Category: Files From The Weird

Weird Wednesday is Thursday this week, and it’ll be the last one for a bit. So here’s a story about customer service and murder in another world, separate from the Weird of Earth. Read the story

What if genuinely scary threats could be neutralized with bad writing? This is not me telling on myself. Read the story

Time travel isn’t always just forward and backward. It’s more often than not sideways, diagonal, up, down, and several other directions at once, assuming “once” even applies here. Meet Dr. Gustav Polchin, known to his confused friends as Grandpa Paradox. Read the story

There are people who live on the other side of where dreams come from, and they don’t exactly understand us, any more than we understand our own dreams. It would be amiable, if our nightmares weren’t more real to them than they are to us. Read the story

Satan is a title of office and Lucifer is a name that’s been very disparaged over the years. He didn’t fall from grace, he stepped down due to a disagreement with management. Not that he’s bitter about it. The devil’s account of parts of the Old Testament, through a humanist…

This week’s story is, one could say, fanfic-adjacent. A museum annex where doors must be carefully catalogued gets a particularly new and dangerous one, that paranormal tech support guy Alex Norton must make sure doesn’t open at all costs. With appreciation and apologies to Charles Strauss (The Laundry Files). Read…

Been slow to write other things for the site, but here’s a story for Weird Wednesday. It’s about a spooky subway that, all things considered, is probably still a better way to travel than flying. Read the Story

A take on Robert W. Chambers’ The King In Yellow. Eldritch horror considered through the lens of the autistic spectrum, asking just how truths that drive most mad affect those who don’t really process such concepts the same way. Read the Story

Not everyone is cut out to be a wizard. But everyone can find better choices. A story of a magic academy in Staten Island, a student with no talent and big frustrations, and a tedious Ethernet run. And maybe a little jab at a certain other wizard school and its…