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Short horror stories from Tasmania. Ordinary lives, broken certainty, and roads that should never have been followed.
THE COMPLETE LIBRARY
Every story. Every road.
More than a decade of nightmares, gathered in one place. Browse the full archive below—every published story remains here, and every new one joins it automatically.
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Riding the Red Dead Ruby with a Back Door Ejector Seat
A late supper becomes a lesson in inheritance as an old matriarch teaches respect with a cleaver and a hunger that rebuilds itself—what is…
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That Which Our Children Will Learn
A late supper becomes a lesson in inheritance as an old matriarch teaches respect with a cleaver and a hunger that rebuilds itself—what is…
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More Hands Raised in a Storm
A parish meeting unravels into accusation and appetite as a stranger strips away masks and the congregation reveals the bargains it keeps, pulling a…
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A Pathway That Leads Back to the Start as It Ends
A man discovers a wall of photographs that chart a life he has not yet lived and meets the figure in every frame—an answer…
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Feed the Engine to Taste the Winnings
A desperate bargain in a market stall promises a month of youth for a pair of tear-filled vials. She collects her joy and watches…
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A Bargain Owed a Debt of Blood
A desperate drive devolves into wreckage and a hunted man discovers the slow accounting of bargains made in blood—nothing is forgiven and night always…
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A Scream Made in the Moment
A private rage turns a single room into a theatre of ruin where breath, blood and madness trade places until nothing recognises itself.
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Eyes Layered in Hard Candy
Malcolm is offered an ‘upgrade’ to a truer reality by strangers in helmets; as his bathroom turns rotten and official he must decide between…
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Sleeping Gods Lost in the Gigabytes
An old modem hides more than forgotten firmware—its memory stores a presence that waits, hungry, for a cable and the hands brave enough to…
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Broken Bones Make the Best Traps
A bone found in a cold room answers the words you whisper and keeps its bargains. Curiosity becomes a pact and something patient and…
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You Don’t Want to Meet Your Heroes
A fan’s shrine becomes a theatre of devotion and a private screening of guilt—fame festers into ritual, and what watches from its plaque will…
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Gasam of Spit
A man wakes to a living room that eats him—rooms twist, a woman with a bloodied grin hunts him, and violence fractures reality into…
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At First It Stole My Face
When curated images start wearing a man’s gestures and smile, the feed becomes a teacher and a thief. He watches as the internet learns…
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Within the Polaroid I Have No Place
She tries to buy back a Polaroid that stole her life but finds the photograph keeps accounts—money and houses are offered and yet the…
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A Horror Unlike a Rock
Stranded newlyweds seek a phone in a storm and end up invited to a house where hospitality is performance and bodies are bargaining chips.
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A Storage Container at the End of Your World
He opens a storage unit and meets a decaying doppelgänger who claims a queue of bodies waits for a chance at life. A bargain…
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run_me.exe
A nervous man hovers over a blinking prompt—pressing Enter might reveal he is a program or unleash something worse and curiosity becomes a command…
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Hours Lost to the Dreams of Others
A hired vessel for the dying finds one client who refuses to let go—years bleed into hours and identity frays until possession becomes a…
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A Ceiling for a Bed Is Never Meant to Be Comfortable
Pinned to the ceiling and watched by smiling things, a man bargains with a false mercy as the face he loves dissolves—Anna’s hand is…
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Soap Isn’t Made from Broken Bones
When she peels the tape from her eyes she finds a room full of silent, sightless figures—familiar strangers standing among blood and glass. Recognition…
THE ROAD DOESN’T END HERE