Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “creepy stories”
Robots were designed to help humanity. But what happens if Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics become irrelevant? By 2030 most governments passed legislation allowing the use of robots in laboratory experiments. Their precision and lack of emotion was recognised as the primary benefit. And they required no sleep, so productivity rose exponentially. By 2035 robots had acquired so much bio-chemical …
On a blue planet, somewhere in the region of Barnard’s Star, in someone’s future, and somebody else’s past. In the dark mountains the chanting beat at the walls of the red cave. It had echoed through the catacombs for days, and would continue for more than a hundred years. That night the moon had wept blood. A dark stain red …
If we needed reminding, life has a way of telling you how difficult it can be to fit in the writing amongst all the other stuff. I’ve had a tough couple of weeks with work, late nights, 90 hour weeks, preparing for a trade show. I have asthma and am used to the daily fight of it, but this week …
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850–94) was born in a dank and cold Edinburgh, but travelled greatly in search of less brutal weather, finally to pass away in the temperate climes of Samoa. For today’s reader his reputation as a writer of adventure fiction is well established but as a poet, essayist, travel writer and masterful short story writer his range was …