The Last Sin Eater (part 1)
The Long Mynd in Shropshire is a beautiful, haunting place. There are acres of moorland covered with heather and wildflowers, populated...
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- Sep 12, 2022
- 8 min
Unit 120
I carried on working as a pizza delivery man for about another year after the disturbing events at that block of flats. That might...
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- Apr 8, 2022
- 7 min
The Railway Tunnel
It wasn’t that I objected to the works in the tunnel, you understand. I accepted that the replacement of the old overhead lines was...
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- Feb 27, 2022
- 7 min
Paper Eyes
I am not an artist and I have never aspired to be one. I don’t have a lot of interest in it and it’s not an area in which I have much...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 6 min
The Abbey Doorway
There are some abbey ruins up in Durham. The building is nearly a thousand years old, but it’s just sitting out there in the countryside...
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- Nov 21, 2020
- 6 min
I'm Being Followed By A Bear
I’m being followed by a bear. It’s been after me for years, ever since I was a kid. It’s not a proper bear, I know that – even if I lived...
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- Nov 6, 2020
- 6 min
A Hole in the Ground
Neither of us have entirely recovered from the incident yet. I expect that we will in time, but it is still a little too recent. It...
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- Oct 23, 2020
- 6 min
Rejected Archive: The Kola Borehole
[This story was submitted to my compendium some time ago. Although it fails to reach my standard of veracity – for reasons that will...
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- Oct 9, 2020
- 10 min
The Tattoo
Like most teenage boys, I believed that I was a wolf, not a sheep. And, like most teenage boys I was wrong. I was very much a follower....
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- Oct 2, 2020
- 4 min
Don't Let Him Know
It wasn’t the ugliest building I’d ever delivered to, but it was definitely the creepiest. It was a large block of flats in the middle of...
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 9 min
The Portrait of Andrew Edwards
A few years ago, I dated Andrew Edwards. He was one of the most beautiful men I’d ever seen in my life, but it would never have lasted as...
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- Sep 15, 2020
- 5 min
Dear Diary, They're All Dead
March 20th Dear Diary, They’re dead. They’re all dead. And I can’t help but think that, had I not been prevented from joining them that...
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- Sep 8, 2020
- 5 min
Not Just A Matter Of Numbers
[The below is a print out of an email] From:Kaito Tanaka < Kaito.Tanaka@[REDACTED] > Sent: 20 June 2004 01.13 To: ‘ Dr Price’ <...
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- Sep 2, 2020
- 7 min
The Captain's Log
[The document is part of a ship’s log. It looks water damaged though whether that was responsible for the missing pages or whether...
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- Aug 25, 2020
- 6 min
Hair
The circumstances in which we found Ms. Kerry were unpleasant. She had been dead for just over a week by the time we were called out,...
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- Aug 17, 2020
- 9 min
The Incident
Dear Doktor, I shall not attempt to conceal the depth of my dread upon receiving your letter. The fact that you have come to know my...
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- Aug 10, 2020
- 5 min
A Cat Called Basket
My name is Rachel and I like cats. I own four and I was on the lookout for a fifth. Like any responsible animal lover, I went to look for...
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- Aug 10, 2020
- 8 min
The Wreck
I won’t tell you the exact location of the event as what we did was highly illegal and, on top of everything else, I don’t need a...
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- Aug 10, 2020
- 6 min
Such Crimes You Cannot Imagine
It was winter, and the ground was cold and hard but whilst that might have posed an issue for us archaeologists, it was no problem at all...
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