Stories tagged “horror”

The Water Remembers The road had ceased to be a road three miles back. It had downgraded first to a spine of cracked asphalt ribboned with tufts of pale grass, then to a track of crushed slate and yellow clay, and finally to two twin ruts of mud winding beneath a canopy of hemloc…

The Geometry of Solitude The gravel road had ended two miles back, yielding to a rutted track of choked weeds and crushed slate that dragged at the undercarriage of Julian’s sedan. Night lay thick across the Blackwood Valley, dark and wet as wet wool. Up ahead, framed by the skel…

The Light at the Edge of the Weald The lamp on the oak desk flickered, throwing long, jittery fingers of orange light across the whitewashed stone walls of the tower room. Beyond that tiny, fragile sphere of warmth lay absolute blackness. Lyra sat with her forearms pressed flat a…

The Crimson Vow The wine they called the "Union Cup" was the color of a deep bruise and tasted of iron and damp earth. Elara drank it, as was tradition, her hand linked with her new husband, Loric. His palm was slick with sweat. The feast hall of his ancestral home was heavy with…