Halloween is my favorite holiday and horror is one of my favorite genres. What are your favorite spooky things? What do you recommend checking out this October?

Here's some horror media I've enjoyed and want to share with you! I tried to limit myself to things that were: 1) absolutely free, 2) relatively brief (ideally between 20-90m), and 3) not a standard book or movie. (These were just criteria for me - share whatever horror you like!)


A Colder War by Charles Stross
Novella injecting the eldritch into the cold war.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

The Things by Peter Watts
Short story retelling the film The Thing from the Thing’s perspective. Ending line is a whammy.
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

Ted the Caver
Short story in blog format. A man, his best friend, and his dog work at opening a hole in a cave.
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

The Sick Land
Short story in blog format. A small team of scientists research an infectious geographic anomaly. If you liked Annihilation you’ll probably like this.
http://thesickland.blogspot.com/

The Sun Vanished
Short story in Twitter form. What if the sun suddenly went dark (and we didn’t all freeze to death)?
https://twitter.com/TheSunVanished/

SCP Foundation
Creepypasta Wiki. Yeah, I debated posting this. It’s a really, really mixed bag of quality, from genuinely creepy to edgelord grimdark to hilarious to not-hilarious-but-supposed-to-be. I personally really like SCPs 087, 093, 439, 610, 895, and 1342.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito
Manga/Graphic Novel. You’ve seen this, right? You’ve had to – but it’s a classic. The scary part for me is how it hinges on your curiosity – how many of us would see something so perfectly for us and not want to poke it with a stick?
https://imgur.com/gallery/ZNSaq

The Door in the Kitchen by Abby Howard
Webcomic. A new home has a creepy, unsettling door. How long before you get too comfortable with it? If you like this, there’s 2 more stories on her page, though I feel this is the strongest one.
http://www.terror-town.com/stories/4

The Dreaded Question by Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon
Webcomic. An aspiring writer asks a productive, published author what the secret of inspiration is.
https://www.tor.com/2009/06/04/the-dreaded-question/

His Face All Red by Emily Carroll
Webcomic. A Victorian-style horror story about two brothers out wolf hunting. If you like this there's tons more by the same artist. I also like The Groom.
http://emcarroll.com/comics/faceallred/01.html

Marble Hornets
YouTube series. Essentially an ARC revolving around Slender Man.
https://www.youtube.com/user/marblehornets

Cathedral by Kitty Horrorshow
Video Game. One of the games included in the Haunted Cities Volume 2 pack, featuring 90s-style graphics and first person perspective. You are investigating a creepy cathedral. Absolutely no jump scares, all great atmosphere. If you like this, her game Anatomy is also quite good.
https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/haunted-cities-v2

Lurking by Gattai Games
Video Game. First-person perspective with wireframe graphics. The predecessor to the game Stifled I mentioned in the echolocation post. Navigate by sound, evading enemies that hunt by sound.
http://www.lurking-game.com/

Cube Escape by Rusty Lake
Video Game. Click-and-point inventory puzzle game with its own unsettling mythology and atmosphere. I’m told it feels similar to Twin Peaks ?
http://www.cubeescape.com/

Doki Doki Literature Club by Team Salvato
Video Game. Visual Novel. You join a poetry club featuring 3 girls that are tripping over themselves to woo you. Not only horror, but a critique of the visual novel genre. This one IS a bit longer, taking ~3 hours to complete.
https://ddlc.moe/


The House Abandon by No Code Studio
Video Game. Text Adventure. Visit your old home and read a heartwarming letter from your dad.
https://jonnocode.itch.io/the-house-abandon