It is with a trembling hand, pallid from a dread that transcends mere mortal terror, that I capture these words on paper. The chittering hasn't always been there—or perhaps it has, a latent horror waiting beneath my consciousness like a hibernating brood. A final and desperate testament against my encroaching fate. It is a madness constantly lapping at the shores of my sanity. Whether these pages ...

The last echoing scrape of Dane’s helmet against the cave wall told him he had made a terrible mistake before the darkness began to consume not just his light, but his hope as well. His single back-up light flickered pitifully. Monstrous shadows danced along the walls, and seemed to breathe and narrow with each ragged breath he took. The cold limestone pressing in around him like an ancient ...

Pure white snow embraced the world beyond Katherine’s isolated ranger station, each flake a silent trespasser. She stared into the dense woods, a memory nagging at the back of her mind; a tale the older rangers told of voices on the wind, carried in by the first snow. A trick of the cold air, they had said. The radio crackled to life just after midnight, breaking the six hours of dead silence just...

I awoke not with a bang, nor a whimper, but a rather long steaming tongue scraping its way up the side of my face. The moist heat roused me, eyes bleary from deep sleep.

I instinctively pushed the tongue away, wiping the grotesque saliva off my flesh. My head was turned, recoiled away from the repellent sensation, yet I could feel a substantial weight sitting atop my chest.

As the fog of slumber...