Horror Stories

A Story in the Download Universe
This story is a sequel to BENNIE DOWNLOADS MARYA that first appeared on Bewildering Stories issue #181, January 2006, and to SATHYA DOWNLOADS BENNIE that that first appeared on Bewildering Stories issue #201, June 2006. It is not necessary that you read those stories first, but some things in this story will be clearer if you do.

When Eira survives a fall that should have erased her, her body becomes a spectacle before she ever regains consciousness. Immobilized in a hospital bed, she watches as images of her unconscious form spread across the world, transforming private suffering into public property—and tragedy into profit. As fame and money grow faster than her recovery, Eira must confront a life reshaped by forces she never chose.

In a traveling freak show, a woman called the Shattered Woman is displayed as a medical curiosity—silent, broken, and watched. As crowds come and go, her presence quietly unsettles the boundaries between spectacle and humanity.

A Story in the A Darker World Universe
Gerald Flemming is a poor nobody. He gets a chance to change that, but the price he'll have to pay is terrible.

A girl moves to a new boarding school. Very soon she discovers the dark secret of the place.

A planned holiday following graduation success goes dreadfully wrong for three girlfriends. After getting lost, disaster strikes, their car is wrecked, Carrie is raped and the hunt is on for Lisa and Sandy who find themselves on the run through the woods. But all is not as it seems!

Not even the brisk autumn air on her nude skin could penetrate the terror that held her prisoner.

Lynette and her daughter Cherie had no idea what awaited them in the old deserted house.