Category: Horror
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Mirror In The Bathroom
What the hell possesed me to order a giant, Gothic mirror from eBay? I’d forgotten I’d ordered it until it arrived this morning, badly packaged, bursting at the seams, and dropped off by a man wearing shorts in the dead of winter. There’s not even anywhere to put it. And I can’t blame it on…
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Ha Ha Halloween: Reasonably Scary Monsters
To celebrate the release of Godzilla, and nothing to do with yer actual Halloween, BBC2 dedicated itself in July of 1998 to Monster Night. The strand was hosted by Bill Bailey, with guests Phill Jupitus and Paul Ross, and had a documentary from Alex Cox about Godzilla, a showing of the 1976 version of King…
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The Rusty Bus
No one knew why it was there. But it’d been there ever since he could remember. He even had a memory of looking at it from his pushchair, and that was like a whole six years ago. While the rest of the field looked normal, right in the middle, surrounded by shoulder height grass, and…
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The Story Sandwich
She was addicted to sandwiches. Well, not just any sandwiches. Specifically, she was addicted to one sandwich, from one cafe, in one town. And they didn’t always have them. She could never recreate the taste of them at home, even if she bought the right bread, the same ingredients, even the same butter. She’d asked…
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The Smell
He awoke, slowly, the sounds of the world beginning to invade his consciousness. And then the smell hit him. At first it smelt like freshly cut grass, and he stretched under the covers, letting out a little purr of contentment. Then he took another sniff, and this time it was the odour of cooking bacon.…
