Hallowe'en Special: horror stories from TFF

If you’re looking for a few dark and bloody tales to read for the Hallowe’en season, we’ve a list of 35 such stories to share with you—taken from the annals of TFF over the last ten years. Maybe we should make an anthology of these some day…

If you like your horror fairly classic: more or less contemporary, and some combination of supernatural or violent, here are the stories that might be up your dark, deserted alley:

• ‘Half Light House', J.W. Bennett
• ‘Nasmina's Black Box’, Jennifer Marie Brissett
• ‘Dare’, Sophie Clarke
• ‘Final Passage’, Addison Clift
• ‘Monsters’, Amelie Daigle
• ‘Pianissimo’, Alan Frackleton
• ‘The Exaggerated Man’, Terry Grimwood
• ‘Coffin Road’, Terry Grimwood
• ‘Kemistry’, Terry Grimwood
• ‘The Harpy’, Laura Heron
• ‘Happy Days’, Jerome Kemp
• ‘Deadline’, Tom Lichtenberg
• ‘Once Again’, Allen McGill
• ‘Made Light’, Melissa Moorer
• ‘Bottom Drawer’, Brett Alexander Savory
• ‘Nettles’, Arley Sorg

If you don't mind a bit of secondary world in your horror, dark fantasy, historical, post-apocalyptic or dark steampunk, then some of these might be more your steaming mug of horse blood:

• ‘The Death Park’, Duncan Barford
• ‘Lost Chapters: A fairytale’, J.W. Bennett
• ‘The Wolf Behind the Sun’, Johann Carlisle
• ‘What Hath God Wrought?’, Neil Carstairs
• ‘The Issuance of One Hundred and Thirty-Six ’, Mark Harding
• ‘Shadow Boy and the Little Match Girl’, C.A. Hawksmoor
• ‘Bluebird Magick’, Alexis A. Hunter
• ‘Until the Pit is Dug for the Wicked’, John Kratman
• ‘Only the Dogs Bark’, Dawn Lloyd
• ‘Survive!’, Cory McMillen
• ‘The Dark One's Cry’, Barbora P.
• ‘American Golgotha’, Joe Pitkin
• ‘Sweet Like Fate’, Sara Puls

 

And if you like a touch of surrealism or magical realism while your heckles are being raised, sample some of these other-worldly beauties…

• ‘Wings So Foreign’, Frank Ray Ard
• ‘All Along the Mall’, Chloe N. Clark
• ‘What the Dead Are For’, Terry Grimwood
• ‘Fragmentality’, Sandra M. Odell
• ‘Night Dreaming’, Steven Pirie
• ‘Wingspan’, Aliya Whiteley

For more like this, follow The Future Fire for the next ten years, or check out our Fae Visions of the Mediterranean anthology—call for stories open for the next two weeks; volume will appear in the new year!