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Short Story / Flash Fiction

October 27, 2019

Reads: 64

Comments: 5

Shelves: 1

The The Imaginarium House

Cover image: pixabay.com. Read More

Tags: haunting, cemetery, descriptive, no-dialogue

Featured Review by Joe Stuart

"Excellent imagery, Hully. One of your best." Read More

Ohio, 1981. At Gravestone Cemetery, Marsha Kaplan, her boyfriend, George Robertson, and their friends, find out that there's zombies loose at Midnight. When they attempt to tell the Sheriff, no one believes them, until it is too late. Read More

Tags: horror, zombies, cemetery, 1980s

Seattle, 1980. Danielle Markham is a thirteen year old teenager who lives with her separated father Alan, who has custody of his daughter on weekends, leaving his ex-wife, Cara, to live in Montana with her new husband, Thomas. When Danielle struggles with school during the week, she sees an old… Read More

Tags: horror, death, scary, cemetery, seattle

This idea came to me when I tried to write a story with very limited information on my subject. Read More

Tags: dream, cemetery, ancestor, overalls, old-hat

Tags: poetry, crime, ghosts, cemetery

This story is about a treasure map that a young boy buys at a junk shop. He shows the map to his friend and they decide that they are going to the cemetery to hunt for the treasure. Read More

Tags: children, cemetery, gang, bushes, treasure-map

She can hide from life in the old cemetery but not from the light of the sun. Read More

Tags: woman, cemetery, ghoul, tunnels, crypt

Tags: ghosts, thought, graveyard, cemetery, insight

Essay / Horror

April 03, 2017

There is so much more to a place where everyone will be invited to- at some point. Read More

Tags: mystery, reality, cemetery

Tags: fantasy, plague, cemetery, gravedigger

Book / Horror

January 18, 2016

Reads: 2787

Comments: 4

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Are ghost real? No. Of course not. Archie doesn't believe in ghost. Until he discovers the labyrinth. And the skeletons start to talk to him and asks him to do things. Is the Singing Lady a part of his past and a reason for his misfortunes? Or it was all… Read More

Tags: horror, death, ghosts, cemetery, scare

Poem / War and Military

December 30, 2015

Reads: 526

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

To the fallen. A reflection while running past the cemetery on a snowy evening and seeing the military section. Read More

Tags: war, sacrifice, cemetery, veteran

Poem / Horror

October 17, 2015

Reads: 541

Comments: 12

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Dying for the answers ! Read More

Tags: death, ghosts, cemetery

A cemetery, a field of marble, a horrible place to be at night. Read More

Tags: creepy, sorrow, dead, stone, marble, cemetery, spooky, heads

A flashback. A Foreshadow. Read More

Tags: love, death, life, pain, lost, grave, sorrow, grieving, cemetery

Short Story / Horror

February 19, 2015

Reads: 485

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

There was a story I once heard about three friends who walked into the cemetery together and where never seen again this is that story. some scary parts children should be warned to not read alone a night. Read More

Tags: horror, kids, twist, knife, dead, cemetery, contest, flashlight

If you were to be literally grounded under the ground, what would you think of? Read More

Tags: death, nature, heart, darkness, buried, sorrow, funeral, corpse, cemetery, burial

A poem of macabre romance Read More

Tags: love, death, lust, cemetery

Short Story / Flash Fiction

April 20, 2014

Reads: 621

Comments: 9

The Booksie Classic House

This is inspired by the song "Blown Away" by Carrie Underwood. If you've never heard it, go listen to it! It's amazing! One night, a teen girl runs off because of her abusive stepfather. After visiting the grave of her older sister, Sandy, the weather turns bad. Things escalate quickly,… Read More

Tags: sad, short_story, memories, tornado, storm, sister, cemetery, sandy, stepfather, posters

Poem / Poetry

March 05, 2014

Reads: 216

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A ROSE PLACED ON A CEMETRY PLOT FOR A LOST SON. Read More

Tags: lost, plot, cemetery, rose

Love that has gone horribly wrong Read More

Tags: love, death, god, poetry, lost, darkness, cemetery

Poem / Poetry

November 10, 2013

Reads: 157

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

just something i thought of while i was walking through a graveyard and saw a horrible child jumping on a grave. Read More

Tags: death, murder, evil, revenge, cemetery

Short Story / Horror

November 05, 2013

Reads: 519

Comments: 6

The Booksie Classic House

There is a reason why people let the dead rest in peace, and Sammy, a poor man looking to make a quick buck, will learn the reason why. To disturb Death is to invite it. Read More

Tags: dark, horror, death, scary, night, cold, graveyard, cemetery, graves, digging, reanimation

Short Story / Horror

August 22, 2013

Reads: 456

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A man's hatred of another man leads him to do the most terrible act imaginable. But nothing in this world goes unpunished... Read More

Tags: horror, death, scary, fiction, murder, ghost, evil, fear, vengeance, pranks, cemetery

Book / Mystery and Crime

March 20, 2013

Reads: 413

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Exciting new author, Tina Kaleal, gives us a mystery that is set against the backdrop of Salem, Massachusetts. She shows us a slice of small town American during the Halloween season. But, there is more slicing going on this Halloween that ever expected. Read More

Tags: halloween, family, murder, mystery, greed, gun, poison, money, danger, killer, plot, cemetery, headstone, lawyer, burial

A poem about death, mourning, and time. Read More

Tags: death, family, dying, birthday, grave, young, funeral, remembrance, healing, mourning, shame, regret, guilt, celebration, year

Laura visits the cemetery in the middle of the night to grieve. Takes place in 1883. Read More

Tags: sad, grief, grieving, imagery, cemetery, 9th_century

Everyone dies. Every tombstone holds a different story. And I consider the dead lucky, because they're at peace. It's the living that suffers. Dealing with too much grief can make death seem like a godsend. When I die, people best be putting some nice flowers on my grave. If they… Read More

Tags: love, grief, mourning, cemetery, haunted

Short Story / Thrillers

December 29, 2012

Reads: 2455

Comments: 14

The Booksie Classic House

Meet Thomas the grave digger. The old man has been digging graves all his life until he gets the biggest shock of his life. This story was inspired by an old David Bowie song (which sent shivers down my spine) Nonetheless, enjoy! Read More

Tags: dark, horror, death, rain, sad, corpse, town, cemetery, bury, graves, thomas

Book / Romance

December 23, 2012

Currently, this is just a scene for a story. I plan to put up the actual story chapters once I have finished revising them. I'm looking for opinions on this scene. :-) Read More

Tags: fiction, romance, goth, drama, boy, boyfriend, girlfriend, comedy, washington, teenager, funny, couple, cemetery

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