This is a horror blog, but not the kind with screaming teens and buckets of blood.
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 […]
In the town of Santa Elena lived a fifteen-year-old girl named Yanci. She was quiet and observant, the type who strolled home from school with her thoughts drifting behind her like a shadow. One afternoon, as she passed by the church, she noticed something strange. A soft light hovered above the old woman who sold […]
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 […]
This is where I’ll post original short stories, previews of upcoming work, and the occasional reflection on the strange ideas that shape my writing. Most of the stories you’ll find here explore horror, the supernatural, or eerie moments that feel just a bit out of place. Some will stand on their own, while others might […]