The series nobody asked for continues! (Patreon)

Just when you thought there could not possibly be ANYTHING scarier than blueberries, more terrifying than sugary, or as chicken-focused as Finlay, let’s head back to the inner realms of raw fear today—walking in single-file, please—with a new story as part of the continuing series of free shorts which can only be called

Today’s 7-minute entry, attached, will no doubt pull scream after scream from the depths of your head. Not only that, but I think it would make for a really sweet Claymation movie, or something done with Legos, or maybe just popsicle sticks with faces drawn on them. I call this thoroughly unchallenging effort promises.

See you in a few weeks with rink. And after that, this summer, I think we’re headed off—in the middle of the night, naturally—to a new haunted house in a town called Seven Bells.

P.S. I recently narrated a brief zombie tale (containing a surprising amount of feels) written by Karen Cave for her new podcast “Tag Till We’re Dead”; you can check that out here. Elsewhere, Mostenire used a long segment of the Knifepoint Horror story transit to illuminate his thoughts on mysterious human vanishings in the video essay “Missing People," found here. And in May, I'll be back on Reader's Labyrinth where Frank Schumpert and I will talk about our personal lists of the books we keep claiming we're going to read someday—but we kinda know we never will.

-S  :)