Creaturefeature Stories

"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.

Discover this twisted and demented tale of someone by the name Marcus Kosgrove a former ex police officer of the local police force the IPD Illinois Police Department who moved from Illinois to the outskirts of Ukraine as he slowly discovers the existence of these creatures called The Sleepers. Will he make it or will he die like the rest of everyone.

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

This is my now 9 year old brother's work, not mine! Every word he said, I wrote down. 3 men-- Iris, Derick, and Narsh-- go out on a hunting trip, they find a portal and teleport to a different unknown island they haven't seen before, and it's filled with monsters!

From "Dont Hug Me, Im Scared" to "Creepypasta", you can bet everything Creepy is in this ghoulish chatroom!

In the frost-bitten Weald of Kent, veterinarian Jess Harper brings home one more broken creature - a tiny polecat-ferret kit with eyes too bright and a bite that won't heal. As an unnatural sickness sweeps the countryside - foxes staggering in daylight, badgers with silver-disc eyes, deer smashing their skulls against iron - sixteen-year-old Mia tries to nurse the kit back to health in the dead of night. What crawls out of the cage is older than the hop fields themselves. It wears the skins of Kentish omens: the black dog, the Hooden Horse, the watchers that have always lived between the skeletal poles and the black woodland. It speaks with wooden jaws. It tastes human blood. And it is no longer alone. The First Bite - a raw, sensory horror origin story where the old things of the Weald finally come home.

This is my entry for the Creature Feature Challenge. I hope you all enjoy. Want to talk to me message me or follow me on Instagram @krzysztof_mendel.

A young girl is brutally abducted by a bloodthirsty grizzly, forcing a group of scientists to mop up a genetic engineering operation that is out of control, threatening any and all who enter the woods. One question remains: are the animals really dangerous for no reason at all or does their enhanced intelligence simply make them recognize something damning about human nature that needs to be understood before it's too late? Two groups of scientific researchers are sent into the forests where animal attacks are frequent to study what is happening only to find themselves attacked and outsmarted (in part) by the animals themselves. Two environmental action groups find themselves at odds over the fate of the dangerous genetically-enhanced creatures. One group wishes to see the offensive beasts destroyed and the other wants to preserve them at all costs, even at the sacrifice of human life. The two sides find themselves at an impasse, unable to resolve their differences in an amiable way, leading to ever-increasing tension, animosity, kidnapping and murder. Entire forests are quarantined in an attempt to control and contain the beasts but soon holes are discovered in the operation as key players start disappearing in addition to animals eluding their hunters, fighting back and changing the field of battle to their own terms. As the "pro-beast" and "pro-human" sides pursue to their own interests with the unfortunate bears caught in the middle (struggling to establish themselves in a human dominated world), the animals learn more and more to rely on their expanding awareness to survive and thrive in their new world...to evolution-shattering effect.

'we all have inner demons.' a short story

Nia and Nyara were inseperable twins until the age of 15 when Nyara seemed... different. Because of the drastic change in her sister, Nia began growing apart from Nyara. Slowly but surely, the two started hating each other, up to their 19th birthday. Nia wanted this day to be perfect but little by little, the day turned into her largest fear.

Erik has had enough. He can't go one with life, so he decides that life isn't the answer. But he meets a man who seems to want to change that. Someone he can trust. But what if Erik can't? What if he's better off dead and they both know it? Read to find out! (Warning For Language And Depressing Theme)

The 2022-2023 Film Journal's fifty-sixth entry covers a film I have long wanted to see: "Them!". Here, I take a look at how this old timey, perhaps even cheesy film from the 1950s affects me, an adult in 2023 with surprising results.

In Hollow Creek, the stories were supposed to be warnings-old tales about a horned beast that tore through the town generations ago. Nobody believed they were real. Nobody thought the creature would ever return. Now the screams have started again. Doors won't save anyone. Light won't save anyone. And the unicorn-once whispered about in fear-has come back to finish what it started.

During a dark and stormy night, Curtis, bored, goes in search for Erik. I don't own the song It Was A Dark and Stormy Night, nor the band Creature Feature, nor the members Erik X or Curtis Rx

Gavin, Morgan and Kamski are siblings and Morgan is going through a rough time until something happens one night after a pool party, that changes her life forever

CANCELLED Currently in the making of rewriting the two current chapters. They'll be uploaded as a new story to allow anyone to read the old ones if they wish. If you read those for Ships, this one does not contain Curtrik. [There will be 14 chapters and 1 conclusion] [Upcoming chapter: None.]

In the quiet town of Oak Hollow, Halloween night of 1964 was supposed to be like any other-costumes, candy, and childish superstition. But for eleven-year-old Mathew, it became the night everything changed. A dropped caramel. A black cat with golden eyes. And a creature that stepped from the shadows-slick, two-headed, hungry. That night, something ancient found him. And it didn't stop. After barely surviving a monstrous attack, Mathew watches his ordinary family life collapse. His mother and sister vanish into the woods, dragged away by a nightmare of flesh and fire. Armed with his father's tranquilizer rifle, Mathew ventures into the dark and discovers the truth: the Saraph, nightmarish spider-alien hybrids born from a centuries-old experiment gone wrong, are evolving... and they are multiplying.

This is my entry for the Wattpad @fright CREATURE FEATURE contest. I thought I'd give this horror thing a try, I hope you guys enjoy!

Kida, a Monster Hunter, and Levi, an angel, takes a job to banish a spirit from a haunted house. My first short story on Wattpad! Feedback is requested. Cover was created with through Wattpad using Canva. Inspired by Supernatural, Dresden Files, Ao No Exorcist, the Stephanie Plum series, Bleach, Soul Eater, Story Collection coming soon!