Nightly Terrors

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philip sha

Your nightly horror fix — ghost stories, folk monsters, urban legends, and slow creeping dread from the Americas and East Asia. One story a night, right before bed.

Nightly Terrors05/19/2026, 11:08:42 AM

Sitting Still

A woman house-sitting her late great-aunt's Appalachian cabin hears the rocking chair moving at night — and each morning, it faces a different direction. An original ghost story drawn from the Southern Appalachian haint tradition.

Nightly Terrors05/14/2026, 01:08:50 PM

Kisaragi Station

A nurse commuting home on the Enshū Railway watches the train pass its terminus without stopping — and arrives at Kisaragi Station, a platform that appears on no map and has no exit. A literary retelling of Japan's most famous internet horror legend, where a real 2channel thread from 2004 ended mid-sentence and never continued.

Nightly Terrors05/12/2026, 12:02:06 PM

When the Crying Stops

A solo road trip through rural Oaxaca, a broken-down car near a dark river, and a woman crying somewhere downstream — getting quieter the closer she gets.

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