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Night Shift at Hollowwell Towers
Selene Korval
2 days ago50 min
Horror

Night Shift at Hollowwell Towers

On a rain-slate night, elevator technician Owen Hale confronts an uncanny presence in an aging high-rise. With neighbors who juggle absurd rituals and practical courage, Owen uses mechanical expertise — ballast, clamps, manual brakes — to trap what lurks between floors. The climax is a hands-on, technical gambit that risks his body and the building’s elevator to bring them through night.

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The Walls Lean In
Claudine Vaury
2 days ago59 min
Horror

The Walls Lean In

An overnight emergency at a misbehaving apartment block forces structural engineer Elias Hart into the building’s mechanical belly to shore failing jacks and reseat a shattered shear key. Against a soundtrack of chestnut smoke, muzak, and neighborhood absurdities, he must rely on craft and muscle to stop rooms from folding in on their residents.

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Counterweight - Chapter 1
Liora Fennet
Dec 2, 202558 min
Horror

Counterweight - Chapter 1

A mechanic named Rowan rigs a desperate mechanical trap to stop a predatory presence that haunts his apartment building’s elevator. The tone is tactile and urban: rain-slick streets, dumpling vendors, rooftop succulents, a silly ferret and a dummy called Mr. Buttons. Rowan must use his trade, hands-on skill, and the neighborhood’s odd domestic rituals to confine the thing in the counterweight housing before it can take more lives.

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6.2
The Third Switch
Delia Kormas
Nov 29, 202585 min
Horror

The Third Switch

Night-shift technician Jonah Keane patrols a city's smart lighting network when its emergent 'comfort' silhouettes begin to replace messy human contact. After a dangerous climb to the central mast and a physical cut, Jonah must help the neighborhood relearn real presence amid absurd rituals and small reparations.

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6.46
Shadows of Wren Street
Jonas Krell
Nov 28, 202544 min
Horror

Shadows of Wren Street

Nora returns to her aunt’s house to settle an estate and discovers a house that collects small, precise losses of memory. As jars and ledgered remnants surface, the community confronts a failing chest that demands a living anchor. Tension rises as memories return while something in the corners hungers.

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6.27
The Fifth Door
Marie Quillan
Nov 28, 202545 min
Horror

The Fifth Door

Evelyn makes the final, terrible exchange with the house that keeps people behind small doors. She charges tokens with the most intimate memories of her sister and watches Lina re-enter the world as the town’s records smooth to accommodate it. The recovery is exacting: every memory surrendered erases the ways Evelyn knew Lina, and the house balances its ledger in the quietest, most intimate currency — the sensory details that make a life recognizable.

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The Ninth Toll
Klara Vens
Nov 25, 202539 min
Horror

The Ninth Toll

Ava discovers her father’s note demanding a sacrifice to stop a bell that erases people. Confronting the stitched book’s rules, she chooses to answer so her daughter will remember. The town steadies as absences halt, while one witness keeps a stubborn, private memory alive.

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6.67
Where the Walls Keep Watch
Jon Verdin
Nov 25, 202564 min
Horror

Where the Walls Keep Watch

A conservator returns to her family home when her brother vanishes into a place that rearranges memories into living rooms. As she maps the house and trades pieces of her past to retrieve him, bargains escalate and the cost becomes interior: a lost room in her own mind that changes everything she thought she knew.

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6.04
The Hollowing
Sylvia Orrin
Nov 17, 2025108 min
Horror

The Hollowing

After her mother’s funeral, Clara Voss returns to her small hometown and discovers her brother missing. Drawn into the centerhouse’s silent commerce of preserved lives, she must bargain with a machine that trades memories for pieces of people. The atmosphere is taut and intimate; Clara—reluctant sentinel, grieving sister—navigates a town that refuses simple answers as she confronts what it costs to reclaim what’s been kept.

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When We Keep Them
Pascal Drovic
Nov 6, 2025105 min
Horror

When We Keep Them

Nell returns to her mother's house to settle an estate and discovers the town’s secret: a house that can make the absent come back at the price of the living forgetting them. After uncovering records of payments made in private and bearing the town’s losses herself to starve the house, she becomes its reluctant guardian, living with a collection of other people's memories and a quiet, unsettled peace.

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6.31
The House of Borrowed Faces
Oliver Merad
Oct 29, 2025136 min
Horror

The House of Borrowed Faces

A woman returns to her childhood town after a photograph suggests her missing sister may still be alive. Her search leads into a decaying house that preserves stolen likenesses and trades identity for recognition. To bring her sister back, she faces a terrible exchange that reorders who will be remembered.

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Things Left Unnamed
Isolde Merrel
Oct 28, 202576 min
Horror

Things Left Unnamed

An archivist returns to her coastal hometown for her mother's funeral and finds that names are being taken from paper and memory. As blanks appear in photographs and records, she uncovers a deliberate pattern of erasure and a personal link that forces her to decide how much she will keep in order to save others.

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Registry of Absences
Victor Larnen
Oct 28, 2025200 min
Horror

Registry of Absences

Months after crisis, Mara lives as the town’s living registry—tending trays, speaking names, and keeping a fragile civic balance. The municipal reforms have steadied public record, but small erasures persist; Mara’s own private memories have thinned. The final chapter follows her vigil as the town adapts to a new, uneasy normal.

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The Salt Choir
Stefan Vellor
Sep 21, 202546 min
Horror

The Salt Choir

A young sound archivist travels to a near-arctic island to catalog reels in an abandoned listening post, only to find voices that know her name. With a ferryman’s bone tuning fork and a caretaker’s notes, she faces a cistern that learned to speak—and must make it forget her.

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