Category: Genre: Horror
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The Coffin At Sea
A vessel picks up a coffin afloat at sea. Image credit to Jim Beaudoin 2008. Source. Originally posted in a Tweet thread. A vessel picks up a coffin afloat at sea. It’s heavy, and the captain orders that they open it to see if there are any identifying features, so they know to whom they should return…
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The Clockmaker
© Johannes Evans 2019 The grind and creak of mismatched gears was palpable on the air. It wasn’t loud, not by any stretch of the word, and yet he heard it very clearly, felt it even. He could almost feel that unpleasant sound, as though it were such an awful utterance that it should reverberate through…
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The Lighthouse
Johannes Evans © 2019 Routine was the most important thing. He’d maintained the lighthouse for years upon years now, and had grown comfortable in his habits. It made things easier, simpler. The lighthouse was his life. Mornings were simple. Before breakfast he would check the lighthouse, turn off the bulb as the morning sun grew brighter.…
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The Shepherd
© Johannes Evans 2019 “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight.” It is late. It seems it has been late for a very long time — but then, is time stretched when one is lost? Are not all people lost, at one time or another? And when one is lost, does time pass slower, or has the warm summer…