For tonight we’ve a tale where the daylight dies.From Where Nightmares Live, our book newly born,Comes a ghostly old legend, of sorrow and scorn. Now Thomas Milwood, a bricklayer proud,Sat in a pub midst a rowdy crowd.But this cold night of January’s chill,His patience was gone, he’d had his fill. He slammed his mug, the […]
A salesman tired, his eyes half-dead,Checked in one night, then went to bed.A budget inn, room number nine,Flickering bulbs, a faulty sign. He tossed his bags, the floorboards creaked,The air was still, the hallway leaked.He brushed his teeth, looked up to see,His mirror smile — a second too early. He froze in place, his breath
A gentle home, so calm, so neat,A nursery soft with pastel sheet.A baby sleeping, calm and deep,While parents watched through screens and sleep. They’d set a monitor by his bed,To hear his breaths, each coo, each thread.At midnight’s peak, when all seemed right,A whisper stirred the still of night. The mother woke — she heard
It happened once on a stormy eve,When thunder rolled and winds would weave.A man drove slow through pounding rain,The radio hissed a ghostly refrain. His headlights sliced through mist and gray,A lonely road, no sign, no way.Till by the shoulder, soaked and still,A girl stood waiting — pale and chill. Her dress was white, her
The dark tale, a haunting feat,Unfolds within a quiet street.A camera placed to watch the night,To guard the home till morning light. A couple new, with dreams and peace,Had bought this house for sweet release.But soon strange noises filled the air,Like dragging feet upon the stair. They thought it rats, or pipes that moaned,Till one
Back in twenty-fourteen’s July,An old gray ship was left to die.A frigate tired, its battles done,Decommissioned, stripped by everyone. To break it down, they drained the dock,The ship stood high on wooden block.No water near, no waves in sight,Just steel and shadow, day to night. The only way to board the deck,A single ramp —
In Hong Kong’s heart one winter night,’84 — the streets alight.A young man walked with love so true,Ha Ron beside his Jen Yu. They’d dined, they’d laughed, their hearts in sync,The city’s glow began to blink.Across the courtyard, calm and still,He walked her home — as was his will. Old buildings loomed, their edges cracked,The
Sometimes truth outshines fiction’s light,And twists our fate in ways so bright.This tale begins in thirty-four,Where fate would open a fateful door. Captain Falby, proud and keen,A cop in El Paso, brave and clean.Upon his bike he chased that day,A truck that sped and sped away. Sirens wailed, his throttle tight,Through dusty streets he chased
On a Sunday warm in Lafayette,The church bells quiet, the hour set,A father, Bruce, sank in his chair,While peace hung soft upon the air. His little son, just two years old,With hair like sunlight, bright and bold,Slammed his toy plane with fierce delight—“Plane crash! Plane crash!” through morning light. At first, Bruce smiled—just boyish play,But
One warm bright eve in seventy-four,In Old Westbury near New York’s shore,A doctor named Julian Kirchick sat,Beside his pool, relaxed and flat. A surgeon by day, with a life so wide,Four children, a wife always near his side.But this rare calm—this quiet bliss,Was a fleeting peace he didn’t want to miss. He leaned right back,
