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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Welcome to Minute Horror Volume One. Featuring 40 spooky short horror stories from the desk of Sam Strange 🎃 A free #horror anthology www.patreon.com/posts/minute...

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 🌿

The forest was hungry. The forest was tired.
It had been burned and blasted and dug and cut in every which way it could imagine. Its creatures had run away and come back only to be chased off again.
It was ancient but this had been going on for centuries.
And so it willed the rest of itself awake.
It began with earthquakes. Volcanic eruptions. Soot darkened the skies and blocked out the sun. Then came the pests once lurking in the depths of its yearning black heart, hoping to find something that could fill it back up again. The forest was indifferent to humans before.
Now, it had to eat.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

There’s a corruption in my family when it comes to money. I’m still trying to figure it out. It’s not in the coins or bills themselves, I’ve tried collecting them on their own to no effect. No. There’s something wrong with the numbers when it enters their heads.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

When the sun hangs high above the clouds, the shadows scatter back home, free to weave and wander away from the world that they’ve been made to serve. They find solace in the planet’s underbelly where they take turns whispering and swapping secrets of things to come.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Candyman 🍪 Candyman 🍩 Candyman 🍭 Candyman 🍫 Candyman 🍬

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

There are no more jackalopes in Texas. Chupacabra stopped screeching a while back. Bigfoot still roams but far up in the mountains with the Bear King and the Ozark Howler. Someone said they saw the Lake Worth Monster get shot and driven around on the back of a newfangled truck like a trophy.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Praise to the gods and the old ones, To the wild things and the wise things, Those that ride with the wind and the tides, Praise to the fair ones of the light and the dark, to the pixies, nixies, and sprites that share their courts,

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Attention all kids! We have an issue: The grownups have done something BAD. They've gone and told a BIG LIE. They won't say what it is. They won't tell us the truth either. No liars in this Big House! So we are taking their SIMON. From now on, NO MORE SIMON SAYS! All games of Simon Says are OVER!

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Something pretended to be my dog today and tried to get inside the house. We had just finished our walk and I had put her out back. Or so I thought. As soon as I got back inside, I heard a plaintive scratch at the door. Peeping through the frosted glass, I could see a silhouette out on the stoop.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Who watches the Watchmen? The Watchers, that's who If you're just tuning in, The Watchers are me and you. So don't look away, Don't cringe when they take, Don't let them play you, The Mute watch the Watchmen. If you can only watch, Then it means that, They've stolen your voice too. 🤫

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Welcome to a weekend roundup of creepy quips, each meant to add new facets to some other macabre moments in time 👻 #horror

When the first earth blew up, we were able to save people, I mean, sort of.
We transferred human consciousness into a server farm, built bodies with expandable brains,
pre-packed custom organs for re-growth and harvesting…

We even pre-assigned skill sets for everyone to help tame the new alien terrains that we might land on.
It was all very well-organized.

We just packed them all in different ships.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

The Gorgon curse works differently for everyone. It can turn men to stone, good children wicked, and the faint and fair of heart invisible to their loved ones. The afflicted is forced to go through the rest of their lives unable to see anyone else save through poor reflections.

The only way to break the curse is to melt the Gorgon’s stone heart. The afflicted must be brought to tears until the curse is fully washed away from their eyes.

What brings a gorgon to tears, however,
is another matter altogether.

“There is an issue.” Mina Murray ran to her friend, Lucy Westenra with a telegram in hand. “Jonathan says he’s off to see a Count in Romania and he’s added recipes.
Why would he add recipes?”
“Well what kind of recipes?” Lucy asked.
“Something about a paprika chicken that I have to simmer.” Mina’s brows furrowed.
“Like a stew?” Lucy piped up.
Mina made a gasp. “Oh would you think it is a riddle?” “Oh! Oh, what else simmers,” Lucy said, “or brews. Is something brewing perhaps?”
They looked at each other before both gasped in unison,
“Something curious is afoot!”

By the time the humans had figured out the planes, the gremlins had fully moved on.

They’d built trains and cars and railroad tracks.
They knew they could make more.

And so, they went on to create new and curious machines:

Obsidian screens filled with pixel daydreams meant to catch people’s attention.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Jinxes pile up, as do curses, when witches fail to shake them off. They hang around inside your head like cobwebs, obscuring your future by ensnaring your happy thoughts. So banish often! Cleanse yourself, your home, your mind. Keep a clean temple, always. Start with the one between your eyes. 👁️

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

When I was young, the gods walked among their people. They shared their wealth and brought their blessings directly to those who prayed.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I fell into the mirror by mistake. I was leaning in really close, trying to pluck out an ingrown hair. Next thing I knew, I had slipped right through, but instead of a crack the next thing I heard was the sound disappearing along with me through the glass.

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Minute Horror @minutehorror.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I used to go back to my hometown a lot. I always had good times there. Fun memories with friends and my folks that I wouldn’t change for anything. Until I started noticing that something else was doing it for me.

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