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Requiem for a Horror Story by Matt Hegarty - Halloween Writing Competition Winner 2024
There was a light at the end. He needed only to move towards it. But his legs were bound. Not just them - his entire body was tied down,...

Creative Writing Committee
Oct 30, 20248 min read


The No Good, Very Bad Day and the Longest Drive by L. Johnson and Oscar Coleman-Smith - Halloween Writing Competition Winner 2024
Tristan’s legs hurt. He’s pretty sure that he lost one of his shoes a while back. It could have been an hour ago, it could have been ten...

Creative Writing Committee
Oct 30, 20246 min read


Chamber Cairn by Ren Robertson - Halloween Writing Competition Winner 2023
The hillside was near invisible as he made his approach along the ridge. Mist danced and swayed; swirling into one as it encased it in a...

Creative Writing Committee
Oct 30, 20244 min read


In From the Cold by Matt Hegarty - Halloween Writing Competition Winner 2023
There’s never a warm welcome for those who come crawling from the dark. The walls of the watchtower were as secure as humanity could make...

Creative Writing Committee
Oct 16, 20234 min read


The Honkening by Johanna Robertson - Halloween Writing Competition Winner 2023
The ponds are empty, and all the geese are here. The shrill shrieks of terror broke the silence of the crisp Hallows Eve air. Children...

Creative Writing Committee
Oct 16, 20234 min read


More than Six by Eileen Vis - Halloween Writing Competition Winner 2023
More Than Six The wind shrieks just beyond the door, slithering its way through the smallest of cracks in the ancient wood. It hisses...

Creative Writing Committee
Oct 16, 20234 min read


Marionette by Barnabas Pesei - Halloween Writing Competition Third Place
I awake to the tugging of the invisible string once again. It pulls gently at first, then harder with each unresponsive second. I get up...

Creative Writing Committee
Nov 10, 20223 min read


Poetry by Evelyn Sprague - Halloween Writing Competition Second Place
The Night of All Hallows The night of all hallows is hallowed indeed There's romance and danger down in the weeds The deadmen are dancing...

Creative Writing Committee
Nov 10, 20222 min read


St Edmunds School for Girls by Madelyn Stocker - Halloween Writing Competition Winner
St. Edmund's School for Girls was the best school in the world. There were portraits of each and every Head Girl lined up on the wall. I...

Creative Writing Committee
Nov 10, 20226 min read


Barghest - Horror/Gothic Writing Competition Honourable Mention
My feet hurt. They haven’t stopped hurting the last 50 miles. Sweat drips down my brow as heavy as a Sunday shower. The soles of my...
Felix Lister
Nov 15, 20217 min read


The Stag's Daughter - Horror/Gothic Writing Competition Honourable Mention
My father’s mother, who after leaving home at eighteen, he never spoke to again, had hands like barbed wire. Everything she touched bled....
Eilidh Leitch
Nov 15, 20213 min read


Emilia - Horror/Gothic Writing Competition Third Place
Emilia White was a very unobtrusive little girl. Her mother described her as quiet and self-sufficient. Family friends thought of her as...
Madelyn Stocker
Nov 15, 20217 min read


RecallX - Horror/Gothic Writing Competition Second Place Winner
A rattling on the street woke me. I groaned at the pathetic wheels of the Clean-Sweep10 as it passed. Its illuminated smile, empty, as it...
C.L. Hearnden
Nov 15, 20214 min read


Peanut - Horror/Gothic Writing Competition Winner
Dark as fresh mud, and softer than a cloud his small pink nose wobbled nervously. Someone had brought him in for the last day of school....
Eilidh Leitch
Nov 15, 20215 min read
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