Please reblog if you know anyone who might take party drugs.
this is so important
Also important information: A cop cannot arrest you for something you already took. You can tell a cop to his face that you just injected black tar heroin in your veins and as long as you don’t currently have any on you (including things like syringes or residue in a pipe), there’s fuck all he can do about it.
I take police reports for a living. The number of people who will happily tell someone “Well officer, this fight started because I smoked crack cocaine earlier,” is astounding and also not at all illegal. The criminal charge is for Possession of a Controlled Substance. If you don’t possess any at the time, there’s no crime. The only thing you can get dinged for is if you’re actively on a drug and driving, in which case - DUI.
Please, please, please tell EMTs what you took. They’re not going to rat you out to the cops and even if they did, you will still be okay.
Spreading the word, being honest with paramedics and doctors can save your life
Marianne Moore, from The Selected Poems of Marianne Moore: “In The Public Garden,”
This is a compiled list of some of my favorite pieces of short horror fiction, ranging from classics to modern-day horror, and includes links to where the full story can be read for free. Please be aware that any of these stories may contain subject matter you find disturbing, offensive, or otherwise distressing. Exercise caution when reading. Image art is from Scarecrow: Year One.
PSYCHOLOGICAL: tense, dread-inducing horror that preys upon the human psyche and aims to frighten on a mental or emotional level.
- “The Frolic” by Thomas Ligotti, 1989
- “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, 1970
- “89.1 FM” by Jimmy Juliano, 2015
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
- “Death at 421 Stockholm Street“ by C.K. Walker, 2016
- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973
- “An Empty Prison” by Matt Dymerski, 2018
- “A Suspicious Gift” by Algernon Blackwood, 1906
CURSED: stories concerning characters afflicted with a curse, either by procuring a plagued object or as punishment for their own nefarious actions.
- “How Spoilers Bleed” by Clive Barker, 1991
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“A Warning to the Curious” by M.R. James, 1925
- “each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Stephen J. Barringer and Gemma Files, 2010
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“The Road Virus Heads North” by Stephen King, 1999
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“Ring Once for Death” by Robert Arthur, 1954
- “The Mary Hillenbrand Cassette“ by Jimmy Juliano, 2016
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“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, 1902
MONSTERS: tales of ghouls, creeps, and everything in between.
- “The Curse of Yig” by H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, 1929
- “The Oddkids” by S.M. Piper, 2015
- “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson
- “The Graveyard Rats” by Henry Kuttner, 1936
- “Tall Man” by C.K. Walker, 2016
- “The Quest for Blank Claveringi“ by Patricia Highsmith, 1967
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“The Showers” by Dylan Sindelar, 2012
CLASSICS: terrifying fiction written by innovators of literary horror.
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843
- “The Interlopers” by Saki, 1919
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“The Statement of Randolph Carter“ by H.P. Lovecraft, 1920
- “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Pierce, 1893
- “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, 1820
- “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey, 1910
- “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843
SUPERNATURAL: stories varying from spooky to sober, featuring lurking specters, wandering souls, and those haunted by ghosts and grief.
- “Nora’s Visitor” by Russell R. James, 2011
- “The Pale Man” by Julius Long, 1934
- “A Collapse of Horses” by Brian Evenson, 2013
- “The Jigsaw Puzzle” by J.B. Stamper, 1977
- “The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement and then Take Questions” by David Nickle, 2013
- “The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold, 1926
- “Postcards from Natalie” by Carrie Laben, 2016
UNSETTLING: fiction that explores particularly disturbing topics, such as mutilation, violence, and body horror. Not recommended for readers who may be offended or upset by graphic content.
- “Survivor Type” by Stephen King, 1982
- “I’m On My Deathbed So I’m Coming Clean…” by M.J. Pack, 2018
- “In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker, 1984
- “The New Fish” by T.W. Grim, 2013
- “The Screwfly Solution” by Racoona Sheldon, 1977
- “In the Darkness of the Fields” by Ho_Jun, 2015
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“The October Game” by Ray Bradbury, 1948
- “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, 1967
HAPPY READING, HORROR FANS!
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“You waited, Knowing yourself helpless in the tweezers Of the life that judges you, and I saw The flayed nerve, the unhealable face-wound Which was all you had for courage. I saw that what you gripped, as you sipped, Were terrors that killed you once already. Now I see, I saw, sitting, the lonely Girl who was going to die. That blue suit, A mad, execution uniform, Survived your sentence. But then I sat, stilled, Unable to fathom what stilled you As I looked at you, as I am stilled Permanently now, permanently Bending so briefly at your open coffin.”
— Ted Hughes, from “The Blue Flannel Suit“ in Birthday Letters, 1998