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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The tracks did not lead to the forest. They led to the old drying house behind the orchards… www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-thing-...

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The Thing in the Drying House

A Căpcăun Story

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The tracks did not lead to the forest. They led to the old drying house behind the orchards… www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-thing-...

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The Thing in the Drying House

A Căpcăun Story

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Midnight Riddles: The Mirror in the Hallway The mirror hung at the end of the hallway, as if the house had been built around it…

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A young woman disappears from a village house. Years later, people remember the door. But the real horror was never the door. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-piano-...

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The Piano Door

A Quiet Story of What Was Not Opened

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

When your life changes completely in the blink of an eye and you no longer have any control over it... www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-road-b...

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Winter Branford @winterbranford.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Chapter 3 of my romantasy series is free and available for all to read! #fantasy #romance #fantasybook #romancebook #romantasybook #writesky #readersky #authorsky #indieauthor #indiewriter Please consider supporting my work so I can have the time to write more! ko-fi.com/Post/Silver-...

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Silver Prophecy - Book One - Chapters 1 - 3

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Road Below the Weir is a dark rural noir tragedy set in a dying town, where love, fear and silence lead two young people toward a river that refuses to keep their secret. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-road-b...

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The Road Below the Weir

A Rural Noir Tragedy

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sometimes the most frightening part of a horror story is the moment before anyone admits they are afraid… www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-river-...

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

By morning, the snow was clean. That was the worst of it. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-river-...

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The River Under the Snow

A Tale Told at the Edge of Snow

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

She came home from the south with sunburned shoulders, sand in her suitcase and a tiny red mark beneath her eye. At first her mother mistakes it for a freckle. Then the swelling begins… www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-mark-b...

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The Mark Beneath Her Eye

A dark return from the warm countries

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The moment when you realize: It’s finally here! It’s here and it knows you’re here. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-klogmu...

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In the winter after her mother’s death, Anna Gold begins to feel that grief is not always the only thing that lingers. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-unfini...

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The Unfinished Thing

About a season of waiting and the silence that did not remain the same

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

On the night Elias disappeared into the moonlight, Anna believed he would return by morning. Years later, the town still lowers its voice when his name is spoken. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-shadow-she-kept

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The Shadow She Kept

A story of moonlight, grief and silence

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A knock at the door. A name spoken without mercy. A woman taken through the rain to the Klösterle. The Door of the Golden Crown is a historical dark story about accusation and the terror of a town that closes its shutters. www.archiveofunread.com/p/the-door-o...

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The Door of the Golden Crown

A dark historical story drawn from the trial record and later civic memory of Maria Holl of Nördlingen

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

New in Weird Beings: Nachtrapp. A southern German and Austrian night-raven figure from child-warning folklore, shaped by dialect, dusk, bird-lore and the fear of a child not coming home before dark. www.archiveofunread.com/p/weird-bein...

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Weird Beings #2: Nachtrapp

The bird is not seen first.

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A fox at the edge of a shrine path is still only a fox, until the old stories begin to gather around it. In Japanese tradition, the kitsune is wife, messenger, trickster, possessing spirit and something older than any one name. open.substack.com/pub/archiveo...

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Weird Beings #1: Kitsune

Some animals seem to notice the border before we do.

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Some legends survive because they are repeated. Others because a place keeps them. This is one of the latter. archiveofunread.substack.com/p/the-stone-...

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The Stone by the Road to Limbach

A dark retelling from the recorded core of the Schäfergrab legend

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

100 subscribers on Substack. Thank you so much. Subscribe too if you’d like. All stories are free for everyone. archiveofunread.substack.com

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Tonight’s post is a new folk-horror story: The Klogmuada. A village road after rain. A round chapel in Pentling. Whispering at midnight. And the kind of fear that makes people listen before they open a door. archiveofunread.substack.com/p/the-klogmu...

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The Klogmuada

An old story from Pentling

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Beneath Aachen’s hot-water quarter, people once said the streets had a life of their own. This story retells the old Bahkauv legend of the Büchel as a piece of gothic horror: wet stone, late bells and something under the city... archiveofunread.substack.com/p/the-chains...

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The Chains Beneath Büchel

The hot water remembers

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In the woods near Keuerstadt, Brandjockele answers when something in the dark calls his name. A literary folk-horror story built from the documented legend, with a critical appendix on the recorded core and later Matzenbacher Wald accretions. archiveofunread.substack.com/p/green-wood...

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Green Wood at Half Past Midnight

A horror story retold and reimagined from the documented Brandjockele core and the older legend-world of the wooded country near Keuerstadt, stretching toward Matzenbach.

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

An old Franconian legend from 1685: A wolf near Ansbach. Villages closing up before dark. Children counted twice. And a fear that would not stay in the fields… archiveofunread.substack.com/p/the-wolf-o...

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The Wolf of Ansbach

An old Franconian legend of a wolf near Neuses and the fear that would not stay buried.

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’m looking to connect with people who love horror and dark storytelling. I’m especially into slow-burn dread, psychological horror and stories that linger long after they end. Whether you write or read, let’s connect. What kind of horror pulls you in?

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

On a Sunday morning above Pottenstein, three boys leave church behind and vanish into the woods after a snow-white hare. By the time the screaming begins, the story has already found its shape: archiveofunread.substack.com/p/the-hare-a...

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The Hare at Hasenloch

This story is loosely based on an old legend from Pottenstein (Germany). First comes the literary retelling. The traditional version of the legend can be found at the end.

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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Shadowless Man of Dinkelsbühl A quiet disappearance in a town that never forgets. Read the full story: archiveofunread.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

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The Shadowless Man of Dinkelsbühl

A quiet disappearance in a town that never forgets.

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