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  • town: A videographer is lead round the town of Robin Song and encounters strange phenomena, and discovers the role his grandfather has in them.
  • corpse: A man is haunted by his father’s stories of a killer whose body never decayed after his execution.
  • cult: A cult creates a way to resurrect the dead; a troubled young man uses it to “save” his mother.
  • eyes: A man attempts to avoid helping a woman whose husband is engaged in demonical activity, and upon her death is haunted by her.
  • trail: One Halloween evening, one of a group of friends is taken by a manifestation of death along a scary trail.
  • school: A school is haunted by a range of strange events, including disappearances, fire, apparitions and a murderous axeman.
  • rehearsal: A stage production just before the assassination of Lincoln echoes it unerringly.
  • plague: A strange mold appears in a small town, which disappears for a while...then comes back horribly mutated.
  • return: Two teenagers struggle to extricate themselves from a dark individual who can raise the dead.
  • tunnel: After a caving accident, a subway train becomes haunted by its victims.
  • possession: Drug dependency, Satanism, and despair lead a young student down a path of being possessed by the ghost of a ruthless killer.
  • house: A ghost hunter tries to uncover the mysteries of a haunted house, but is not prepared for the power of the spirits within.
    • cabin: A group of priests barter the souls of one of their number to save another.
    • desert: Individuals across the world are abducted and found desiccated in the desert.
  • rebirth: A video blogger makes his way around an abandoned town, and finds evidence of two cults locked in conflict.
  • visitation: Someone who can see ghosts is visited by two of them at his new home.
  • sounds: Two prisoners escape from jail and flee into the woods, unaware they are not alone.
  • outcast: A quiet high schooler who dabbles in the dark arts starts down a path that leads to violence.
  • undead: A filmmaker of zombie movies is haunted by the horror of real zombies when the dead really rise.
  • sisters: A group of nuns living in a French castle are influenced by a dark power.
  • Quick Trilogy of Terror
    • mountains: A man goes camping in the woods, and a mysterious stranger hitches a ride in his trunk.
    • castle: A man reads his grandfathers diary speaking of an excursion to a vampire-filled castle in the 1800s.
    • solitude: A man attempts to live “the Luddite life” but eventually notices that cars passing his house are becoming less frequent. He tunes in to a local radio station and finds the reason why.
  • A Second Quick Trilogy of Terror
    • bells: A man’s grandfather tells the story of how a woman wearing finger-bells has been stalking him across the decades to prevent him from testifying against her.
    • lighthouse: A magic-user defends the world from a dark wizard in a duel taking place in a lighthouse, like those in his family have for generations.
    • army: A footman is enlisted to fight demons pouring forth from caverns beneath the ground.
  • proof: A researcher trespasses into a town locked down because of a serial killer to find promised evidence of paranormal activity.
  • retaliation: A career criminal terrified of vampires is tormented by others, and gets his revenge in a brutal way.
  • presence: A ghost hunter stays in a “safe” haunted house, but a discovered secret strips it of its placidity.
  • vision: A police officer endures a traumatic event and represses the memory. He eventually is contacted by a killer who experienced a similar event at the exact same time.
  • lake: An astronaut alone on a faraway planet unexpectedly finds evidence of a horrible deed from his past.
  • legend: A man goes to a snowy villiage for some solitude, but the rest of the town leaves him for dead when “the Walking People” arrive.
  • staircase: An man that hears strange noises in his house one night is visited the next day by a stranger who may have caused them.
  • bargain: A man is enlisted to tie up and bind a man in an abandoned house for undisclosed reasons.
  • sleep: A man loses his sanity when he goes without sleep after he discovers that his uncle woke up during surgery.
  • landmark: A man becomes fascinated by a haunted, abandoned factory in his hometown.
  • chasm: A travel writer visits a deep lake and worries something large is beneath the surface.
  • guest: A teenager runs away from an abusive family and finds himself squatting in a motel with a sinister stranger.
  • fields: A man enlists the help of two friends to map the cursed history of a particular tract of land.
  • Let No One Walk Beside Her: In some hellscape of a world, a woman uses a dark power to keep away the Singers of Songs, something far worse.
  • A Quick Decology of Terror
    • boardwalk: A man and his assistant hunt a monster posing as a woman along a sea front.
    • forest: The Lyra Forest contains several horrific secrets: the remains of a serial killers victims kept in plain sight, a spate of fires somehow linked to a woman’s disappearance, and a cabin containing the remains of an inhuman giant.
    • highway: A man driving late at night notices several figures at the side of the road, and later becomes convinced that they were ghosts.
    • cellar: A man is contacted by an old friend, asking for help with some strange messages on his answering machine
    • hiker: A hiker encounters a fellow traveler who seems to endure endless bad luck.
    • car: A man is chased by a car that may or may not be supernatural.
    • doppelganger: A solitary man is visited by a private investigator with a story about doppelgangers.
    • graffiti: A man scrubbing graffiti beneath an underpass is attacked by the ghost of a couple who committed suicide there.
    • hometown: A man recalls a strange homeless man that lived in his hometown who acted like a spider.
    • photographs: A series of photos of a so-called witch have a one-in-three chance of sending their viewer insane.
  • attic: A man who is willed his aunts house discovers something horrifying in her neighbor's attic.
