List of short stories in the Macabre category at short fiction - back to our genre list
- List of short stories by our resident authors within the Macabre genre. Please do leave comments for the writers! Or how about chatting about the stories in the forum?
- Macabre is a term applied to a type of artistic or literary works, characterized by a grim or ghastly atmosphere. In these works, there is an emphasis on the details and symbols of death. Macabre themes are often preoccupations in the Goth subculture. Themes are usually deliberate. The outstanding instances in English literature are John Webster, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Cyril Tourneur. In American literature notable authors include Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King.
- The Unimaginable Silence, by Pankakes, Length in chars; 2,329
Date added: 2010-09-08 Total reads: 34 - How I long to hear the beauty that is silence. I have almost forgotten the meaning of the word.
- Lovers Torn, by Pankakes, Length in chars; 2,110
Date added: 2010-09-07 Total reads: 57 - "His stern face had a look of confusion upon it, as if he didn't understand quite how he came to be in such a situation. He didn't know how this was happening, or quite what was happening. "
- Alec and Butch, by Pankakes, Length in chars; 15,260
Date added: 2010-09-06 Total reads: 131 - "All was going well, until the gunfire was heard. Shots had been fired in what sounded like the main storage unit. The two armed Russians immediately pulled their firearms out onto the two men, which in turn they did unto them. It was three against two, and none of them knew what was going on."
- And With Strange Aeons..., by Pankakes, Length in chars; 5,925
Date added: 2010-09-06 Total reads: 66 - "He tripped viciously over the roots of one of the overhanging trees and slammed his head against a hard rock laying on the forest floor. When the others went to aid him, the first thing they noticed was his shocked facial expression. As if he had looked into fears eyes, he stared blankly. Crippled
- A Dish Best Served Warm, by mattberkshire, Length in chars; 17,609
Date added: 2010-09-02 Total reads: 277 - The glass door., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 8,508
Date added: 2010-08-30 Total reads: 218 - maybe I had drank too much........................
- The errant husband., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 13,152
Date added: 2010-08-19 Total reads: 244 - Dave was leaving ... for the very last time.............
- High stepping dames., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 2,977
Date added: 2010-08-18 Total reads: 133 - How I love to hear them plead for their lives.
- The Deathly Scent of the Female Kind, by Lexie, Length in chars; 4,747
Date added: 2010-08-18 Total reads: 109 - She Changed Her Face, by MaikuD2, Length in chars; 8,488
Date added: 2010-08-14 Total reads: 130 - Her sweet face, his reality, it all kept changing. Japanese visions invaded his quiet life.
- Boy on a Date, by howardleff, Length in chars; 28,138
Date added: 2010-08-09 Total reads: 122 - What can happen?
- The Bomb, by JJHoward, Length in chars; 7,044
Date added: 2010-07-26 Total reads: 90 - A portrait of an angry man named James Hanson. Someone who has been waiting his whole life for one rebuttal. Well today he gets his chance, but will it be worth it?
- The Night Ride, by JJHoward, Length in chars; 16,531
Date added: 2010-07-10 Total reads: 128 - A city like your own, and a kid like yourself. Tonight he's going to take a journey, lets just hope it is never your journey.
- An Old Friend, by JJHoward, Length in chars; 15,425
Date added: 2010-07-07 Total reads: 197 - A young child who loves his grandfather. A young child who adores him no matter what. A young child who is about to learn the power of memory.
- Overwhelming Darkness Swallows a Soul, by XavierJets, Length in chars; 2,234
Date added: 2010-07-03 Total reads: 99 - A severely depressed 17-year old self-harms and reflects, while upset over his situation in life, his own failures, and the pressures of modern society.
- HOUSE., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 5,380
Date added: 2010-06-26 Total reads: 130 - Two hundred quid for a nights work, not bad, but what a price to pay ............
- Interview with the Devil, by JohnnyO, Length in chars; 8,800
Date added: 2010-06-24 Total reads: 114 - A reporter is confronted with a dark truth
- The driver,, by kitosdad, Length in chars; 2,524
Date added: 2010-05-26 Total reads: 249 - He was driving quite well considering ..........
- ME AND MY SHADOW, by actung, Length in chars; 2,886
Date added: 2010-03-13 Total reads: 350 - In the darkness, there is no light.
- The Nightmare, by xoPeachyMomo, Length in chars; 13,283
Date added: 2010-03-01 Total reads: 376 - oral, anal, rim, gay/yaoi, blood/guro, rape, emotional trauma. Xerin absolutely hates and fears Aiden, his Nightmare, the physical embodiment of all of his fears. But Aiden loves him - especially his pain.
- R.I.P., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 1,545
Date added: 2010-02-25 Total reads: 250 - The mind is the last to die.
- The Corpse., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 3,042
Date added: 2010-02-22 Total reads: 274 - You never know what's waiting it the end of the line.....
