A Horror Story Based on the Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam The detective stood in the lobby of the Cecil Hotel, looking at the worn carpet and the dust motes turning in the slant light from the street. He was fifty-three years old, and he had seen things that would make a man question the order of the world, but he had not seen anything like this. "When did you find her?" he asked. The maintenance man stood with his hands in his pockets. He was maybe thi

A Horror Story based on the Disappearance of the Crew of the Mary Celeste The sea doesn’t care for your prayers. It takes what it wants and leaves the rest to rot in the sun. December of 1872, and the brigantine Dei Gratia cuts through Atlantic swells like a blade through wet leather. Captain David Morehouse stands at the helm, watching another ship drift two miles off. No sails set properly. Moving wrong in the water like a drunk man trying to find his way home. He raises th

A Horror Story Based on The Lost Cosmonauts Conspiracy The static came through the receiver like the last breath of dying stars. Yuri Mikhailovich sat in the listening station outside Vladivostok with his hands on the dials and his mind on nothing. The room smelled of burnt coffee and cigarette smoke and the particular staleness that comes from men who work in shifts and never see daylight. Outside the wind moved through the pines like it was searching for something. He turne

A Horror Story based on the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart The Pacific has its own arithmetic and it doesn’t include man. July second nineteen thirty seven, the Electra came down through the air thick as molasses. The fuel gauge is lying like they do. Noonan in the back is already dead but still moving his hands over the charts. Still plotting courses to nowhere. She knew it when they passed the deadline. Knew it when the stars started moving wrong. The compass spinning

Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience is a profound exploration of morality, complicity, and the human...