The soil hit the wooden coffin with a muffled thump. Claire flinched with every dull impact, as though each blow landed on her own chest....
I slammed the boy’s old schoolbag onto the floor and stared at the 12-year-old with cold, detached eyes. He did not cry. He simply bent...
For over twenty years, Sam Whitaker had worked alone in Willow Glen Cemetery, on the edge of a forgotten Ohio town. Life in the city...
In the blistering heat of August 1997, Martha and Elijah Halbrook vanished from their summer rental on Willow Bend Drive in Summerset Shores, South Carolina....
Everything seemed normal—until little Lily whispered the words that changed everything. What truths are buried within the walls of a seemingly ordinary home? This story...
At just 21, Madison Rivers never imagined how drastically her life would shift. A diligent student at a community college in Tall Pines, Oregon, she...
My name’s Jonathan Clark. I’m 32, a senior project manager at a software firm in Chicago, living comfortably in Lincoln Park. I believed trust was...
It was just past 10 p.m. when a call came into the 911 dispatch center in the small town of Millfield, Ohio. Dispatcher Karen Holloway...
Caroline slowly drifted back to consciousness, the dull throb in her skull swelling with each passing second. Panic took hold as a bitter metallic taste...
We were too busy dragging out wet drywall and ruined baby books to notice the truck return. The waterline reached halfway up our windows, and...
