| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Abagail's Gethsemane |
Wayne Brady and Maurice Broaddus |
|
|
lynching (1), influenza (1), pandemic (1), horror (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Across the Pond |
V. Castro |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), london (1), sexual assault (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Awaiting Orders in Flaggston |
Somer Canon |
|
|
post-apocalyptic (1), horror (1), pandemic (1), cults (1), prophecy (1), mercy killing (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bright Light City |
Meg Gardiner |
|
|
horror (1), flight attendant (1), Las Vegas (1), self-sacrifice (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Came the Last Night of Sadness |
Catherynne M. Valente |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), post-apocalyptic (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Every Dog Has Its Day |
Bryan Smith |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), adolescence (1), dogs (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Grace |
Tim Lebbon |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), space shuttle (1), mental breakdown (1), guilt (1), shame (1), nuclear weapons (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Grand Junction |
Chuck Wendig |
|
|
hunting (1), hunters (1), evil (1), post-apocalyptic (1), horror (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
He's a Righteous Man |
Ronald Malfi |
|
|
prophecy (1), pandemic (1), post-apocalyptic (1), horror (1), cruxifiction (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hunted to Extinction |
Premee Mohamed |
|
|
infertility (1), post-apocalyptic (1), pandemic (1), horror (1), Canada (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I Love the Dead |
Josh Malerman |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), Grateful Dead (1), Jerry Garcia (1), San Francisco (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In a Pig's Eye |
Joe R. Lansdale |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), outdoors (1), slingshots (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Keep the Devil Down |
Rio Youers |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), car chase (1), trains (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kovach's Last Case |
Michael Koryta |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), police (1), detective (1), serial killer (1), dreams (1), lucid dreaming (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
La Mala Hora |
Alex Segura |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), Florida (1), domestic violence (1), motherhood (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lenora |
Jonathan Janz |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), antelope (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lockdown |
Bev Vincent |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), Maine (1), islands (1), lockdown (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Make Your Own Way |
Alma Katsu |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), appalachia (1), horses (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Milagros |
Cynthia Pelayo |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), Puerto Rico (1), chickens (1), crows (1), childhood (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Moving Day |
Richard Chizmar |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), adolescence (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Prey Instinct |
Hailey Piper |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), lesbianism (1), insanity (1), mental breakdown (1), tigers (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Room 24 |
Caroline Kepnes |
|
|
horror (1), psychological horror (1), pandemic (1), domestic violence (1), misogyny (1), police (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The African Painted Dog |
Catriona Ward |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), animal protagonist (1), dogfighting (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boat Man |
Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), pirates (1), Key West (1), haiti (1), sailing (1), Michael Jackson (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Devil's Children |
Sarah Langan |
|
|
horror (1), metafiction (1), medical experimentation (1), immunity (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hope Boat |
Gabino Iglesias |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), Puerto Rico (1), hope (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Legion of Swine |
S. A. Cosby |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), appalachia (1), pigs (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Mosque at the End of the World |
Usman T. Malik |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), islam (1), Pakistan (1), jinn (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Story I Tell of Some Of Us |
Paul Tremblay |
|
|
unreliable narrator (1), vampires (1), pandemic (1), horror (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tripps |
Wrath James White |
|
|
horror (1), urban horror (1), inner-city (1), African-Americans (1), Philadelphia (1), pandemic (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Unfortunate Convalescence of the SuperLawyer |
Nat Cassidy |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), metafiction (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Till Human Voices Wake Us, and We Drown |
Poppy Z. Brite |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), Martha's Vineyard (1), AIDS (1), mermaids (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Walk on Gilded Splinters |
David J. Schow |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), post-apocalyptic (1), metafiction (1)
|
| 2025-08-19 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Wrong Fucking Place, Wrong Fucking Time |
C. Robert Cargill |
|
|
horror (1), pandemic (1), horror movies (1), friendship (1)
|
| 2016-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay |
Alyssa Wong |
|
|
second person point of view (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), western (1), resurrection (1), mining (1)
|
| 2014-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i |
Alaya Dawn Johnson |
|
|
post-apocalyptic (1), suicide (1), slavery (1), hawaii (1), vampires (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), dystopia (1)
|
| 2014-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fisher Queen |
Alyssa Wong |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), vietnam (1), fishing (1), mermaids (1), bestiality (1), zoophilia (1), rape (1), sexual assault (1)
|
| 2013-03-05 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Prayer of Ninety Cats |
|
