Southerngothic Stories

A man went missing on November 10th, 1977. His friends sensed that something was wrong with his disappearance, so they decided to search for him. One of his friends, Dylan, began hearing a strange voice. However, the voice was helping him? This my first story so it's a bit all over the place but I tried to make things make sense

Etta Brossard has always known the soil beneath her feet holds secrets-ones her family refuse to name and her hometown insists on burying. Raised to mind her manners, mind the land, and never ask too many questions. Etta dreams of a life beyond the cane fields and moss-draped oaks that seem to watch her breathe. When she spends time away in New Orleans, she meets Isaiah, a smooth-talking city boy who sees her hunger for more and urges her to leave before the won claims her for good. But back home waits Caleb, steady and quiet, loving her the way the land does. deep, patient, possessive and expecting her roots to hold. As strange sounds rise from the earth, and old oak becomes forbidden ground, and when Etta's family starts having illnesses unexplained for, the truth begins to surface. Caught between love and escape, duty and desire, Etta must decide whether to stay and inherit a legacy soaked in silence. Or leave and risk awakening something that will not let her go. Because some roots don't loosen quietly. And some towns don't forgive women who try to leave.

In the supernatural world nothing is as it seems. Everything is best to be questioned. Nothing is to be taken for granted nor assumed. When hunting demons, immortals, fallen angels you need to know exactly 'who' you are hunting. In the spiritual world a name means everything. Without it. One can go on a wild goose chase for years. In their quest to find Old Yellow Eyes, Dean and Sam encounters an unknown type of hunters and curiosity caused them to want to know how these ancient hunters survived for eons. Since the dawn of human history. 1 #Southerngothic 2 #Azazel

A short story inspired by the fear of being alone, centered around a young witch-doll and the beast who devoured her coven.

Growing up in the suburbs There's nowhere for you to scream I am not afraid of hell I am from Connecticut --Cat Crash

Fresh out of college, a man named Sean joins a band of free lance cryptid hunters traveling around America in a van and RV. *CHAPTER 2 OUT NOW* Work in Progress

Seven years ago, Christopher "Kit" Black and his friends helped put his father behind bars for murder. Entangled in the harrowing cold case when they were just teenagers, it now feels like an old nightmare. When his therapist suggests he write a book about his trauma, Kit begins to notice some inconsistencies. The last one left in the dead farmland town of Grimm, Missouri - he begins to doubt. Was his father really responsible for the unsolved crime they thought was cracked? In this psychological drama, a coming-of-age story gone dark explores characters challenged by impossible choices, and a past which is better left undisturbed.

A midnight encounter in the gravel parking lot of a bayou honky tonk.

What is the root of a good scary story? Is it the unpredictability of what happens next? Maybe it's the idea that some stories could actually happen. Whatever fear means for you, hopefully, these stories can send goosebumps down your own and a glance over your shoulder! Just remember, a scare can bring lots of laughter and good times! Just make sure nothing hears you, after all . . . you wouldn't want to alert it.

Everything you know about the real world has a hidden layer. In the town of Beaufort, South Carolina, werewolves rule. Vampires, fairies, and witches lurk within the deep south, and werewolves are on the top. Eleanor York, the only daughter of the powerful York pack, is right behind her brother Bennett, both posed to take over the pack within a few years. Her father even has a husband picked out for her. When she meets a witch, Reese Darling, Ellie's world will be turned upside down and she will have to fight for true love.

Lottie Matthews was supposed to be a bride. Instead, she became a killer. On her wedding night, after her preacher husband reveals just how holy he isn't, Lottie carves her way out of a life she never chose-fleeing into the desert with blood on her dress, cigarettes in her garter, and a veil like a thorned crown. She doesn't believe in salvation anymore. Only survival. Dead Horse is the kind of town that eats the broken. It doesn't ask questions-and neither does Natalie Scatorccio, the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued outlaw who watches Lottie roll in like a storm. Nat doesn't do saints. Lottie doesn't do trust. But when their pasts catch up to them in blood, bullets, and secrets, the two girls find themselves bound by something more dangerous than revenge: a desire neither of them can outrun.

