Summer Horror Short Stories

Greg smiled at the man in the tactical mask, completely unaware the gun was loaded with real bullets.

Jamie tracks a missing sister to a swamp cult where humanity dissolves into a pulsing red fungal hive-mind.

Theo swung the shovel hard. The metal bounced off the frozen face, vibrating violently up his forearms.

My boots sank into the black mud. Jared kept filming while the woods started eating our gear.

Trent needed seventy-five pounds of produce to keep his job. He did not care what the dirt cost.

Four friends return to a toxic, red-stained lake to confront a secret they buried twenty years ago.

The fan clicked on every rotation. Victor watched the ice melt in his glass and ignored the phone.

A mother finds her missing daughter at a transit hub, but the girl's skin feels like cold, molded silicone.

A struggling photographer in Winnipeg confronts physical manifestations of his past creative failures during a brutal summer heatwave.