Where the Hell Is Amy? by Joseph Cusumano
Amy watched her cat, Milo, approach the latest acquisition, an antique three-panel mirror which...
Free Horror Short Stories and Dark Poetry
Read 187 free horror stories, flash fiction pieces, and dark poems from all nine issues of Jitter Press. Start with our editors selected scares, explore fiction and verse, or browse every published work in the Complete Archive.
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The Lines by Frank Coffman
The Lines “But it now struck me for the first time that there must be one great and ruling...
Greensleeves by Glenn Moss
During my Senior year at Binghamton University, I shared an apartment on the second floor of a...
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Doctors and Patients by Mark Keane
Doctors and Patients The doctor eyed his pipe in its stand, freshly packed with Virginia...
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Thump by Dean Grondo
Thump The bright sun lent a cheery atmosphere to the brief funeral. The three...
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Jitter Issue #1
Jitter Press proudly presents “Jitter” issue #1. Guaranteed to scare the hell out of...
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Trophies by Christopher Waltz
Trophies “I’ll bet Silas is one of the smartest boys you ever met, isn’t he?” “Yes, Mrs. Porter,”...
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Can You Hear the Silence of a Corpse? by John McKernan
The pull of the chainsaw Whirr of the sawmill blade Boot click against spade edge Suck of red clay...
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The Devil and the Doe by Lynsey Farnsworth
“Tara, time to get up and come take your meds,” the male voice boomed. Tara squeezed her eyes shut...
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The Tormented by Sally Clarke
Dark angels tread death’s stony pathfollowing in the bloody footmarksof anguished soulssilently...
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Special by Emily Cohen
Special He had never seen the girl in room 201. He knew it was a girl because of the long,...
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Quiet Moments by Les Bohem
Annie woke up screaming this morning and it was her screaming that woke me up. I had been...
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A Test of the Emergency Alert System by Christa Planko
Crash! When the shrill alarm startled Willard Jenkins out of his sleep, he jumped from his...
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The Recipe by Kelly Stolle
I lick the tip of my fingers watching that water boil, and the oil as it starts to simmer....
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