- Into the unknown, by rafey, Length in chars; 6,940
Date added: 2010-02-04 Total reads: 448 - He was tired of life & thought that suicide was the answer, but he didn't get what was hoping for
- Recycling, by maplekar, Length in chars; 5,458
Date added: 2009-12-30 Total reads: 324 - A classic tale - a man finds a severed head in his recycling bin, takes it into his house, cleans it up, takes it on a bus, buys it a hat, cooks it dinner, argues with it and then watches T.V - but with a modern twist.
- The Darkness., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 2,008
Date added: 2009-11-17 Total reads: 361 - The Fog., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 1,490
Date added: 2009-11-17 Total reads: 305 - The last bus., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 3,454
Date added: 2009-11-13 Total reads: 374 - The swimmer., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 2,874
Date added: 2009-10-29 Total reads: 355 - The old man and the sea., by kitosdad, Length in chars; 2,231
Date added: 2009-10-28 Total reads: 303 - The Silence-Dream 091020, by dpaulfonseca, Length in chars; 6,329
Date added: 2009-10-27 Total reads: 363 - This is a dream I had when I was little and again when I was 39, October of 2009.
- The Body, by ilikepaste, Length in chars; 1,677
Date added: 2009-10-19 Total reads: 334 - Animation does not necessarily mean true life.
- Escape to redemption, by joshua10, Length in chars; 3,649
Date added: 2009-09-18 Total reads: 322 - A desperate need to even the score.
- Last action hero, by joshua10, Length in chars; 1,656
Date added: 2009-09-02 Total reads: 351 - A mission to remove some of lifes undesirables and too much tv.
- Poor Choices, by TheOtherHand, Length in chars; 6,413
Date added: 2009-02-26 Total reads: 624 - We both made bad decisions, but hers, I think, were worse.
- Thoughts, by enjay, Length in chars; 3,211
Date added: 2009-02-03 Total reads: 488 - thoughts of a one punch victim
- Tick Tock, by keesh1482, Length in chars; 20,623
Date added: 2009-02-01 Total reads: 702 - I twisted tale of an obsession gone bad. This was my first attempt at a short story, any comments would be appreciated.
- A Murder: Autobiographical, by dmichaelshy, Length in chars; 9,874
Date added: 2009-01-30 Total reads: 490 - An internet predator meets a serial killer that hunts down the wicked.
- The Wheels on the Bus, by keesh1482, Length in chars; 6,617
Date added: 2008-12-14 Total reads: 597 - A disturbing look behind the eyes of the self proclaimed Angel of death Please send feedback
- The Oopsie Dopsie killer, by Fly-Away-Tonight, Length in chars; 4,047
Date added: 2008-12-01 Total reads: 443 - The stories of a true kiler
- Mary Mary, by bazzer61, Length in chars; 4,128
Date added: 2008-11-16 Total reads: 1157 - Unlike the nursery rhyme this Mary may not be so innocent
- Desperate Cravings , by clairdel, Length in chars; 15,166
Date added: 2008-11-08 Total reads: 429 - Each person, albeit their gender, male or female, I am quite certain harbors their own distinctive mental peccadilloes. It is within the realm of these contorted perversions that I traverse each day. I am the shadowed slayer, the dispatcher of demons and monsters seeking an open gate to be loosed up
- The Clarinnetist , by fruitbat1uk, Length in chars; 9,741
Date added: 2008-11-08 Total reads: 393 - The jealousy ran through me until the moment I killed him...Jaime was my first love and I would be his last...
- The Salesman , by islandhopper, Length in chars; 14,419
Date added: 2008-11-08 Total reads: 414 - Existential world, can a dead man be sold life insurance? unusual, dark.
- Smiles Like Orgasms, by thefallandminimalls, Length in chars; 30,455
Date added: 2008-10-21 Total reads: 534 - A man who sits reluctantly upon the glares of social juggernauts.
- In Touch With Darkness, by TheDarkJay, Length in chars; 6,371
Date added: 2008-09-20 Total reads: 545 - Let me tell you a tale. I will not tell you a when or a where, for these can be traced. Let me tell you about something more sinister. About my discovery, and damnation.
- Underground, by TheGiiissss, Length in chars; 31,617
Date added: 2008-09-20 Total reads: 442 - trash- potentially readable.
- Man In The Box, by Elford, Length in chars; 14,046
Date added: 2008-08-03 Total reads: 516 - Sam has spent years ducking his child support payments and finally finds a friend in Randall, who is on the run from a local loan shark. Everything seems to be looking up for Sam until Randall show ups, in need of help, and hiding a corpse.
- Ned's Advocate, by Asa304, Length in chars; 8,086
Date added: 2008-06-30 Total reads: 503 - A man grieving for his wife's ill health blames his neighbours dog.
- Preconceptions, by Asa304, Length in chars; 6,244
Date added: 2008-06-30 Total reads: 458 - Roy judges people. He then begins to be judged.
- The Sacrifice by dreamer, by Dreamer, Length in chars; 2,295
Date added: 2008-06-30 Total reads: 607 - Ever had a nightmare and wake up to find reality worse than the dream?
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