Stories that follow you home.

Horror by Alice Kettleby — haunted houses, calls that should not come, and the things that wait for the lights to go out. Straight from the small press that publishes them.

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The books

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Letters from the dark room

New stories and strange finds from Alice. All letters →

My Friend Lost Years to Something in the Woods | Alien Encounter Story AnimatedIf you pressed your ear to a bedroom wall at 2 a.m. and heard someone reciting their own blood type in a calm voice, with small pauses between each answer as though reading from a form, would you knock on the door? I didn't. I'm a veterinary nurse trained to notice a breathing change, a stillness th
3 TERRIFYING Carnival Horror Stories AnimatedHe said my name through the locked door, flat and bored, and the worst part was I had never told a single person at that carnival what I was called. Almost bored. How did he know it? My name is not on any carnival lanyard or posted rota, and I was twenty-four, working the Vanthorpe Ferris wheel alon
Something in the Gulf Knew My NameWhat kind of drowning man can stand perfectly still in forty feet of water? And how does he know your name? I spent nine summers as a lifeguard on Florida's Gulf coast, and I still can't answer either question. I've stopped trying. I just don't go in past my knees anymore.

Would you survive the night?

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I Was Paid £400 to Be Filmed While I Slept

Eight nights. Fifty pounds a night. A camera pointed at the bed. On the seventh night, it recorded someone sitting on the edge of it. A complete story, free — the one that never went up.

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