The Stranger

A winter trip to a remote Montana cabin was supposed to be simple.

Then the food starts disappearing.

Someone whistles outside in the dark.

Voices call from the woods in familiar tones.

And something out there doesn’t just imitate the dead.

It wants them to follow.

Years later, an unnamed stranger finally tells the story of the trip that took Mike,...

A quiet camping trip at Belton Lake was supposed to mean a few days away from work, people, and everything else. Then the tent got picked up and thrown into the lake. After that, things got worse. A shattered windshield. A boulder in the driver’s seat. A deer stuffed into a cooler. Trees blocking every way out. Massive footprints. Strange...

Something is moving beneath the house.

At first, it sounds like an animal. Then the floor starts to rise.

What follows is a fast, darkly funny descent into panic as one ordinary man, his wife, and an increasingly nervous town discover that something has been living beneath them all along.

They’re Beneath Us is a short horror story about bad luck,...