Macabre Miscellanea

Macabre Miscellanea

di Alex Thorn

Cryptids Close to Home | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

A zoo with no staff and a brass plate that reads only Subject One. A tall shape in a neighbor's rose bushes while the news blames an escaped animal. A restricted biology class that ends with a black envelope and a badge. A second grader brings his new friend to show and tell. And in a Louisiana swamp, a song starts at one in the morning, a little closer every night. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:09 Story 1 — Curiosity Creek Zoological Gardens 6:04 Story 2 — The Rose Bushes 9:58 Story 3 — BIO221X 13:29 Story 4 — Show and Tell 18:01 Story 5 — The Swamp Song 20:49 Outro

The Music of Erich Zann | H.P. Lovecraft (1922) | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

A mute old German plays his viol every night in the highest garret of a street that appears on no map. The student living below thinks it is genius, until he is finally invited up and sees the old man's face while he plays. H.P. Lovecraft's 1922 story, read in full. He counted it among his best, partly because it never explains what the music is for. Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:06 The Street Nobody Can Find 2:15 Across the Dark River 3:36 A Street of the Very Old 4:10 Strange Music Overhead 5:17 Meeting Erich Zann 6:33 The Garret and the Viol 7:21 The Notes He Won't Play 8:38 The Curtained Window 9:40 A Note of Apology 10:55 A Lower Room 11:48 Listening at the Door 13:56 Zann Writes 14:39 A Distant Note From the West 15:29 The Wildest Playing 17:12 The Window Breaks 17:52 The Blackness Beyond the Glass 19:29 The Cold Face 20:17 Down the Stairs 21:14 Outro

Vampire Horror Stories: Something in the Blood | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

A regular blood donor goes back to the donation center and finds no record of six years of appointments, no phlebotomist named Sandra, and a donor card the clerk can't read. Their veins are turning black and filling back up from the outside. A neighbor who leaves at 6:47 every Tuesday before the plasma center opens. A roommate who thanks you for how well you sleep with the window open. A girlfriend whose pulse no longer matches her heartbeat. Nobody here is hunted. Everybody is asked to help. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:05 Story 1 — My Veins Keep Refilling Wrong 4:59 Story 2 — My Neighbor Only Comes Outside at Night and I Think I Figured Out Why 9:37 Story 3 — My Neighbor Only Goes to the Plasma Center on Tuesdays 13:56 Story 4 — My Roommate Keeps Asking Me to Open the Windows at Night 17:48 Story 5 — My Girlfriend's Pulse Doesn't Match Her Heartbeat Anymore 21:01 Story 6 — My Fiancée's Blood Test Results Came Back Incompatible With Human Donation 26:38 Outro

Self Serve | Original Horror Story | Macabre Miscellanea

No services for 47 miles. Then a gas station, a red truck with its hood up, and nobody standing beside it. Then the same gas station again. Nineteen miles by the odometer, nineteen miles of the same half mile, and at the edge of the light, a girl slowly shaking her head. It's almost one in the morning, she is driving nowhere on purpose, and the only open door for miles is the one she keeps trying to leave behind. Original horror fiction from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without comfort. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:08 Driving Nowhere on Purpose 2:29 No Services Next 47 Miles 3:34 The Same Sign 4:40 The Frontage Road 6:13 The Girl at the Edge of the Light 7:38 The Woman Who Left 10:03 Talking Yourself Back 11:46 Thirty Feet of Concrete 15:31 The Bell 17:12 Headlights 18:27 Outro

The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) | Edgar Allan Poe | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

A prisoner of the Inquisition wakes in total darkness, paces out the walls of his cell, and trips to land with his chin at the edge of a pit he never saw. That was supposed to be the easy death. When it fails, he is strapped beneath a crescent blade that descends a fraction of an inch with every swing. He can count it. He has days to do the math. And the room is still not finished with him. Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:05 The Sentence of Death 4:37 Waking in the Dark 8:51 Eyes Open to Eternal Night 11:13 Rumors of Toledo 13:10 Measuring the Cell 15:34 Face Down at the Edge 16:09 The Circular Pit 18:29 Drugged Water 20:44 Iron Walls 21:54 Bound Beside the Pit 23:18 The Pendulum 24:16 Rats from the Pit 26:58 Days Beneath the Blade 30:34 Three Inches Above the Chest 33:20 The Plan 34:45 The Rats Return 36:07 The Band Loosens 38:48 The Walls Awaken 41:44 Square Becomes Lozenge 42:42 The Last Foothold 43:46 Outro

8 Real Magic Horror Stories That Never Asked Permission | Dark Posts

A man's forearm tattoo starts as nine interlocking triangles. Four days later there are sixty-three, rearranging themselves every night whether anyone's watching or not — and something new has just started showing up on his other palm. He isn't the only one. A dead grandmother's recipe cards keep specifying ingredients that exist only in her granddaughter's own kitchen, a stranger's tarot deck keeps returning to an apartment one card heavier every time it's thrown away, and a girlfriend starts correcting mistakes before they happen, then starts editing the day itself before it's been lived. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

7 Found Footage Horror Stories That Shouldn't Exist | Dark Posts

She filmed her mother's funeral in daylight on November third. The tape insists it happened at 11:19 PM the night before—while the funeral home was locked and empty. That impossible timestamp is only the first recording that refuses to obey its owner. An inherited harbor tape moves backward through the years until a child raises a camera and films back, while one woman finds her fiancé in fourteen videos recorded before they met. Dark Posts collections from Macabre Miscellanea — firsthand accounts and collected confessions, every week. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:01 The Funeral Timestamp 5:04 The Storage Unit Camera 8:30 Forty-Seven Reels, One View 13:02 Three Days Behind the Bathroom Door 16:24 Footage Nobody Filmed 20:20 The Tape Gets Older 24:14 Before They Met 27:49 Outro Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Six Confessions from the Tree Line | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

Six accounts of something in the woods that isn't hiding from anyone — a dropped flashlight, picked up and clicked off; a torn trash bag, returned retied in a perfect knot; a voice, mimicked badly, like it's still learning the shape of the sound. Every account agrees on the same unsettling detail: whatever this is was never afraid, and every time it had the chance to do real harm, it demonstrated competence instead. That's not an animal marking territory — that's something making sure you understood it could have gone differently. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

The Judge's House | Bram Stoker | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

A mathematics student needs somewhere quiet to study before his exams — and finds the one house in Benchurch that nobody else will go near. The rent is next to nothing, and nobody will explain why. Bram Stoker's "The Judge's House" — a hanging judge who never really left the bench, a rat that watches from the bell rope, and a rational man who mistakes every warning for superstition. Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

More Doppelgänger Encounters | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

Seven accounts of a face showing up where the real person wasn't — a girlfriend who can quote a whole date night down to the joke about the spicy appetizer, a manager who says the fingerprint scanner doesn't lie, a city that's already seen the broadcast photo before the man himself gets home. None of these are simple mistaken-identity stories. The double clocks in with a real fingerprint scan, texts in the right voice at the right time, remembers inside jokes nobody else could know — and the people closest to each of these seven side with the copy over the original. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

1 di 3