MARLOWE’S TINY TERRORS OCTOBER 2024
Tiny Terrifying Tale of the Month
Harvest moon. Romantic stroll. Dark figure with scythe. Out harvesting…
Silly Horror Stories I Want To Write Anyway
Revenge of the Reject Candy
It Tevan knew there was something off about those last few jelly vampire fangs in the bottom of last year’s Halloween sweeties jar. She shouldn’t have eaten them. But it was a gloomy Thursday afternoon, she’d missed lunch, and there they were on the stockroom shelf, just looking at her. So she just put her hand in and munched.
It was only a few moments before they munched back.
When the boss came in to close up, he found her on the floor, a gory hole in her stomach, and strange, tiny, bloody smudges in a trail out of the shop door.
No, the dullness of Eric’s last PowerPoint presentation had finally done it – finished her off for good. So why was he still going?
And that’s when she realised that hell, for her, was to be watching a middle-management presentation for all eternity…
FearBites: The Twilight of the Exams
Ellis lay, staring at the darkening sky where a full moon laboured up over spindled autumn trees… The others sprawled on coats and car rugs around a makeshift bonfire, its damp, windfall branches spitting and crackling. The leaping flames threw crazed shadows on the abbey’s ruined walls, making them flicker with phantom life.
The abbey’s walls conceal a dark secret, and Ellis is about to wish it had remained hidden.