“EX” – Existential Body Horror Creepypasta

Thought I’d pop up with another new spooky story for Halloween! I actually wrote this one a few months ago, and even shared it on some of my socials at the time, but I held off on a broader push in hopes of first making a video version like my last couple creepypastas. However, for would-be illustrations, I had both too little cash for commissions and too much respect for artists to have AI cook it up. Thus, please enjoy this classic-style screenshot sequence (with some flourishes) about the true nature of reality… if you’ve got the guts, that is.

“ELSE” – A doppelgänger’s tale

New spooky story/picture alert! This one’s kinda It Follows meets a metaphor for personal development with a dash of body horror…

(Can’t seem to get it to show up full-size on the blog, but if you download then it’ll be in full readable resolution!)

“Gravewells” – A story/poem/thing

New spooky story alert! As is practical of late, I broke it down into a couple of social media-ready images, but it’s ultimately just a short story… I think? I experimented with alternating between poetry and prose, in a manner not unlike the verse-and-chorus structure of a song. It’s a little bit Junji Ito, a little bit Death Stranding (iykyk), and a little bit me working through my perspective on some family stuff of late. 💀🪦

Eyes

A horror artists Discord server I’m a part of — which is what’s been the impetus for most of my creative output this year so far — does semi-biweekly prompts. One recently was “SLEEPLESS,” so I made… whatever this is, capitalizing on my oddly specific (but, I think, reasonable) fear of things that shouldn’t have human eyes but do.

I like poetry, horror, and mysterious images… I think I’m getting the hang of combining them like this!

Something about a living baseball bat

So I’ve had this really creepy plastic baseball bat for years, from my grandparents’ old Halloween decorations collection… it looks neat, no doubt, but what’s its story, I wondered? I could probably just Google the punny name on its hilt (“Ghouliville Slugger”), but where’s the fun in that? I’d rather do what I do best: pop on some Photoshop and then essentially just write a lore entry for a nonexistent horror game!

“Christmas Inverse” – A Spooky Holiday Poem

Merry Christmas, all! Or whatever you may celebrate this time of year — it’s the presents and tree for me, though, so when I saw an upside-down tannenbaum at a local bar, I was inspired to tap into the Dickensian tradition and write an eerie poem about a backwards Christmas. What could possibly go wrong?

“WHICH WAY” – An old-school creepypasta

If you were online in certain, spooky corners of the internet (for better or worse) in the early 2010s, you probably saw at least one picture like this: an eerie photo with a short story to the side, white text on a black background. These were effectively creepypasta as memes, and when I was getting into the subgenre at the time, I stumbled across a lot of my favorites in this format: easy to share, hard to forget.

So when, as I often do, I took advantage of a creepy photo op and then let my mind wander, I figured I was long overdue to contribute to the form. Share it around, if you like–to see it randomly pop up on another site would honestly be an honor! In any event, these things never did seem to have titles, but if this one did, it’d be two words, one question, and yet infinite possibilities:

WHICH WAY

New Anthology Contribution: “The Many Lives of Devon Reeves”

What’s in a name?

The time has come for another anthology of short, spooky fiction from “The Terragenesis Collective”! That’d be me and some other fine folks in the online creative writing community who previously released It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…, in which my story “Repocalypse” appears (also on YouTube!). This second collection, The Many Lives of Devon Reeves, moves from a classic phrase as a binding theme to one simple similarity: Every tale has a character named “Devon Reeves.” Who–or what–is this individual? Any commonalities may be mere coincidence, or they may mean something greater… check it out here on Smashwords and decide for yourself.

My contribution this time is “A Thing Forgotten,” in which a wayward young man remembers a picture book from his childhood that no one else seems to… and perhaps they ought not to. It’s something of a spoiler, but since I’m really happy with how this turned out, check out the illustration from the talented horror painter Jenyce Garay (@JenyceGArt):

New Short Story: “Repocalypse” (And More!)

Four dark and stormy nights, to be precise!

So my output for at least the last year has chiefly been YouTube content, but I still do write short fiction from time to time. Case in point, I recently contributed to an anthology of scifi/fantasy stories, now available in a variety of formats on Smashwords! It’s a themed assemblage of four tales by four authors, under our umbrella of “The Terragenesis Collective,” which all start with or otherwise incorporate the line “it was a dark and stormy night.” Our goal was to prove that this tired old phrase is still ripe with unique potential, if properly employed–and I feel we succeeded! My contribution, the opener, is called “Repocalypse“; it’s a time loop story, but one unlike any I bet you’ve seen before. In any event, it was a joy and a privilege to collaborate on this collection, and I look forward it to being only the first of many!

As a great author once said, it’s only the end of the world again…

“Monkfish” | Creepypasta Reading

A short and sinister creepypasta reading culled from the old depths of /x/ once more for Fear Awareness Month!

Original author: Anonymous

Photo: Monkfish on ice, photographer unknown

Music: “Beneath the Endless Ocean,” by Dirty Knobs. Can reupload a capella if this gets DMCA’d.