Burial Day Books is a boutique publisher of supernatural horror short stories. Once a month we feature an established or emerging horror writer. These short supernatural horror stories deal with elements of superstition, folklore or myth. We look for writers that are innovative but can also give a nod to past – classic horror. We feature scary stories with limited gore and limited extreme violence because of the belief that fear, true fear, comes from the unknown. Read these scary short stories today.
Scary Stories:
The Grave
Mathias Jansson’s latest poem, The Grave, can be read here.
Beneath the Eclipse
By: Erin Cole
Some dark nights of the year, terrible things like to lurk through cemeteries looking for something to eat.
Return Fair
Return Fair, a poem by Nathan J.D.L. Rowark
The Home on Hunter’s Lane
Read Michael Randolph’s poem The Home on Hunter’s Lane
Last Cart of the Night
By: Philip Roberts
Sometimes we have to do mundane tasks at work before heading home for the night. Sometimes those mundane tasks turn terrible.
That Old Rugged Cross
By: Russell C. Connor
Beecher is trying to finish his job for the day but finds himself in a strange, sinister place with people who seem too excited he’s there.
The Kelpie
By: Marie Robinson
Many supernatural legends ensnare their pray with appearing to be illusions. In Celtic folklore, the Kelpie does just that.
The Journal
By: Regan Keeter
Our written words leave stronger imprints than we may think. Perhaps they can leave others a clue.
Audio version of Chuckles
The Electric Chair has posted an audio version of Tim Tobin’s Chuckles, you can find it here. Chuckles: Guilt, madness, and loneliness sometimes have a way of reaching down and touching our past. Mr. Tim Tobin tells us exactly how that can happen in Chuckles. Do read and enjoy.
The Owl
By: Aaron Shotwell
If you were followed, obsessed over, and haunted each and every day of your life how would you feel? How would you cope? Aaron Shotwell’s “The Owl” is just about that.
LOTERIA Print Edition Now Available
LOTERIA by The Gravedigger/ Cynthia (cina) Pelayo is now available in print on Amazon for only $12.99.
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