From Shallow Graves

There’s a man out there in the desert. Cracked lips, dry tongue, eyes like dust. He says all he wants is a drop of water… but we both know it’s never just water. © Smug Rust Studios, 2025. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute without permission. If you enjoy the story, please like, share, and subscribe for more chilling tales. Your support helps keep the nightmares alive! Listener discre...

Beneath the black waters off Gallaway Bay lies the wreck of the Saint Elmo—a cargo ship swallowed whole by the deep. When diver Marcus descends to salvage its riches, he finds more than treasure waiting for him. Among the drowned crew and shattered crates lies something older… something alive. As his air runs thin and the pressure closes in, Marcus learns the ocean doesn’t give up its secrets for...

Simon has spent the last ten years in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak—his world no larger than the space between the door and the window across from him. When a cruel nurse gives him an experimental injection meant to “bring him closer to the Pattern,” Simon’s long quiet life collapses into darkness. What follows is a descent into the infinite, where horrors whisper in the dark and a spide...

In a quiet farming community nestled near a haunted hill, the children are given names. So are the pigs. And when the time comes, some of those names are crossed out. Every winter, the draw is held. Sixteen families. Sixteen straws. One red. It’s not just tradition—it’s survival. For nearly a century, the people of Hollow Mound have kept their silent bargain with the beasts beneath the earth. But...

Annika Truski was once known for sculpting beauty—perfect faces, soft smiles, art that looked too smooth to be human. But beauty is a lie. And pain? Pain tells the truth. After a dental procedure gone wrong, Annika discovers a disturbing new muse—her own agony. © Smug Rust Studios, 2025. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute without permission. If you enjoy the story, please like, share,...

Isha has made peace with her death. Her body is failing, her time is short, and she only hopes to go quietly in the arms of those she loves. But when a familiar shadow steps through her home one final time, Isha is faced with a terrifying truth: death might not be the end. And some spirits don’t knock before entering. A Southern Gothic tale of tradition, grief, and the dangerous rituals we don’t r...

Gulliver Pratt wasn’t born wicked—just unlucky. Cursed, his mama said. Marked by the blood moon and followed by misfortune ever since. Alone and hollowed by years of grief, Gully finds comfort in the arms of a stranger passing through Ponderosa. But some comforts come at a price. And some touches take more than they give. © Smug Rust Studios, 2025. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute wi...

Welcome to the Violet Veil Hotel — a grand Victorian lodge tucked deep in the Sheerlight forests, where appearances are polished to perfection and every wall hides a secret. When Mr. Tusk invites a trio of ghost hunters to cleanse his haunted halls, he expects a spectacle to restore his reputation. Instead, he finds himself tangled in a game of cons, visions, and hidden horrors. © Smug Rust Studio...

Before empires, before prayers, before the world had names—there were two boys and a tree that never stopped growing. This is the origin of Naaru and Muro, the Twin Aspects of the World Tree. One chose to climb forever, chasing the branches into the stars. The other chose to stay, to tend the fire and gather others close. Together, they became gods—and opposites. © Smug Rust Studios, 2025. All rig...

In the hills west of Rivenloch lies a rusted steel door with no hinges and no handle. Behind it is the remains of a Pillars-run experiment — the Voss Adaptation Study — where scientists tried to clone a man who could walk the Pattern without losing his mind. © Smug Rust Studios, 2025. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute without permission. If you enjoy the story, please like, share, and...

Shallow tells the tale of what happens when the thing you trust most becomes the thing that consumes you. © Smug Rust Studios, 2025. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute without permission. If you enjoy the story, please like, share, and subscribe for more chilling tales. Your support helps keep the nightmares alive! Listener discretion advised. Connect With Me: https://paa.ge/fromshallo...

Rotwork: Part 4 – “The Maw Underfoot” Horace crossed the wall. Ate a hot meal. Slept under stars for the first time in years. For a moment, Horace Blithe believed he might outrun the rot. But peace is a cruel trick. Haunted by memory and burdened by a promise he couldn’t keep, Horace returns to the city—not to reclaim what was lost, but to bury it. To let go. To finally be free. Connect With Me: h...

Rotwork: Part 3 – “The Chalk Widow” His home overrun. His blood on the floor. And something ancient whispering through the walls. Horace Blithe flees the filth of Cherry Hill and crosses the wall into open land—for a breath of clean air… and one last hope. He seeks out the Chalk Widow, an old woman with bones for wind chimes and too many eyes in her head. She knows what haunts him. Knows the name...

Rotwork: Episode 2 – “Scratches in the Walls” Horace returns home to cleanse the filth—but the filth has found its way inside. What begins with a drop of blood becomes an unraveling. Shadows scratch from within the walls. A woman knocks at the door. A nightmare comes to life. And beneath it all, the rats are watching. They wait. They want in. Connect With Me: https://solo.to/fromshallowgraves © Sm...

Rotwork: Part I Beneath the smokestacks of Cherry Hill, a man named Horace keeps the filth flowing. He scrapes sludge from the gutters of civilization—an invisible job for an invisible man. But something down in the Rotwork is changing. The pipes stink different. The rats are acting strange. And Horace? He’s starting to hear things that aren’t there. The descent begins in Part 1 of Rotwork, a grim...

Welcome to my latest audio horror fiction story, "The Little Bee," a chilling tale from the world of From Shallow Graves. In this haunting narrative, follow Dot, a little girl with an unusual habit of naming everything she encounters. However, out in the Badlands, some names have a way of sticking—often with terrifying consequences. As Dot discovers, some things remember being named, and not all m...

Arthur had learned that long ago—but this time felt different. The coins were strange. The grave was his father’s. And come morning, something was missing from the earth. Pull up a seat by the fire as Shallow Graves tells the story of Buried Secrets—a tale of rain, rot, and the heavy cost of silence. Some things stay buried for a reason. Others… dig their own way out. Connect with me: https://paa....