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Beneath the fields, something ancient still hungers... In the drought-blasted town of Bitterfield, Nebraska, bones grow where corn once did. White spines sprout from the soil, ribs sway in the wind, and the townsfolk whisper of the Vein Warden, an ancient, sentient hunger buried beneath their fields. When Dr. Nora Blake, a hardened soil scientist, arrives to study Bitterfield’s “miracle crops,” she expects superstition. Instead, she finds a town feasting on its own survival, ritual blood tithes, ecstatic cults, and skeletons that rise to hunt at night. As the earth drinks human flesh,...

The eyes don’t close until the truth is seen. In the forgotten town of Briar’s Hollow, guilt has a body. Decades after a factory fire killed forty workers, journalist Clara Wranik returns home to find her mother dying, her bloodline cursed, and the town watching her with too many eyes. When Clara unearths a burned ledger detailing the names of the dead, something awakens beneath the ruins: the Beast with 40 Eyes, born from the town’s silence and fed by its secrets. Each eye opens for a hidden sin. Each confession tears another soul apart. As reality fractures, mirrors bleeding, ...

Five college friends. One dark secret. And a cabin that remembers everything. When Lila, the charming but manipulative leader of their old circle, invites her former classmates for a weekend reunion in the woods, it feels like closure, or a trap. Mark, the cynical lawyer; Jake, the volatile ex-athlete; Sophie, the timid peacekeeper nursing an unspoken love; and Tara, the newcomer with a mysterious family heirloom, all arrive pretending nothing happened. But they’re lying, to each other, and to themselves. Because years ago, they framed their classmate Emma Vale for a prank that ended in ...

Liar, liar, soul’s on fire. When a cursed melody surfaces from the roots of a long-buried mining disaster, it doesn’t just haunt those who hear it, it condemns them. The viral song “Raven Wails in the Cursed Gum Tree” is spreading like wildfire through social media. Anyone who hears its refrain must confess a terrible lie, publicly, honestly, irrevocably—within 100 hours… or their skulls explode in a spray of gore that paints the truth in blood. As heads burst across cities, leaving behind grotesque relics from Australia’s colonial past, haunted journalist Elliot Vaughn races ...

Every groom sheds his skin eventually. When retired quarterback Rudy Callahan joins his old crew for a raucous stag weekend in Oregon’s Cascade foothills, he expects hangovers, not hell. But The Antlered Veil isn’t a lodge - it’s a trap built by a century-old cult devoted to Count Furfur, the stag-headed demon of lust and storm. Drugged and surgically “crowned,” Rudy and his friends awaken half-human, half-beast,.prey in a ritual hunt where only one can survive as Furfur’s vessel. As antlers tear through skulls and loyalty rots into savagery, Rudy’s love for his fiancée ...

Buried alive. Forgotten. Not alone. Emma Vance wakes in total darkness, her hands bound by splinters, her lungs burning. There's no way out. No signal. Only the weight of the earth pressing closer with every breath. As the air thins, she claws at the coffin walls, her mind unravelling between reality & the whispering voice that calls her name. Memories bleed into hallucinations: the expose that destroyed a cult, the lover who betrayed her, the sister she left behind. But something else is buried with her. Something that feeds on guilt, fear & regret. Told in unbearable claustrophobia, The ...

Every secret has its encore... Twenty years after a high-school tragedy silenced the Orpheum Theater, failed playwright Alana Quince returns to Marrow’s End, dragged home by a letter signed The Orpheum Players. The once-grand theater is now a husk of velvet and dust, haunted by the memory of seventeen-year-old Tamsin Malin, who died during the 1998 production of Our Town. But the Orpheum isn’t empty. Its cracked mirrors still hum with old applause, and its new master, The Director, hungers for another performance. When Lena reunites with her estranged classmates, the curtain rises on a ...

Where Jim’s blood fell, a legend was born. Three years after Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the boy who once chased freedom down the Mississippi returns to its banks a changed man. When racists murder his closest friend, Jim, Huck’s laughter drowns in blood, and something ancient in the river answers his grief. By moonlight, the Mississippi becomes his weapon. By dawn, it whispers his name: The River Reaper. One by one, Huck hunts the men who took Jim’s life, planters, preachers, sheriffs, each death marked by the same blood-carved rune. As legend grows, so does the horror: a ...

