Tnthorrorcontest Stories

The dead are rising from their graves. A young boy, Johnny, disobeys his mother's orders and leaves the safety of their home to wait on the dock for his father's return. There is a menace lurking in the shadows, but sometimes there is more to fear the living from the living than the dead.

Jack and Tommy wander through a dark Zoo, searching for a monster. Highest Ranking #269 in Horror

TNT Horror Contest - Top 100 Finalist !!! Hope you enjoy this short story about a young boy who discovers bad things in the night. Here's an excerpt: "I was only nine when Momma let a devil move in. Not the Devil, but a devil... a demon. Not that there's much difference to a nine year old. Now don't get me wrong, she didn't do it a purpose on account she didn't know he was a devil. But then, she was a grown up and everyone knows grown ups can't tell about these here things."

An Army vet named Ted Landon describes in his own words the night he saw a human sacrifice by a cult led by his creepy next door neighbor Randall Thomas.

A Short Story Norman and Lenore were a happy couple, until Norman's rage and drinking were uncovered. *Disclaimer: This was written well before the TNT horror contest, I can provide solid proof if asked by contest officials.*

*tink* *tink* *tink* The sound of water dripping on a metal pipe in the basement beneath my head. The room, a small concrete box with no windows, is cold and dark. I'm cold, exhausted and weak. He's broken me, and how long did it take? I'll never know for sure. Has it been years or only a few months? I had plans after graduation, but they were taken from me and everything that could have been after. I pull my knees to my chest and roll onto my side. My head rested on the pillow, and I allowed my thoughts to wander; a dangerous activity while trapped with him. As I rested, I lit a mental match and burned the thoughts of what could have been. I'm forced to be here, I can't escape, but hell if I won't try. My name is Kelly Gibbs and I'm being held prisoner.

A girl who chooses to keep dreads instead of saving her life, a woman who will do whatever she can to have "White Girl Flow", a boy who thinks black girls look like cockroaches, all come crashing together when they meet their mysterious neighbor.

sadism, and a halloween party gone wrong

What happens when a down on his luck DJ gets a job of a lifetime.

A quick oneshot of how it's like to be in hell.

What happens when five friends go out together on Halloween night. This is the only night where anything can happen and anything can scare you, but nothing is as it seems. That's what happens to these five friends, they enter what supposedly is the party house in the city but is it really just that? The suspenseful scary moments happening to these friends is all within the time that is held in the hands of the master. What happens in the house, stays in the house. Right? Wrong. Follow these friends in the trouble they trap themselves in but make sure to keep a tight grip on your chair. And remember to never fall within the grasp of time.

Tells of a couple that moves into their new home with their young boy, but soon finds out that they are not alone. What evil lurks in the shadows? There is only one way to find out.

Chuck hates hardware stores. He hates all the tools he can't name. He hates the employees who look down on him for not knowing how to build a house from scratch. He hates the smell of sawdust and spilled paint. But Chuck hates spiders more. Fortunately, the kind folks at Haney's Hardware have just the product for him...

A scorned ex-coworker seeks revenge on his boss with a mysterious object in a game that becomes Russian roulette.

In life we all fight our inner demons, but one night Mia's demons are her worst nightmare. Who knew a typical babysitting job could lead to: Illusions, Terror and Death After this.... you will never look at your babysitting job the same again.

*TNT Horror Contest Top 35 finalist* My sincere thanks to everyone who read, commented, voted! In August, 1888, two catastrophic fires ravaged London all day and all night. A chance meeting of strangers on the banks of the Thames sparks a different sort of flame that burns for centuries, making one man the most famous killer in the world.

An account of the horrors of war, fantasy style. From a reviewer: "Monsters was a fascinating and rather dark short story. In this story, I found the lines of reality to be slightly blurred, with the convergence of different monsters that plagued the main character since childhood. As we all know, monsters come in many forms, shapes and sizes and I found this story to delve into that pretty deeply, for being so short in length. Whether real, or imaginative, monsters can be all around us. They infest our minds, creep in the shadows and can even be people that we see, or know personally. You might not always know where they come from, but that doesn't make them any less unsettling. This story also has an interesting way of making you never really feel safe. No matter how long our serenity lasts, or how bright the sun may shine upon you sometimes, Montellano's Monsters will remind you to keep looking over your shoulder. Just in case."

Bronze winner of #ProjectRefresh 2016 Halloween contest | As a way to cope with the psychological trauma of being abducted and held captive last Halloween, Andrea and her girlfriends meet once a week to imagine gruesome scenarios of revenge on the man responsible. But as the night comes to an end, it becomes more twisted than their imagination. *Halloween flash fiction of approximately 1000 words. Copyright 2016 by L.L. Sanders

A man finds a genie lamp and is granted three wishes, but the wishes are corrupted.