Corrections
A copy editor never lets an error run. Then the dead fax machine sends her an obituary with a mistake in it.
The Cellar · Fiction
The Cellar
Everything in the Cellar is made up. Everything else on this site is real.
Original short horror stories, written for this site. Some are gory. Some are only unsettling. Each one is tagged Fiction and either Gory or Not gory, so you can pick your poison.
Not gory Not gory
Twelve Stairs
The inspector’s report said the cellar had twelve stairs. The report was not wrong, as of the day he wrote it.
Gory Gory
Gory. Reader discretion. These stories contain graphic violence and body horror.
Health Inspection
A county inspector finds a butcher shop with forty-one years of clean reports. He counts the hooks.
Heartwood
A carpenter restoring church pews gets a splinter. It does not stay a splinter.