Every soul has a loose thread. She’s here to pull it. In the fog-choked port city of Blackhaven, 1995, the murders are art, and the killer calls herself The Seamstress. By day, Evelyn Morse is the picture of old-fashioned grace: a kindly dressmaker with a teapot smile and lavender-scented hands. By night, she transforms her victims’ flesh into haunting gowns, each stitched with their deepest regrets. Her cursed needle doesn’t just sew, it feeds. Detective Belinda Gumford, a recovering alcoholic haunted by one fatal mistake, is assigned to stop her. But as the investigation drags ...

Every myth begins with someone who swears it’s over. When journalist Mara Vixen drove into the fog-choked town of Murkveil, she thought she was chasing another ghost story for her cult podcast Truth’s End. What she found instead was a nightmare made of flesh, ash, and guilt. Beneath Murkveil’s rotting churches and bone-filled bogs, five local legends stir: the Howl, the Mirror Hag, the Marrow Reaper, the Void Wraith, and the Cinder Orphan, each one a living fragment of an ancient entity known only as the Veil. The myths feed on fear, carving their marks into those who dare to remember...

Some curses are inherited. Others are waiting to be remembered. In the rotting factory town of Grimholt, seventeen-year-old Alira Kane spends her days sketching monsters that should not exist, and nights listening to a cracked pocket watch that whispers her name. When the earth splits open beneath her and she falls into the Veil, a grotesque underworld of pulsing flesh and molten bone, Alira discovers the truth: the world is dying, devoured by a curse born from saffron-scented jellybeans that feed on the souls of the living. Guided by the bleeding watch and haunted by the ghosts of her ...

Four women. One childhood secret. And a spell that never stopped bleeding. Twenty-two years ago, Maya, Sofia, Claire, and Lila cast a spell in a treehouse, their chants playful, their intentions innocent, or so they thought. But when one of them vanished and the others swore silence, something ancient awoke in the woods. And it waited. Now, grown and fractured by betrayal, they reunite at a remote villa under the shadow of a blood moon. The reunion is meant to bring healing, closure... maybe even forgiveness. But when the spellbook reappears, pages dripping red, their childhood faces ...

Every Prom King gets his crown… this one gets his revenge. In the rust-belt town of Crickett Hollow, Prom Night is more than a tradition; it’s a blood debt. Thirty years ago, six popular kids lured shy AV-club misfit Caleb Morrow into a prank that became a pyre. They welded the closet shut, doused him in thinner, lit the match, and called it an accident. The town buried the truth. Now, their children rule the school: the quarterback, the cheer captain, the TikTok star, the prom chair, the twins. And one girl who doesn’t belong, Billie Bennett, whose mother vanished after photographing...

Some structures aren’t meant to collapse, some were built to kill. Twenty years ago, the world’s longest glass bridge collapsed without warning, killing thirty-seven people, including Mara Linton’s mother, the chief engineer blamed for the disaster. Now, as the Arclight Bridge is scheduled for demolition, Mara returns to the ruins that defined her life. Her plan is simple: expose the truth, clear her mother’s name, and finally bury the ghosts that have stalked her since childhood. But the bridge has other ideas. Sabotage, storms, and the buried sins of her powerful uncle drag Mara ...

When thrill-chasing teens Anna Kessler and Clarice Moore break into an abandoned amusement park to film a viral stunt, they expect likes, not legends. The decaying Widowmaker rollercoaster towers above the fog like a dare from God, one last climb before demolition. But when they stumble upon a gangland murder and the killers give chase, the girls flee up the coaster’s rusted ribs, trapped hundreds of feet above the burning ground. With no way down, dwindling supplies, and the structure collapsing beneath them, every breath becomes a countdown. The fire below isn’t the only thing hungry....

What if winning was the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to you? Sam Carver was ordinary, a middle-aged office worker with a failing jump shot, an empty apartment, and a life quietly slipping through his fingers. Then, one night, everything changed. He started to win. Every shot. Every game. Every deal. Luck followed him like a shadow he could never shake. At first, it felt like salvation, the adoration, the money, the fame. But as Sam’s streak continues, the wins come faster, harder, stranger. His friends turn on him. His body trembles under invisible pressure. Strangers ...