Latest stories in
"Creatures and Monsters"

  • The Dentist

    An extremely ugly man, who is shunned from his early days, becomes a dentist but has little chance of practicing – until he is offered a position on a dissident internment island somewhere in the wild North Atlantic. How will he cope?

    AJ Vosse AJ Vo... Mar 25, 2019 10 min read
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  • Trick or Treat

    Their bags are full of sweets, now it is time to go back home...safely!

    Candy Croc Candy... Feb 20, 2019 2 min read
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  • A walk in the woods

    What happens when dreams are mixed with reality?

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    Feb 11, 2019 4 min read
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  • Unfulfilled Desire

    Sarah felt alone in this world, particularly after her grandmother's death. It seemed that life was going to be like that for Sarah until she met Richard. Those two lonely souls found love in each others' arms. But then something changed Sarah's life forever.

    anki anki Dec 13, 2018 6 min read
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  • Desperate Witches

    A cautionary tale for all you would be spell makers out there.

    Kim Montgomery Kim M... Nov 27, 2018 8 min read
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  • Pret in the House

    A young boy lives in a house next to a tree that overlooks the road. A Pret (which seems to be a mischievous ghost) lives in the tree, and pulls pranks on people walking or driving their carts or cars underneath. One day, the government cuts down the tree to widen the road, and so the Pret, deprived of its tree, moves into the house and starts playing pranks on the family. Things get so bad that they are determined to move away, so they pack everything up into their car, and as they drive, they hear ghostly laughter, and realize that the Pret is coming along with them to a new house.

    Ruskin Bond Ruski... Nov 26, 2018 6 min read
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  • The Cask of Amontillado

    The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly sometime during the eighteenth century) and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him.

    Edgar Allan Poe Edgar... Nov 5, 2018 10 min read
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  • Cool Air

    The story is set up as the narrator's explanation for why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him. The tale opens up in the spring of 1923 with the narrator looking for housing in New York City, finally settling in a converted brownstone on West Fourteenth Street. Eventually, a chemical leak from the floor above reveals that the inhabitant directly overhead is a strange, old, reclusive doctor. One day the narrator suffers a heart attack, and remembering that a doctor lives directly above, heads there, culminating in his first meeting with Dr. Muñoz

    H. P. Lovecraft H. P.... Oct 24, 2018 12 min read
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