Your Turn

After a hostile exchange with a stranger online, a withdrawn man becomes embroiled in a personalized nightmare of digital attacks.

A doorbell camera view of an ominous figure knocking on the door at night.

Let it go. It’s not worth it. And yet the words on the screen burn into Miles’ eyeballs. “jfc what a dumbass lol” There’s no sense in getting sucked in. He knows that he shouldn’t engage. But who is this Jack Dalton? Why is he commenting on the thread of a man he’s never met? And the crime Miles seems to have committed? Posting an article about rising real estate prices. With some vomiting emoticons. And that makes him “a dumbass?” Miles wants to comment and interrogate, but he reminds himself he’s above arguing on the internet. Click. Miles arrives at Jack Dalton’s profile, hoping to understand more about this anonymous commenter. Know thy enemy, that kind of thing. He’s immediately assaulted by an image of Jack Dalton leaning out of a monster truck, pointing an assault rifle right at him, at the camera.

The Abbey of Eternal Flora

At a cloister where afflicted girls sprout flowers from their bodies, a young novice’s visions reveal the abbey’s sacred promise is a lie.

LMBO

With only fragments of his memory intact, a man is lowered in a deep-sea experiment and encounters a monstrous creature that sends him into a strange prehistoric world.

Wrinkle

When a 19-year-old who wasn’t supposed to live to adulthood is spared by a sinister entity, she follows its victims to understand why she was chosen to live.

The Abyssal Palette

Andrew M. Henderson

An aging painter’s career is reignited by the discovery of a mysterious pigment, but each new canvas seems less like a creation than a doorway to a troubling realm.

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The Redux

Erica Schreiber

After a charged encounter at a party, a young man keeps running into the same elusive woman. What first feels like chance begins to seem like fate, and then something far more sinister.

The Body That Holds It

A young woman embarks on a night out with her coworkers, trying to hide the secret she harbors: there is a malevolent, highly opinionated, and ravenous parasite living in her brain.

Haustorium

A dying lumberman joins a logging crew for one final job, only to face a supernatural nightmare when an ancient tree resists its felling.