When the devil comes a knocking, Knocking on your door, Hide away like you’ve done, So many times before. Bolt the latch and shut the windows, Snuff the candle glow, Hold your breath and pray he leaves, Before he comes to know. He has walked the road of sinners, With their ashes on his tongue, Whispering every heinous sin, Since time itself was young. You think he comes for others, Like the faithless or the wild, But the devil keeps a ledger, love, And your name is neatly fil

A 10 Sentence Horror Short The baby monitor clicked on at midnight, carrying not a cry but a deep, raspy lullaby. She hurried upstairs, her skin crawling with worry as the voice grew louder. The nursery door stood open, swinging just slightly, yet she clearly remembered closing it earlier. Inside, the baby slept soundly in its cot, chest rising and falling in perfect calm. A tall, black, eyeless figure towered over the cot. The figure turned slowly, revealing a cavernous holl

You jolt awake in the dead of night, breath shallow, heart hammering. Something is there, lurking in the dark. You don’t need to see it to know it's there. The weight of its gaze presses against you; prickling every nerve and freezing you in place. Don’t move! Don’t breathe! If you stay still, maybe it won’t find you. But stillness is easy when terror has locked your body in chains. Paralyzed. Then comes the scrape. It is long and deliberate: The sound of claws dragging acros