These are always so good.

My brother died in Iraq when his humvee rolled over a bomb in 2005. So some time passes and the pastor of the church my family goes to, goes to sleep and has this really vivid dream. He dreams my brother drives up to him in a humvee. The pastor says he can’t hear his own voice but he asks Andrew what it was like to…

I know I missed the deadline, but I need to write this story down before it gets too far in the past. Scary, paranormal, or just strange? I still don’t know. You be the judge.

I loved this post so much- all of the stories were delightfully creepy and for so many different reasons! Thanks for sharing them!

Read the 911 story and now I have to take a break out of fear. DAMN. I can watch so many horror movies by myself with the lights off but that scared the hell out of me.

OMGGGG that 911 call story FREAKED me OUT.

A kind of Halloweenish and funny little thing happened this week: when I got back from work one evening Mimimister asked me if I’d dreamt about vampires lately. He then told me that the night before, once I’d already been asleep for a couple of hours and he came to bed, I…

Just as a late entry, I’m about 25 years older than my youngest sister, and I was babysitting her one day when I heard the door open and close.

Margherita’s made me want to cry. I hate walking by windows because of the fear there will be a face at one of them, too. And her mom confirming it years later, noooooo. No, no, NO!

The story of the house with doll magazines and the story about the armoire reminded me of something I haven’t though about in years.

These are all great but nothing will ever top “Look at Me”

I didn’t think about this story until now but it just plays on my total fear of camping/being alone in the woods. My dad grew up in Wyoming and would camp often as a teenager and young adult. Once after riding motorcycles in deep Wyoming where you wouldn’t see a face for miles, he set up camping stuff and went to…

Anyone have a link to the scariest one I’ve ever read from a previous edition about the person with the headphones on the computer?

Kids are terrifying.

I swear to fucking god, I was reading these so gleefully at work just now when my computer started making a hissing noise I’ve never heard before. I thought it was my old crappy speakers picking up static (sometimes they even pick up truck driver’s radios on the road outside. That freaked me the fuck out the first…

This is my favorite part of the internet, every year. Great entries this year!!! I want any of these people to write a whole book, or short stories. I’ve been very disappointed in the thrillers I’ve picked up lately.

I posted this on the submission thread but I was too late for anyone to read it so here it is again:

wooooo I thought I had read all of them over on the contest page but looks like I missed some. I absolutely HATE scary movies but reading these are so much fun. for one the fact that you don’t have to sit through a two hour movie building up to what you already know is going to happen is a big plus.

Thanks so much for choosing my story! Would this be a good moment to try and wheedle myself out of the greys? :D

For people who like “Cat’s Paw,” check out the short story “The Price” by Neil Gaiman. Here’s an animated video of it, with Gaiman himself reading the story.

Remember how Hemingway wrote a tear-jerking novel in six words — “For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” I can beat that with a horror story in two words...