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), theaters (1), film (1), cinema (1), elizabeth bathory (1), frame story (1)
|
| 2010-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Arvies |
Adam-Troy Castro |
|
|
Million Writers Award winner (1), slavery (1), horror (1), genetic engineering (1), switching bodies (1), post-humanity (1), science fiction (1), childbirth (1), decadence (1)
|
| 2010-06-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fossil-Figures |
Joyce Carol Oates |
|
|
twins (1), brothers (1), pregnancy (1), horror (1), sibling rivalry (1), art (1), Artists (1)
|
| 2010-05-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ghosts of New York |
Jennifer Pelland |
|
|
New York City (1), ghosts (1), General Slocum Disaster (1), Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1), memory (1), 9/11 (1), horror (1)
|
| 2010-11-16 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Thing About Cassandra |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
imagination (1), Artists (1), art (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), urban fantasy (1)
|
| 2009-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bridesicle |
Will McIntosh |
|
|
science fiction (1), horror (1), lesbianism (1), cryogenics (1), sexism (1), personality upload (1), resurrection (1)
|
| 2009-12-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Overtime |
Charles Stross |
|
|
Christmas (2), horror parody (1), fantasy (1), demons (1), horror (1), Cthulhu Mythos (1), Lovecraftian (1)
|
| 2009-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pelican Bar |
Karen Joy Fowler |
|
|
concentration camp (1), horror (1), adolescence (1), torture (1), not fantasy (1), not science fiction (1)
|
| 2008-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
If Angels Fight |
Richard Bowes |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), boston (1), massachusetts (1), politics (1), ghosts (1), possession (1), guardian angel (1)
|
| 2007-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dark Rooms |
Lisa Goldstein |
|
|
horror (1), betrayal (1), guilt (1), magicians (1), filmmaking (1), Films (1), Georges Melies (1), Lumiere Brothers (1)
|
| 2007-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Stars Seen Through Stone |
Lucius Shepard |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), Pennsylvania (1), ancient evil (1), music (1), genius (1)
|
| 2006-04-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Botch Town |
Jeffrey Ford |
|
|
childhood (1), nostalgia (1), horror (1), serial killer (1)
|
| 2006-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Journey Into the Kingdom |
M. Rickert |
|
|
unreliable narrator (1), found manuscript (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), lighthouses (1), frame story (1), widows (1), widowers (1), horror (1)
|
| 2006-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cartesian Theater |
Robert Charles Wilson |
|
|
suicide (1), murder (1), cruelty to animals (1), sadism (1), cyborgs (1), science fiction (1), artificial intelligence (1), personality upload (1), death (1), Universal Basic Income (1), horror (1)
|
| 2005-08-01 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
CommComm |
George Saunders |
|
|
horror (1), ghosts (1), murder (1), public relations (1), spin (1), satire (1)
|
| 2005-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I Live with You |
Carol Emshwiller |
|
|
isolation (1), loneliness (1), ghosts (1), horror (1), doppelganger (1)
|
| 2005-06-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There's a Hole in the City |
Richard Bowes |
|
|
ghosts (1), Greenwich Village (1), Manhattan (1), New York (1), 9/11 (1), horror (1), urban fantasy (1), Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1), General Slocum (1)
|
| 2005-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Voluntary Commital |
Joe Hill |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), brothers (1), autism (1), adolescence (1)
|
| 2004-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Flat Diane |
Daniel Abraham |
|
|
divorce (1), childhood (1), voodoo doll (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), sexual abuse (1)
|
| 2004-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
pastiche (1), gothic novel (1), horror (1), country house (1), frame story (1), writers (1), writing (1), metafiction (1)
|
| 2004-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Memento Mori |
Joe Haldeman |
|
|
science fiction (1), horror (1), vampires (1), exorcism (1), resurrection (1)
|
| 2004-05-26 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Best Christmas Ever |
James Patrick Kelly |
|
|
Christmas (1), androids (1), last man on Earth (1), Clones (1), human extinction (1), post-apocalyptic (1), horror (1), science fiction (1), dystopia (1)
|
| 2003-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Closing Time |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
into-tv (1), frame story (1), unreliable narrator (1), pubs (1), ghosts (1), horror (1), clubs (1)
|
| 2003-10-31 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Don Ysidro |
Bruce Holland Rogers |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), Central America (1), mexico (1), aztecs (1), pottery (1)
|
| 2002-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Finnish |
Baby Doll |
Johanna Sinisalo |
|
|
science fiction (1), near future (1), adolescence (1), Finland (1), rape (1), sexual assault (1), sexualization of children (1), horror (1)
|
| 2002-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Creation |
Jeffrey Ford |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), religion (1), boyhood (1), fatherhood (1)
|
| 2002-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mute |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), siblings (1), brother and sister (1)
|
| 2001-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cut |
Robin Hobb |
|
|
female genital mutilation (1), female circumcision (1), circumcision (1), Body modification (1), near future (1), horror (1)
|
| 2001-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Louise's Ghost |
Kelly Link |
|
|
horror (1), urban fantasy (1), friendship (1), loneliness (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 2001-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Queen for a Day |
Albert E. Cowdrey |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), mystery (1), new orleans (1), Mardi Gras (1), murder (1), necklaces (1)
|
| 2001-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bird Catcher |
S. P. Somtow |
|
|
Thailand (1), frame story (1), horror (1), Bangkok (1), world war ii (1), PTSD (1), post-traumatic stress disorder (1), serial killer (1), ambiguous ending (1)
|
| 2000-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Auspicious Eggs |
James Morrow |
|
|
