Macabre Miscellanea

A detective has run the same four-step workflow since his first year on the job: Charge. Measure. Seal. Purge. It keeps the work clean. It keeps the cost from accumulating. It keeps him from looking too closely at where the steps came from — and what else might be running them. When a series of ritual killings in the Chapel district pulls him into something older than the department, older than th...

Eight confessions from people who discovered something had already been using them. Salt arranged in patterns by hands that don't remember doing it. A playing card that passes through flesh. A symbol a child draws on strangers and calls the waiting shape. Rituals performed backward and wrong — that keep working anyway. The lesson was already in progress before anyone asked. Collected confessions f...

Jacob Settle is a solitary man — careful with people, kind in small ways, and unable to sleep past midnight. The same dream comes every night: a gate, a white robe, and hands that will not come clean. He has never told anyone what put the stain there. Tonight, he does. A reading of Bram Stoker's short story, originally published in 1894. Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every wee...

He makes cold calls for a living. His quota is 5,475 contracts. He signed his in blood, and he has been working it down, one call at a time, ever since. Clinton Forrest owes Faust and Sons fifteen years of work in exchange for fifteen years he should have spent in a federal facility. Tonight he is on the phone with Esther Johns, eighty-seven years old, fixed income, and harder to close than he exp...

Six people filed accounts of meeting a version of themselves. In each case the encounter was brief, the other version was calm, and the people closest to them either didn't notice or couldn't explain what they had seen. In two cases, the family never realized anything had changed. The doorbell footage still exists. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. M...

Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith at the door one evening and walks into the forest. He tells himself he will return before morning. He does not anticipate what waits for him in the dark — or how many familiar faces he will find there. Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 story is a slow dismantling of faith, community, and the comfortable idea that the people closest to you are not what they appear. What...

Jack Mercer is a historian who documents abandoned payphones — the kind bolted to walls no one visits, on lines that haven't carried a voice in years. He has labeled boxes. He has forty-seven hours of field recordings. He has a system. He finds a booth behind a dead strip mall, on a phone with no power, on a line that was physically disconnected years ago. It rings. He answers it. The voice on the...

Seven accounts of something very large and apparently very deliberate. It copies whistles in the dark. It follows people home through city parks at ten-thirty on a Tuesday. It steals a deer from a hunter mid-field, drags it into the trees like a correction, and leaves the man's orange hat tucked under a strip of freshly peeled bark as a parting thought. The mythology insists Bigfoot is elusive. Th...

A confident young man volunteers to spend the night in Lorraine Castle's infamous Red Room. He has candles, rationalism, and twenty-eight years of never having seen a ghost. The castle's ancient custodians warn him — politely, repeatedly, with the patience of people who have stopped arguing — that this particular night is not the night for it. He goes anyway. H.G. Wells' classic tale of a man who...

A broke college student buys a secondhand refrigerator for sixty dollars. The seller is cryptic, sunglasses-indoors calm, and not quite making eye contact — because he can't. His parting advice: don't go looking for the little guy. She looks. An original horror story about the thing your dad warned you was inside the fridge, the company that put it there, and the moment you realize you're not the...

He's practical. Pays his mortgage. Has a system for where everything goes. Three ghosts in his house won't change that. An original horror story about routine, possession, and the things that don't leave even when they should. Fully remastered — updated story, video, and audio. If you want more, follow Macabre Miscellanea here. And if you prefer your nightmares with visuals, the full video version...