Creaturefeature Stories

The real world is separated from the unnatural one by a line made of salt and lead. Ten years after the fire that took everything, Ethan Vance maintains that line, driving the empty American highways in a '69 Charger filled with firearms and forbidden knowledge. Armed with his father's legacy and his mentor's chaotic field notes, Ethan travels the country hunting apex biological predators, the things that defy classification. It's a thankless, violent grind. But as long as the Vance Ledger remains open and the Charger's tank is full, the hunt continues. Every entry Ethan adds to the book is a step closer to the ultimate target. Every monstrosity he destroys is practice for the main event. Ethan Vance is on the road for one reason: to kill the segmented nightmare that murdered his family, and he doesn't care how many miles or how much blood it takes. A new franchise in tactical road horror. The road is long. The predators are hungry. Ethan is ready.

A man settles down in Alaska and prepares for the longest polar night yet. The calm of the night is broken when a sharply dressed boy emerges from the forest being chased by an axe wielding psychopath. Can he defend his new home and the child?

Carolyn is from Charming.

[Finalist in the #CreatureFeature Science Fiction Challenge!] - Emails coming in from an old, 2016 computer (one that dates back more than a few decades) from a long-lost scientist that went missing just after an experiment gone wrong bring odd suspicions to a young college girl's mind as she reads and digs up secret after secret about this supposedly escaped 'mechanical flying man'. They suggest a hidden, covered-up experiment that the government and a now-abandoned research facility tried to keep classified. She thinks it's only research, but what happens when the rumors turn out to be true? And that it appears directly in her patio? --- Written for the Science Fiction Contests

FINALIST of @fright 's #CreatureFeature Contest Veronica never thought going to the bar her friend worked at was the biggest mistake of her life. HIGHEST RANKING #890 in Vampire

It wasn't supposed to be this way. Curtis was supposed to have a son. But his wife wasn't ready. Curtis left her because of what she did. Now Curtis is alone. Until one night, a little boy walks into Curtis' room and calls him daddy. Curtis think's he's his son he was supposed to have, he think's it's Erik. Curtis keeps him and treats him like his very own.

"You're making this a bigger thing than it needs to be." It's hard to stay calm when the local wildlife starts talking back. For Bertholdt, an October afternoon walk through the woods was supposed to be simple. He had his cloak, his red cap, and a strict deadline to be home for supper. He didn't plan on meeting a sharp-tongued wren, and he certainly didn't plan on being snatched from the forest floor by a shadow in the sky. Now, the world he knows is falling away beneath his boots. Caught in the talons of a colossal, raven-like beast, Bertholdt is dragged into a realm hidden just above the clouds-a place where humans are little more than "cargo." With a cynical bird as his only guide and a flight path leading toward the ominous "Nest of Silences," Bertholdt has to learn one hard lesson fast: in this sky, you don't survive by running. You survive by learning how to sail. The woods have ears, the birds have voices, and Bertholdt is about to find out exactly where the ships go when they leave the ground.

4th in The #CreatureFeature contest

Trapped in a remote cabin, a group of friends faces something waiting in the sky-something that wants to be seen. Every scream outside, every shadow on the glass, dares them to make the mistake of looking. Inspiration: LOOK is inspired by the quiet, relentless terror of Nope-the dread of being watched, the horror of witnessing, and the cost of curiosity.

Camp Midnight was supposed to be a normal summer getaway... until kids started disappearing and something began stalking the lake at night. When JJ and Trey uncover a hidden underground passage beneath camp, they realize the counselors aren't just hiding the truth - they're part of it. Now the two friends must survive the woods, the creature, and the secrets buried beneath Camp Midnight... before they become the next ones to vanish.

At the struck of midnight, the doorbell of a 19 year-old girl's apartment rings. The catch? There is no person on the other side of the door - only a letter. Double catch? The letter says she has precisely twenty-four hours to live. Should she have ever opened the door in the first place?

Beenie is has a power, well, more of a curse. She is called a Lethal. Her skin severely burns whatever touches it, and kills if you touch for too long. Another problem, just like a vampire, Lethals thirst for human blood. She grabs someone from behind, burns them, then sucks their blood. But she never kills people who don't have it coming. She would feel horrible if she killed a man who has children or did nothing but good. So Beenie studies her victims. Which ones deserve it? What will happen when the one Beenie thought deserved it didn't really? And what'll happen when Beenie falls in love with her?

They looked like animals... until they moved like memories-quiet, hungry, and heartbreakingly alive.

Raine had always been pretty normal all things considered. She grew up on the streets and learned how to take care of herself from a young age. She never needed anyone except herself. Then, she met Derek. He turned her life upside down. Raine didn't have to worry about taking care of herself now, she had found the man of her dreams. So, after an evening spent with Derek turns deadly, Raine must do what she can to save herself and Derek. The odds had never been this against her but Raine wouldn't give up her fight against, whatever these creatures are. Just as she thinks she has everything under control, a pair of brothers in a black car pull up and turn her life into a rollercoaster, but she might just enjoy the ride. *Updates will come at least once a month*

1...2...3...4...who's that knocking at my door? Poor little Julie they say What a shame they say She was more than just a little girl to me, she was my sister. I vowed to protect her and I didn't, now she's gone but this just gives me the chance to protect other little girls so they die at the hands of those who don't understand the world. And now they will get what they deserve. 5...6...7...8...who would be up this late? Sarah was only 18 when when her sister, Julie died in head on collision with a drunk driver years ago. She lost the person she loved most but she also gained something entirely new. The power of mind control. With this new found power she vowed revenge on all drunk drivers and people who hurt children. Now she wants to get rid of them. Forever. 9...10...11...12...I feel the blood swell

Something isn't quite right with Hope Fallen. But then something isn't quite right with her husband either.

A submission for an LGBT+ writing contest. It's there... Avidan sees it all the time. However at night it's the worse. It sneaks through the window and into the mirror, waiting only for Avidan. *Contains gender dysphoria and suicide.*

The individuals left mutated by the radioactivity post nuclear war have been all but completely exterminated. For those who linger, the government has developed a method of extraction: sleuths. Any neighborhood where an abnormality is rumored to live is quarantined and besieged, the people held there until the government gets their body, the mutant to be killed by fellow civilians. If only they cared about the bodies that drop in the often violent and gruesome process. #CreatureFeatureChallenge