dystopia (2), America (1), multiple points of view (1), horror (1), infanticide (1), climate change (1), global warming (1), babies (1), Pilgrims (1), Catholicism (1), science fiction (1), reproduction (1), religion (1), Birth (1), near future (1), abortion (1), boston (1)
|
| 2000-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man on the Ceiling |
Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem |
|
|
self-insertion (1), adoption (1), marriage (1), parenthood (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), night terrors (1)
|
| 1999-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Crocodile Rock |
Lucius Shepard |
|
|
alcoholism (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), africa (1), Zaire (1), Congo (1), Mobutu (1), crocodiles (1)
|
| 1999-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Daddy's World |
Walter Jon Williams |
|
|
near future (1), science fiction (1), virtual reality (1), transhuman (1), uploaded personality (1), horror (1), childhood (1)
|
| 1999-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
macs |
Terry Bisson |
|
|
horror (1), science fiction (1), cloning (1), near future (1), death penalty (1), capital punishment (1), revenge (1)
|
| 1999-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Chop Girl |
Ian R. MacLeod |
|
|
first person point of view (1), pilots (1), curses (1), luck (1), RAF (1), world war ii (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), jinx (1)
|
| 1999-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Executioners' Guild |
Andy Duncan |
|
|
horror (1), lynching (1), the South (1), execution (1), capital punishment (1), electric chair (1), Jim Crow (1), racism (1), Mississippi (1)
|
| 1999-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wedding Album |
David Marusek |
|
|
near future (1), science fiction (1), virtual reality (1), uploaded personalities (1), marriage (1), mental illness (1), artificial intelligence (1), horror (1), identity (1)
|
| 1998-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Thirteen Ways to Water |
Bruce Holland Rogers |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), vietnam (1), ghosts (1), love triangle (1)
|
| 1997-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
House of Dreams |
Michael F. Flynn |
|
|
science fiction (1), horror (1), parallel universes (1), voyeurism (1), invasion (1)
|
| 1997-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Streetcar Dreams |
Richard Bowes |
|
|
dark fantasy (1), urban fantasy (1), horror (1), New York (1), homosexuality (1), hustling (1), prostitution (1), doubles (1), shadows (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Price |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
cats (1), Satan (1), protection (1), devil (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1996-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Five Fucks |
Jonathan Lethem |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), urban fantasy (1), horror (1), obsession (1)
|
| 1996-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Shade of the Slowboat Man |
Dean Wesley Smith |
|
|
science fiction (1), horror (1), vampires (1), not science fiction (1), love (1), aging (1)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dead |
Michael Swanwick |
|
|
zombies (1), science fiction (1), dystopia (1), near future (1), horror (1), New York (1), Capitalism (1)
|
| 1995-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Don't Ask Jack |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
horror (1), short short (1), English country house (1), toys (1), Jack-in-the-box (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Radio Waves |
Michael Swanwick |
|
|
science fiction (1), horror (1), electric life (1), ghosts (1), life after death (1)
|
| 1995-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Perseids |
Robert Charles Wilson |
|
|
science fiction (1), horror (1), astronomy (1), ecology (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Becky Lives |
Harry Crews |
|
|
horror (2), prostitution (1), divorce (1), revenge (1), incest (1)
|
| 1994-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death and the Librarian |
Esther M. Friesner |
|
|
science fiction (1), children (1), stories (1), Books (1), grim reaper (1), death (1), ghosts (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), not science fiction (1), Victorian era (1)
|
| 1994-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Haunted Humans |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), crime (1), serial killers (1), possession (1), murder (1), multiple personalities (1), multiple personality disorder (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hungry Skin |
Lucy Taylor |
|
|
horror (1), sculpture (1), sex (1), incest (1), asexuality (1), Elektra complex (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Lover Doll |
Wayne Allen Sallee |
|
|
horror (2), Chicago (1), freaks (1), prostitution (1), Thalidomide (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Only the End of the World Again |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
lycanthropy (1), apocalypse (1), werewolves (1), Lovecraft (1), Cthulhu Mythos (1), horror (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Paris in June |
Pat Cadigan |
|
|
science fiction (1), vampires (1), vampire (1), horror (1), Paris (1), tourists (1), tourism (1)
|
| 1994-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Short Timer |
Dave Smeds |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), vietnam (1), PTSD (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lady of Situations |
Stephen Dedman |
|
|
sexual abuse (1), photographic memory (1), memory (1), horror (1), frame story (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Yaguara |
Nicola Griffith |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), horror (1), Central America (1), Latin America (1), Maya (1), jaguars (1), lesbianism (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Child's Christmas in Florida |
William Browning Spencer |
|
|
horror (1), Christmas (1), poverty (1), childhood (1)
|
| 1993-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
An American Childhood |
Pat Murphy |
|
|
science fiction (1), not science fiction (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), werewolves (1), 19th century (1), Old west (1), frontier (1)
|
| 1993-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death in Bangkok |
Dan Simmons |
|
|
Bangkok (1), Thailand (1), horror (1), vampires (1), prostitution (1), vietnam (1), AIDS (1)
|
| 1993-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death on the Nile |
Connie Willis |
|
|
fantasy (2), horror (2), first person (1), eerie (1), atmospheric (1), contemporary (1), death (1), ancient egypt (1), tourism (1), infidelity (1)
|