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Man Cave

by Rick McQuiston: Scotty took a step back and gazed at his creation. It was his own personal space, off- limits to everyone, including his wife Janine- especially his wife. He had the only key, the only means of entry. He would [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Malice

by J.L. Petty: “Do I sound familiar? Do you recognize my voice?” The masked woman pressed the gun hard up against my cheek. She was wearing a black turtle neck and her face was covered with a black hanker chief. [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Who is Like God?

by B.E. Scully: At first he hadn’t noticed the source of the bright crimson drops splattering the snow and then seeping outward through the first slush of spring. He had been too surprised to find this shock of life here [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

Love Thyself

by Robbie Anderson: “What?” Becca made no attempt hide her irritation at the interruption. “Hey,” Ty said softly as he stuck his head through the door. “Just checking on you. Need anything? How’s it going?” She arched like a cat [...]

Arts and Literature, Short Fiction and Poetry

The Vampyre; A Tale by John Polidori (1819)

“The Vampyre” is a short story or novella written in 1819 by John William Polidori which is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as “the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre.” [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)

“Carmilla” is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. “Carmilla” predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty five [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)

The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

DarkMedia is Now Accepting Original Fiction Submissions

Attention authors and aspiring authors! DarkMedia is now accepting short stories and poetry for publication on DarkMedia.com.  As a rapidly growing resource for all things Dark, we would like to extend our involvement in the literary community by supporting and [...]

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