  • mother: A writer returns to the retirement home where his mother lives and finds the occupants have been kidnapped.
  • tarp: A tarpaulin recurs at various dark points of a young man's life including a grisly murder, his uncle's death, and his sister's suicide.
  • Four for Halloween
    • thrifting: A man is marked for death when his friends buy him art that heralds his doom.
    • Report on an Unidentified Space Station: A team of astronauts explores an incomprehensibly vast space station.
    • west: A ghost wanders the Wild West until he can be put down for good.
    • The Cleaver: A man can’t let go of a poltergeist attack that happens at a funeral, and drives away his friends and family.
  • moonkeeper: A writer becomes homeless during a serial killer's spree, but discovers that there are many other dangers for those without a place to call home.
  • family: A man is haunted by a family of ghosts, and accidentally causes the wife to become obsessed with him.
  • The Crack: A team of broken people attempt an impossible hike across a salt plain, causing the deaths of most of them.
  • impound: A teenager breaks into an impound lot to steal his car back and stumbles across a strange auction.
  • circles: A man attempts to get to the bottom of an urban legend from a town of his youth, but instead leaves himself vulnerable to very real ghosts.
  • elements: A doctor falls in love with a woman who is determined to beat each of the four elements and become something terrible.
  • The Copper Cup: A man phones in to a radio show to tell the story of how the ghost of a killer attempted to warn him of his father's poisoning.
  • transit: An air traffic controller tells of three times where vehicles and unexplained phenomena meet; a car that haunted his youth, a flight that disappeared, and monsters attacking a woman seen from a speeding train.
  • laborer: An office drone recalls several hauntings that happened in his office building while he worked there.
  • Three for Halloween
    • dusk: A man sees a group of people coming back from a trail with one member missing.
    • extremity: A cabal of magic users engaged in a secret war faces betrayal and extinction.
    • project: A jauntily told tale of government experiments, living shadow, and audits.
  • The Lockbox: A mentally handicapped man is possessed by the ghost of a cruel woman.
  • Twelve Tiny Cabins: A professor tells his student of being harassed by spinning, living dolls at a writers retreat.
  • compulsion: A man discovers that his grandmother belongs to a society of blood drinkers.
  • drop-ins: A man is visited by progressively more horrifying visitors in his home.
  • excursion: A bus driver has sinister plans for a group of people he is giving a ride.
  • occupiers: The army of Napoleon Bonaparte finds itself under attack as it attempts to bring Moscow to heel.
  • thresholds: The relationship of two traumatized lovers, one with a fear of passing doorways into an unknown space and one for Halloween movie monsters, ends in tragedy.
  • vacancy: Two tech-bros create a computing campus to transform a small town's economy, but when deals fall through, the derelict area becomes home to strange events.
  • digs: A man returns to an apartment he lived in years before, listening to tapes he recorded in the haunting last few weeks of his tenancy.
  • A Convergence in Wintertime: A wide range of people are drawn to the coast. Not all of them return.
  • prisoner: A man wandering through the woods finds not only a sinister group of people, but their unnatural captive.
  • I Was Called Anwen: A journalist interviews a celebrity and uncovers the story of his decades-long friendship with a strange boy from his high school.
  • attraction: A man goes on an expedition to find a long-forgotten airline wreck, and finds that one of the passengers survived.
    • sugary: A night-shift donut shop employee receives a strange visitor.
  • surveillance: A private investigator takes a large sum of money to watch the grave of an eccentric millionaire.
  • The Smoke Child: Twenty-five years after his friends were slaughtered at a mountain cabin, the only survivor of the massacre gives a presentation on his side of the story.
  • pride: A prideful rock star's harsh critique of an upcoming new musician unintentionally leads to his downfall.
  • D.N.K.: The director's commentary of a documentary talking of a supernatural monster attack and the lives of the people whose lives were impacted.
  • cleanse: An aspiring actor loses his grip on reality and becomes overwhelmed by laundry.
  • A Compendium for Halloween
    • hitcher
    • Is It That Time Again?: The phone messages left by someone who has just moved into their house, and finds an unwanted guest visiting each night.
    • prodigal
    • panophobe
    • legalese: A lawyer offers legal advice to a group attempting to turn a truly haunted house into a tourist attraction.
    • contestants: Two individuals fight in secret, showing supernatural abilities.
    • A Bitter Pill: The story of how the U.S. Government facilitated the crimes of a serial killer who promised them a bomb with the ability to unleash death on a much larger scale.
    • blueberries: A campfire story of a young couple who are ambushed and devoured by blueberries.
  • colony: One man's life intersects repeatedly with a group of people somewhere between a cult and a group of super-villains.
  • gifters: An isolated community defends itself from outsiders.
  • hole: A director and a terrifyingly intense method actor find themselves alone in an isolated farmhouse working on a script.
  • Late Checkout: A collision between the unreasonable demands of an Air Bn B owner and the unsympathetic attitude of the guest leads to a conflict.
  • bots: A love story which transfigures into a horror of stalking, murder, and mental breakdowns.
  • rink: A group goes to play hockey in an ice rink in the forest, and encounters substantially violent opposition.
  • endgame:
  • sideswipe: A man encounters a driver who transforms into a beast after an incident of road rage.
  • chains: The tale of a family who is haunted by the ghost of their daughter, and forced to live the rest of their lives within the family home.

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