Something about that girl just isn't right...

A series of original poems about social injustice, discrimination, and marginalization of different groups of peoples and issues.

Felix Lee has known only the Linscotts after the tragic loss of his parents. They had given him a home, a family which he had learned to trust more than he trusted himself. The gang life is all he's known- all that he's found comfort in. He had only one goal in mind; and that was to get the gang to paradise, where they would no longer have to fight to maintain stability. Some silly ranch hand wasn't about to jeopardize that chance.

On a mountain carved by memory, ghosts, and grief, two women's lives entwine in a story of devotion, silence, and the cost of being seen.

Keiran Berry, a British queer artist, arrives in the haunted town of Elysian Hollow, Texas, to photograph decaying Southern architecture and uncover forgotten queer histories. He's drawn to the infamous Briar Manse, a plantation house rumoured to be cursed by a spirit known as the Honeysuckle Devil. There, he meets Colton Ray McAllister, a reclusive rancher with a mysterious scar shaped like a honeysuckle vine. Colton's family has been haunted for generations by a curse born from a forbidden romance between his great-grandfather Elias and a man named Jude. Their love was buried-literally and spiritually-beneath The Manse, and the Devil feeds on queer desire and shame. As Keiran and Colton fall in love, the curse awakens. Honeysuckle vines bloom out of season, shadows whisper, and the Devil begins to manifest. Their intimacy becomes both a weapon and a risk. They discover Elias's diary and learn that only love-bold, defiant, and true-can break the curse. On Colton's birthday, September 9th, they perform a ritual at The Briar Manse. The Devil rises, grotesque and seductive, trying to tear them apart. But Colton chooses Keiran.

Raised on blood, secrets, and survival, Delia spent her childhood on her grandmother's pig farm but it's the place she swore she'd never return to. Now, ten years later, grief drags her back to the only home that ever truly claimed her. Delia returns to the farm after her grandmother's death, the last heir to a quiet legacy of rural vengeance. Isolated, grim, and fiercely loyal to the rules that shaped her, she intends to keep to herself. But word travels. And women start to come. Some desperate, some dangerous asking the question she thought was buried with the past: "Do you still take care of problems?" As Delia begins to clean up after men the law won't touch, she's forced to confront her inheritance both the brutal, clear-eyed justice her grandmother taught her and the deep, festering rot it's grown into. When a teenage girl begs to be taken in, and a persistent investigator starts circling, Delia must decide if she'll burn it all down or raise the next generation.

"would that i, devil am i, made so as not to cry in the wailing of soil? devil am i, destined to pry decaying hands of the wrought and coiled? the howling hymn of her grievances mourning, soiled love by the free, "call on me, sweet lover in me, the temptress of man's calamity" she cries the diatribe of unshakable pride in which: creation lies in the heart of the indivine 'fie! god is dead and love is real' the howl of your temptress did reveal." The hymn of Eyre: The story of a young woman named Eyre who lives in a tight and hyper religious town set in the 1920s.. Centering around her struggle with Nihilism and her breaking away from her abusive occultist upbringing.. Set in motion upon her secret and tender friend ship with a Native American woman, a Moonshiner during prohibition, the relationship with the foreign "criminal" breaks her out of her communitarian imposes shackles, showing her for the first time what its like to feel genuine love.. until it all changes: As a physical beast in the woods that mirrors her intrusive thoughts comes to life, it threatens the life of the person she loves and guards the people she so desperately tries to break free from. The emergence of a beast of which fights to survive as humanity fights to live. The parasitic death of infancy and the decaying old. The ebb of what's left of them and their transcendence into writhing martyrs of God. And her dissension from them. The hymn of Eyre as she cries the power of knowing