolate stretch of Route 301, just south of Waldorf, tucked behind a tangle of old oaks and overgrown briars. It’s a relic of an older Charles County, the kind of place […]
The Kingdom of Galacia once stood proud, its spires glimmering like frost beneath the northern sun. It was the jewel of Ibersia’s crown, a bastion of power and wealth. But pride falls, as do kingdoms… and mine was buried beneath the mountain’s weight, and the cruelty of snow. Now it is called the Lost Kingdom. A land of […]
The lonely expanse of space was the only company I’d known for three months. My solo mapping mission had become my entire world. Orbiting a pale, unassuming gas giant, I was cataloging a new stellar cluster. It was a tedious process, but the silence of the void was a balm to my soul. That’s when […]
The subway lurched to a sudden stop between stations. No warning. No announcement. Just the sharp screech of metal and the flicker of overhead lights. Then a voice crackled over the intercom, distorted, almost too slow, as if played on warped tape: “We… are… experiencing… a… temporary delay. Remain… calm.” People looked around, confused. No […]
I’m not into “paranormal” stuff. I teach science. But my wife? She eats it up. Ghost tours, Tarot, astrology memes, you name it. So when we went down to New Orleans for our tenth anniversary, I booked the damn voodoo tour just to make her happy. A walking night tour through the French Quarter, ending […]
They said Delores Bishop cursed my father. I never believed it—until I heard the sixth step. We lived in a small house near the water in Benedict. My dad was a crabber, proud and stubborn. When I was twelve, we were behind on rent and groceries, so he tore down the small dock behind our […]
When Officer Raymond “Ray” Dalton retired from the Prince George’s County Police Department in 2002, his career was marked by dozens of solved cases and one that never let him go: the disappearance of 9-year-old Emily Peterson in 1994. She vanished from her bedroom on a quiet cul-de-sac in Waldorf. No forced entry. No signs […]
December 22nd I’ve kept this journal mostly to document medical cases, but last night wasn’t medicine, it was survival. Maybe writing it down will help me believe it happened. The village of Varedo is charming on the surface: nestled in the mountains, unreachable by road half the year, full of polite, quiet people. But something […]
They say he was once just a man. Flesh and blood. Greedy, clever, and dangerous at the card table. His name was Victor Bonecraft, a gambler who never lost, not because he was lucky, but because he was willing to risk more than anyone else. He chased fortune across every smoky backroom and broken saloon […]